如 果 不 再

葉 子 啟

I 獵奇之眼

如果不再在街上拉屎﹐不再把自己關在籠子或房子外長達一年﹐如果不再以鉤穿刺自己皮膚懸吊半空中﹐如果不再吃自己孩子的胚胎﹐如果不再…不再﹐嗯﹐驚世駭俗﹐不再搞怪﹐不再令人作嘔﹐瞠目結舌﹐那麼行為還能何以為是？

行為當驚世駭俗？當搞怪？當抗爭？當令人瞠目結舌？這些是行為裡的「政治正確性」嗎？若然﹐那麼行為領域裡是不是也存有某種霸權了呢？ 如果這世上沒了火山爆發﹐洪氾﹐地震﹐土石流…難道就沒有其他可觀之處嗎？

會不會其實再怎麼「溫和」的行為﹐可能都存有某種洶湧﹐某種對抗﹐在某個角落裡。當畢卡索不驚不奇安靜地在畫室裡作畫時﹐他帶來的是不是繪畫史上的巨大革命﹐而我的包裹全身﹐是不是得付出代價：獨自面對自己的密室空間恐懼症…

會不會除了驚駭怪異抗爭洶湧…﹐行為也可以表現千千百百個別的東西…也許雋永如詩﹐也許讓人發噱﹐也許如禪家般苦行修身…就像所有其他藝術類別一樣﹐行為也可以有無限發展空間與方向﹐並且有其自身歷史脈絡流變。

之所以﹐不能只以獵奇之眼來看行為。

II 是藝術不是技術

III 請到現場來

（全文請參看「在路上」：2009阿川國際行為藝術交流展紀錄手冊頁8-10）


If No More Yeh Tzu-chi I Eyes for Strangeness

If you don’t shit on the street, cage yourself or stay out of any building as long as one year, kneel and hang yourself in the air, eat your own fetis…. If you don’t…well, don’t do anything horrible, strange, astonishing, or disgusting, what else can you do with performance art? Should performance art be horrible, strange, astonishing, or disgusting? Should it fight against somebody or something? Are these the “political correctness” in performance art? If they are, then isn’t it referring to an existence of hegemony in this field? If there were not volcano explosion, flood, earthquake, or mood flood any more, would there be nothing left to see on this planet? Could it be possible that there is always some sort of turbulence and revolt in some small unnoticed corners? Isn’t that Picasso brought a giant revolution in the history of paintings when he painted quietly and unsurprisingly in his studio? And haven’t I faced my own claustrophobia when I enveloped my whole body with that giant heavy god-damned black cloth? Could it be possible that performance art can show hundreds of thousands of other factors than just frightening, astonishment, revolt, anger or turbulence? Could it be otherwise poetic, funny, or full of the spirit of zen, etc.……. Just like all the other art categories, performance art can have boundless space and orientation to develop and form its own specific traits of history. That’s why one can’t see performance art only with the eyes for strangeness.

II It’s art, not skill

III Please Come to the Scene

( for the whole article, pls check Documenta of ON THE WAY International Performance Art Meeting, p 11-13 )