李勇志 Lee Yung-Chih

Science Park Renaissance
Cement,Close lightly pebble, Performance Documentary

This work is resident project at HsinChu City old street.

I rubbed the paper over the signboards of the companies at Hsinchu Science Park and transferred the print to the inscribed boards I made that had been common on the old, Western-style buildings. Then I placed the boards inside some old and shabby frames, carefully embedding them as animal camouflage. With the change of times, such Taiwanese architectural style and materials become familiar as well as nostalgic to all.

The way we value the profundity of culture is preserving architecture and remodeling it to be another “culture.” What I did is simply relocating those technology brands that have contributed greatly to Taiwan’s economy and turning them into another sort of “culture.” No one would find them awkward if they were just treated as new signboards.