Taiwan
Weed Day
雜草稍慢
Weed Warriors &
We(ed) Care Packages
Chinese
雜草稍慢發展兩部分計畫：
第 1 部分 雜草勇士 Weed Warriors：
如何參與：
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/weed-warriors
雜草勇士象徵著大家一起保護雜草免受任何人類威脅。 透過識別那些入侵物種，以便在不使用化學品的情況下，藉由教育來保護城市免受入侵的威脅。 對於這個項目，我們計劃使用 iNaturalist 與世界各地的人們合作，以識別城市景觀中的雜草。 讓人們能夠放慢腳步，真正觀察周圍的植物。 我們希望人們了解這些日常雜草的價值，因此我們將使用此處的數據延續第二階段的計畫——We(ed) Care Packages
第 2 部分 雜草護理包
We(ed) Care Packages 將使用從第一部分收集的 iNaturalist 數據，去採集、鑑定於台灣不同植物，製作雜草藥膏。 然後，藝術家雜草稍慢將為每個地區的植物創建一個不同的治療項目。 還將於明信片上繪製雜草，以此回應並寄送給參與者！
English
Weed Day will present a two-part project:
Part 1 Weed Warriors:
How to participate:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/weed-warriors
Weed Warriors symbolizing everyone together protecting the weeds from any human threats. Also aiming to identify those invasive species, in order to protect cities from the threat of invasives without the use of chemicals but instead, through education. For this project, we plan to use iNaturalist to work with people around the world to identify the weeds that are within the city landscapes. Allowing people to be able to slow down and really observe the plants around them. We want people to understand the value of these everyday weeds thus, we will use the data here to create care packages for the top participants of the project.
Part 2 We(ed) Care Packages
For our We(ed) care packages we will use the data from iNaturalist that we have collected from part one. To go forage the different plants that have been identified in Taiwan to create weed healing ointments. Then we will create a different healing item for each region of plants that have been identified from part one that is available in Taiwan(where we are currently based). We will also create a postcard writing and drawing out all the plants that we have identified with our weed brush that we made from a previous project. Hopefully will be able to send out our care packages and postcards to as many participants as possible!
BIO
Chinese
雜草稍慢 Weed Day 藝術團隊由兩位採集藝術家組成，作品質疑人類目前在自然界中的地位。他們意識到當前的城市景觀以及人類與自然互動的方式，因此用採集的雜草製作雜草茶和其他日常必需品。他們在城市地區採集占主導地位的入侵植物，為本地植物的生長留出更多空間，從而創造了一個更加生物多樣性的環境。用這些植物，他們將它們製成雜草茶和其他日常用品，供人們享用。茶也是台灣日常生活的重要組成部分，雜草茶也是對話的開始，以幫助人們了解環境及其多樣性。每次他們泡茶時，都會使用特定地點的植物（通常超過 20 種植物）的不同組合，也會紀錄每種茶的成分，並向人們展示甚至在城市中我們周圍的各種植物。 他們認為雜草是土地的聲音，因為它們通常是地球母親種植的唯一植物。因此，通過雜草稍慢的計畫與大眾分享、傳遞這些植物中的每種價值。希望人們明白，我們都依賴微生物、昆蟲、植物和動物來繼續生存和健康。
過去的藝術計畫包括書法、裝置、表演、社區項目等。 雜草稍慢 Weed Day 認為，我們所有人都需要成為自然生物多樣性的保護者。
English
Weed Day is run by two foraging artists. They are conscious of the current city landscapes and the ways in which humans interact with nature. They make weed tea among other everyday essentials with the foraged weeds. When foraging they choose the more dominant and invasive plants leaving more space for native species resulting in a more biodiverse environment. To them, the weeds speak for the land. Tea is also a huge part of everyday life in Taiwan.
To them, weed tea is the start of the conversation to help people become aware of the environment and its diversity. Every time they make tea it is with a different combination of site-specific plants (usually more than 20 types of plants) thus for every tea they make they write the ingredients to show people the diverse amount of plants that surround us even within the city. They want people to understand that we all depend on microorganisms, insects, plants, and animals to continue to stay alive and healthy.
Past projects have included calligraphy, installations, performances, community projects among others.
The two of them believe that we all as humans need to become the protector of nature‘s biodiversity.
