Image Description: View of the entrance of the Container Camera, where three people are entering the space through the fabric entrance.
Container Camera 貨櫃相機
2025 // KAOHSIUNG INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER ARTS FESTIVAL [TW]
I’ve transformed a shipping container into a multi-lens camera obscura—an immersive space that invites visitors to slow down and experience a new superimposed Kaohsiung while simultaneously gaining a deeper understanding of image production.
Container Camera inverts the traditional function of the container: from holding and protecting goods in transit to containing fleeting images of the world outside. The installation enables locals and visitors a rare opportunity to inhabit the harbor geography and build a new relationship to this place; transforming the container into a site of wonder.
Unlike most camera obscuras, which use a single lens, Container Camera incorporates multiple lenses, simultaneously projecting. Each lens will project a distinct view of the outside world, creating overlapping, layered scenes. These composite images form a fluid, living geography. Hinged mirrors and additional lenses allow the audience to interact with and alter the projections. Moving a mirror redirects the image across the container walls. Layering lenses alters scale and depth. The lenses are also able to capture people standing outside the container, allowing the audience to mix their projections with those of the harbor, creating a multilayered view of humans and geography.
Container Camera is a participatory installation where the audience becomes artists, remapping Kaohsiung through visual play and collective imagination. Visitors are encouraged to photograph the constellations they create and share them online, contributing to a growing digital archive of unique, co-created works, reflecting the special place.
Click here, to see the drawings from the design process.
我將一只貨櫃改造為一座多鏡頭暗箱——一個沉浸式的空間，邀請觀眾放慢腳步，體驗一個層層疊加的嶄新高雄，同時更深入地理解影像如何被生成。
貨櫃相機 顛覆了貨櫃的傳統功能：從運送與保護貨物的容器，轉化為承載外部世界瞬間影像的空間。這件裝置為在地居民與訪客提供了一個難得的機會，得以「進入」港灣的地理景觀，並與此地建立新的關係，使貨櫃成為一處充滿驚奇的場域。
不同於多數僅使用單一鏡頭的暗箱，貨櫃相機 結合了多個鏡頭，同時進行投影。每一個鏡頭都會投射出外部世界的不同視角，彼此重疊，形成層層交錯的場景。這些複合影像構成了一種流動且充滿生命力的地理景觀。可轉動的鏡子與附加鏡頭讓觀眾能夠介入並改變投影效果：轉動鏡子可將影像導向貨櫃內不同牆面，疊加鏡頭則會改變影像的尺度與深度。鏡頭同時也能捕捉站在貨櫃外的人，讓觀眾將人的影像與港灣景象交織在一起，生成一種人與地景交錯的多層視野。
貨櫃相機 是一件參與式的裝置作品，觀眾成為創作者，透過視覺遊戲與集體想像重新描繪高雄。訪客被鼓勵拍攝自己所創造的影像景象並在線上分享，逐步形成一個持續成長的數位檔案庫——由眾人共同創作、獨一無二的作品，映照出這個地方的特殊性。
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Image Description: View of the harbour site. The Container Camera is sitting in the center of the image, against the background of Kaohsiung and one other container artwork.
Image Description: Exterior photo of the container, showing two of the unique plywood boxes, holding the lenses.
Image Description: Interior view of the Container Camera, showing the plywood lens boxes through the container wall and the screens hanging in the center of the space.
Image Description: Interior view of the Container Camera, showing the plywood wall and built-in bench. A lens box penetrates the wall, upon which two projections of the surroundings overlap. On the back wall and fabric entrance, a third projection is visible.
Image Description: The plywood wall with two projections of the Kaohsiung skyline overlapping. In the projections, two people are seen standing on the pier midway towards another container arts project. Many elements are projected twice.
Image Description: Interior view of the Container Camera, where audiences are interacting with the work. Projections are seen on a large multi colored screen, a white screen, and a plywood wall.
Image Description: Interior view of the Container Camera, where audiences are interacting with the multi colored screen.
Close-up of the three projections colliding and overlapping on the multi colored screen. The image is flipped to correct the projection being upside down and seen here right side up. The overlaps in the projections open the image to the viewer to explore unexpected constellations, revealing hidden potentials within Kaohsiung.
Interior view of the artist explaining some of the interactive functions of the camera to an audience member, who is playing with a mirror that moves the image between different projection screens. Behind them on a large plywood wall, an upside-down projection of Kaohsiung is visible with a cloudy sky folding over the bench at the bottom of the wall.
Image Description: Interior view with an audience member in the center holding up a small portable screen, moving it around the space to find unique constellations. The projections are also visible on the audience members' light colored clothing.
Image Description: Interior view of a person holding up a screen changing the focal point to show a singular person standing on top of a small hill under some trees in front of the hexagon facade of the Kaohsiung Music Center.
Image Description: Close-up of a multiple projection of the night scene, showing the lit up structures of the area.
Image Description: Exterior view of people waiting to get into the Container Camera, light comes from the opening, in the background are other container arts projects lit up, along with the bridge and the Kaohsiung Music Center.