花東新村－壁畫 Huatung Village - Wall painting

 花東新村－壁畫 Huatung Village - Wall painting

壁畫 wall painting，2009

Huatung Village was located in Sijhih City and populated by the Amis people. In 1985, three Amis families were farming vegetables by the Dakeng River Bridge along Provincial Highway No. 5. The following year, about ten Amis families built cabins and stayed there. That is how Huatung Village started. By 1996, it became a village of 215 families. It was a massive block of illegal buildings. The villagers used abandoned iron sheets and wood to build their houses. They also used those materials to build traditional tribal lookouts, community meeting rooms, and churches. In 1997, the government evicted the whole village and moved them to subsidized government housing. Now, the site is covered by grass, and only a few ruins are left behind. My work recreates what Huatung Village looked like 10 years ago - a village that no longer exists. Using field investigation methods to draw the mural was like making the original geographical map, but this exploratory mapping created a non-existent, imaginary world. Though the investigation confirmed the object's authenticity, as a result of the passing of time and the transformation of space, the scene appeared unreal, just like a legend.

花東新村是一個曾經存在於汐止的一個阿美族部落花東新村，1985年在目前新台五線大坑溪橋下有三戶原住民搭建菜寮，隔年約有十戶原住民開始搭建木屋並居住其中，這是花東新村形成小聚落的開始，直到1996年這裡已經形成一個完整的部落，共有兩百一十五戶，這裡是一個巨大的違建，村民利用撿拾來的鐵板木片等材料搭建房屋，甚至利用這些材料搭建了象徵部落傳統的瞭望台、聚會所以及教堂。在1997年時，政府將整區強制遷離至鄰近國宅，如今這裡已是雜草叢生，尋訪原址只能看到當初遺留下來的一些殘骸。這件作品繪製了十多年前的景象，一個如今已不存在的部落，運用一種接近田野調查的方式繪製壁畫，如同繪畫最原初的地理學性質。但在調查式的繪畫中，呈現的卻是一個如今已不存在的想像世界，透過調查確認了對象的真實性，卻又由於時空的轉換，整個場景顯的不真實，如同一個故事。

The mural, the first phase of my “Huatung Village - Wall painting” project, was presented in the group exhibition “Dandy & Angel” at the Open-Contemporary Art Center (Taipei Taiwan) in July 2009.
2009年7月於打開當代藝術工作站《Dandy & Angel》展中，展出《花東新村-壁畫》