Subbing The Subbing
2016 Made in Bangkok, Thailand
Work format: Video installation (Dimension variable)
Materials: 2 TVs
Introduction:
In Spain, there is a town inhabited by people with the surname Japón, which means Japan in Spanish.
400 years ago a group of Samurai traveled to Europe for some missions.
During their journey, Christianity was prohibited in Japan and some of the Samurais decided to remain to live in Spain to live as Christian. Those named Japón in the Spanish town today are regarded as possible descendants of the Samurai from history.
The work EL JAPONÉS aligns the artist himself as a “Japanese person who just came from Japan” and Mrs. Japón as a “descendant of historically the first migrant from Japan”.
The dialog itself looks like a simple praise of communication but the two juxtaposed "Japanese" people imply and ask different notions such as "nationality", "race" and "immigrant integration".
Special thanks: Mr. and Ms. Japóns whom I met in Coria del Rio
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2022 at Doubutsuen-mae Shopping street, Osaka, Japan / 动物园前商店街(大阪)/ 動物園前商店街(大阪)
Work format: Performance recorded with iphone screen recording / 苹果手机录屏 / iphone画面録画
Materials: tarpaulin / 防水布 / ターポリン(2000 x 3000 mm / 1750 x 1500 mm) , any monitor / 电视监视器 /モニター
-- 由臺灣原住民部落爸爸,與前來臺灣尋求更好未來的越南少數族裔媽媽孕育而出。部份是因為她的背景,而部份是因為她的個人特質,她總覺得自己不被臺灣的社會認同與接受。同時,對於在兩個國家與背景之間,能夠如何定位自己,也讓她承受重擔與掙扎不已。
當她長大成人,她選擇和兩個認同之間完全不同的西餐廚師,作為她的職業。但是好似要填滿她內心的空虛一般,她常常在夜裡外出,參加地下的跨性別武術格鬥。她不停的戰鬥,就好像她想要贏得一個能夠同時代表臺灣原住民和越南少數族裔的獨特身份。為了更進一步自我定義她自己,並且為社會所接受,她決定參加世界格鬥大賽。
角色名字:--
年齡:25
性別:跨性別者
-- was born by her Taiwanese indigenous tribal father and her Vietnamese mother, who also belonged to an ethnic minority in her motherland and came to Taiwan to seek a better future. Partly as per her background and partly as per her own personality, she always felt that she was not recognized and accepted by the Taiwanese society. She also struggled over how she could identify herself as coming from two different countries and backgrounds at the same time.
When she became an adult, she chose to be a chef of western food. As if to fill the void inside her heart from having two identities, she frequently went out at night to fight in a underground cross-genre martial arts matches. She kept fighting as if trying to earn an unique identity that represents the Taiwanese indigenous and the Vietnamese minority at the same time. To further self-identify herself and to be accepted by the society, she decided to participate in The World Fighting Tournament.
Name of the character: --
Age: 25
Gender: Transgender