KANTA 台灣：霧台、蘭嶼、馬太鞍和小碧潭

活動日期：2019-03-01 至 2019-03-08

地標：OCAC 打開-當代藝術工作站 （25.05891，121.5129）地址：103 臺北市台北市大同區甘州街25號從 3 月 08, 2019 6:00 下午到 3 月 08, 2019 8:00 下午KANTA 台灣：霧台、蘭嶼、馬太鞍和小碧潭 KANTA Taiwan: Wutai, Lanyu, Fatáan and Xiaobitan (for Eng please scroll down)

分享藝術家： Jeffrey Lim（林猶進）、Posak Jodian、陳姿華（Uselrepe）

活動將以中、英語穿插進行

〈KANTA Portraits〉是馬來西亞藝術家Jeffrey Lim（林猶進）自2012 年迄今的一系列人像攝影研究計劃〈KANTA Portraits〉。透過其自製的行動肖像攝影機，踏查從馬來西亞到南島語原住民之間的紐帶的田野行動。

本次的分享活動〈KANTA 台灣〉，Jeffrey將為我們帶來他自2016年至今多次來到台灣並進駐於打開－當代藝術工作站，與台灣同樣發展阿富汗針孔攝影的藝術家陳姿華（Uselrepe），以及紀錄片導演Posak Jodian的合作過程。從屏東霧台，花蓮馬太鞍、蘭嶼到都市原住民小蠻潭聚落的村莊。他們通過攝影製作即時肖像以及動態影像的紀錄之外，也一同探索了其他音頻和視覺的記述方法，試著描繪在不同部落、耆老的經驗與口述歷史之間，對身份、文化和社會環境的探索，並分享他們的合作方法、發現和反思。

活動的最後，Jeffrey Lim也將現場呈現其自製的相機及其拍攝過程。

藝術家簡介： Jeffrey Lim，1978 年生於吉隆坡。他來自傳達設計的背景並探索攝影的基進形式、都市 調查，以及社會地景測繪計劃。其興趣介於身份認同與文化傳承之交，並採取使用圖像、 拾得物、空間與互動的觀念呈現形式。他有許多作品探討了社群的建築與空間。他的作品 包含:動員群眾力量的〈單車地圖計劃〉(2014)、都市報告〈ISD 計劃〉(2016)、 參與式與表演式的〈Attachment〉(2017)裝置，以及 2012 年迄今的一系列人像攝影研究計劃〈KANTA Portraits〉。從 2017 年起，他來台探查台灣原住民和馬來西亞南島語系 (Austronesian languages)原住民之間的紐帶，今年繼續蘭嶼、花蓮、新店等地部落的 人像記錄，這個語種—部落的製圖學也將提供台灣與馬來群島之間的溯源佐證。

Posak Jodian，生活於台北的阿美族人。Posak 是名字，Jodian 是父親之名。Posak 有著 民族語言學與傳播學背景，並主要以紀錄片作為方法，及自身的族群身份為起點，透過長 期的田野研究關注部落的傳統領域形塑，以及離鄉原住民的都市生活;亦同時參與於各群 眾運動的場景中，以及青年在城市縫隙間的各種行動可能，持續拍攝「從直走到半路咖啡 的社會實踐」紀錄片的影像素材。試著透過族群與文化行動作為支點，拉開身份與認同的 邊界。Posak 的作品〈自畫像〉曾發表於花蓮文化創意產業園區(2008 年)、〈Bai 的故事〉 原住民族電視台(2011 年)，能勝興工廠國際藝術村《Flames on the water》(2016 年) ， 亦是半路咖啡以及海筆子 tent16-18 成員之一。

陳姿華，屏東霧台魯凱族，畢業於國立台南藝術大學，創作多探討影像中的時間性，以及透過攝影所觸發的對話過程。2018年與Jeffrey Lim 一同回到霧台部落進行影像的訪談及紀錄。

(Eng) KANTA Taiwan is a photography project exploring the concept of identity. Using a unique camera, Jeffrey Lim has collaborated with local native artist Luc Chen and Posak Jodian during his art residencies in Taiwan. Together they travelled to their ancestral villages of Wutai, Fatáan and other native villages, Lanyu and Xiaobitan. Using a photographic process to produce instant portraits, the collaboration also explored other audio & visual methods. Producing sound clips and film essays, they documented the exploration into the cultural and social circumstances through their native communities.

The artists will be presenting their methodology, findings and reflection from their collaboration. A selected number of printed portraits, audio visual will be exhibited.

About Artists: Jeffrey Lim was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1978. He comes from a background in communication design whose work explores a radical form of photography, urban surveying, and social mapping projects. His interests are located at the intersection of identity and cultural heritage, taking forms of conceptual representation with the use of imagery, found objects, spaces and interactions. Several of his projects explore community building and spaces. His works include: “Bicycle Map Project“ (2014) a crowd-sourced cycling map, “Project ISD“ (2016) an urbanist report, “Attachment“ (2017) the participatory & performative installation, and “KANTA Portraits“ (2012 - ), a series of photographic studies of portraitures. Since 2017, he set out for a research trip to find the connection between the indigenous Peoples in Taiwan and the Austronesian Peoples in Malaysia. He resumed the research with portraits for the tribes in Orchid Island, Hualian, and Hsindian this year. This linguistic-tribal mapping will posit the traceability between “Formosa” and the Malay Archipelago.

Posak Jodian, an Amis who lives in Taipei. Posak is the given name and Jodian is the father’s name. Posak has a background in Ethnolinguistics and Communication studies. She mainly uses documentary as a method, and observes the traditional field formulation of tribe and the urban life of the indigenous people who left their hometown through long-term field research based on her ethnic identity. Meanwhile, she participates in the scenes of various mass movements, and the various actions of young people in between the gaps of cities. Continue to work on the documentary “Social Practice from Straight to Halfway Cafe”. Trying to use the ethnic and cultural actions as a fulcrum to open the boundaries between identity and recognition. Her work was published at several places, “Self-portrait” (2008) at Hualien Cultural and Creative Industries Park, “Story of Bai” (2010) at Taiwan Indigenous Television, Flames on the water (2016) at N-Factory AIR. She is also a member of Halfway Cafe and Haibizi Tent 16-18.

Chen Zi Hua (Luc) Native Rukai in PinTung. Graduated from Tainan National University of the Arts. Her practice as a photographer with “kamra-e-faoree” DIY camera concerns to make dialogue while taking portraits. In 2018, she went on a journey to her hometown Wutai Pingtung with Malaysia artist Jeffrey Lim, discover native culture by taking portraits and interview (KANTA Wutai).