【展訊】のせでんアートライン/ Noseden Art Line 2019 / 能勢電鐵藝術節〈避難訓練〉(2019/10/26-11/24)

Rahic Talif was born in the Amis Makota’ay village of Hualien in 1962, Taiwan, and currently lives and works in Hualien and Taitung, Taiwan.
He is a professional artist who works in the fields of wood sculpture, installation art, performance art, architecture, furniture, reworking tribal culture, indigenous society and culture etc. Many of Rahic’s works reference aspects of ocean culture and traditional tribal spirit. He has also proved particularly adept at installation art that conveys environmental dialectical thinking on the issue of globalization, as he discusses the collapse of communal structure and major social change, encouraging viewers to reflect on such issues through his own actions and art. He will bring the legend of his tribe to Mt. Nose Myoken and create sculptures on the themes of the moon, sun, and stars.
Rahic, a native of the indigenous Makota’ay Pangcah nation in Taiwan, will install sculptures in the precincts of Mt. Nose Myoken shrine, and will attempt to connect Amis legends with the story of Mt. Nose Myoken. As the traveling stars indicate returning to the roots, and movement of the sun, moon, and stars also represent metaphorical guiding symbols all around the world, he wishes to create something that serves as a guide for the mind. The legend of the Amis says that the brother and sister who got lost at sea and were unable to come home. They found a new land and thrived by planting grains of rice found in their boat. In analogy with this story, he will hold a small tree-planting event at the end of Noseden Art Line 2019, to link his work with the land. This work will grow and change its shape with the changing seasons, and will be loved by people visiting Mt. Nose Myoken for a long time.

1962 年、花蓮阿美（アミ）族港口部落出身。花蓮、台東を拠点に活動。
専業作家として、主に木の彫刻、装置、行為、建築、家具、部落文化の再生、原住民社会文化評論等といった領域で活躍、国内外の芸術展にも多数参加。彼の作品は海洋文化と部落の伝統的な要素を含んでおり、洗練された彫刻のラインと的確な語彙は、グローバルな問題への問いを投げかけ、民族間構造のほころびや社会環境の移ろいに対する、観衆の内省を呼び起こす。今回の作品名は「北方へ向かえば、そこは家に帰る場所」を意味する。彼は能勢妙見山に彼の部族の伝説を呼び込み、月、太陽、星を主題に、彫刻作品を制作する。
台湾の原住民族港口部落出身であるラヘズは、能勢妙見山の境内に彫刻作品を設置し、阿美族の伝説と、能勢妙見山の物語との接続を試みる。巡る星のシンボルは原点に戻る運動を示すものであり、太陽や月、星の運動が世界中に共通の導きであるように、心の道標になるようなものを作りたいと彼は語る。阿美族の伝説には、船に乗った兄妹が家に帰れなくなる話があり、彼らは辿り着いた先で、船の間に挟まっていた米を植え栄えたという。この物語になぞらえ、会期末には小さな植樹祭を行い、作品と土地とを結ぶ。季節の移ろいとともに姿を変え、成長していくこの作品は、能勢妙見山を訪れる人々に長く愛されていくだろう。