「陷阱」作為本屆的命題，是對現代人的一個提問！時代發展至今，我們過著高度工業化、現代化、資訊化的生活型態，許多生活上的擁有與便利都被視為理所當然！如果有一天這些擁有與便利突然不見了，我們還可以有什麼樣的生活方式可以選擇?在貨櫃藝術節裡，「陷阱」也是一個演繹題！在物質上及精神上。試想，將人拉回到一個生存最原初的需求—覓食的狀態，在沒有超市的年代，食物大多要靠自己的勞力去取得，部落中集體生活的族群，透過分食、分工的組織運作來延續族群的命脈。在以物易物的年代，人們是因為競爭還是合作才能安然存活?相應使用實體貨幣或虛擬貨幣的現今，何以便利的生活讓人們的精神生活變得空泛與嚴苛，使得回歸原野山林逐漸成為一種人們嚮往的理想生活方式。
 
　　在此藝術節中，我們虛擬/架構一個山林原野與都市叢林的對話，漫談「陷阱」存在的必然(具象)與超然(抽象)，在「陷阱」形式通常隱而不現，百樣多變的時代，我們將如何辨識與跨越?
 
　　我們準備用既輕鬆又嚴肅的態度漫談「陷阱」，我們期待藝術家可以輻射這個議題到生活中的各種面向，如文化、人權、土地、政治、經濟、社會等來進行創作。
 
　　在我們日常生活中，突然驚呼一聲「啊」，即是陷阱出現的時刻，藝術家面對生活，何時驚呼一聲「啊」，就是藝術節所期待的藝術家創作的原點！

　　Connecting with the energy from the Contemporary Austronesian Art Program accumulated by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts over the past 10-odd years, the 10th Kaohsiung Container Art Festival in 2019 also resonates with the government’s New Southbound Policy to develop more cultural exchange with Southeast Asian countries. This exhibition is curated as an international exhibition with its focus on Austronesian and Southeastern Asian regions and islands.
 
　　Taking on the theme of “trap”, the festival this year takes us back to the primitive times when humans had to survive by setting up traps to catch food. In ancient times, there was no supermarket and people had to grow, hunt, or gather their food from nature. When people lived together and built villages, they divided labor and bartered the products of their labor in order to survive together. In the era of bartering, did humans survive because of their competition against or collaboration with one another?
 
　　In this festival, we construct a dialogue between wild jungles and urban jungles, discussing freely the “trap”—its concrete existence (at the substance level) and its conceptual nature (at the abstract level). There are diverse forms of traps. How can we identify them and avoid being trapped?
 
　　The issue of “trap” can be taken both lightly and seriously. We look forward to seeing how the participating artists extend their discussions about “trap” to different domains of life, such culture, human rights, land, politics, economy, and society, in their works.
 
　　In our daily life, the moment of discovering and/or falling into a trap is always immediately followed by a sudden “Ah!”. It is the same with artists. When they let out a sudden “Ah!”, it is the exact moment when they discover the inspirational source of their artistic creation!