Zhongli Warehouse No. 5 is located next to Zhongli Railway Station in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Since 2018, it has been leased by the Taoyuan Arts Front and repurposed as a multidisciplinary art space. The warehouse, a wooden structure dating back to the Japanese colonial period, is the best-preserved among the Zhongli railway warehouse complex. Originally used for grain storage, it later came under the operation of Taiwan Railways after the postwar period.
 

With the development of highways, railway freight gradually declined, and many of these old warehouses have since been repurposed for commercial uses, such as shops and scooter parking. Due to complex property ownership issues, the railway warehouses—despite their more than eighty years of history—have struggled to obtain official heritage status. At the same time, their prime location in the city center has placed them within the redevelopment zone of the future Zhongli Station renewal project, leaving them facing possible demolition.
 

Dust-Collection Project is based on the site’s historical background, from which I construct a pseudo-reality:

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“Before the warehouse was scheduled for demolition, the government dispatched a professional ‘dust collector’ to gather dust samples, in the hope that emerging technologies could one day reconstruct Zhongli Warehouse No. 5, preserving its historical and cultural significance.”

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By stepping away from the role of a cultural or historical worker and setting aside the complex external political context, I assume the role of the “dust collector.” Through hours of labor-intensive dust collection, I attempt to establish a direct, bodily dialogue with the aging architectural space. At the cost of physical exhaustion and allergic reactions, I carefully scrape and gather the fine particles of dust that have accumulated on beams and columns over nearly a century.