THE SILVICULTURE MUSEUM

The Silviculture Museum: October 2008 at 266 W. 37th Street (chashama window). A collaboration between Chiasui Chen, Esther Neff, Brian McCorkle, Shawna Ferrato, and Herbie Go. Installation/performance uses silviculture (agroforestry) and its history in Taiwan and the Phillippines as a meta-phor for colonization, immigration, and cultural identity. Roots, rows, production, and their implications are discussed in a museum tour video in Mandarin and English and live museum "volunteer" Herbie Go. Cardboard pine trees, pine air fresheners (Taiwan produces the world's artificial Christmas trees), bronze buffaloes, silviculture technique displays, and heeeeerbiiiiiiciiiiides invites visitors to crawl beneath a mint green pine frame and "immerse themselves in (neon lanyard) roots."