【Episode Introduction】

From the perspective of "seascape," how does it differ from "landscape" in our understanding of the world? If the identity is inherently tied to our ways of perceiving the world, does a shared bodily experience of the South exist?

Join us in this captivating episode to explore these questions with Taiwanese curator JowJiun Gong and Nadia Huggins, the artist who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up and is currently based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Together, they engage in a stimulating conversation about fluid identity, seascape epistemology, and the liberating and "true" experiences found in the water captured through Nadia's works. By sharing their personal journeys as misfits and challenging the existing norms of the world, they invite us to reflect upon our own perceptions.

Diving into the sea, we are reminded that the unseen essence of things is waiting to be discovered.



【節目簡介】

以「海景（seascape）」的視角認知世界，與「地景（landscape）」有何不同？

「南島語族」、「泛南島」、「全球南方」這些或相異、或相似、或互為修正的概念，其緣起不離過去北方帝國主義之下的殖民統治與文明進步觀的傳播，衍生出尚待回復、重建的認同。而倘若認同的建構，總是連結著感知世界的方式，那麼是否存在「南方」共有的身體感？



本集邀請臺灣策展人龔卓軍與出生於千里達、成長及居住於聖文森的藝術家Nadia Huggins，分享各自曾經「不合群」的生命經驗，並對世界既有的尺度發起反思，藉由異於大陸的島嶼身體感，找到多重且流動的認同與受壓抑而遭忽視的主體性。



從陸地潛入海洋，提醒我們，所謂事物真實的面貌，其實從來未見。





Capturing “true experience” in the sea — the discovery of the fluid identities of the South

【Outline】

03:50 The fluid identity; losing a sense of belonging

07:15 Diving into the Sea: the metaphor for the Caribbean culture; A space of returning the true essence of ourselves.

10:40 Seascape*; *Surfers’ knowledge of the sea

11:35 The Caribbean’s cultural relationship with the ocean

13:16 The immersive experience of the Seascape; liberative experience for the individuals

15:00 Orchid Island: Tao tribe’s long history in diving and fishing; Syaman Rapongan’s writing of the ocean against the mainstream culture in Taiwan

17:00 Movement of the body in the water captured by the technology; recording and experiencing the “true experience”

18:30 The poetic moment

19:45 A space of becoming something; Capturing the unseen moments in between

21:05 The universality of human experience: blurring the image of the body creates the focus on humanity; the interplay with the environment

23:10 The uniqueness: the particular body movement in the Caribbean where different cultures melt

24:45 The coexistence of the universality and the uniqueness; New ways of reimagining what the Caribbean and the world can be in the future

26:55 New perspectives of the body; #Me Too movement in Taiwan



【Guests】

JowJiun Gong

Professor, Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts.

His Research specializes in French Contemporary Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics. He was the curator of Are We Working Too Much? 2013, Mutual Companionship in Near Future 2017 and One Thousand Names of A River: Mattauw Earth Triennial 2022.

Nadia Huggins

A self-taught artist works in photography and video. Since 2010, she has built a body of images that are characterized by her observation of interest in the everyday. Her work merges documentary and conceptual practices, which explore belonging, identity, and memory through a contemporary approach focused on re-presenting Caribbean landscapes and the sea.



【Reference】

1. Gong Jow-Jiun https://doctor.tnnua.edu.tw/p/405-1037-5372,c1547.php?Lang=zh-tw

2. Nadia Huggins https://nadiahuggins.com/

3. NEXUS－Video and New Media Art from the Caribbean https://mocatpe.tw/art04kijr7

4. Syaman Rapongan https://www.wowlavie.com/article/ae2001197

5. Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/29/Waves-of-KnowingA-Seascape-Epistemology



【Music】

Intro music: HighTech by Sascha Ende®

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Outro music: Comfortable Mystery 4 by Kevin MacLeod

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Sponsor: Ji Huei-Neng Art and Culture Foundation

Special Thanks: Jian Cheng Junior High School





海洋的身體感—南方流動性認同的再建構

【大綱標記】

03:50 流動與轉化的認同、歸屬感的喪失

07:15 潛入海洋－海島的觀光經濟與加勒比海文化的隱喻

10:40 Seascape－以海的尺度思考

人浪合一的海洋身體感＋海洋的知識

11:35 與海相依，傍海而居－尊重海洋歷史、加勒比海人的日常休憩（木板門

片衝浪）與文化建構

13:16 海景的沈浸式體驗－打破地景、解縛自我

15:00 夏曼．藍波安，書寫海洋的感受

17:00 新的身體感，形成新知識與新科技捕捉持續性的海洋關係

18:30 詩意的顯現（Poetic moment）

19:45 遷徙時的過渡狀態，呈現水面下未見，蒐集真實生命經驗

21:05 普遍：海洋的模糊濾鏡使真貌清晰可見

23:10 特殊：特有的文化造就加勒比海人獨特的運動身體

24:45 普遍與特殊並存的身體現象學

26:55 #MeToo 運動：多元身體的新想像與觀點



【講者介紹】

龔卓軍

國立台南藝術大學藝術創作理論研究所專任教授。研究專長為法國當代哲學、現象學、美學。策展經歷為2013年「我們是否工作過量？」、2017年「近未來的交陪」與2022年「曾文溪的一千個名字：麻豆大地藝術季」等。

納迪亞．哈金斯

自學藝術家納迪亞．哈金斯以攝影和錄像為創作媒材。自2010年起，她創作了一系列影像，主題圍繞著她對日常的觀察。哈金斯的創作結合紀錄和概念性實踐，以當代手法探索歸屬、身分認同、記憶等主題，並聚焦於再現加勒比海地景和當地海洋風貌。



【參考資料】

1. 龔卓軍

https://doctor.tnnua.edu.tw/p/405-1037-5372,c1547.php?Lang=zh-tw

2. 納迪亞．哈金斯（Nadia Huggins）

https://nadiahuggins.com/

3. NEXUS—加勒比海地區錄像與新媒體藝術｜台北當代藝術館

https://mocatpe.tw/art04Xzjq6

4. Orchid Island蘭嶼書寫—夏曼．藍波安｜龔卓軍，〈 魚群的情緒．海流的身體：論伊祐．噶照的《月亮住在海裡》〉

https://talks.taishinart.org.tw/juries/gjj/2021070602

5. Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Ingersoll https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/29/Waves-of-KnowingA-Seascape-Epistemology



【襯樂】

片頭：HighTech by Sascha Ende®

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片尾：Comfortable Mystery 4 by Kevin MacLeod

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