夜市工作坊自2006年夏天創立以來，每年聚集來自設計,科技,藝術,音樂,建築等等…跨領域地集合各科系不同領域的學子參與，針對”夜市”與”台灣文化”進行創作。今年以『街頭經驗』為題的夜市工作坊，由吳宜樺與阿麗莎.懷特兩位藝術家所帶領的團隊，二OO八年八月十六日晚間，在台灣台南市的花園夜市進行了『One Island, One Dream_愛台灣，去夜市唱國歌』的開放性集體行動表演。
Night Market Workshop focuses on the social context of the Taiwanese night market. It attempts to respond to it by organising creative activities since summer 2006 and participation is not limited to artist student but it opens up the participation to students from all kind of different disciplines as computing science, design, architecture, etc. The theme of this year is on Street Experience, which means that all the projects are presented and played in the night market with the intention to interact with people.
The Group lead by Paris-based artist Yi-Hua WU (TW) and New York-based artist Alyssa Wright (USA), has presented an open participative performance – < One Island, One Dream > on 16th August 2008, at 20h, at Garden Night Market in Tainan city, Taiwan.
夜市是一種草根性的區域性經濟，所形成的一種特殊的台灣飲食文化遊牧活動，它所呈現的除了是個飲食娛樂空間，也是台灣最底層的日常公眾集會場域，結合社會政治或經濟的關係性介入行動，夜市也可以是具有批判性動能的思考空間，一種社會奇想的舞台，在機構化與傳統美術館之外的一種『當下』而『在地特殊情境』之當代藝術生產空間。
NightMarket as a form of grassroots local economy, becomes a specific nomad ‘fooding’ * culture in Taiwan. Beyond the pleasure of the greediness’s pleasure, the Night market could also be considered as the most basic classe’s public realm, as a constellation of social, political or economic conditions in the Taiwanese social context. It could offer the critical dynamism to be a stage as a figment of the social imagination, also as a space of contemporary artistic production in the present and in a specific site place, but outside institutional or conventional art or of museum spaces.
讓藝術來搞一種生活的政治
這裡所謂的政治（the political），是以漢娜·阿倫特 (Hannah Arendt) 的“橫向政治”概念為本，以古希臘雅典的公民民主原型的精神: 人們走到一起，就他們所共同關心的重大議題，為公共領域的自由、行動進行討論交流的活動，這是一種對應人類生活經驗的政治概念。這區別於政黨兩立對抗或是由上而下的統治體制。
也因此在這裡，政治的基礎原義與互動的美學意義是聯結在一起的，我們創作的互動精神，並不是讓一個個體進入一個孤立的機械性的收授過程，而是從人與在地，從隊員集體性的合作(collaboration)與主動性參與(active participation)，還有與一般民眾當下所產生的互相關聯(communitarian mutualities)所產生。
Le fooding as entertainment? It may be more!
Let 『fooding』 become Politic.
In this open participative performance < One Island, One Dream >, the political approach is the same as ‘the political’ meaning which is based on the Athenian horizontal democracy in “Greek republicanism”—Power should be shared equally among citizens. Sovereignty is exercised directly by the citizens themselves, the civic participation, a system in which a substantial part of active citizenship is the public realm. This is a political notion which is responsive to humanistic life experience. That should be distinguished from ‘modern’, ‘liberal’, ‘representative’, or ‘parliamentary’ democracy.
In the issues of this participative form as a democracy of art, it would be connected with this aesthetic of interaction, which doesn’t mean just to put the subject into an isolated process, using the machine’s mechanism. Here, the communitarian mutuality which has been produced by the collective collaboration and people’s active participation, is < One Island, One Dream >’s the basic start point of the political project.
『One Island, One Dream_愛台灣，去夜市唱國歌』- 國家主義的盲與茫
所有的社會組織的權力場域都存有使大眾盲目的問題。因為個人的社會系統參與，因受重覆的知識以及日常行動而影響轉化成行為。而每個社會系統的中心有如一個中心點，這卻可能是一個由不可見、慣性化、正常化的社會系統所形成的一種盲點。在台灣，國家主義經常因奧運，選舉而發燒，有意識或無意識地被媒體與政治人物操作著，而產生了一群微形的法西斯主義(micro-facism)主義者。在這些時事背景之下，『One Island, One Dream_愛台灣，去夜市唱國歌』的開放性集體行動表演，看似無厘頭又莫明其妙地到夜市 – 到一個『不太政治政確』的集體社會空間去唱國歌的行動表演，突顯被操作的國家主義製造集體狂熱的荒謬與諷刺。
愛台灣嗎? 逛夜市去愛吧!
The Blind and The myth of Nationalism
The fever of Taiwanese nationalism always follows the Olympics and elections. It is manipulated by kind of micro-fascism consciously or unconsciously in daily life by political activities and media, with the form of festival, trend, and sport events on this island. All social organizations have “power fields” which blind everybody together. Individuals who participate in these social systems are influenced by repetitive knowledge and daily actions that in turn influence behaviour. At the centre of every system there is a point, “a blind spot” from which the “system’s organization is invisible, naturalized, normal.
One Island, One Dream used this background of nationalism to reveal this phenomenon of collective enthusiasm and it goes to the wrong place where is not very political correct social space, without any political incline. Just ridiculously consumed over and over by the performance of singing national anthem to make an irony of nationalism.
‘Do you Love Taiwan? Just in walking and singing the Taiwanese national anthem with us in the night market!
* Le fooding _ An English-derived French term is usually said to be a combination of English food and feeling. ‘Fooding’ also could be a verb describing the act of getting, making, and eating. A restauranting trend which emphasizes food as a style choice, usually via new or fusion cuisines in combination with factors not related to food, such as a unique or trendy atmosphere.
Directed by YI-Hua WU & Alyssa Wright
Time : 20h, 16th August 2008
Place : Garden Nightmarket, Tainan city, Taiwan. 台南花園夜市
Participation with :
詹瀅潔Chan Ying-Chieh / 郭義榮Kuo I-Jung / 竇劭文Shao-Wen Tou / 陳慧雯Ashley Chen / 黃映慈Ints Huang / 張秉霖Ping-Lin Chang / 林世雍Shih-Yong Lin / 賴柏榕James Lai / 曾怡婷Yi-ting Tseng / 黃國僑Darren Huang / 楊富淳Fu-Chun Yang
Nightmarket Workshop
Co-host by National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan & MIT Media Laboratory, USA
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