Title: Wind-Blown (International)

Year: 2021

Medium: Sounds, customized electronics, customized printed fabric, bamboo, hemp rope, wood-fired ceramics, conductive paint, rocks

Dimensions: 310 x 560 x 640 cm

An interactive sound installation using the detectability of electricity and body. As the viewers touch the piece, the conductivity will activate different sounds to compose a unique soundscape that transcends time and space.

The narrative of this piece centers on Hualien, a county of Taiwan, and lays the history of Taiwanese immigration within the island and internationally. The collective stories told by four-generation informants in Japanese, Fujian, Hakka, Austronesian, English, Taiwanese, and Mandarin, depict the trajectory of the modern Taiwanese migration globally. Made with local media, Wind-Blown embodies the perceptual construction of the original and the new home and captures the spirit of globalization. 

The printed fabric is referencing the old Taiwanese household fabric pattern in the 60s’ using the scanned artworks of fabric collages made by local elderlies. The conductive handles are made with the local clay dug from the coastal mountains ridge and glazed mixed with local plants. It is the old ceramic method used by the Austronesian tribe since the prehistoric period.

名稱:風吹(國際完整版)

年代: 2021

尺寸:高315 x 604 x 540 cm

材質:竹、陶、石、印花風箏布、織繩、特製電子元件、聲音、電、導電漆、民眾身體做為導體

        聲音互動裝置。展場空中懸掛著一個柔軟、半透明、大型房屋狀的立體風箏,延伸出十條纏繞著線軸的風箏線,民眾手握線軸時人體觸碰作品的導電性能觸發用母語與方言訴說故事或歌唱,不同線軸有不同聲音故事,能同時觸發不同聲音,建構不同的時空與敘事,拼貼出獨一無二、超越時空的聲⾳場域。

        故鄉的意義與⾝份認同,包覆在語⾔、飲⾷、⽣活、象徵符號中。本作以花蓮的⽂化歷史為原點,鋪寫島嶼內部與國際間的台灣人移民誌。跨國匯整四代以⽇、閩、客、南島、英、中文講述的生命故事,描繪台灣人近代移動的世界軌跡。以在地媒材製作、體現原鄉與新故鄉的感性建構,與全球化的時代精神。

        陶製的風箏線軸,沿用阿美族製陶古法使用花蓮海岸山脈的黏土、釉混以當地植物柴燒而成; 造型參考富山文化出土的新石器時代中期石網墜,上刻有以南島文化通用符號與花蓮自然環境為靈感創作的紋飾。

        風箏布的圖案結合花蓮在地長輩創作的拼布畫、老照片、攝影、古早印花、、、等素材,設計成台灣早期鄉村常見的花布風格。其中拼布畫是花蓮牛犁社區交流協會耗時二十年、帶領地方長輩記錄下的生命故事精選。

        作品使用的聲音檔,為花蓮當地訪談居民以及在地採集到的環境音。語音採集對象跨四世代、語言包含台語、客語、阿美族語、中文、及日語,充分反映花蓮當地豐富的移民史與多元族群混居現狀。

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