{"id":964,"date":"2016-05-13T11:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2016-05-15T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T02:17:36","slug":"o-kamalatamdawan-konia-riyar-%e6%9c%89%e9%80%99%e5%80%8b%e6%b5%b7%e6%b4%8b%ef%bc%8c%e6%88%91%e5%80%91%e6%89%8d%e8%83%bd%e6%88%90%e7%82%ba%e4%ba%ba%e4%b9%8b%e8%99%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/djhatfield.com\/blog\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"o kamalatamdawan ita konia riyar \u6709\u9019\u500b\u6d77\u6d0b\uff0c\u6211\u5011\u624d\u80fd\u6210\u70ba\u4eba\u4e4b\u8655"},"content":{"rendered":"

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many of you couldn’t make it to the opening, where i gave this talk, so i thought i’d post it here on the blog<\/p>\n

\"a<\/a>

a talowan looking over the ocean at cikongkongan<\/p><\/div>\n

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the weather today is really too good to be inside. if only i weren’t at this opening, i would certainly go down to the “space of fifty steps,” maybe to micekiw<\/em> or to micelem,<\/em> or maybe just to “buy butterflies” (that is mafoti’,\u00a0<\/em>sleep)\u00a0on the beach–it would all be good. but here we are inside (sigh). still, i have a beautiful mood, because tomorrow we can always go there to pakelang,<\/em> right?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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pakelang is an ‘amis custom. usually after any sort of important work, the kinds of duties one might have for funerals or weddings, celebrations, rituals, or difficult tasks, anything that takes one out of one’s normal activities, one should go with friends and family to the beach to wash in the ocean. only after washing in the ocean can one return to everyday life. this ritual is called a “pakelang.” it is what most anthropologists would call a ritual of reincorporation.<\/p>\n

pakelang are very fun, but most importantly they cause us to realize that the ocean is special. the ocean has a kind of magic and its own gravity. to take an example, i once piggybacked on my friend siki sufin’s visit to new york to invite him to interact with my students at berklee. the day after we finished our work, siki turned to me and said, “hey, a-te, where will we pakelang?” fortunately, by then i was already familiar with pakelang, so i had just the place picked out, a beautiful spot on the north shore with good shellfish for the gathering. so we got into the car and headed over to splash in the water, collect whelks, and rest. the atlantic ocean’s water washed away our fatigue. the ocean let us send off whatever it was–with or without form–that was in contact with us during the event. the ocean let us pull ourselves together mentally to face everyday life again. it was really a beautiful afternoon<\/p>\n

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so, you see, to ‘amis the ocean is not the landscape with which you might be familiar. the ocean is a larder, a panacea. the ocean is life. the ocean is mother. she has generation after generation sustained the bodies of the people and nurtured their spirits. the ocean is not a beautiful view that you can buy with money, much less is the ocean a resource awaiting development. the ocean plays an important role, it is an active subject: it is the core of an ethical imagination, this “space of fifty steps”<\/p>\n

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\"pacifalan<\/a><\/p>\n

that said, that ‘amis artists create works on the ocean is neither idle coincidence, nor are these works just “issue related” political works responding to BOT developments and other land concerns. for example, Hana Kliw’s 2013-2014 group of works “Gift.Blessing” silently appeared at Pacifalan and slowly vanished. But it is an interesting example of an ‘Amis approach to the ocean and to art.<\/p>\n

Hana employed a traditional mode of labour sharing among ‘Amis women (mapaliw) to gather a group of women in the ‘Atolan ‘Amis community to knit rainbow colored sheaths which Hana then used to wrap two trees and several rocks at Pacifalan. The works seemed to say to those who saw them, “We are still here. The shore that you see is not a wasteland awaiting development. My people have from generation to generation used their labour, love, sweat, blood and tears to live in mutual care and subsistence with this land.”<\/p>\n

Yes, not just the people caring for each other and subsisting on the land, but the people and the land in a relationship of mutual cultivation and nurture. We can have such a relationship of mutual nurture with the ocean; moreover, it is only inasmuch as we develop such a relationship with the ocean that we\u00a0malatamdaw\u00a0<\/em>(become human). our humanity is constantly being reproduced there in the “space of fifty steps”<\/p>\n

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\"rahicbeach\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rahic Talif’s work, “the space of fifty steps” underscores that the ocean gives us a place to become human, a\u00a0kamalatamdawan<\/em>. He begins these works with observation, labour, and the act of picking things up \/ gathering. If you were to accompany Rahic to\u00a0mipodpod\u00a0<\/em>(gather), you would see clearly that his “space of fifty steps” is a reflection, in art, of an everyday act of subsistence, which is to say, following the ‘amis word for reflection\u00a0‘adingo,\u00a0<\/em>also a spirit found in everyday subsistence activity.<\/p>\n

Rahic’s actions are so mundane, just like the actions that ‘Amis make when they go to the beach to gather shellfish (micekiw<\/em>) or to gather sea vegetables. the difference is that Rahic picks up different things. They look like plastics, glass, and other discarded items that have floated to the shore. In his hands they might be warnings of ecological crisis, or nearly forgotten legends. They might even be a trace of the road we’ve forgotten, the path we’ve lost, the path to\u00a0malatamdaw<\/em>. Step by step, canvas after canvas, picture after picture, Rahic consciously employs subsistence skills,\u00a0mipodpod a mipodpod<\/em>.<\/p>\n

when he discovers the ocean’s writing, I believe that what he finds is something that we see every time we go down to the beach to collect shellfish. We seem to see the writing the elders left behind as we gather, to hear the elders saying to us,\u00a0aka picarikos haan, limlaen to ko riyar niyam haan naira kita<\/em>. It’s just that we’ve long forgotten how to see. We have become numb, insensate, and have already lost the ability to read the writing that the elders, between form and formlessness, left behind for us.<\/p>\n

this writing is in this “space of fifty steps.” Rahic’s art brings this writing back to us, reinterpreting it and showing it to us more clearly.<\/p>\n

“the space of fifty steps” is a sign to show us the way to find the elder’s wisdom<\/p>\n

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\"fieldworkwithrahic02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

you may be interested in how i became involved in this project and what the concept was behind my work in this exhibit. i should say that at the time, and even now, i am also involved in two kinds of “gathering”\u00a0podpod\u00a0<\/em>work: (1) i am collecting soundscapes of taiwan’s east coast, collecting songs and stories of the 1970s-1980s far ocean fishing trade; (2) i often go with my “classmates” (that is to say my\u00a0kapot\u00a0<\/em>or age mates) to the ocean to gather shellfish (micekiw<\/em>). in our work as we dive for urchins, set nets, or spearfish we learn how to\u00a0malatamdaw<\/em>. the ocean and our companionship teach us.<\/p>\n

we often see rahic down there as he picks up flip flops and other strange plastic garbage, singing, drawing, and chanting as if talking to the ocean and to himself.\u00a0wata: ko masingki koya maisokat!\u00a0<\/em>what an odd bird, this artist! we often think, but because our big brother rahic, so we hear was quite skillful with speargun and as he was a model youth favored by a late village headman, the father of one of our age mates, we had to admit that this elder brother from makota’ay was cool. besides he has mad chess skills. so we knew he was on to something<\/p>\n

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i met rahic through mutual friends. because rahic had as a youth also run the far ocean fishing boats, i had wanted to interview him about his experience. going to his workshop with my recording equipment i was not prepared to see his work in progress. when i saw “the space of fifty steps” i found the work intriguing and also thought that if i had the chance to go with rahic to the ocean to document his process there it might be interesting. at the time, my thinking was quite simple: i just wanted to document. because i had seen him now and again at the beach, i knew that his process was meaningful; so i thought, i wanted to record his work, and maybe out of that work get a better sense of ‘Amis affective connections with the ocean. that was something that i needed in my own process of\u00a0malatamdaw\u00a0<\/em>and increasingly a focus of my research<\/p>\n

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when i went with rahic to the beach, i discovered that the drawings and stamps on each canvas are like the writing left behind by those form and formless elders: in the background of each canvas is an entire process, and each canvas is just a set of traces left by the process of observation, gathering \/ picking up, and dialogue. as i recorded, what i wanted was a complete recording and not a perfect one. there are too many uncontrollable variables on the ocean, so one can never get a perfectly clean recording, particularly as one is following rahic around. so the most important thing for me was to record all of the components of the soundscape: the sound of the ocean and the village that day, the sounds of going down to the beach, the sounds of rahic working there, and the sounds of his dialogues with the ocean<\/p>\n

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\"12596543_953858961317644_1630839464_o\"<\/a><\/p>\n

in addition, there was something else, something more difficult to record, the emergent properties of rahic’s dialogues as they interact with the ocean. and i had to think of these properties, what would emerge or could emerge when a version of this recording was placed in an installation, first at taipei moca and now here. these emergent properties are the transformations that occur in the process of dialogue in a particular place of or for hearing, the meanings that emerge as we interact with and through a soundscape. in rahic’s dialogues with the ocean some of these emergent properties included sonic memories, such as lines in a piece of driftwood that reminded rahic of the voice of the late headman, which rose and fell like swells on the ocean. because of the presence of these sonic memories and emergent properties, i did not want to create a realist depiction of rahic’s dialogues in the space of fifty steps. rather, as i edited i thought about how to give you a peculiar place of hearing in which you could feel the ocean’s response to rahic and to us. so in addition to the sound of rahic singing, chanting, or telling stories, i have layered in other sounds, which are like the ngiha no riyar\u00a0<\/em>the voice of the ocean.<\/p>\n

here, i should add that ngiha,\u00a0<\/em>rather than\u00a0soni, <\/em>shows a distinction in ‘amis language between non-linguistic, non-intentional sounds, such as the songs of birds or the sound of wind, and sounds made by creatures with souls and intellect. to use ngiha\u00a0<\/em>for the sound of the ocean is to make the ocean a subject in relationship to us, a partner in dialogue. and so, the sound of the ocean might be songs remembered by rahic or other elements of human speech layered into the sound of waves. we can hear the ngiha\u00a0<\/em>of the ocean in the “space of fifty steps.”<\/p>\n

if you can begin to hear this voice in rahic’s dialogues with the ocean, i hope that you will begin to notice and to care more deeply for the east coast and for the pacific ocean that encircles our island country. perhaps you cannot yet feel that the ocean is our mother. however, i hope that you will consider that in our process of\u00a0malatamdaw\u00a0<\/em>we cannot lack the ocean’s wisdom. our ability to become human depends upon whether, and how, we have cultivated a socioenvironmental ethics in, and toward, this space of fifty steps<\/p>\n