《黃色事件》, Yellow Event, 2024

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【個展】

依場地而定 Dimensions variable

複合媒材 Mixed media

2024

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1974年由官方所舉辦的「革命事實展覽會」展出了「黃國鎮頭顱還原圖」，將日殖初期八掌溪與曾文溪上游的「土匪」黃國鎮（當地人稱「黃阿國」）詮釋為革命先烈。對比於今日山區居民對其「無惡不做」的記憶，成為反比。本作品以此矛盾作為出發點，將探詢黃國鎮的過程本身命名為「黃色事件」。穿越今昔地景，進行開放式的拍攝、實驗與對話。

 

影片方面，連結了檳榔的元素，這塊日殖時期被總督府稱之為「帝國的皮膚病」的「土匪」活躍之地，一度也是全台灣最密集的檳榔產地，檳榔山被視為另一種土地的「皮膚病」，與供奉著昔日「土匪」的陰廟，有著某種模糊的「共存」狀態，交錯著風土上的關聯性。展出地點方面，西元1899年，臺南縣知事磯貝靜藏和日軍混成第三旅團長高井敬義向總督府提出了「御遺跡所保存工事」，意圖保存北白川宮親王的遺址，後來改為台南神社，目前位於南美館後方的公園，也是本作品戶外的設定位置，而磯貝靜藏與高井敬義兩人，也是當時討伐黃國鎮與山區「土匪」的主導者。

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In 1974, the “Revolutionary Martyrs Exhibition” displayed a Restored Image of Huang Guozhen’s Skull, interpreting Huang Guozhen (locally known as “Huang A-Guo”), a so-called “bandit” in the upper reaches of the Bazhang and Zengwen Rivers during the early Japanese colonial period, as a revolutionary martyr. This contrasted with the current mountain residents’ memories of him as a man who committed all sorts of evils, forming a paradox. This work takes this paradox as a starting point, naming the investigation into Huang Guozhen’s life as the Yellow Event. It traverses past and present landscapes, engaging in open shooting, experimentation, and dialogue. In terms of the film, it connects the element of betel nuts, in a region once labeled as the “skin disease of the Empire” by the Government-General of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period due to its active “banditry”. This same region was once the densest betel nut producing area in Taiwan. Betel Nut Mountain is seen as another kind of “skin disease” of the land, coexisting ambiguously with a temple that enshrines the former “bandit”. Regarding the exhibition location, in 1899, Tainan County Magistrate Isogai Seizo and the commander of the Mixed Third Brigade, Takai Noriyoshi, proposed to the Government-General of Taiwan a project to preserve the ruins of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa. This site was later transformed into the Tainan Shrine and is now a park located behind the Tainan Art Museum, the outdoor setting for this artwork. Isogai Seizo and Takai Noriyoshi were also key figures in suppressing Huang Guozhen and the ‘bandits’ in the mountains.​​