陈天灼:海笼

Chen Tianzhuo: Ocean Cage

展期 Period:

2024.6.8—2024.8.11


艺术家 Artist:

陈天灼 Chen Tianzhuo


地点 Venue:

松美术馆 Song Art Museum



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前言 Introduction:

每当人们在拉马莱拉海岸听到“Baleo !Baleo !”这种叫喊声,就意味着这附近有鲸鱼被捕鱼者发现。同时,这样的召唤还有更多隐藏深意的传达:鲸鱼作为馈赠出现之时,意味着祖先带着神灵的祝颂现身。海洋已经开放,并向人类献礼。这是一种挑战命运的召唤,在斗争、崇拜和救赎中已然存在了几个世纪。

《海笼》取材于印度尼西亚拉马莱拉村一个复杂而又充满情感的故事,讲述了鲸鱼、捕鱼者与祖先之间的纠缠。在与抹香鲸物种间的交锋中,一个复杂产业生态系统的相互关系、个体连带经济共存的缘由,以及信仰起源与祖先的联系,像链环一样紧密交扣,找不到开始和结束。观众被邀请沉浸在温柔、平静以及苦痛的精神裂痕中,在水体、哺乳动物、捕鱼者、歌谣、微风和灵魂中去拥抱与化解各种主体关系,重新思考物种之间的相互依存关系,以及我们如何(重新)理解超越人类的正义。

在陈天灼创作的沉浸式环境中,《海笼》结合装置、电影和舞蹈的元素构造表演空间,SikoSetyanto 成为了围绕情节变化的主人公,他联合印尼音乐家 Kadapat 和 Nova Ruth 共同创造了一个视觉、舞蹈和音乐的漩涡,席卷着传统与生态、精神与技术、对进步的信仰与物种间的共生等问题的并置与反思。


致谢:《海笼》是由陈天灼与 Partner in crime 出品,并与 HAU - Hebbel am Ufer、Arsenic Lausanne、Kyoto Experiment、Kampnagel Hamburg 和 tanzhaus NRW 联合制作。


"Baleo! Baleo!" When this call is heard on the coast of Lamalera, the fishermen have spotted a whale. At the same time, this expression implies more, as it also means that with the appearance of the whale, the ancestors show themselves and offer a present, as a blessing from God. The ocean has opened up and offers its gifts. It is a call that challenges fate and has existed for centuries, in struggle, worship and redemption. 

Rooted in the intricate yet affective narration in Lamalera village in Indonesia, Ocean Cage encompasses the entanglement among the whale, the fisherman and the ancestor. In the interspecies encounter with the sperm whale, the interrelationships of a complex ecosystem and the basis of solidary economic coexistence manifest themselves as well as a spiritual source and connection with the ancestors, interwoven like the links of a chain where a beginning and an end can no longer be determined. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves into the tender, still, afflicted ideological rift, to breathe and dissolve into the porous and leaking bodies of water, mammals, fisherfolk, ballads, breezes and spirits, reconsidering the interdependent relationships across species and how we can (re)understand the more-than-human justice. 

In the immersive setting created by Tianzhuo Chen, Ocean Cage combines elements of installation, film and dance to create the space for the performance, in which Siko Setyanto becomes the central protagonist in changing characters. Together with the Indonesian musicians Kadapat and Nova Ruth, a visual, dance and musical maelstrom is created in which tradition and ecology, spiritually and technology, beliefs in progress and interspecies symbiosis are whirled together. 


Credits: Ocean Cage is a production of Partner in crime and Tianzhuo Chen. In coproduction with HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Arsenic Lausanne, Kyoto Experiment, Kampnagel Hamburg and tanzhaus NRW.