<Father’s Shipyard, My Ship> is a site-specific, interdisciplinary art project, in which artist started a dialogue, long time after his father’s retirement from Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau (currently Port of Kaohsiung, TIPC), focusing on shipbuilding knowledges and history of Port of Kaohsiung as a form of heritage.

Starting with a model cruise ship made by father during artist’s childhood, which was realized as a metaphor of either Port of Kaohsiung or the harbor city Kaohsiung itself. This interdisciplinary project, based on interviews, studies, field researches, events of artivism and exhibition, aims to trace back to the nearly-forgotten, brilliant history of port of Kaohsiung in the past decades, ease the perishing generation’s sense of loss witnessing downfall of the port as well as their hometown, a once-prosperous city becoming a “Rust Belt”, and also the conflicts between generations, at the end, to reconstruct a common understanding and local identity among interviewees, participants and audience.