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《小說：台籍日本兵張正光與我》新書發表會
時間：6月27日（週六），下午3:00-5:00
地點：台北當代藝術中心，台北市保安街49巷11號
主講：高俊宏
與談人：呂岱如
Book Launch—Fiction: The Taiwanese Japanese Trainee Soldier Chang Cheng-Kuang and I
Time: 27th June (Saturday), 3-5pm
Venue: Taipei Contemporary Art Center, No. 11, Lane 49, Baoan Street, Taipei
Speaker: Kao Jun-Honn
Moderator: Esther Lu
「死亡是講故事的人能述說世間萬物的許可。」
――班雅明
本講座為高俊宏的「群島藝術三面鏡」系列之二《小說：台
《小說》一書因緣於高俊宏作品《廢墟影像晶體計畫》裡，
高俊宏嘗試在《小說》中敘述「兩個東亞」的故事：其一，
本書陳述了上個世代被舊帝國主義「判死」、以及作者該世
講者介紹
高俊宏 1973年出生於台北。藝術關注議題包括歷史、諸眾、空
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell.”
— Walter Benjamin
The talk event is to launch the second volume of The Three-Mirror Lens of the Archipelagic Art series: Fiction: Taiwanese Japanese Trainee Solder Chang Cheng-Kuang and I.
Fiction came along with the production process of Kao’s pervious work The Ruin Image Crystal Project, as the artist met the protagonist Chang Cheng-Kuang who lived in a shabby beach hut in Wujie, Yilan. Mr. Chang’s life could be described as a melancholic miniature in the history of modern East Asia development. His sudden death twelve days after Kao’s visit in 2013 left a great impact on Kao. Fiction features two stories about the East Asia: the first one concerns Mr. Chang’s life experience as a Japanese trainee solider in the Kamikaze, in the Okinawa shelter and in Hong Kong, and his escape back to Taiwan and becoming the King of Kumura prawn later. The second account tells about Kao Jun-Honn’s personal field research experiences in the recent years in the form of monologue, addressing his travelogue to Japan, Okinawa, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as his journey to the Bo-ai Market in Shulin, a ruined place he could never return, a lost memory to his childhood. This book illustrates the ironic stories around the verdict of “death sentence” from the old imperialism, and the “rebirth” of the author permitted by the neo-liberalism in our generation.
About speakers:
Kao Jun-Honn
Born 1973, Taipei. Kao is interested in subjects of history, multitude, space, biopolitics, neoliberalism, community, margin, gentrification, East Asia and so on. His practice is mediated in various art form, including action, video, conceptual work, critique and fiction writing. He is currently doing the doctoral program in Art Creation and Theory in Tainan National University of the Arts.
