Photo by Kai Wasikowski [copyright]. Converted to black & white for this website.

Woven Sky is an immersive sculpture collaboratively built by Taiwanese artist Wang Wen-Chih and Cave Urban for the 2014 Woodford Folk Festival. It is made from 70 radiata pine trunks and 600 poles of bamboo, all harvested within a 20km radius of the site [Cave Urban]. Wen-Chih conceptualises life, death and rebirth in many of his works, which the ephemeral reality of the sculpture is part of. Woven Sky was 15m high and 100m long [Event Engineering], shaping the entrance to the Amphitheatre, with thousands of patrons coming and going to see the headline shows as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. 


Wang Wen-Chih [Artist], Woodford Folk Federation [Client], Nici Long, Juan Pablo Pinto, Jed Long, Lachlan Brown, Alice Nivison, Ned Long, Woodford Volunteers [Team], Event Engineering [Engineer]


The film documents this collaboration and premiered at Antenna Documentary Film Festival alongside Racing Extinction [Dir. Louie Psihoyos]. It received early invitation to The American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs and has been screened at conferences and universities as part of Cave Urban's ongoing research and development into bamboo and lightweight structures. 


Nici Long [Executive Producer], Emma Hudson [Director], Julian DeLorenzo [Sound Recordist], Alice Hung [Translator], John Kilbey [Composer], Assistant Editor [Angelique Pham]

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