行為愛上詩 IV 策展論述 Curatorial Statement of In Love with Poetry IV

行為愛上詩 IV 策展論述 Curatorial Statement of In Love with Poetry IV 

Written by：葉子啓 Yeh Tzu-Chi

其實都已經開始想是否要放手了，因為開始覺得傳承之必要，以及近年辦活動都申請不到理想的補助，有點心灰意冷。但是當葛拉希耶拉（Graciela Ovejero Postigo）私訊問我，在她明年初參展泰國亞托邦（Asiatopia）國際行為藝術節之後是否能延伸來台看看我，或者也許可以有機會參加個小小的行為藝術活動？我的熱情又回來了！

這是一個倉促決定要辦的活動，來不及申補，所以沒有經費奧援。但還是獲得多位國內外藝術家及同好藝術團體/空間的熱情支持，我由衷感謝他們。我們是跨越多重邊境的行為藝術大家族，彼此相互支持取暖。每一次得來不易的相逢，都是我們互相觀摩學習精進的機會，都可以讓我們充滿電力，再度回去面對自己這樣那樣的人生。

疫情前，我最後一次出國是在2019年飛了近40個鐘頭遠赴南美智利和阿根廷參展，當時我去回的飛行足跡是台灣-日本-美國-智利-阿根廷-智利-澳洲-台灣，在地球上畫了一個大圓圈！而阿根廷的活動就是由葛拉希耶拉主辦的。

疫情高峰期間，國際現場行為藝術一片沉寂中，她在布宜諾斯艾利斯「榆樹梨」（Peras de Olmo - Ars Continua）辦公室裡仍奮鬥不懈，舉辦線上行為及相關視聽媒體藝術公開徵件展，並搭配多場線上論壇，還舉辦線上開幕閉幕式，辦得有聲有色，讓全球（行為）藝術家們坐在家裡也可以繼續國際！

而到了疫情解封後的現在，葛拉希耶拉即將要飛過大半個地球來亞洲，順道還敦促我策了這個活動，我的疫情前中後，我的國際終站與即將重啓都有她，想來我和她真是有種特別的緣份！

As a matter of fact, I have already thought about whether to let it go, because I began to feel the need for transmission to the younger generation. Besides, I have not been able to get ideal subsidies for events I organized in last 3 years, which discouraged me a lot. But when Graciela Ovejero Postigo asked me via social media if she could visit me after her participation in the Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival in Thailand early next year, and maybe even have the opportunity to join any small performance art event in Taiwan? My enthusiasm is back!

This is an event hastily decided to happen, and there is no time to apply for funding, so there is no financial support. However, it still received enthusiastic support from quite a few domestic and foreign artists, as well as some fellow art groups/spaces, for which I appreciate sincerely. We are a large family of performance art crossing multiple borders and we support each other to keep warm. Every hard-won reunion is an opportunity for us to observe and learn from each other, recharging us to go back to face our own life.

Before the Covid, the last time I went abroad was in 2019 when I flew for nearly 40 hours to Chile and Argentina to join the performance art event. At that time, my flight footprint was Taiwan-Japan-United States-Chile-Argentina-Chile-Australia-Taiwan, drawing a great circle on the earth! The event in Argentina was just organized by Graciela.

During the peak of the epidemic, the international live performance art was silent, but she was still working hard in the office of "Peras de Olmo - Ars Continua" in Buenos Aires, holding online open call for performances and related audio-visual media art, combining with multiple online forums, online opening and closing ceremony. They attract so many artists from the world to join that global (performance) artists can still continue to be international while sitting at home!

And now, after the epidemic is unblocked, Graciela is about to fly over half of the world to Asia. In the mean time, she urged me to plan this event. She was there before, during and after the epidemic. She was and will be also there at my international termination and the imminent restart. I think there is really a special fate between me and her!