緣起

基隆長期作為大台北都會區的衛星城市，大量青壯年居民每日通勤雙北，生活重心逐漸位移，對這座城市的歸屬感與文化認同也隨之淡薄；即便住在這裡，許多人漸漸對基隆感到陌生且疏離。本計畫「《基隆的形狀》Vol.1：安樂採樣篇」作為城市文化採樣行動第一步，旨在填補這段真空，讓居民從過客心態，透過轉變為主動的敘事者。

城市街景背負著不少負面標籤，但其實基隆的美學是極為獨特的，從空間軸來看山與海的地形壓迫造就了垂直堆疊的地景，時間軸層面清朝、日治、戰後到當代，不同時代的文化層次疊加在同一個街廓，形成一種立體、緊湊卻又容易被忽略的視覺語言；問題在於居民從未被給予一套方法，去辨識與轉譯這些就在眼前的城市紋理。

作為工作、生活於基隆的藝文工作者，長期投入在使藝術貼近日常的途徑上，希望以拼貼藝術（Collage）作為田野調查的核心方法論，引導居民重新閱讀自身的生活環境；拼貼不只是視覺技法，更是一種思考框架：把異質材料並置，讓碰撞本身產生意義，基隆的城市景觀正具備這樣的特質：歷史的、自然的、人工的、不同政治時代的，層層疊疊共存於同一個視野之中，透過拼貼的眼光，居民可以從日常的生活中，重新辨識自身環境的文化厚度。

CirCurate 作為紮根安樂區的社區型藝術空間，關注城市的狀態和時代的變化如何影響人的理解和感受，以城市拼貼方法論為核心發起本計畫，帶領參與者走讀踏查，以古今「一日生活圈」對照反差、採集素材、完成個人拼貼小誌；使藝術創作成為整合社會共創能量與重構文化認同的公共工具，成果則透過影像紀錄與活動網頁對外擴散，形成可持續累積的在地文化資產，並成為在地社會共創展覽的一部分。

Origin

Keelung has long functioned as a satellite city to the greater Taipei metropolitan area, with a substantial proportion of its working-age residents commuting daily to Taipei and New Taipei. As their daily lives have shifted elsewhere, so too has their sense of belonging to, and cultural identification with, this city. Even for those who live here, Keelung has increasingly become a place of unfamiliarity and detachment. This project, The Shape of Keelung Vol. 1: Anle Sampling, is conceived as the first step in an ongoing urban cultural sampling initiative, aiming to address this vacuum by helping residents move from the mindset of passing visitors to that of active narrators of their own city.

Keelung's streetscapes carry no shortage of negative associations, yet the city's aesthetic character is, in fact, remarkably distinctive. Spatially, the pressure exerted by mountain and sea has produced a landscape of vertical stratification; temporally, successive layers of history — Qing, Japanese colonial, post-war and contemporary — are superimposed within the same city blocks, forming a visual language that is dense and dimensional, yet easily overlooked. The difficulty is that residents have never been given a method for identifying and interpreting this urban texture that surrounds them.

As an arts practitioner living and working in Keelung, with a sustained commitment to bringing art closer to everyday life, I wanted to use collage as the core methodology for this field investigation, guiding residents to re-read their own living environment. Collage is not merely a visual technique but a way of thinking: it juxtaposes heterogeneous materials so that meaning emerges from their collision. Keelung's urban landscape possesses precisely this quality — the historical, the natural, the artificial, and the traces of different political eras all coexisting, layer upon layer, within a single field of view. Through the lens of collage, residents can rediscover, within their daily surroundings, the cultural depth of their own environment.

As a community-based art space rooted in Anle District, CirCurate is concerned with how the city's changing conditions and the passage of time shape the way people understand and experience their surroundings. Taking urban collage as its methodological core, this project leads participants on a walking investigation, contrasting past and present within a shared "one-day living radius," gathering material along the way and culminating in individual collage zines. In this way, artistic creation becomes a public tool for integrating collective creative energy and reconstructing cultural identity. Outcomes are disseminated through photographic documentation and the event webpage, forming a cumulative local cultural asset and contributing to a wider exhibition of community co-creation.

Curation & Display Design

Curation & Display Design

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Curation & Display Design