BIUNG ISMAHASAN
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  • Biung Ismahasan
  • TTICC 甦醒.台東天光 The Revival of Life and Consciousness in Taitung and Beyond
  • 女性團結: 接受.轉向.擴張 Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
    • 米類.瑪珐流 Milay Mavaliw
  • 女性團結: 跨境.相遇 Indigenous Women's Art Across the Borders
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 張恩滿 CHANG En-Man
    • 宜德思.盧信 Idas Losin
    • 瑪莉塔.伊莎貝爾.思璐法給 Marita Isobel Solberg
  • 女性團結:行走.紋理 The Art of Walking and Weaving by Indigenous Taiwanese Women
    • 彭秋玉 Bakan Nawi >
      • 行走在編織的紋理 Walking on Woven Trjectories
      • 女人佇立在山陵線上 A Woman Standing on the Mountain Ridge
      • 地織靈魂 The Soul of Ground Weaving Machine
      • 滴水穿石 (苧麻裝置) The Spirituality of Ramie
    • 尤莉.撒撒克 Yuri Sasak >
      • 順著河流走 Let the River Flow
      • 編織紋理心電圖 The Electrocardiogram of Woven Pattern
  • 女性團結:未知.感知 Reflection of Unknown and Receptual Experience by Indigenous Taiwanese Women Artist
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan >
      • 土地的味道 The Smell of the Land
      • 封存記憶 Archival Memories
      • 拓描系列 The Series of Rubbing and Portraying
    • 馬郁芳 Aruwai Matilin >
      • 心之所向 The Place Where the Heart Goes
  • Àbadakone at National Gallery of Canada
  • 2022 雪梨雙年展 23rd Biennale of Sydney
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
  • Curatorial Works
  • Dispossessions at Goldsmiths
    • Dispossessions Exhibition Programme
  • Ngahi' Routes 地瓜路徑
  • Publication x Talk
  • Exhibition Catalogue
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《女性團結:接受.轉向.擴張》展覽


女性團結 Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art
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實體展覽:2021/03/20 ~ 2021/05/22

原住民族委員會 原住民族文化發展中心
臺灣原住民族文化園區八角樓特展館 (屏東縣瑪家鄉北葉村風景104號)

數位策展:2021/03/19 ~ 2022/03/31


Supported by 英國文化協會 British Council 倫敦第一民族藝術節 Border Crossings' ORIGINS - Festival of First Nations

https://originsfestival.bordercrossings.org.uk

Curator
Biung Ismahasan, Bunun Nation of Indigenous Taiwanese
supported by Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development center, Council of Indigenous Peoples, Taiwan


Digital presentation by Border Crossings as a UK company
Supported by:
Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center, British Council, National Culture and Arts Foundation

  • Curator Biung Ismahasan leads us on a video tour of the exhibition RESURGENCE AND SOLIDARITY: INDIGENOUS TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ART, and discusses the curatorial ideas behind this project. re to edit.


 RESURGENCE AND SOLIDARITY: INDIGENOUS TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ART Exhibition Catalogue 

At the core of this exhibition is the need for women’s togetherness: togetherness as a lived practice and togetherness as a methodology, whether that be curatorial approach or personal philosophy. Decolonising Indigenous Taiwanese contemporary art must include privileging the voices and input of Indigenous women artists. By bringing together the voices of respected Elders and three very powerful women artists, the exhibition generates togetherness through trans-Indigenous cultural exchanges across generations. It is about the transmission of knowledge between people, land and river.
​by Biung Ismahasan 

Spokesperson Taiwan Presidential Office Kolas Yotaka's recommendation for 'Resurgence and Solidarity: Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art' exhibition 


Pinuyumayan Nation artist Milay Mavaliw discusses her works Resurgence - 再起 and Indigenous Women - 卑南族女人  2021


Rukai Nation artist Eleng Luluan discusses her piece Ali sa be sa be - 土石流 (Rugged Rock Cliffs) 2021


​Paiwan Nation artist Aluaiy Kaumakan discusses the background to her piece Flies and Shifts in Between Time - 時光荏苒 2021


Curator Biung Ismahasan leads us on a curatorial talk the exhibition RESURGENCE AND SOLIDARITY: INDIGENOUS TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ART at the seminar 'Local Learning: Everyday Activism, Everyday Resistances - What can I do?'


ORIGINS Festival of First Nations Artistic Director Michael Walling  leads us on a speech of the collaborative exhibition RESURGENCE AND SOLIDARITY: INDIGENOUS TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ART at the Taiwan's opening on 20 March 2021. 


 Exhibition Opening Video - RESURGENCE AND SOLIDARITY: INDIGENOUS TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ART on 20 March 2021


 RESURGENCE AND SOLIDARITY: INDIGENOUS TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ART exhibition promotion before the opening 


策展論述

我們站「在一起」的原因是因為需要團結,團結為一種方式,無論是以團體力量抑或是個人哲思,從觀察性別與文化、群體秩序和自我追求的擺盪中,通過屬於女性藝術家的價值、方法與知識,她們的聲音應該存在而被看見,以集結她們各自的身體經驗與生命歷程,用創作的方式來展現對事物的觀點,以不同的方式去探討相同的議題,抑或是以同樣的方式去探討不同的議題,在失序、敗退、晦暗以及疏離的層次上,啟動另類的文化與團結進而產生共鳴。

一個人的聲音猶如水滴,一群人的聲音可以凝聚成河流的力量,在一個空間裡各自發聲、集體綻放。女性的身體是人類進入這個世界的第一個居所,她們的自體能量是強大而溫柔的,在每一個時代裡,她們是安靜而堅實的存在著,通過她們手中的物件,投射女性內心的真實處境與潛意識的存在,面對族群文化記憶的肌理與環境劇烈變化的狀態,在生命旅程中逐漸地拼湊起來。

《女性團結:接受.轉向.擴張》展覽試圖從自身經歷、生命記憶與文化變革的創作,探討「接受、轉向、擴張」的藝術進程,如何通過安身立命、貫穿性別身體,時間及歷史被壓縮凝結成一種女性團結的空間模式,有關於階級與文化的消逝、女性話語權和環境關懷的問題對於許多女性藝術家而言至關重要,在她們熟悉的現實背景因素下,逃離或遠離內在恐慌的心理狀態。

​本展覽分為四個子題:ㄧ、環境互惠; 二、文化地景; 三、療癒後的轉向; 四、物件的力量,來回應整個展覽的核心精神,並邀請國內藝術家 米類.瑪法琉 Milay Mavaliw、峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan、阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan,將其對不同議題內容的關懷,統整在此四個子題之下的深入討論及其延伸,並試圖從女性藝術團結的激撞,創造更多可能思考的面向和觀點。

策展人 彼勇.依斯瑪哈單 Biung Ismahasan

Curatorial Statement

At the core of this exhibition is the need for women’s togetherness, because we need to unite. Women have long been the driving creative force behind Indigenous Taiwanese art, yet their individual contributions have been largely unrecognised, treated as anonymous representations of entire cultures. Working through togetherness, this exhibition aims to gather the physical experiences and life stories of women artists, to show their viewpoints in creative ways, to throw new light on perennial concerns, and to discuss new concerns in ways informed by tradition. In a global space of disorder, decline, obscurity, and alienation, it initiates an alternative culture and a way of being together.

A woman’s voice is like a drop of water, and the voices of a group of women can be condensed into the power of a river, amplifying their individual voices and blooming collectively in a space. The female body is the first dwelling place for human beings to enter this world. Their own energy is strong and gentle. In every generation, they exist quietly and solidly. Through the powerful objects in their hands, they project the inner heart of women. Lived and subconscious experiences are gradually pieced together in their life journeys, responding to the texture of ethnic cultural memory and to drastic changes in the environment.
 
Resurgence and Solidarity: Indigenous Taiwanese Women’s Art attempts to explore the artistic process of ‘acceptance, shift, and expansion’ from the creation of personal experience, life memory, and cultural change. It asks how time and history might be compressed and condensed into a spatial model of women’s unity through lived experience in the gendered body. Questions about the disappearance of class and culture, women’s right to speak, and environmental care are of vital importance to many female artists. They are familiar with trauma - and their art offers at once a response and an escape. 
 
This exhibition consists of four sub-themes:

1.       Environmental reciprocity
2.      Cultural landscape
3.      Turn after healing
4.      The power of objects

 
These themes respond to the core spirit of the entire exhibition, through the work of Indigenous Taiwanese artists Milay Mavaliw, Eleng Luluan and Aluaiy Kaumakan. The exhibition integrates these themes through their careful, deep exploration through art, offering new perspectives through the activation of female artistic unity.

​Curated by Biung Ismahasan
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The project also benefits from the Artistic Director Michael Walling
Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival of First Nations, London originsfestival.com


* ‘Indigeneity’ and ‘Indigenous’ have been capitalised throughout this catalogue in order to demonstrate the centrality of cultural identity. Capitalisation suggests the rights of sovereignty movements, land rights, the rights of the earth, return to Indigenous women’s role in our societies and much more dreaming that cannot be contained in a policy document. 

Today the rights of women, the protection of Elders, and environmental concerns are critical for many Indigenous Taiwanese women. There is a powerful sense of their search for new unexplored possibilities, as they strive to carve out a place for themselves, an escape or departure from the familiar and the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. They deliberately locate themselves in foreign or alien environments with an awareness of their difference, finding connections, experimenting with intensities. The artists in this exhibition, all of whom identify as feminists, make these journeys from the specific starting point of Native community experience, their sovereign words and concerns about environmental reciprocity. 

Cutting edge and contemporary, essentially Indigenous in its decolonial modes of expression, Resurgence and Solidarity: Indigenous Taiwanese Women’s Art is an international collaboration between research-based exhibitions. International partners include: Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park (Pingtung, Taiwan), Border Crossings' ORIGINS Festival of First Nations (London, UK), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan), National Taitung Living Art Center (Taitung, Taiwan), Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš Sámi Center for Contemporary Art (Karasjok, Norway), and ISLA Center for the Arts, University of Guam (Guam, USA). It is a gathering of global Indigenous female artistic activism – including painting, live performance, video and installation, socially engaged practice and  performative encounters – showcasing contemporary Indigenous women’s performative art, power and knowledge and focused on shifting the current global interest in Indigenous arts towards Indigenous-led conservations and collaborations. 



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Dr Biung Ismahasan (b.1984) is a curator, artist and researcher from the Bunun, Atayal and Kanakanavu Nations, three of Taiwan’s sixteen Indigenous Nations. He received a PhD in Curating from Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex in the UK, with a thesis ‘Indigenous Relational Space and Performance: Curating Together towards Sovereignty in Taiwan and Beyond.' His research relates to contemporary Indigenous curatorial practice and aesthetics, focusing on Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art. Ismahasan emphasises issues of participation, performativity and the historiography of Indigenous curation and exhibition design. He has received a MA in Cultural Policy, Relations & Diplomacy from the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014. 

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彼勇.依斯瑪哈單(生於1984年)來自高雄山區那瑪夏區,擁有臺灣原住民族布農族、泰雅族與卡那卡那富族的血統,目前是一名獨立策展人、藝術家和研究員,2021年1月取得英國艾塞克斯大學 (Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex) 哲學與藝術史學院 策展學研究中心 策展學博士,論文題目:
Indigenous Relational Space and Performance: Curating Together towards Sovereignty in Taiwan and Beyond。研究涉及原住民策展實踐、策展作為解殖的社會運動、跨媒介藝術實踐、「履踐式表述行為原民性」的詮釋、原住民創造主權、藝術合作實踐、策略的倫理學與原住民知識論、原住民策展和展覽設計史。2014年11月獲得倫敦大學金匠學院 (ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London) 創意與文化創業研究所 文化政策、關係與外交碩士學位; 2015年進修愛丁堡大學愛丁堡藝術學院 (Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh) 藝術學 MPhil in Art 課程。

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  • Cover
  • Biung Ismahasan
  • TTICC 甦醒.台東天光 The Revival of Life and Consciousness in Taitung and Beyond
  • 女性團結: 接受.轉向.擴張 Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
    • 米類.瑪珐流 Milay Mavaliw
  • 女性團結: 跨境.相遇 Indigenous Women's Art Across the Borders
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 張恩滿 CHANG En-Man
    • 宜德思.盧信 Idas Losin
    • 瑪莉塔.伊莎貝爾.思璐法給 Marita Isobel Solberg
  • 女性團結:行走.紋理 The Art of Walking and Weaving by Indigenous Taiwanese Women
    • 彭秋玉 Bakan Nawi >
      • 行走在編織的紋理 Walking on Woven Trjectories
      • 女人佇立在山陵線上 A Woman Standing on the Mountain Ridge
      • 地織靈魂 The Soul of Ground Weaving Machine
      • 滴水穿石 (苧麻裝置) The Spirituality of Ramie
    • 尤莉.撒撒克 Yuri Sasak >
      • 順著河流走 Let the River Flow
      • 編織紋理心電圖 The Electrocardiogram of Woven Pattern
  • 女性團結:未知.感知 Reflection of Unknown and Receptual Experience by Indigenous Taiwanese Women Artist
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan >
      • 土地的味道 The Smell of the Land
      • 封存記憶 Archival Memories
      • 拓描系列 The Series of Rubbing and Portraying
    • 馬郁芳 Aruwai Matilin >
      • 心之所向 The Place Where the Heart Goes
  • Àbadakone at National Gallery of Canada
  • 2022 雪梨雙年展 23rd Biennale of Sydney
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
  • Curatorial Works
  • Dispossessions at Goldsmiths
    • Dispossessions Exhibition Programme
  • Ngahi' Routes 地瓜路徑
  • Publication x Talk
  • Exhibition Catalogue