從前一隻獨角獸 Once Upon a Unicorn
2019年5月27日，幾乎各大新聞媒體都報導了馬來西亞最後一頭雄性犀牛死亡的故事。Tam，犀牛來自蘇門答臘島。蘇門答臘現在是印尼的一部分，曾受荷蘭東印度公司VOC的管轄。消息預測馬來西亞犀牛將滅絕，因為只剩下一頭雌性犀牛了。17世紀東印度公司的傭兵裡彭上尉在日記中提到台灣山上有一隻「獨角獸」。20世紀初，日本德川家族的後裔德川芳親在寫給柔佛蘇丹易卜拉欣的信中記載了一次狩獵之旅中獵獲的動物。
《從前一隻獨角獸》試圖透過「獨角獸」的民間故事和海洋之旅，開啟對海洋、聲音測量、影像降靈、權力結構、時空交融的辯證想像。這是一場展開可視、不可視、可聽、不可聽的旅程或可逆的影像運動。和《天方夜譚》一樣，《從前一隻獨角獸》是一則很久很久以前，卻影響了多重身世的故事。
In 27th May 2019, almost every major news media covers the story on the death of the last male rhinoceros in Malaysia. Tam, the rhino is from a Sumatran origin. Sumatra now is part of Indonesia and was once under the governance of VOC, the Dutch East India Company. The news predict the extinction of rhinoceros in Malaysia for there will be only one female rhinoceros left. The 17th century VOC’s mercenary Captain Ripon cited in his diary a “unicorn” up on Taiwan’s mountain. In early 20th century, descendant of Japan Tokugawa family Tokugawa Yoshichika wrote about animals hunted during a hunting trip in a letter to Sultan Ibrahim of Johor. Once Upon a Unicorn attempts to open up dialectical imagination of ocean, sound measuring, image seance, power structuring, intermingling time and space through folk stories of the “unicorn” and trips on the ocean. This is a performance integrating exchanging languages, the misunderstanding and interpretation of sound and image, leading to a journey or reversible image movement that is visible, invisible, audible and inaudible. Like The Arabian Night, Once Upon a Unicorn is a story long long time ago, but affecting multiple life.
█ 演出地點 Venue：臺灣當代文化實驗場 聯合餐廳灰盒子 C-LAB Art Space I, Gray Box
█ 展演須知 Important Note:
◎ 演出全長約 30 分鐘，無中場休息
Duration: approx. 30 mins, with no intermission.
◎ 演後座談：1/05 (日) 18:00-19:00 聯合餐廳灰盒子
Post-Show Discussion: 1/05 (SUN.) at Art Space I Gray Box
◎ 本園區不提供車位，建請多多利用大眾運輸工具。演出地點距離捷運忠孝新生站步行需 15-20 分鐘，請斟酌把握您的交通時間。
▍區秀詒 × 陳侑汝（她的實驗室空間集）
AU Sow-Yee × CHEN Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space)
區秀詒 AU Sow-Yee
出生成長於吉隆坡，現工作、生活於臺北。作品曾於2023沙迦雙年展、2022釜山雙年展、東京森美術館「太陽雨：從1980 年代至今的東南亞當代藝術」（2017）、柏林HKW「2 or 3 Tigers」（2017）等展覽發表，並為沙迦藝術基金會、新加坡美術館等機構收藏。
Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Au Sow-Yee now lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. She has shown her artworks in 2023 Sharjah Biennale, 2022 Busan Biennale, Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); 2 or 3 Tigers at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW, 2017) etc. Her artworks are collected by international institutions such as the Singapore Art Museum and the Sharjah Art Foundation.
陳侑汝 CHEN Yow-Ruu
出生臺灣高雄，她的實驗室空間集團長，擅長劇場導演與空間構成，個人創作關心當地環境、人文現象，剖析萬物聲響並切入自我觀點，透過生活經驗觀察，提出人與空間、身體、聲音之關係，創作領域不設限於劇場、視覺裝置、聲響錄像等多元思考，近年作品也與影像、新媒體、舞蹈、音樂等其他領域之藝術家合作。
Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Yow-Ruu is the head of the laboratory space group. She specializes in theatrical direction and spatial composition. Her personal creations are concerned about the local environment and humanistic phenomena. She analyzes the sounds of all things and cuts into her own perspective. Through life experience observation, she proposes people and space, body, and sound. Due to the relationship, the creative field is not limited to theater, visual installation, sound and video and other diverse thinking. In recent years, the work has also been collaborated with artists in other fields such as video, new media, dance, music and so on.
特別演出：周家寬
Special Appearance: CHOU Chia-Kuan
