Taipei Fantasy House Workshop

Taipei Fantasy House Workshop

The Dream Community is now open for proposals for design ideas that can be implemented in a living space.  This is an opportunity to collaborate and build incredibly experimental concepts for a set of luxury lofts in the mountainous outskirts of Taipei.  This is a grand experiment with the intention of bringing together artists and sets of artists from all over the globe to exchange ideas and develop new forms of inter-disciplinary work.  We are looking for builders, tinkerers, craftspeople, painters, mosaic artists, metal artists, carpenters and glass artists who would like to try actualize pieces of conceptual and functional art for these spaces and who are interested in a skill exchange. 

Artists usually come for periods from 4 weeks to 3 months.  Most artists’ proposals for this building are centered on creating new lighting designs, passageways, murals, mosaic or sculptural pieces for the courtyard and large metal sculptures.  The art can exist within a home, it can transform a home, it can exist outside or in the courtyard or it can cover an entryway.  If a wood worker would like to create something with a glass artist, we can play matchmaker and set up collaborations for specific pieces.   If a team of artists would like to come together and transform an entire space, proposals are welcome.

The foundation is also interested in creating sessions in winter, fall, spring and summer for artists to visit in large groups and to have the opportunity to create cross over pieces or group atmospheres. 

Specifically, we are looking for collaborations that would lead to a new invention or a new style that we could use to completely transform a space.  In Xizhih, which is a suburb of Taipei, wild man Gordon Tsai runs a large art and parade collective, which is funded in part by his condominiums.  This year he had decided that the ultimate statement for Taiwan would be to create a kind of artists’ paradise using an industrial looking luxury condo high-rise as the palate.

General Work Conditions

We usually work 6 days a week from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m..  The Dream Community provides airfare, a nice apartment, studio space, all supply costs, delicious Vietnamese meals twice a day, special adventure trips to all of the island’s crazy natural and city attractions and a stipend of $200 a week.   The idea is, if you have something that you are driven to do and you want to try it out, this is a great place to experiment. 

We invite interested artists to submit:

     *One artist bio

     *A one page description of the proposed activity

     *6 images of work which highlight artistic merit of past projects

     *1 or 2 sketches of proposed idea

email proposals to: daydreamfantasyhouse@gmail.com