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不在研究室的標本  

The Absence of the Specimens

 2021

video and Installation/Dimension variable

10年前曾教授找了一位靈通老師來研究室看他負責管理的人骨標本,透過靈通老師的溝通與對談,意外得知了這些日治時期留下來的人骨標本是噍吧哖事件受難者的大體,這些人骨標本在歷經了博物館的展示到成為學校的校產,最終曾教授達成祂們想要回鄉的心願,當時玉井尚無納骨塔,便將祂們安置到南化的納骨塔(面向玉井),10年後我再次邀請這位靈通老師與來自相同博物館的人骨標本溝通,重新去溯源祂們曾經經歷的事以及潛藏在科學底下祂與祂和他那宿命般的緣份。

Prof. Tseng invited a spirit medium to examine the human bone specimens kept by him in his office ten years ago. Through the communications conducted by the medium, Prof. Tseng was surprised to find out that the human bones were the remains of the victims in the Tapani incident. The human bones went from objects in a museum exhibition to property of the university before Prof. Tseng eventually managed to return them to their homes. There was not any columbarium in Yujing at the time. So Prof. Tseng rested them in the columbarium in Nanhua (facing Yujing). Ten years later, the artist invited this spirit medium again to communicate with the human bone specimens from the same museum, hoping to re-trace what the deceased had been through and the destined relationships inexplicable by science.

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