My Mobile Clam Shack: Southern Deployment Trial

In the image for Lin Yu-Sheng's new exhibition, it is night. Lin stands in green waders with a headlamp strapped around his forehead. A scooter is parked behind him. His right hand reaches into a transparent tank lit from below, while the coast appears as a map across the lower part of the image.

The exhibition is called My Mobile Clam Shack: Southern Deployment Trial. Opening at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts on September 5, it brings wind-driven machinery, clam shells, sand, sound and video into B1 KSpace. The project previously took shape beside the Dahan River; this version enters a museum near Kaohsiung's harbor.

One photograph from the 2025 Dahan River iteration shows Lin crouched outside Banqiao 435 Art Zone, holding an enlarged clam form almost as broad as his torso. He is dressed in the same kind of green waders seen in the current exhibition image, with both arms around the shell and one knee close to the ground.

The installation built at Dahan River included an interactive, wind-powered clam cultivation pool and moving image. A second public record shows the enlarged clam under violet light. Beside it, shells rest inside a circular illuminated apparatus.

Lin's point of departure for the project is an image of his father bending down to gather wild clams. Around that remembered action, the shoreline has changed. The museum's account of the new exhibition names disappearing coast, aquaculture landscapes and wind-energy infrastructure among the conditions the work carries with it.

Clam cultivation is food production and livelihood. Wind infrastructure reorganizes the coast for energy. The family's memory begins with a person gathering shellfish by hand. Lin works with those relations through equipment that can travel.

The organizer of the 2025 Dahan River project identifies Lin as a disabled artist and describes bodily limitation as part of his creative method.

KSpace gives the project a museum room near Kaohsiung's harbor. The riverbank apparatus and materials came first; Kaohsiung changes the institution and audience around them.

Lin will open the exhibition at 2:30 p.m. on September 5. A conversation follows from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. with Lin, curator Wei Chu-Chun and clam-aquaculture expert Lin Po-Chun.