The Mask (Tattoo on Faces) 紋面


  • Single-channel HD Video, colour, duration 5 min 07 sec (looped), 2014
《紋面》錄像行為通過在我的臉上黏貼透明膠帶並試模倣圖繪製傳統泰雅族女性紋面圖案,然而透明膠帶封住了我的嘴巴,屢次用麥克筆模仿女性文面圖形,最後以失敗的模仿而收場。如此行為讓我個人體驗到自己族群的聲音在現實中已被沉悶住,此行為作品試圖表達過往與現在的身體隔閡,影像中的字幕內容來自於別人對一位泰雅族女性老人的採訪,透過挪用的手法讓兩個不同世代的身體在影像中相會,試圖呈現一種世代的矛盾感受到,以及對於自身母體文化的脫離與異化。
"Lin attempts to navigate through the terrain of a synthetic materials producing patriarchy, with her make-do facial tattoo, which is overtly silencing. She can not speak. Lin`s work articulates the futility of attempting to recapture the power and respect once yielded by women in her ancestors`villages.” Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014.

This performance piece acknowledges Atayal women ancestors whose faces were traditionally tattooed. Ciwas begins by sticking transparent tape on her face and drawing freehand from memory the patterns of facial tattoos traditionally given to young girls in Atayal culture pre-colonisation. However, the tape seals Ciwas's mouth, a symbol of a muffled voice in the reality she experiences. The subtitles tell a story, an anonymous description, muted in silence. 

Video stills, 2014