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Bamboo Theater / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cheng Tsung FENG's artistic practice has long been intertwined with endangered traditions, vanishing techniques, and fading cultural memories. Among them, the traditional bamboo theatre — once a vital part of temple festivals and folk celebrations across Taiwan — holds a special resonance. Built entirely with bamboo scaffolding, these temporary performance stages embodied the ingenuity of communities, combining practicality with ritual and festivity.

Sailing Castle Ren'ai / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0000

In his Sailing Castle series, artist Cheng Tsung FENG reimagines the appearance of cities as if they were fleets of ships gathered at sea. Through large-scale installation art, he captures the silhouettes of surrounding buildings and transforms them into poetic impressions that weave together time, space, and memory.

Sailing Castle Hai’an / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

In his Sailing Castle series, artist Cheng Tsung FENG envisions the urban landscape as an archipelago of ships at sea, where clusters of buildings resemble vessels gathered in harbor. Through his sculptural installations, he crystallizes the collective silhouette of cityscapes and evokes the impressions of time, creating a poetic dialogue between architecture and memory.

Theater / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Artist Cheng Tsung FENG's creative practice is deeply tied to the preservation and reinterpretation of fading traditional crafts and cultural memories. For this monumental outdoor installation, his focus turned to the bamboo opera stage—a once-prevalent architectural form in Taiwan's temple festivals and communal celebrations, but now rarely seen as times have changed. At the historic Wenwu Temple in Lukang, Changhua, which itself has stood for over two centuries, FENG constructed a vast stage using thousands of bamboo poles, reviving the grandeur of this vanishing tradition in contemporary form.

All Together Under the Umbrella / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For the Hakka people, the oil-paper umbrella carries profound cultural meaning. It is seen as a symbol of wholeness, reunion, and destiny, a reminder that life's encounters are guided by both chance and connection. Even within the Chinese character for "umbrella" (傘), one finds the repeated presence of the character for "person" (人), suggesting the gathering, reliance, and interdependence between people.

Bamboo Cabin Plan : Sticky Rice Dumpling / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung Feng's "Bamboo Cabin Plan" is a series of small-scale architectural works built primarily with bamboo, exploring the traditional ways people wrap food. The first piece in this project, Bamboo Cabin Plan: Sticky Rice Dumpling, is situated along a bamboo forest hiking trail in Lugu Township, Nantou County. It offers a shaded resting place for hikers passing through the area.

Structural Botany: 25AP-263-43 / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0000

"Structural Botany" is a series that extracts geometric vocabularies from the diverse characteristics of plants, reinterpreting them through artificial structures and modular components. It explores the blurred intersection between natural forms and human-made construction.

Burr Puzzle Tower / Cheng Tsung FENG

Yu Xin Li — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The Burr Puzzle Tower is based on the structure of the three-axis burr puzzle which has thousand years of history.

Reading, an Ocean / Cheng Tsung FENG

罗靖琳 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung FENG always focuses on traditional handcrafted culture. For the large-scale installation art for Hsinchu State Library, his subject is “Chinese Stitched Binding”, which is a kind of book binding method with a long history.

Reading a Bridge / Cheng Tsung FENG

罗靖琳 — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000

Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung FENG always focuses on traditional handcrafted culture. For the large-scale installation art for Eslite Bookstore 30th Anniversary, his subject is “Chinese Stitched Binding”, which is a kind of book binding method with a long history.

The Trap Installation / Cheng Tsung FENG

罗靖琳 — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From thousand rivers to a museum, from hunter to prey. Cheng Tsung FENG is a Taiwanese young artist. With an old soul in his body, he is fascinated by exploring the wisdom condensed out of time hidden in traditional utensils. He is reluctant to let go of these intangible assets along with traditional utensils. Thus, he inherits them by design and learns to create utensils from their tradition.

Nesting Plan I Gray-Cheeked Fulvetta / Cheng Tsung FENG

罗靖琳 — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The Nesting Plan by artist Cheng Tsung FENG is a work project by learning nesting process from the animal architect in forest. For this project, he follow the nesting procedures of Grey-Cheeked Fulvetta (twig selection plus contacting, grass blades, flowers and soft cushions).

Tea Nest / Cheng Tsung FENG

罗靖琳 — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Artist Cheng Tsung FENG turned this traditional craft into installation artwork, Tea Nest. Weaving with more rice straws, make it as big as a house size for welcoming people go interior.

Fish Trap house IV Houli / Cheng Tsung FENG

罗靖琳 — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Artist Cheng Tsung FENG applies Taiwanese traditional fish traps as the theme of artwork. Invited hundreds of local in Taichung to workshops to learn weaving the art craft of the fish trap. With them hundreds of fish trap was made and hang bamboo sign with their wishes on it. People surround hand by hand unite together. Rewrite the precious art craft which is going to vanish into our memory and body.

Sailing Castle / Cheng Tsung FENG Design Studio

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Artist Cheng Tsung FENG contrives a symbolic pavilion with wood constructions. Through the white sails harmoniously intertwined among the structure, he interprets the image of many sailboats gathering at the harbor as if an enormous sculptural entity embodies the enchanting scenery from the Donggang coast.