Between tradition and modernity, there lies the course of loss and search. For artists returning to their community, they often reexamine their bodily and corporal inheritance. In the traditional Truku and pan-Atayal societies, excelling in hunting and weaving are their life goals to pursue, these skills weighed significantly in the community. A girl must be good at weaving to become a real woman.
Hence, Dungku Asang is a collective performance. It involved Weaving Road Trips bringing the weavers from different communities together. By quilt weaving, also called Gabang, people may reconnect themselves with the mountains. In addition, their stories, personal characters, life traces, as well as their own messages towards the community and the land, can be told through their woven textures.