Of Thread and Stone│300│Introduction

Script of this episode// Try to imagine: if memories were tangible, what would they be like? Would they be stretched and folded by time, or would they be worn and torn to gradually disappear? If so, what would happen to handcrafting and laboring experiences carrying these memories? How would they be transmitted, changed, or even cease little by little during generational shifts? The story begins in New Taipei City. It used to be a place where textile machines rumbled and ore rolled, with laboring rhythms engraved on bodies and the land. Of Thread and Stone is an exhibition exploring the relationships between people, events, and objects. Stones and threads are born all over the world, but they intertwine distinct stories, responding to each other in similar contexts of laboring and life. Following a strand of colorful thread or an inconspicuous crushed stone, the exhibition not only questions the functions and shapes of objects, but also further explores the colonial industries behind the thread and stone, as well as the resistance traces left at the sites of laboring activities and local lives. The journey is like an archaeological act, delving into the past while revealing our life at this moment—the light side ignored by us, along with the unspeakable dark side. ----------------------------------------------------- Of Thread and Stone ｜Curator｜TSOU Ting, WANG Han-fang ｜Artists｜Jam WU, Kieren KARRITPUL, Forensic Architecture, CHIU Chen-hung, KAO Ya-ting, CHEONG See-min, Akac Orat, Slavs and Tatars, HUANG Po-chih, Rayyane TABET、jiandyin、Nii Nami