2018年9月22日

近海之處-拉瓦克三部曲 Ungrounding Land- Ljavek Trilogy

2018, video (for web), 13' 9"
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        一個炙熱的太陽來,他離開了山,再一個白箭光芒的太陽來,又離開了斜坡;勇士失去了他的農場與獵場,來到了近海之處,在惡水邊開出聖潔的百合花。

「拉瓦克」為排灣族語「Ljavek」,意思是「近海之處」,是高雄市區唯一的原住民部落之名;約1950年代因應木業、出口等勞動力,為生存而遷徙的族人們形成的聚落,前方運河於1997年被填平成為中華五路,為「亞洲新灣區」的都市規劃用地,也開始被判定為「佔用戶」後,長達二十年的反迫遷談判與抗爭。

張恩滿與拉瓦克部落雕刻家楊文山(古樂樂・巴拉撒邵)合作,通過楊文山純樸的刻劃欲探討生命本質與時代樣貌,進行一個斷裂文化的自我修復工作,希望共譜下未來願景的序曲。


He left the mountains when a red sun arrived and, when the twelve rays of a white sun came, left their slopes again. Having lost his farmland and hunting ground, this Aboriginal warrior came to a place near the sea, where he blossomed like a graceful lily on the bank of a polluted river. 

Derived from Paiwan language, “Ljavek”, meaning “a place near the sea”, is the name of the only indigenous community in the center of Kaohsiung City. The community was formed in the 1950s to meet a shortage of labor in the timber and export industries by a group of Paiwan people who had no choice but to move to the city for a better life. In 1997, a canal that used to lie in front of the community was filled and turned into Jhonghua 5th Road. The entire area was later repurposed by the local government as land for urban planning and named “Asia New Bay Area”. Since then, when they were determined to be “illegal occupants”, community members have been engaged in anti-eviction negotiations and protests for 20 years.

A collaboration between Yang Wen-Shan, a Ljavek sculptor known as Kuljelje Balasasau in Paiwan language, and Chang En-Man, Yang Wen-Shan’s unpretentious handiwork aims to initiate a self-healing process for a broken culture by exploring the essence of life and the state of the times, in the hope of composing a preliminary vision of the future. ( Translated by: NTMoFA)