期間限定放映 | MONA HATOUM: ROADWORKS
EXCLUSIVE SCREENING | MONA HATOUM: ROADWORKS

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Event Description 活動內容

莫娜．哈透姆在1980年代中期以早期的錄像和表演作品廣為人知，將身體作為關注監視和社會控制議題的媒介。文心藝所將在台北當代藝術博覽會期間，放映哈透姆1985年於南倫敦布里斯頓街頭的表演作品《Roadworks》。作品中，藝術家赤足走在街道上，腳踝拖著一雙以鞋帶綁著的大靴子。倫敦布里斯頓區域早期曾經歷激烈的種族暴動，因此警力的巡邏在此區特別顯著。哈透姆所選的靴子具有特別的涵義：「Dr. Martens」傳統上為英國警察穿戴，但在當時，也和種族暴力有關的光頭黨運動聯繫在一起。而哈透姆的行為彷彿被「國家」的靴子所阻礙，靴子跟隨著她脆弱的步伐，如同一種連續、威脅性的存在，或沉重的陰影。

Hatoum became well known in the mid-80s for her early video and performance works, focusing on the body as a vehicle for issues of surveillance and social control. During Taipei Dangdai, Winsing Art Place will present the video documentation of the performance “Roadworks”, that Hatoum performed in the streets of Brixton in South London in 1985. In the work, the artist walked barefoot through the streets, dragging a pair of large boots attached to her ankles by their laces. Brixton is an area of London that previously had witnessed violent race riots, therefore police presence was very prominent in the area. The boots that Hatoum chose to use were very particular: ‘Dr. Martens’, which have been traditionally worn by the British police, but were also adopted, at the time, by the skinhead movement that is commonly associated, with racist violence. Hatoum’s movement was encumbered by the boots of the ‘state’ that followed her vulnerable steps like a continual, threatening presence or heavy shadow

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