「地表繁衍」系列 — 澎湖五德潮間帶、石門富貴角、新樂園中山北路二段11巷
The Fertile Surface of the Earth — Penghu's Wuteh Intertidal Zone & Rich Point, Shi Men Village, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space Taipei

2007 複合媒材，影像裝置 尺寸依場地而定
Mixed media and video installation, size: depends on the place of exhibition

《地表繁衍--澎湖五德潮間帶》

這是一個試圖撮合人文生態的地誌寓言，作品以帶有研究手法的假說與道聽塗說的證據，來呈現位於澎湖五德濱海的一處潮間帶的生物寓言。在五德的潮間帶上，長久已來耐鹽植物和貝類的繁衍、居民在其上的經濟活動與日常生活，是潮間帶中群聚生態的重要生物繁衍機制。
在天氣好的時候當地的婦人拿著扁鍬，在潮間帶上挖著許多種類的貝類，這種耗工但低收入的經濟活動，長期的供養著當地人們的蛋白質和微薄財務需求，而婦人們對於生活與命運的口述，更是一種不可或缺的社群生命型態的證據。耐鹽的植物們觀看著這些，以陳靜的變異持續著它們的繁衍，而在鹽沙中的貝類則日久月長的繼續著它們的生命。
攝影協力：林柏樑
五德潮間帶資訊提供：澎湖田野工廠 林圓庭、商累愛

植物探偵系列

這計劃試圖以帶有研究手法的假說與道聽塗說的證據，來呈現位於特定區域動植物共生下的生物寓言。

【一個關於植物探偵團的現場表演】

場次一：2007年9月22日（六） pm14:00~18:00
場次二：2007年9月23日（日） pm13:00~18:00
場次三：2007年9月23日（日） pm18:00~20:00

地點：新樂園藝術空間《穿越表層─ 設計與藝術的對話》展覽
探偵團員：許淑真、中原大學景觀系
盧建銘老師、林俊明、林牧村、吳柏蔚、中原大學建築系（蕭志中、施佳君、張家澍、歐尚豪、蔣坤志、蘇琴）
攝影協力：林柏樑

場次一：《地表繁衍--石門鄉富貴角》

《地表繁衍--石門鄉富貴角》這個作品是一個在展覽期間的植物調查計畫，我們在開幕當天選擇了台灣本島的最北端—石門鄉富貴角，一處經緯度121°33'37"，025°17'26"的海邊現場，做長達五百公尺帶狀的濱海植物採集與調查，並持續在展覽期的展場中進行植物鑑定與紀錄。北海岸的地形發育藉由海水的波浪、潮汐、海流三種運動，以及風雨與氣候，形成台灣特殊海蝕地形與地質，這地區植物的飽受逆境生長模式，成為我們選擇它的很重要原因。
而我們選擇植物中的生殖器官花與果，作為最主要的鑑定模式，也探討植物生殖行為生態學中，環境的變遷與人類與動物在這塊土地上的種種活動。所有這地表上的物理因素與生物的共生關係，不斷的繁衍與發育，我們也將這樣的精神實現在展覽之中，展覽中的作品生命將會不斷的成長與更迭。

《地表繁衍--新樂園中山北路二段11巷》

場次二：〈城市植物探偵計畫-台北〉
場次三：〈植物異質圖象的對話〉

〈城市植物探偵計畫-台北〉，將進行街道野生植物與居家植栽的調查，在新樂園中山北路二段11巷，與鄰近的公園。我們除了做植物鑑定之外，更希望研究植物種群動態與物種邊界、調查家中成員與城市居民與植物之間的生活關係、探討都市生活的日常，以及開放的都市邊陲空間，人們所抱持的態度及其使用的方式。
而〈植物異質圖象的對話〉以討論的方式，藉由展覽中植物圖像多種類的呈現（繪圖、植物標本、生態照片、掃描照片、動態影像、顯微圖像…等），來探討不同製作方式的植物圖像，如何反映知識圖像所代替的現實。

The Fertile Surface of the Earth—Penghu's Wuteh Intertidal Zone

This is an attempt to create a topographical fable blending the humanities and ecological science. The work uses research hypotheses and hearsay evidence to express a biological fable about the coastal intertidal zone at Wuteh on Penghu. In the intertidal zone at Wuteh, the long-term thriving growth of salt-tolerant plants and shellfish, and residents' economic activities and everyday lives, are important biological production mechanisms for the intertidal zone's ecology.
The local women use shovels to dig up many kinds of mollusks in the intertidal zone when the weather is good. This type of laborious but low-income economic activity has long supplemented the local people's protein intake and met their minimum financial needs. The women's oral accounts of their lives and fates provide indispensable evidence of the community's way of life. The salt-tolerant plants see this and continue their growth through quiet change. And the mollusks that live in the briny sand and been coexisting with other species for ages continue their lives.

Photography assistant: Lin Borliang
Information on Wuteh intertidal zone provided by: Lin Yuanting & Shang Leiai of the Penghu Field Factory

Hsu Su-chen’s Artwork "Exploring Botanical Fables" Project Series

This project attempt to combine research methods with hypotheses and with hearsay evidence will reveal biological fables involving the coexistence of people and plants in specific areas.

The Live Art Performance about the Plant Exploration Teams

Scene 1: pm14:00~18:00, 22nd Sept. 2007
Scene 2: pm13:00~18:00, 23th Sept. 2007
Scene 3: pm18:00~20:00, 23th Sept. 2007

Venue：Exhibition of Through the Surface --Dialogue between Design and Art, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei
Detectives: Hsu Su-chen, Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Yuan Christian University
Lu Jian-ming, Benson Lin, Leon Lin, PoPo Wu
Architecture Department of Chung Yuan Christian University Jerry Xiao, Gina Shi,
Chia-shu Chang, Ou Howard, Kun-chih Chiang, Jin Su
Photography assistant: Lin Borliang

Scene 1: The Fertile Surface of the Earth—Rich Point, Shi Men Village

The Fertile Surface of the Earth—Rich Point, Shi Men Village This work will consist of a plant survey project conducted during the exhibition period. We chose a seaside location at longitude 121°33'37" and latitude 25°17'26", which happens to be at Rich Point in Shi Men Township—the northernmost part of Taiwan—to conduct a belt-shaped collecting survey of coastal plants on the opening day. We will then continue to identify and record plants at the exhibition areas. The landforms along the north coast of Taiwan were formed by the waves, tides, and currents, and by the wind, rain, and weather. These forces have created the area's unique sea-eroded topography and geology. The plants living in this area are able to grow under adverse conditions, which is one reason we selected it for our survey.
We selected plants' reproductive organs—flowers and fruit—as the main parts of our identification model in order to investigate the ecology of plants' reproductive behavior, and also to explore environmental changes and the many activities of people and animals on the land. We will try to realize the coexistence between physical factors and living things, and the constant propagation and development of biological organisms, in the spirit of the exhibition. The life of the works in the exhibition will grow continuously and change

The Fertile Surface of the Earth—Shin Leh Yuan Art Space Taipei

Scene 2: pm13:00~18:00, 23th Sept. 2007

Urban Plant Exploration Project --Taipei
Scene 3: pm18:00~20:00, 23th Sept. 2007

Dialogue between Heterology of Botanical Images

About the Urban Plant Exploration Project --Taipei, we will be residing and conduct a survey of plants grown by families or growing wild by the sides of streets. Apart from studying the dynamics of plant communities and the boundaries between species, I will also indirectly investigate living habits in the city via the relationship between the lives of city residents, including the members of surveyed families, and plants. I will further investigate open urban marginal spaces, people's attitudes towards plants and the way they use them, and differences based on gender, age, and ethnicity.

And the Dialogue between Heterology of Botanical Images, we by the many forms of plant images at the exhibition (drawings, plant specimens, ecological photographs, scanned photos, video, and microscopic images, etc.) will indirectly shed light on how the different ways of producing plant images reflect the changes in the way pictures of knowledge are presented.

參展紀錄 Recording of display

2007《穿越表層》─ 設計與藝術的對話，新樂園藝術空間，台北，台灣

2007 Through the Surface, -Dialogue between Design and Art, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

典藏紀錄 Works in Collections

作品《地表繁衍--澎湖五德潮間帶》，高雄市立美術館，台灣

The Fertile Surface of the Earth—Penghu's Wuteh Intertidal Zone, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan