國立陽明交通大學應用藝術研究所賴雯淑副教授，自2018年起執行新竹六燃「大煙囪廠房基地」保溫睦鄰駐站計劃至今已近三年，她指出新竹是一座二戰城市，需要一群具反思、批判和實踐能力的市民來保存、活化、滋養她。5/1至5/31在大煙囪下所舉行的《遇／預見六燃》──賴雯淑藝術裝置個展，就是這個行動的具體展現。賴雯淑說，遇／預見六燃，是一趟生命重新匯聚之旅，沿著蜿蜒如臍帶的小徑來到煙囪下，與母親相連，是意圖透過藝術行動來開啟六燃活隱喻、活歷史的建構，以「記憶・植物・地圖三部曲」的方式逐步展開，是將藝術實踐疊加在新竹六燃的紋理上，展開交纏互滲的多重部署，互文延展出個人生命中的六燃板塊。展出的七件作品，是個體遭逢歷史與記憶時，所碰撞堆擠出的生命皺摺，但與其說是個人的，還不如說是與眾人交會時所折射出的歷史晶體，是送給大煙囪的一份禮物。

這次的藝術裝置個展跟六燃保溫計劃成果展一起呈現，是希望透過保溫睦鄰與藝術行動，繼續開展個人與大眾的生命故事，啟發我們對六燃的過去、現在和未來的想像與規劃。賴雯淑副教授跟陽明交大六燃保溫團隊同心協力，一起透過新竹文史的論述、藝術跨域實踐、社區永續生活設計，以及智慧科技導入六燃場域的各項具體實踐行動，希望能以「活隱喻，活博物館」的理念，在不久的將來讓新竹日本海軍第六燃料廠能順利地轉型成一座「新竹生博物館」（Hsinchu Living Museum），在六燃的滋養下，孕育出新竹市民所期待的「生活、生命、生態、共生、共創、共好」新竹六燃博物館，是融合戰爭歷史、文化、藝術、生態、科技於一體的獨特博物館園區。

Wen-Shu Lai, an associate professor in the Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chao Tung University, has directed the “Good Neighborliness Residency Project at the Big Chimney Factory Base” for three years since 2018. She pointed out that Hsinchu is a WWII city that requires the preservation, revitalization, and nourishment from its citizens who are reflective, critical, and willing to put their thoughts into action. Wen-Shu Lai’s solo art installation “Encountering / Foreseeing the Sixth Fuel Factory” on view this May is the very embodiment of her statement. This exhibition is a journey of reunion on which lives come to the chimney along the path as winding as an umbilical cord. Lai intends to reconfigure the living metaphor and living history of the Sixth Fuel Factory via her artistic praxis that unfolds as the “trilogy of memory, plant, and map.” Such step-by-step actions brilliantly open an ongoing dialectic dialogue with the spirit and texture of the Sixth Fuel Factory in Hsinchu. This exhibition is an act of interlaced and interpenetrating dispositifs that extends intertextually from her personal life experiences within the context of the factory. The seven installations featuring prominently in this exhibition are the wrinkles of life formed when the artist encounters and collides with historical moments and memories. Each work is not so much of individual, but more of the collective, as it is a historical crystal growing from the encounter with the residents here, a gift to the big chimney.

This solo exhibition is juxtaposed with the achievement exhibition of the Good Neighborliness Residency Project, for the purpose of spreading personal and collective life stories through the artistic action and the project, thereby inspiring our planning for the Sixth Fuel Factory and imagination of its past, present, and future. Prof. Lai and the NYCU team of the Good Neighborliness Residency Project have made concerted efforts in multifarious activities, including the discursive contextualization of Hsinchu’s culture and history, the transdisciplinary practice of arts, the sustainable design for community life, and the introduction of smart technologies into the Sixth Fuel Factory. With the vision of “living metaphor．living museum,” they strive to smoothly transmute the former Imperial Japanese Navy’s Sixth Fuel Factory, Hsinchu Branch into the “Hsinchu Living Museum” in the foreseeable future, which will in turn nurture and incubate a sui generis museum park, a perfect fusion of war history, culture, art, ecology, and technology that lives up to the citizens’ expectations for “livelihood, vitality, ecology, symbiosis, co-creation, and reciprocity.”