Li-Hui,Huang's Portfolio: 1月 2012

2012-01-05

亞洲寶貝I /Asian Babe II

亞洲寶貝影像紀錄請看這/ Watch "asian babe" video clip

感謝魏欣妍跟Michelle幫我拍攝！
Special Thanks to Wei Hsinyen and Michelle for recording documentation!

放學後有夠累，但明天要教作業，繼續站路邊。
After class, the other spot

剛剛剪完頭髮，友善的女士。她說她男友是美泰混血，就是之前越戰的時候他爸爸（美軍）去泰國，媽媽（泰國女孩）就跟著來美國了。她說她男友說其他人會因為他講話有口音覺得他很笨，她就跟她男友說你會講兩種語言噎，你比他們聰明。我幫她剪紙但剪破了，她也還笑咪咪是收下了。很大方的答應拍照:"反正我剛剪完頭髮～"

This friendly lady just got a haircut. She told me that her partner is from Thailand. His father went to Thailand for Vietnam War and met his mother there. She said that he had ever complained that the others would think him as stupid for his accent, then she replied him that he is smarter than others, because he could say two languages. I tried to make a good paper-cut for her but failed. Nevertheless, she still took it and agreed to take a picture with me : "It's ok because I just got haircut!"

因為練跆拳道腳受傷的人。他的亞洲幻想是要去每個廟裡參觀之類的，還有馬殺雞。所以我在路邊幫他做了上半身馬殺雞，以前在日日春學的。他朋友看見了整個翻白眼，問他怎麼回事，他的亞洲寶貝幻想居然是馬殺雞。十分熱衷武術，會用中文講丹田。非常挺，希望教授給我A。

This guy's foot was hurt for practicing tae kwon do. His Asian fantasy is to go to every temple in Asia, and to be massaged. So I massaged his upper body with the skills I had learned in COSWAS. His friend seemed to be unbelievable that massage is his "Asian Babe Fantasy". He is fascinated about martial arts, and he can say "Dan-tian" (Mandarin, the lower part of abdomen). He approved my project a lot and said: " I hope you could get an A in the assignment."

亞洲寶貝I /Asian Babe I

亞洲寶貝影像紀錄請看這/ Watch "asian babe" video clip

感謝魏欣妍跟Michelle幫我拍攝！
Special Thanks to Wei Hsinyen and Michelle for recording documentation!
亞洲寶貝
2011/9月
我在台灣的時候就註冊了某個全球交友網站，來到芝加哥，改了所在地點，突然收到一些來信叫我亞洲寶貝。我連相片都沒放，所以唯一讓我收到信的理由就是我是亞洲人。我十分好奇他們怎麼投射亞洲寶貝，還有亞洲寶貝如何回應投射出現的形象。

好吧，我來美國之前，y送我一件旗袍，大家叫我釣人的時候穿它，搭配中分長髮，再把眼睛貼得很鳳，降子才是老外喜歡的亞洲妹。所以我就按照大家給我的建議努力把自己搞得很東方，而且真的有拿膠帶貼眼睛，但是貼不牢。總之我就這樣到路邊貼海報，問路人對亞洲寶貝有什麼想像或者是幻想，如果對方願意回答我，我就在當場“盡量”實現他們對亞洲寶貝的幻想，對方也可以選擇抽樂透，籤上面寫著我可以提供的各種服務，包括剪紙，在他們手上用中文寫下他們的名字，馬殺雞五分鐘，還有舌吻。

這個作業對我來說比較像在作研究前蒐集資訊，很多時候我在語言上無法馬上回應，還要麻煩我的同學們在一旁翻譯。無法掌握語言工具時，許多資訊也無法掌握; 這時個人剩下的就是身體，用你的身體可以提供的服務在異文化中交換資訊獲得工具。

老實說因為我趕著教作業，早上在路邊站半個小時，晚上一個小時，時間不是太久。美國人其實蠻愛喇賽，有時候講講就開始閒聊，也不失一個練習英文聽力的方式。

最後要跟y說：我穿了我穿了！大家都有稱讚它，只是裡面的妹就算了
Asian Babe
2011, Sep.

I had registered a global website for finding friends. When I came here, I changed my location from Taipei to Chicago, and then I got some mails calling me "Asian Babe", even I haven't put any pictures on the website. I guess the reason that I could get these mails because of my Asian descent.

When I'm in Taiwan, people often don't like girls who are dressed in a stereotypical "Asian" way and tend to attract Western people. I'm interested in this kind of phenomenon, for these girls try to reply Western people's "Asian Fantasy" by their own imagination of it. There are so many cultural projection in this kind of relationship.

I'm really curious about what kind of imagination or fantasy exist in Western people's mind, so I dressed like an "Asian Babe", elongating my eyes by tape, and go to street to ask people this question.

What I exchange for the information from my participants is to provide some service for them. The participants can describe their own "Asian Babe Fantasy", and I would try to achieve their fantasy on the spot. Or they can choose to pick out a lot from my lottery box, which describes the service that I can offer, such as paper-cut, writing their name in Chinese on their body, massage for 5 minutes, and French(?) kiss.

When people who are in foreign country and not familiar with the local language, it's possible for them to get much less information than those who can use the local language well. In this situation, the way they can get more information or resource is to provide the service by their own body. That's what I feel in the process of the performance.

And to my dear friend Y, who gave me the awesome Chinese dress: I wore it I wore it~! Everyone likes it a lot, even people who wore it not so hot~!

一大早跑去站在路邊攬客，手上拿的是我的抽獎箱。
The whole setting, what I took is my lottery box

這個捧由看到幫我拍照的欣妍很辣，就跑來跟她搭訕，成為我第一個客人。非常直接，問可否做愛。我說sorry 啊，只有here right now, 最後他問我可不可以喇輯，我就說好。這可是我在美國第一個吻啊。
The guy came to us voluntarily before we setting down, for he thought my classmate plus photographer was really hot. So he became the first participant, and showed his desire sincerely. To the end, he asked me to kiss him, then I did. It's my first kiss in U.S.A.

腳踏車二人組，國籍不詳。高的那個說他追過幾個亞洲女孩，光頭型男說他有菲律賓女友，所以也沒什麼亞洲寶貝的幻想了。他們非常喜歡我貼眼睛用的膠帶，還拿去貼自己的，說這樣就變成亞洲人了。因為我沒辦法跟高個兒到角落去做摸來摸去的事情，所以就讓他抽籤，幫他寫名字在手上。

These guys like the tape used for elongating my eyes, the taller one even took the tape, sticking near his eyes, and claimed that he was Asian. His friend said that he already had a Philippines girlfriend, so he is done. Then the taller one picked a lot, so I wrote down his name on his arm.

我問光頭型男要不要抽籤，他也不囉唆，就抱了。
I asked the guy if he would like to pick a lot. He didn't reply, but hugged me instead.

開朗的小姐，非常開心的問我在幹嘛。她說她有一個日本朋友比她還大隻但十分受歡迎，因為她是亞洲人。我想幫她在手上寫名字，但她說她怕待會她洗澡就洗掉了。所以我幫她寫在紙上然後教她念。她很愉快的說喔噎我現在也會說中文了。

Cute lady, very interested in what I did. She said that one of her friend from Japan is really popular because of her Asian descent, even her friend is bigger than her. I wanted to write down her name on her arm, but she said that she would take a shower later and the pigment isn't water-proof. So I wrote down her name on a paper and told her how to pronounce it, and she said that she could speak Chinese now.

歡迎光臨/ Huan Yin Guang Lin ("Welcome" in Chinese)

感謝魏欣妍跟Diandra Millar的幫忙！
Special Thanks to Wei Hsinyen and Diandra Millar!

歡迎光臨

2011/09/11
芝加哥藝術學院美術館（AIC）

這是為了上課做的作業。教授要我們幾個人一組，然後去公共場所做一些小小介入觀眾的實驗。

我們這一組挑了美術館。我選了一個藝術家的展場，展場入口處掛了金色簾子，展場的左右角落各自放了一堆糖果跟一堆紙，觀眾可以任意拿取，但現場並沒有文字說明讓觀眾知道可以這樣做。

我的作品是這樣子的，我找了另一個台灣女生欣妍（她有來玩過跳蛋喔但我們認識幾天以後才發現這件事真好玩），我們兩個像穿制服的服務生一身黑，脖子上綁著用色紙作的蝴蝶結，然後站在展場入口的兩旁。如果有觀眾想要進去，我跟她就會幫觀眾掀簾子，然後用中文跟觀眾說“歡迎光臨！”，觀眾走進展場，我們繼續用中文跟他們說明兩旁的作品可以任意拿取，像是“那邊的糖果/紙可以自己拿喔”。如果被觀眾問問題，我們繼續用中文回答。態度超級友善，笑容滿面，但只說中文。

我們在星期天去了美術館，結果整個忘記那天是個特別的日子。當我們站在那裡“歡迎光臨”不到兩三個觀眾，警衛就過來問我們是不是申請在這裡公開表演核准的藝術家，我用中文回答她“不是”，她滿臉疑惑的重複了“不是”兩個字，隱約發現我說的應該是“no"，然後她就很sorry的請我們離開:"(以下英翻中，有點尷尬) girls, 我知道你們做得事情很有趣，但我真的覺得你們不要繼續這樣作比較好。尤其今天是911(!)，上面的人都很敏感，你們是外國人，在這裡講著大家聽不懂的話，讓觀眾（跟館方）都很緊張"。

我們試著解釋我們在做什麼，但是她很遺憾的搖搖頭。之後我們試著找別的展間做其他人的作品，也不斷碰到警衛過來關心。有一個警衛人很好，他讓我們做完作品才過來跟我們說今天其實並不是這樣做的好時機; 結果過沒多久美術館經理就走過來跟他說話，同時一直盯著我們看。後來等到經理離開，警衛才告訴我們我們在美術館外面做呼吸暖身時就被注意了，因為我們三個穿著一身黑，又做很奇怪的事情。

本來我的作品只是要說身處異鄉的疏離感，但是好狗運（？）碰到911, 為整個情境帶來一種更廣闊跟基巴的意涵（？吧）。

我在美國的第一件作品就是被這樣”歡迎光臨“的。

歡迎光臨 Huan Yin Guang Lin ("Welcome" in Chinese)

2011/09/11
AIC Museum
I chose the exhibition venue for “Felix Gonzalez-Torres” as the location for my piece. There is a golden curtain made by plastic beads installed at the entrance in the exhibition venue, after passing the curtain, they would see a pile of candies placed in the right corner and a stack of papers in the left corner. Audience can take a candy or a piece of paper at will, but there is no specific illustration to tell that they can do so. My piece is “歡迎光臨”(huan yin guang lin, means “welcome”)I chose Hsinyen, who also comes from Taiwan as me, as my partner in the performance, and Diandra helped to document the performance. Hsinyen and I who dressed in black with red bow ties on our necks (like waiter’s uniform) have to stand on the each side of the entrance before the curtain. When we see audience who tend to go through the entrance, both of us would push aside the curtain for them and greet “Welcome” in Chinese at the same time. After audience passing the entrance, we would try to explain what they could do with the pieces in Chinese, like “you can get a candy in the corner” or “you can take a piece of paper over there if you want”, in a really friendly attitude. If audience would like to ask us some questions, we also reply them in Chinese, friendly. What I want to do in the performance is to convert the localization by language. By providing service to audience in a foreign language, I try to make audience get a sense of alienation (even both of us are really friendly), as if they themselves stay in a museum not located in U.S.A. What inspires me to do the piece is my personal experience of being outside from my home country for this period of time. In fact, people here treat me really friendly and politely, like I treat immigrant workers (most of them come from south-east Asia) in Taiwan, but I still can’t get rid of a sense of isolation. Then I suddenly become aware of what my attitude toward immigrant people is: I treat them friendly and politely by the political correctness, and as a native inhabitant who want to support the immigrant issue, I thought that I practiced it pretty well in my daily life, until I found that I never try to make a deeply conversation based on understanding with them. For me, the piece is like a reminder, and I also want to remind others by experiencing the similar condition. But something happened changed the whole story. We forgot the date we decided to do our performance was 911. After observing what we had done for a short while (about two or three audience passing by), the security guard came to us and asked me if we were permitted applicants for performing in the museum. “不是(bu shi, means “no” in Chinese)” I replied, then the security repeated what I said in a confused tone. “Bu shi..?? (she suddenly found out it should mean no) Anyway, girls, what you do is really interesting, but I really don’t think it’s a good idea to continue doing it, especially today is 911, our boss is really sensitive at this time, that's why you see so many security guards here today... and you guys speak foreign language to people that they don’t know, it makes them (and us) nerves.” We tried to explain what we did to her to get much time doing the piece, but it was in vain. Then she kept her eyes on us in that space to make sure we couldn’t do it again. There comes an interesting contrast between my performance and the reaction of the security guards (meanwhile, as audience); for me, it makes an irony that my first performance in U.S.A. could be welcomed in this way

15分鐘的婚姻-台北MOCA版/ 15Minutes of Marriage II-Taipei MOCA Version

--> -->感謝我結婚超人氣大團隊！！

Ken將，念雲，火車，小塔，立儷，小白，碗茹，莎莎，秀蓮，佳仙，小莉，郁晴，Honda, 大為，仕爵，小兔，Terry, 宜君，安琪，大奎，六七團隊，偉慈，冠妏，韻文，黃鸚鵡，Taco（如果我忘了誰煩請提醒～）
活彈藥藝術家訪談（內有影像紀錄）
Artist's interview（including video documentation）謝謝文婷做的訪談！
謝卡下載專區
Download thanks cards

其中一個新郎的弟弟自己拍攝剪接的紀錄（相當感人啊）One of audience, whose brother married me for 15 minutes, edited the documentation

15分鐘的婚姻-台北當代藝術館版

2011/2月-4月
活彈藥，台北當代藝術館

跟在深坑的表演一樣，這次我在台北當代藝術館邀請觀眾跟我結婚。但這次“新郎”得要先跟我求婚，一起拍婚紗，然後舉行結婚儀式。儀式舉行完之後我們會被送入洞房，然後讓其他現場觀眾鬧洞房，像是在被子裡面互換衣服等等。我會在婚禮之後製作謝卡放在活彈藥facebook網頁上，新郎跟觀禮者皆可自行下載。

15 Minutes of Marriage II-Taipei MOCA version

2011, Feb.-2011, Apr.
Live Ammo, Taipei MOCA

Several months later after performing"15 Minutes of Marriage" in Shengkeng, this time , in Taipei MOCA, I put on the same wedding dress again, waiting in the exhibition venue that I had prepared for my wedding ceremony. I still asked goers in the museum to marry me for 15 minutes, but this time, these grooms had to propose to me, taking wedding photos and reading wedding vows with me. After the ceremony, other audience could tease the newlywed for 15 minutes, such as asking me and my groom to exchange our cloths beneath blankets and so on. After performance, I would design the thanks cards for my grooms, and they can download the cards from website.

15分鐘的婚姻-深坑版/15 Minutes of Marriage-Shengkeng Version

感謝我的結婚小團隊：
小塔，念雲，立儷，碗茹，小白。

15分鐘的婚姻-深坑版

2010/9/25 深坑行為馬拉松/新北市藝術節

我把自己打扮成新娘，在深坑老街上舉牌請路人跟我結婚15分鐘。如果她/他願意跟我結婚15分鐘，我就請對方吃豆腐，並在15分鐘內吃對方豆腐。

15 Minutes of Marriage I-Shengkeng Version

2010, Sep. 25th Performance in Shen-Keng, Xinbei City International Arts Festival, Xinbei City

“15 Minutes of Marriage I” was held on Sep. 25th, 2010 in Shen Keng, where is famous for its tofu, I dressed up as a bride and asked 5 passer-by to marry with me for fifteen minutes each, if she/he agreed to do it, we would get married on the scene and read the marriage vows. After the ceremony, I would treat my mate a tofu-dish and “eat her/his tofu” (In Chinese, “eat one’s tofu” means taking advantage of someone, especially of one’s body in a philandering way) till fifteen minutes passed by

第一個新郎。