《Vaavaaw 讓心跳著》
年代 /2019
藝術家 /
裝置 /瑪籟 瑪卡卡如萬 Malay Makakazuwan
表演 /巴奈 Pan Panay
實驗短片 /黃錦城創作媒材 /貨櫃、紙箱、馬達、影像
尺寸 /空間尺寸
展名 /陷阱 2019高雄國際貨櫃藝術節
https://www.kmfa.gov.tw/2019ContainerArt/
表演/巴奈 Pan Panay https://youtu.be/doF_ivPtDYc
實驗短片/https://youtu.be/9Cm9yrQXfLs
展出地點 /高美館南島園區
《Keep the Heart Beating》
Artist /Malay Makakazuwan
Performance: Pan Panay
Experimental video: Huang Jin-Cheng
Title of Work /Keep the Heart Beating
Production Year /2019
Creative media /Container, carton, motor, video
Duration /depending on the exhibition venue
Malay Makakazuwan is a Puyuma artist from the Pinaski Village in Taitung. She grew up in Hualien and Taitung and spent years traveling between her indigenous village and cities. In her early days as an artist, she used her personal website to present her works and express the feelings of her own working and living in the city as a young indigenous woman. When she participated in the 2009 Indigenous Artist-in-Residence Program, she digitalized the traditional Puyuma techniques of cross-stitching and compiled a color matching manual for traditional Puyuma attires. She believes that artistic creation is a process of demonstrating the meanings of her own existence.
In 2012, she won the Grand Prize of the Austronesian International Arts Award and she was selected as one of the artists of on-site creation for the Taiwan East Coast Land Art Festival in 2015. In 2016, she won the Excellence Award of the Austronesian International Arts Award with her work, Vetsik. In 2017, she joined the Taiwan East Coast Land Art Festival again and the joint exhibition, Hiding in the Island, at MOCA Taipei. In 2018, she invited TAI Body Theater to work with her in the creation of Migration-Territory-Identity series, broadening her installation art to different dimensions.
The work is an extension of the concept of migration in the series of Migration-Territory-Identity last year, drawing inspirations from examples of migration in her own life experiences. The image of “dingding (snail) and stone slab trap” describes the contemporary conditions of indigenous peoples. Carrying heavy burdens (of cultural tradition and seeking survival) on their backs, indigenous peoples nowadays travel back and forth between their villages and cities to ensure continuation of their lives and communities. The various temptations and traps from the outside world are like a knife. If they use the knife to cut off the ropes between them and their “burdens” (cultural roots), is it a kind of relief from the burdens or abandonment of self-identity？
The artist also conducted field trips to traditional indigenous villages and video recorded the whole process of her interviews and research. The video records will be played inside the exhibition space to express the artist’s thoughts and discussions about the subjectivity of indigenous people; issues about self-identity from within and without; memories of indigenous peoples’ migration under colonial rule from where their ancestors lived to where they are currently living; and future possibilities for them.
Exhibition : Trap: 2019 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival
Location: KMFA Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts