阿川行為群 artrend performance group: 5月 2014

2014年5月30日星期五

2014年5月21日星期三

2014年5月15日星期四

這樣遠那樣近

有時候我心平浪靜是樹是花是微風

有時候我狂亂不已想大口吞下一整個村子

有時候我是藍深深淺淺大大小小

可以歡笑可以跳

有時候我沒了顏色從灰到黑

只能默然無語淚流滿面

有時候我快過野兔賽過羚羊

忽藍忽黑忽紅忽白沒個準

你說我是海

我說我是心

心很少去看海

也許它知道它就是海

海只能在海裡

但它知道它也在身體裡

百分之七十

神秘的數字

海就那樣偎著心

撫摸著它親吻著它

心與海

這樣遠那樣近

最初﹐想的是要到山裡與海邊做行為﹐活動名稱都想好了﹐但後來卻越來越傾向只到海邊做﹐以及吳園公會堂﹐後者純粹是公部門的建議﹐自己去看了場地後覺得也不錯的結果。

年紀愈大愈聽話﹐聽心裡的話﹐再也無法也不想做出違心之事了。年輕時﹐常隨外在世界起舞﹐忙應和現實世界的這與那﹐像揚起的塵埃﹐飄飄忽忽地不扎實。年紀大了﹐兜轉了一大圈再回到原點﹐發現聽心裡的話還是最實在也最自在﹐這個世界也並不會因此而鄙棄你。畢竟在現實生活中﹐在學校﹐在職場﹐在家庭裡﹐為盡「本分」我早已習慣自我消音以無我成就大我。好不容易辛辛苦苦拉拔大一個孩子﹐竟又蹦出另一個,目前尚還在拉拔當中。如此這般應該可以算是已經盡到對社會的責任了吧。如果可以算是的話﹐那麼﹐在藝術世界裡就容許我自私一些﹐讓我一切從心出發吧！

在這麼多年之後﹐應該可以定調自己算是個比較內省喜歡沉思享受孤獨的人了吧！也許這可以說明為何我出身繁華台北卻能長居南部偏鄉達二十五年之久﹐終日沉浸在藍天綠野鳥鳴夕照裡而不生回返都會之心。一生愛好是天然啊！

但如果沒有閱讀沉思﹐沒有創作﹐沒有藝術﹐沒有同好環繞﹐不幾日我便會自覺面目可憎﹑心慌意躁。在這麼多年之後﹐我想我可以說﹐是的﹐行為藝術是我安心立命的所在﹐是我苦苦追尋直到年過四十才找到可以讓自己安定下來的志業。

因為年過四十﹐生活底定﹐所以我做藝術就只是因為愛﹐別無他求。做作品就只是因為愛；做策展﹐則除了愛以外﹐還多了回饋與責任之心。13年來多次出國參展﹐看到這麼多好的藝術家好的現場行為作品﹐就想到應該邀請好的藝術家來台灣﹐讓台灣藝術家以及觀眾有機會看到他們的作品﹐也讓外國藝術家得以認識台灣以及台灣的行為藝術現況。

「心與海：阿川國際行為藝術節」於是得以出場。此次策展曾有幾個命名出現在腦海裡﹐但最後「心與海」勝出。中文的「心」是個有趣的字﹐它既是身體（的一部分）﹐同時也指涉觀念/意念和感情。而我們知道身體與觀念正是行為藝術的根本。在行為藝術裡身體就是觀念﹐也是傳達觀念的媒介與載體。而心﹐既是身體也是觀念。至於海﹐其動靜平暴之現象不也正呼應了我們內心世界之廣袲多變。「心與海」於是也許可以這樣暗示﹐暗示人這個小宇宙其實正真真切切地呼應了外在的那個大宇宙：心在海裡﹐海在心裡﹐心海合一﹐內外兼俱。

「心與海」循當代國內外現場行為藝術節往例﹐目的在邀集藝術家齊聚一堂發表作品。做為一種邊緣﹐前沿而不具商業價值的藝術門類﹐鮮少畫廊﹐美術館﹐藝評人﹐學者或藝術家專注從事於斯﹐所以行為藝術節成為一個重要的場域﹐讓現場行為藝術家得以聚首﹐互相打氣砌磋琢磨。做為一種尚待開發實驗無法精準定義的藝術形式﹐行為藝術節通常只提供場域讓藝術家自由發揮而不要求藝術家針對某一議題發想作品。換句話說﹐行為藝術節關注的是藝術家自身的心識與體現﹐而非對某一命題的研究與討論。行為藝術節關注的是藝術家如何在一段時間裡﹐以自己的身體或/與他人的身體﹐在一個特定的空間/環境裡﹐藉由行動操作過程讓現場的人感受到一種我們廣泛稱之為藝術的東西。

對於習慣進劇場看戲劇表演﹐習慣在看戲前拿到「節目簡介」（早期稱做本事）﹐習慣在戲裡看到忠孝節義或西方人所說的moral teaching/lesson（道德警訓）的台灣觀眾﹐在剛開始看現場行為表演時可能會有極大的不適感﹐會覺得「看不懂」。但是﹐如果可以放下這一切我們習以為常的東西﹐拋開想要「看懂」的企圖心﹐只留一顆樸實無華﹐原初善感的心來感受現場所發生的一切時﹐也許你會有不錯的收獲﹐在與藝術家來來往往衝擊對撞後﹐也許你會發現你看到的不只是現場藝術﹐最終你還看到了你自己。（葉子啟）

Curator's Words

So Far, So Close Yeh Tzu-Chi

Xin¹ and Sea ¹ Xin,心,in Chinese means both heart and mind.

Sometimes I am as peaceful and waveless

as tree, as flower, as breeze

Sometimes I am so frenzy that

I would open big mouth to swallow a whole village

Sometimes I am blue

Deep, shallow, huge, or small

I can laugh, and I can jump

Sometimes I lost color, from gray to dark

I can say nothing but with tears on my face

Sometimes I am faster than hare and cheetah

Suddenly become blue, dark, red, or white

Hard to say

You said I am Sea

I said I am Xin

Xin rarely goes to Sea

Perhaps it knows it is Sea

Sea can only be in the sea

But it knows it’s also in the body

70 %

A mysterious figure

Thus sea stays so close to Xin

Caresses her and kisses her

Xin and Sea

So far, so close

I was thinking about to do performance both in the mountain and on the beach. I even had title in mind. But then I had more and more desire to do on the beach only. Wu Yuan/Garden simply came from the advice of the Government.

I listen more and more to my own heart as I am getting older. I couldn’t and wouldn’t do anything against my heart/will. I often danced with the outer world when I was younger, echoing this and that in the reality, fluttering in the air like the dust kicked up. But as I grow older, I’ve found, after rolling a big circle and coming back to the starting point, that listening to oneself is still the most practical and comfortable way. And the world will not disdain you because of that at all. As a woman who stepped into family, I am accustomed to diminish my own voice/self to accomplish the Big Self of family and society. My son is over his twenty but my daughter is still in the elementary school. Assumedly I have to work very hard for the family for another 10 years. With that, perhaps I can say that I have fulfilled my social responsibility. If it is so, then would you please allow me to be a little bit selfish in the art world, let me start everything from heart.

After so many years, I found that I am that kind of person who is more introvert, likes to meditate, and enjoys to be alone. Perhaps it explains why I can live more than 25 years in the southern country side though I was born and grew up in the vanity metropolitan of Taipei. Living under the blue sky, among the green field, surrounded by the birds singing, and soaked in the sunset glow, I’ve never had the desire to go back to live in the city. How I love Nature!

But I would feel mania if there’s no reading and thinking, no creativity, no art, and no friends of the like surrounding me. So yes, after so many years, I think I can say that Performance Art is where I am. It’s something that can settle me down after forty years of searching.

I did not do art until I was over forty when my life had already settled down. Therefore I do art just out of love, nothing else. I do performance because I love it; curatorial, feedback and responsibility in addition. I have seen so many good artists and good performances abroad for the past 13 years that I would like to show them to my people in Taiwan. In the meantime, I would also like to show my fellow local artists and their performances to the international art circle.

Thus Mind & Sea: ArTrend International Performance Art Festival is presented this year. We say Mind & Sea as Xin Yu Hai in Chinese. Xin is a very interesting word. It refers to heart, as well as thinking/concept, intention, and emotion. It’s both the physical heart, and the abstract mind. Interestingly, it just echoes what the root of performance art is: body and mind. In the field of live performance, we can almost say Body is Concept. Body is also the media and vessel of concept. Accordingly, Xin is both body and concept. As for Sea, sometimes it’s as quiet and flat as a mirror; yet sometimes it’s as turbulent and violent as a monster, the phenomenon of which we can also feel in our very vast, deep, and changeable heart/mind/inner world. Mind & Sea perhaps therefore can imply that little cosmos of human being is not unlike the outer big cosmos. Mind is in the Sea. Sea is in the Mind. Mind and Sea mingle as One. The Inner is the Outer.

Like most contemporary international live art/performance events, Mind & Sea aims to gather performance artists to present their works. As an artistic category that is characterized as marginal, cutting edge, and lack of commercial value, live performance attracts very rare attention from gallery, museum, critic, scholar, or artist. So performance art festival has become a very important field where performance artists may gather together to support each other and to polish their art by watching mutual performances. As a showcase of an experimental art form that cannot be precisely defined, performance art festival usually offers a field for artists to perform as they wish instead of performing under a limited theme. In other words, performance art festival cares more about the artist himself, his mentality and how he shows it physically, rather than his research and argumentation toward some specific motif. Artist is the subject. Performance art festival cares how artist uses his or others’ bodies, in a period of time, in a specific space/environment, to carry out a procedure of actions, which make audience on the spot experiencing something we call broadly as art.

The audience who often go to the theatre, who often get profile before they see the performing, who almost always have moral teaching in the drama might feel strange and even uncomfortable when they first see the so-called live art performance. Very likely, they would complain that they don’t understand what the performance is all about. But if they can let go the desire to “understand” and try to feel everything happened with an unadorned, original sensitive heart, they might be rewarded with something unexpected. After numerous “hitting” back and forth with the artist, perhaps they would find eventually that they don’t see live performance only but also themselves.

2014年5月14日星期三

活動行程 Mind & Sea Schedule

2014/7/5-7 14：00-18︰00 工作坊吳園公會堂草埕文化工作室

2014/7/8 14：30-18：00 工作坊學員作品呈現吳園公會堂

2014/7/10-12 14：00-18︰00 個人現場行為表演吳園公會堂

（每日約六位藝術家呈現）

2014/7/13 16：30-18：30 集體行為鯤鯓海灘

（如遇天候不佳﹐則在吳園進行）

2014/7/5-7 14：00-18︰00 workshop WuYuan ArtSquare

2014/7/8 14：30-18：00 workshop presentation WuYuan

2014/7/10-12 14：00-18︰00 Solo Performance WuYuan

(Around 6 artists per day)

2014/7/13 16：30-18：30 Group Performance KunShen Beach

(WuYuan if bad weather)

** 1．活動開始前30分鐘開放入場

2．海灘活動﹐請觀眾注意負責自身安全

2014年5月13日星期二

Sinéad O’Donnell Workshop行為藝術工作坊

出身都柏林﹐定居貝爾法斯特的北愛爾蘭藝術家Sinéad O’Donnell是活躍於當代現場行為藝術界的中生代女性藝術家兼策展人。她不只活躍於貝爾法斯特當地的藝術圈﹐也與北美﹐中東﹐歐洲﹐亞洲國家的行為藝術界保持密切關聯﹐時有令人眼睛為之一亮的合作策展出現。09年阿川行為群曾邀請她參與「在路上國際行為藝術交流展」活動﹐在台北大安公園﹐台東都蘭糖廠﹐高雄鳳山火車站倉庫﹐以及台南孔廟留下或政治﹐或關懷﹐或性別﹐或詩意的精采藝術身影。一路上台灣學生對現場行為的高度興趣與熱情﹐尤其在台南孔廟兩位學生觀眾主動介入她的表演﹐讓她印象深刻並且興起要在台灣辦工作坊的心願﹐時隔多年﹐如今她夢想成真了。

招生對象：對行為藝術有興趣之社會大眾﹐以及相關科系師生﹐藝術家

招生人數：20人

收費方式：1﹐500元（全程參與者於工作坊結束時退回500元）

時間：2014/7/5-8 14：00 -- 18：00

學員呈現演出：2014/7/8 14：00 -- 18：00 （免費入場）