Yaku Kuyuh

Yaku Kuyuh

Directed by Tommaso Muzzi
Written and produced by Labay (林介文)

第二屆Pulima藝術獎 首獎 The First Prize, 2nd Pulima Arts Award, 2014

Winning the Pulima price Award , “I am a woman,” is a work that combines soft sculptures and films to express a woman’s dialogue with individuals and different time and space fields. In 2014, “I learned to weave and formally become a member of the Truku “woman”. “After the age of 30, I strongly felt that I am a woman. I use a lot of recycled objects and fabrics, using hooks and recycled sweaters, combined with two different techniques of traditional weaving…. I like to present a sense of time with a strong vision, because I think that turning time into a work is closest to the original human instinct.  I try to express it with images, and let my emotions, body and physical works echo through the video. What appears in the film is the scene of daily life. From the factory, the kitchen, the bathroom, the river valley and the seaside, and the repeated production of the hands, the finished objects, through the humorous combination of the body works, transform the fluidity time of the work into a static state of mind.

本次得獎作品〈我是女人〉,為結合軟雕塑與影片的裝置作品,表述一個女人以個體身分和不同時空場域的對話。2014年學會了織布,正式成為太魯閣族「女人」的一份子「過了三十歲之後,我強烈地感受到我是女人…一個是屬於族群的,一個是屬於個人的。」。 她提到:「…我大量運用並結合現成物與織品,用勾針和回收的毛衣,結合傳統編織的兩種不同的技法來塑形。…我喜歡以強烈的視覺來呈現時間感,因為我認為將時間轉換成作品,最接近原始的人類本能。此外,我嘗試用影像作來表達,透過錄像,讓自己的情緒、身體與實體作品相呼應。影片中出現的是日常生活的場景,從工廠、廚房、浴室、河谷與海邊,和雙手不斷重複生產的動作,最終完成的物件,透過幽默的手法組合成立體作品,將勞作的流動性時間轉化成一種靜止狀態。