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Artist Florentijn Hofman, most known for his Rubber Duck installation which was displayed in Keelung Harbor last year to much tourist attraction, has constructed a 25 meter rabbit as part of the Taoyuan Landscape Art Festival. Hofman stated that the rabbit was inspired by the legend of Chang’e, the Chinese goddess of the moon, and the Jade Rabbit which is said to live with her on the moon. The sculpture has seen several hundred thousand views per day alone, though the Art Festival is slated to run until the 14th.

Nevertheless, National Taiwan University professor Hsu Shih-jung has taken the occasion to call on Hofman to join him in protesting the Taoyuan Aerotropolis Plan. The land the festival hosted on is land that the government plans to expropriate for the Aerotropolis Plan, which overall will require the relocation of 40,000 people and the acquisition of 3,200 hectares of land. Hsu also called attention to the means by which the festival has sought to profile famous foreign artists, rather than Taiwanese artists. When criticized for “politicizing” art by Taoyuan government officials, Hsu’s response was to suggest the intimate relation of art and politics from the onset.

荷蘭的藝術家Florentijn Hofman在桃園地景藝術節建立一個25米的大兔子,Hofman在台灣最有民的藝術品是去年在基隆港的25米橡皮鴨。每天,十幾萬多人去看,但是台大教授徐世榮要求Hofman用這個機會反抗以後要蓋的桃園航空城,來蓋桃園航空城必須移動四萬人。徐世榮被桃園政府批判把政治跟美術鏈接,徐世榮指美術和政治原本的關係。

Brian Hioe (丘琦欣) is a freelancer currently based in Taipei, he will be starting an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Culture at Columbia University in Fall 2014.

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