# Schedule ###### tags: `WORK STATION FOR ARTIST` Me-Chi Yao and lab team start cultivating rice bugs at Applied Zoology Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute in early November 2020. 14-20/December LAB days **Daily 4-7pm** (Taipei time, 9-12am CET)- remote collaboration with Martin in Berlin and Franz Xaver in Linz. https://meet.jit.si/labkilllab/riceacademy 14/12/2020 Taro+ShuLea+Hank to go to Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute located at [Taichung Wufeng](https://www.tari.gov.tw/english/content/index.asp?Parser=1,15,93,78) to pick up bugs, estimated bug count (related to Me-Chi) Lesser grain borer and rice weevil, both are more than 10,000. 17/12/2020 **RICE ACADEMY forum** 下午 2- 5點 
地點: 聯合餐廳1F實驗室前町 A gathering of Rice Academy members: 2:00-2:30 Crop Science Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute Ming Hsin Lai Applied Zoology Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute Me Chi Yao 2:30 - 3:00 Department of Mechanical Engineering,Tatung University, Yao-Jen LAI + Chiu-Hung Chung 3:00 - 3:30 Rice Academy artists Franz Xaver, Taro, Martin Howse, Shu Lea Cheang, Hsien Yu Cheng 3:30- 3:45 break 3:45- 4:15 賴青松 presents 榖東俱樂部 穀東俱樂部在2004年成立,由穀東們提出種田的資金,委託代耕的農民耕作,等到收成之後,穀東們再平均分享收成的稻米。穀東由逛市場的「買米人」,變成看天吃飯的「種米人」,雖然面對四季風流水轉,颱風暴雨的危機,伴隨土地脈動,感受耕種者的心情起落,需要更多一分的耐心與體貼,但是當收到那來自土地,一包包沈甸甸,自己用心思澆灌與陪伴的「自己種的米」,口中的那份安心跟貼心,就會發現一切都是值得的!賴青松認為「穀東俱樂部」的真正價值在於傳達一種生活理念,一種重視環境保護的生活態度。 賴青松,台灣新竹市。1970年生。輾轉成長於新竹/台中/台北的城鄉之間。因關注環境永續課題,2000年移居宜蘭,開始半農半X生活。2004年,創設台灣第一個CSA案例“穀東俱樂部”。2019年,共同創立“慢島生活公司”,2020年,共同創立食農生活空間“穗穗念” 4:15- 5:00- open discussion, ALL. _______________________________ 9:00-10:00 Rice Academy artists at Library building lab space Scheming with the bugs…. a revolt in the making The rice academy artists, Taro, Shu Lea Cheang, Hsien Yu Cheng, joined by Martin House (via streaming from Berlin,Germany) and Franz Xaver (via streaming from Linz, Austria), convene joint communications with the lab-cultivated 100,000 rice bugs through ultrasonic microphone, radio transmitters, sensors and UV lights. The rice bugs, breaking out from within, scheme an inner dynamic revolt; the artists, sensing the crunching high and low frequencies transmitted, present a rough composition of rice bug revolt with operatic notation.