©Kawita Vatanajyankur and Nova Contemporary

作品簡介 / 創作自述 About Artworks

〈織〉是瓦卡娜嫣恩的現場行為表演處女作，其中行為演出的部分，乃延伸自她持續進行中的高彩度錄像作品《表演織品》系列。該作借助能量十足的肉體性，隨藝術家用盡洪荒之力測試肉身極限的種種行為，揭露往往不被看見的家務勞動百態。瓦卡娜嫣恩的動態性錄像藝術猶如一塊跳板，由此縱身一躍，進入展演性身體的價值與理解，以及探討和思索肢體動作在表演行為中的作用。

《表演織品》系列凸顯了消費行為、消費主義、和物質主義世界的現狀；物件的重要性在那個世界裡，遠遠大於製成品背後的勞動人口──依此推想，瓦卡娜嫣恩的作品欲傳遞的訊息便不言而喻。那些不被重視的人們只不過是工具，甚至是機器，被用來打包食物，或製作出衣服及其他供我們消費的用品。作品將「製作者」（藝術家）和「消費者」（觀眾）聚合在一起，以呈現出世態民風的微觀縮影，並從前瞻性的角度，質問我們是否因未採取行動而成了共犯？

Knit is Vatanajyankur’s first live performance work. The performance component of this work is a part of her ongoing series of illuminating videos entitled Performing Textiles which invokes a powerful sense of physicality, uncovering a world of often-invisible domestic labor by painfully testing the limits of her own body. Her dynamic video art is a springboard to explore the value and understanding of the performative body, and the role of gesture within that very performance.

As Performing Textiles highlights the current world of consumption, consumerism and materialism; a world where we place higher value on objects rather than the workers and laborers behind the finished product -- the message of her work is clear. Human beings become undervalued and viewed as merely tools and even machines - that produce packages of food, clothes and other materials for us to consume. The work will bring together the ‘producer’ (the artist) and the ‘consumers’ (the audience) to present a microcosmic representation of society at large and will ask prescient questions about our complicity through inaction.

關於藝術家 About Artist

©Kawita Vatanajyankur and Nova Contemporary

卡葳塔・瓦卡娜嫣恩

出生於泰國，瓦卡娜嫣恩於2011年自澳洲墨爾本大學畢業後便廣受藝壇矚目。2015年入圍捷豹亞洲科技藝術獎，並曾受邀參與倫敦薩奇美術館《泰國之眼》展覽、第57屆威尼斯雙年展正式會外泰國聯展《溪流中的島嶼》、墨爾本藝術中心的亞洲表演藝術三年展、國立臺灣美術館《關鍵斡旋：2017亞洲藝術雙年展》、2018曼谷藝術雙年展。2019年於紐約歐布萊－諾克斯美術館展出創作生涯最大規模的美術館個展。其作品除獲泰國國家典藏館收藏外，其他收藏單位包括新加坡美術館、紐西蘭達尼丁公立美術館、清邁Maiiam當代藝術館、曼谷當代藝術館等，以及紐澳、亞洲、歐美等地的學院與私人收藏。

Kawita Vatanajyankur

Born in Thailand, Vatanajyankur has achieved significant recognition since graduating from RMIT University (BA, Fine Art) in 2011. In 2015, she was a finalist in the Jaguar Asia Pacific Tech Art Prize and curated into the prestigious Thailand Eye exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London. In 2017, her work has been curated into Islands in the Stream exhibition in Venice, Italy alongside the 57^th Venice Biennale, Asia Triennale of Performing Arts at the Melbourne Arts Center, as well as Negotiating the Future, The Asian Art Biennial Taiwan. In 2018, she showed her works as part of the Bangkok Art Biennale. In 2019, Vatanajyankur has held her largest museum show to date at Albright Knox Art Gallery in New York. Vatanajyankur’s work is held at the National Collection of Thailand and in museum collections including Singapore Art Museum, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum, MOCA Bangkok, as well as university collections and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and America.