鄉愁是一面飄揚的旗 — 台灣香港錄像展
Nostalgia is a Waving Flag: Taiwan and Hong-Kong Video Art Exhibition
◇展期：2022.8.13 - 10.9
◇策展人：朱峯誼
◇參展藝術家： 王又平＋李佳泓＋黃奕捷＋廖烜榛、王鼎曄、朱迅、吳梓安、祈大衛、林羿綺、黃志輝＋游靜＋鮑藹倫、麥海珊、郭書鳳、陳大利、陳庭榕、蔡世豪、潘朝成 (Bauki Angaw) 、鄭波
小時候，鄉愁是一枚小小的郵票，我在這頭，母親在那頭。
長大後，鄉愁是一張窄窄的船票，我在這頭，新娘在那頭。
後來啊，鄉愁是一方矮矮的墳墓，我在外頭，母親在裡頭。
而現在，鄉愁是一灣淺淺的海峽，我在這頭，大陸在那頭。
——《鄉愁》，余光中
「鄉愁」一直是當代各類型文本如文學、戲劇、電影、影集，甚至是政治語彙裡最受歡迎的元素之一。「祖國」、「故土」、「光榮的歲月」、「輝煌的歷史」、「讓我們再次偉大」，這些熟悉的政治修辭不僅提醒我們美好的過去與失落的當下之間令人沮喪的對比，並進一步吸引我們投身於國族敘事中，召喚超人的利維坦巨靈、改變現狀。
然而，倘若考慮到台灣與香港的歷史脈絡與現況，我們會發現這個國族情感運作機制其實更加複雜：鄉愁不只是一種政治語彙，也不只是劃分他/我的工具；它同時也是一種與原生家庭的連繫期盼、一種對於殘酷現狀的傷感與無奈，以及個體主動與土地的親切連結⋯。
「鄉愁是一面飄揚的旗」台灣香港錄像展，藉由橫跨20年的兩地藝術家錄像作品，不僅呈現台灣社會裡跨越世代的認同紛爭，也描述香港這些年來的認同型塑與轉變。
然後我們知道，面對惡政，鄉愁將不再只是個人情感，而是一面飄揚的旗。
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影片放映＆映後座談〈場次一〉
日期：2022.9.3(六) 14:00
放映作品：
薛西佛斯之福爾摩莎｜郭書鳳｜2004｜62分鐘
此岸：一個家族故事｜吳梓安｜2020｜62分鐘
影片放映＆映後座談〈場次二〉
日期：2022.9.17(六)下午2:00
放映作品：
鳥踏石仔的噶瑪蘭｜潘朝成｜1997｜43分鐘
錢江衍派｜王又平＋李佳泓＋黃奕捷＋廖烜榛｜2016｜87分鐘
主辦單位：財團法人邱再興文教基金會、鳳甲美術館
贊助單位：台北市政府文化局
特別感謝：中山銅鑼灣書店、吳思瑤委員服務處、台中默契咖啡陳致豪老闆
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Nostalgia is a Waving Flag: Taiwan and Hong-Kong Video Art Exhibition
2022.8.13-10.9
◇Curator: CHU Feng-Yi
◇Artists: LIAO Xuan-Zhen + HUANG I-Chieh + LEE Chia-Hung + WANG Yu-Ping, WANG Ding-Yeh, Birdy CHU Shun, WU Tzu-An, David Clarke, LIN Yi-Chi, WONG Chi Fai + YAU Ching + Ellen PAU, Anson MAK Hoi San, CHAN Tai Lee, KUO Shu-Feng, CHEN Ting-Jung, CHOI Sai Ho, Bauki Angaw, ZHENG Bo
The concept of nostalgia appears extensively in various forms of cultural products––literature, cinema, commercial advertisements, and even in politics—in a variety of terms and phrases, including “mother country”, “homeland”, “glorious past”, “magnificent history”, and “let’s be great again”, to name a few. Such rhetoric not only reminds us of the depressing contrast between a seemingly marvelous past and, by comparison, seemingly miserable present but also allures us into a passionate devotion to nationalism that induces us to summon Hobbes’s Leviathan to amend the status quo.
However, a closer look at the situations in Taiwan and Hong Kong reveals how complicated the interrelationship between wishful longing and nationalism indeed is. Nostalgia is not merely a political term nor a tool for classifying oneself in relation to others. On top of that, it is also a yearning for mutual understanding and for close connection with one’s original family, a frustrating expression of despair and hopefulness, and an individual’s initiative to strive to establish an intimate, affable linkage with land.
By virtue of the video works made in the past two decades by artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan, the exhibition not only addresses the dispute over identity across generations in Taiwanese society but also depicts the ongoing transformation and reconstruction of identity in Hong Kong over the years. Ultimately, it reveals that in the face of totalitarianism, nostalgia will no longer be simply a personal feeling but a waving flag that calls for solidarity.
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Film Screening & Post-Screening Talk I
2022.9.3(Sat.)14:00
Screening program:
Sisyphus：Formosa｜KUO Shu-Feng｜2004, 62 min.
This Shore: A Family Story｜WU Tzu-An｜2020, 62 min.
Film Screening & Post-Screening Talk II
2022.9.17(Sat.)14:00
Screening program:
Kavalan of Bird Stepping Stone Village｜Bauki Angaw｜1997, 43 min.
Time Splits in the River｜LIAO Xuan-Zhen, HUANG I-Chieh, LEE Chia-Hung, WANG Yu-Ping｜2016, 87 min.
Organizers: Chew’s Culture Foundation, Honggah Museum
Sponsor: Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government
With special thanks to Causeway Bay Books, Legislator Wu Szu-Yao’s Office and Denis Chen (Match Café, Taichung).
