由利澤國際偶戲藝術村於新竹市鐵道藝術村策劃展出的《駐村的痕跡——身體、物件、記憶》（Traces of Residency – Bodies, Objects, Memories），回望藝術村近十年來透過藝術家駐村計畫（Artist-in-Residence Program）所累積的藝術交流、實驗與創作歷程。
自2017年起，利澤國際偶戲藝術村邀請來自臺灣及世界各地的藝術家前來宜蘭駐村，生活、研究、創作，並與在地環境建立深刻連結。每一次駐村，都始於一場短暫卻深刻的相遇：藝術家踏入陌生的地方，建立新的關係、探索不同的媒材，回應當地的人們、地景、歷史與日常生活的節奏。雖然駐村終將告一段落，但其中累積的經驗並不會隨之消失。
本次展覽所匯聚的，正是那些留存至今的痕跡。
展覽透過戲偶、物件、攝影、錄像、手稿、聲音、演出紀錄，以及創作歷程中的各種片段，呈現2017年至2026年間歷屆駐村藝術家所留下的作品與記憶。這些展出內容不僅展現完成的藝術作品，更記錄了創作過程中所經歷的不確定、探索、合作、挫折、轉變，以及持續成長的軌跡。
在偶戲藝術中，物件從來不只是物件。透過身體的操演、想像力，以及人的存在，它可以成為一具身體、一個角色、一段記憶，甚至是一位述說故事的生命體。同樣地，本次展覽中的每一件物件，也承載著曾經與它共同創作的藝術家所留下的無形存在。它們保存著雙手留下的痕跡、身體的動作、人與人之間建立的關係，以及駐村期間所發生的各種經驗。
《駐村的痕跡》邀請觀眾重新思考：藝術家駐村並不只是創作新作品的場所，更是一個持續流動、彼此交流與共同生成的生命過程。在這個過程中，藝術家、社群、媒材與環境彼此影響，也共同塑造彼此。
當藝術家離開之後，究竟留下了什麼？
或許是一件物件、一段故事、一份關係、一則記憶；又或者，是一個微小卻深遠、足以改變我們觀看世界方式的契機。
*「本展覽為免費自由入場，無需預先取票。此票卷僅供系統發布及人數統計參考。」
*Free entry—no pre-ticketing required. This ticket is for registration and headcount tracking only.
策展人｜海樂．彌飛達（Helmi Fita）
利澤國際偶戲藝術村 國際事務長／策展人
Traces of Residency – Bodies, Objects, Memories
Presented by Lize Puppet Art Colony at the Hsinchu Railway Art Site, Traces of Residency reflects on nearly a decade of artistic exchange, experimentation, and creation developed through the colony’s Artist-in-Residence Programme.
Since 2017, Lize Puppet Art Colony has welcomed artists from Taiwan and around the world to live, research, create, and engage with the local environment of Yilan. Each residency begins with a temporary encounter: an artist enters an unfamiliar place, develops new relationships, explores different materials, and responds to the people, landscapes, histories, and everyday rhythms surrounding them. Although the residency eventually comes to an end, its experiences do not simply disappear.
This exhibition gathers the traces left behind.
Through puppets, objects, photographs, videos, sketches, sound, performance documentation, and fragments of artistic processes, the exhibition presents selected works and memories created by former resident artists between 2017 and 2026. These materials reveal not only completed artworks, but also moments of uncertainty, discovery, collaboration, failure, transformation, and growth.
In puppetry, an object is never merely an object. Through movement, imagination, and human presence, it may become a body, a character, a memory, or a living storyteller. In the same way, the objects presented in this exhibition carry the invisible presence of the artists who once worked with them. They hold traces of hands, gestures, relationships, and experiences formed during the residency.
Traces of Residency invites audiences to consider an artist residency not simply as a place for producing new work, but as a living process of exchange. It is a space where artists, communities, materials, and environments influence one another.
What remains after an artist leaves?
Perhaps it is an object, a story, a relationship, a memory—or a small but lasting change in how we see the world.
Curator, Helmi Fita
Director of Foreign Affair/Curator
Lize Puppet Art Colony
