犀牛 Rhino

犀 牛   Rhino

  葉 子 啟   Yeh Tzu-Chi

 Seoul Art Space-Mullae, South Korea  2012/11/8 

Photo by Yuen Kin-leung Maru, Zoe Sun

curator:  Jae Seon Moon

Pan Asia Performance Art Network

                                   

2011年在重慶動物園裡我錄下三段動物的影片。之後,在仁川駐村時﹐有時間整理自己的小筆電﹐再度看到這三段影片。我想這三段影片擺在一起﹐本身就已經是一件作品了。但如何把我自身與它們結合在一起成為一個現場藝術呢？那時我手邊剛好有一本Marina Abromovic的作品集﹐裡面有一個作品﹐Ulay在牆上﹐她在地上面對面平行走向彼此﹐錯身而過的一個作品。這個作品給了我靈感。我想我就模仿犀牛走圈圈吧﹐這樣就可以把這三段影片帶到現場藝術來。而不管是我錄下影片的當刻﹐是我表演的現場﹐或是在我事後的論述時﹐我的心情始終沒變：身為人類﹐我真得覺得對這些動物很愧咎… 

I recorded three clips of animals in the Zoo of Chung Qing in 2011.  I saw them again when I had time to sort out my note-book in my residency in Incheon Art Platform.  For me, these three clips themselves were already a piece of works!  The problem was how to make them a live performance with me?  At that moment, a book, a collection of Marina Abromovic’s works, happened to be beside me.  One of her works shows how Ulay, on the wall, and her, on the ground, walked to each other in parallel and never really came together….  I got inspired by that works.  Why not just walk in a circle like the rhino, I thought.  And that’s how I brought these three clips to the field of live art.  My feelings have never changed no matter when it’s the moment I videoed them, the moment I performed them, or the moment I talk/write about it later: as a human being, I really feel very sorry and owe so much to these animals….  



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.