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何子彥：無名．名
Ho Tzu Nyen :
The
Nameless & The Name
// 放映導演｜何子彥 Ho Tzu Nyen
// 主持人｜林欣怡 國立清華大學藝術與設計學系 副教授
// 放映影片｜《無名》（The Nameless ）、《名》（The Name）
// 時間｜2024／06／20（四）18：00 – 20：00
// 地點｜國立清華大學圖書館3樓．紅氣球團體聆賞室
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1976 年生，生活與工作於新加坡。
何子彥的作品充滿大量東方和西方文化參照，領域廣泛，涵蓋藝術史、戲劇、電影、音樂和哲學，並且融合神話敘事和歷史事件，開啟對歷史書寫與歷史傳播的不同理解。何子彥長期探討東南亞多元文化身份。從語言、宗教、文化，及其影響力來看，東南亞都是一個多重面向的地域，以至於我們不可能將它化約為一個地理區域或某種歷史背景來理解。何子彥的作品交織了不同的知識體系、敘事和表現形式，反映出他對地區歷史的觀察。媒材則是經常以沉浸式和戲劇性的裝置形式，結合從紀錄片研究到奇幻作品等的檔案影像、動畫和電影呈現。
個展曾舉辦於東京都現代美術館（2024）、新加坡美術館（2023）、漢默博物館（2022）、豐田市美術館（2021）、Crow亞洲藝術博物館（2021）、日本山口藝術及媒體中心（2021）、 Edith-Russ Haus媒體藝術中心 (2019)、漢堡美術館（2018）、上海明當代美術館 [ McaM ]（2018）、橫濱表演藝術論壇（2018）、香港亞洲藝術文獻庫（2017）、畢爾包古根漢美術館（2015）、東京森美術館（2012）、The Substation（新加坡，2003）等。曾代表新加坡參加第 54 屆威尼斯雙年展（2011 年）。
Born in 1976 in Singapore, where he lives and works.
Steeped in numerous Eastern and Western cultural references ranging from art history to theatre and from cinema to music to philosophy, Ho Tzu Nyen’s works blend mythical narratives and historical facts to mobilise different understandings of history, its writing and its transmission. The central theme of his œuvre is a long-term investigation of the plurality of cultural identities in Southeast Asia, a region so multifaceted in terms of its languages, religions, cultures and influences that it is impossible to reduce it to a simple geographical area or some fundamental historical base. This observation as to the history of this region of the world is reflected in his pieces which weave together different regimes of knowledge, narratives and representations. From documentary research to fantasy, his work combines archival images, animation and film in installations that are often immersive and theatrical.
One-person exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2024), Singapore Art Museum (2023), Hammer Museum (2022), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2021), Crow Museum of Asian Arts (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM](2021), Edith-Russ Haus for Media Art (Oldenburg, 2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), Ming Contemporary Art Museum [McaM] (Shanghai, 2018), Asia Art Archive (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), Mori Art Museum, (2012), The Substation (Singapore, 2003). He represented the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).
放映作品
The Name
2015 | 16’51” | English | single channel HD video | Surround Sound“The Name” is a dynamic montage of found footage taken from films created in the Western tradition, depicting the act of writing as a creative, torturous process.
In creating “The Name”, Ho puts to use his ruminations and years of research into the journalistic writings of the mysterious author Gene Z. Hanrahan. Ho’s interest in the writer was sparked by the book “The Communist Struggle in Malaya”, which was published in the USA in 1954. The book is an astonishingly informative treatise about the communist struggle on the Malay Peninsula during the colonial era; further publications from Hanrahan, however, concerning guerilla tactics in China, or “The Wild Years” about Ernest Hemingway’s work, raise doubts about Hanrahan’s identity as an authorial subject.
By citing the example of a single concrete historical case that left its traces on Malaysian historiography, Ho’s use of cinematic and artistic devices help to demonstrate the instability of the notion of authorship and originality.
Reference：Ho Tzu Nyen: The Name、kiangmalingue.com
名
2015 | 16’51” | 英語 | 單頻道 HD 錄像 | 環繞音效作家吉恩．Z．漢拉罕（Gene Z. Hanrahan）1954年在美國出版了《馬來亞的共產主義鬥爭》一書，此書內容有關殖民時期馬來半島共產主義鬥爭，資訊量之大令人難以置信。然而漢拉罕後續兩本著作：一本關於中國游擊戰術的書以及一本有關海明威作品的《狂野歲月》，使人對他作為真實作者的身份產生了懷疑。何子彥因此對這位神祕作家漢拉罕產生興趣，花費多年收集並研究大量有關的資料。
《名》剪接大量西方電影而成的影像蒙太奇，以浪漫而狂熱的方式，將寫作描繪為一個創造性且痛苦的過程。透過神秘作家吉恩．Z．漢拉罕對馬來西亞史學產生影響的歷史，提出作者身份和原創性概念的不穩定性。
The Nameless
2015 | 21’51” | Vietnamese voice with English subtitles | HD video | courtesy of the Artist and Edouard Malingue GalleryThe Nameless focuses on Lai Teck was one of the 50 known aliases of the Secretary General of the Malayan Communist Party from 1939 to 1947. He had worked first for the French, then the British secret forces, and finally with the Japanese Kempeitai (secret police) during the years of the Malayan Occupation (1941–1945) as a triple agent.
Of all the great cinematic cultures of the world, it is perhaps Hong Kong cinema that has shown the most intense fascination with ‘comprised’ individuals. Taking its cues from the constant stream of Hong Kong films made about ‘stool pigeons,’ ‘double-agents,’ ‘informers,’ and ‘traitors’. By overlaying multiple languages and compiling images of a single actor against different Asian films made between 1989 and 2013, The Nameless attempts to represent the historical, shifting, multi-faceted figure as one who not only influenced a crucial period of Malayan history, but also as one who embodies the layered historical and ideological complexities of Southeast Asia.
Reference：Art Basel
無名
2015 | 21’51” | 越南語 （英語字幕）| HD video | 作品由藝術家及香港愛德華·馬凌畫廊提供
《無名》聚焦於馬來亞共產黨二戰期間的總書記萊特（Lai Teck），馬來西亞日戰時期（1941–1945）他同時作為英國、法國和日本的三重間諜，萊特也只是他已知的50個化名其中之一。
綜觀各國電影文化，香港電影，展現對於「妥協的個體」最強烈的迷戀，其題材時常包含「線人」、「雙面間諜」、「告密者」以及「叛徒」等元素，因此本片選擇剪接香港影星梁朝偉在1989年至2013年間於不同電影中的出演片段，透過堆疊多種語言，試圖呈現這位影響馬來西亞歷史關鍵時期的人物，並體現東南亞層層疊疊的歷史和意識形態的複雜性。
資料來源：Art Basel
Ho Tzu Nyen © The Nameless, Synchronized double channel HD projection on 2 sides of a screen, with scrim wall separation, double 5.1 soundsystems, 21 min 51 sec, 2015
// Screening Director: Ho Tzu Nyen
// Moderator: Hsin-I, LIN, Associate Professor of Art and Design Department, National Tsing Hua University
// Time: 18:00-20:00, June 20, 2024 (Thursday)
// Venue: National Tsing Hua University Library 3rd Floor．Large Group Room-Red Balloon
// 放映導演：何子彥 Ho Tzu Nyen
// 主持人：林欣怡 國立清華大學藝設系 副教授
// 時間：2024.6.20（四）18：00 – 20：00
// 地點： 國立清華大學圖書館3樓．紅氣球團體聆賞室
18:00~18:20 Opening: Introduce
18:20~18:45 The Name
19:00~19:30 The Nameless
19:35~20:00 The screening will be followed by a Q&A with participants moderated by Prof. Hsin-I LIN
18:00~18:20 入場介紹
18:20~18:45 名
19:00~19:30 無名
19:35~20:00 映後討論
Organizers｜National Tsing Hua University Library, Sensory Lab
Co-organizers｜National Science and Technology Council, NTHU Library, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
主辦單位｜國立清華大學感官實驗室 Sensory Lab NTHU
協辦單位｜國家科學及技術委員會．清大圖書館．陽明交大文化研究國際中心