手語 Sign

葉 子 啟     手 語   

Yeh Tzu-chi      Sign   

  Tel Aviv, Israel    2008

photo: Sinead O'Donnell   周斌  

curator:  Tamar Raban

        ZAZ International Performance Art Festival, Israel, 2008

地上有一長條黑布﹐中間車線成兩條布隧道。我以書寫邀請一位觀眾和我一起同時個自爬過那隧道。爬出布隧道後﹐我在桌上以雙手做一些動作﹐然後邀請那位觀眾加入與我互動。慢慢我開使用力﹐友好的互動突變成兩人雙手的角力。最後兩人在紙上和談﹐結束這趟既友亦敵的手語過程。

A long black cloth was sewed into two tunnels.  I wrote to invite an audience to crawl through the tunnels with/without me.   Then I did some movements with my hands and asked him to join me.  At first, we have a nice interaction.  However, as I strengthened little by little, the friendly interaction became something like wrestling. We even bit each other’s…. Finally, we negotiated by writing/talking on the paper, and thus ended this process of half friend and half enemy.