劉玗
是太陽還是月亮?/ a Sun or a Moon

2024 年 7 月 16 日

藝術家介紹

劉玗(台灣,b1985),視覺藝術家,創作媒材多以錄像與空間裝置為主,作品中使用大量現地的田調與文獻資料的搜集,促使她重新編排了這些敘事的可能,從空間、歷史、影像、敘事各種零碎的片段,做一相互緊密連結、補敘的整合工程。從人類的視點、空間屬性的變化與物在體系中流動的身份,作為勾勒人類演進的過程,將我們日常熟悉嚴謹的體制、科學方法做一種模糊分界的重組工作。

Artist/Liu Yu

Liu Yu (Taiwan, b1985) is a visual artist. Her creative media are mainly video and spatial installations. She uses a lot of on-site field studies and a collection of documentaries, which have propelled her to rearrange the possibility of these narratives, starting from space, history, images, and narrative fragments, to create an integration project closely connected and supplements the narration.

Starting from the human perspective, changes in spatial attributes and the identity of objects flowing in the system, outline the process of human evolution, reorganizing the rigorous system of daily and scientific methods with blurred boundaries.

作品名稱：

是太陽還是月亮?/ a Sun or a Moon

作品尺寸及創作媒材
尺寸：依展示區域空間大小而定
媒材：口述神話、專人導覽

作品理念

月洞為天然的鐘乳石洞，洞內為蝙蝠的棲息要地，過去是港口部落的神聖之地，現在則是一個開放參觀的景點。月洞的自然景觀如同其名有著女性的象徵，洞內長年積水，據說過去湖水如同潮汐一般，隨著月亮盈缺而漲落，在天空不落雨農作物無法生長之時，部落的寡婦會舉行儀式，她們在洞穴中相互潑水，天上的丈夫看見傷心落淚而降下雨水。

作品改編至部落搜集的故事，口述傳遞沒有邊界的情境，將天跟地收攏在一起，回到母親的子宮，從內部眺望宇宙。洞穴內神秘幽暗，過程中需搭船由專人導覽，改編的故事成了第二版本的導覽行程，觀眾需透過身體直接感受自然，並透過導覽員情境式的引導，一步一步地進入劇本，透過水面之下再看見精神與物質世界是如何連結在一起。

駐村期間藝術家在港口部落蒐集祈雨祭的故事，訪談的過程中老人家幫她取了Folad作為她的阿美族名字，Folad是月亮的意思。

Artwork

a Sun or a Moon

Dimension (L x W x H)： Depends on the size of the display area

Medium:：Oral myth、Dedicated tour guide

The Moon Cave is a natural stalactite cave that is a habitat for bats. It used to be a sacred place for the Makotaay tribe and is now an attraction open to visitors, inside the cave water accumulates yearly. The water inside the cave used to rise and fall according to the sea tide, following the moon’s waxes and wanes. When the sky did not rain and crops could not grow, the widows of the tribe would hold a ceremony. They would splash water on each other in the cave, and the husband in the sky would cry when he saw it and the tears became the rainwater.

The work is adapted from stories collected by the tribe, orally transferring a situation without boundaries, which brings the sky and the earth together, returning to the mother’s womb, and looking at the universe from the inside. The cave is mysterious and dark. During the process, you will take a boat and be guided by a dedicated person. The adapted story became the second version of the guided tour. The audience experiences nature through the body, and through the situational guidance of the tour guide, step by step into the script, and see how the spiritual and material worlds are connected under the water.