I have been gluing hosehold objects collected in San Antonio and in Kaohsiung to the walls of the container. The star-shaped wounds will eventually cover them.
From my proposal: "The protective covering of the shipping container, composed of bands of reflective adhesive tape, includes both a regular repeating pattern and star-shaped wounds, whose placement evolves organically and circumstantially. The mirror-like finish of the tape constantly reflects you, other people, and the colors of the environment where it is located. Trapped in the protective covering are the objects of the world that we collect and identify as “home”; the things we believe are building our identity; that we think are making us secure. These objects are universal to most households around the world, since these very shipping containers are constantly transporting them back and forth across the seas. The objects cling to the surface of the container and are caught up in the wounds, like debris washed up on a shore."
On Friday, the person who will be workin on the container next to mine, New York artist Richard Humann, arrived. His project is to create a global map that documents where his shipping container has been for the past 11years of its life. As an historian of ports, I find his concept intriguing. Wish I had thought of that! http://2011container.kmfa.gov.tw/home02.aspx?ID=$3001&IDK=2&AP=$3001_SK-^$3001_PN-2^$3001_HISTORY-0
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