自畫像 I、自畫像 II
Self-Portrait I, Self-Portrait II

2002 行為表演、錄像聲音裝置（影片12分 22秒、12分鐘57秒）大小依場地而定
Behavioral performance, video and audio installation (video: 12 minutes 22 seconds, 12minutes 57 seconds), Depends on the place of exhibition

身體是存在空間的最後疆界，有時也是媒體世界與生物性脈動相遇的地方。今日這生命神秘的界域，也有著因科技讓身體「內部」與「外部」的連結，而有了前所未有的連續性。

於是，我想讓身體的物體性消失在交互連結的視像系統，中介的儀器設備成為我與身體空間中，作為了解與傳達的角色。所以我自拍身體的錄影影像，將之投影並放大到極致，讓身體的空間廣度擴張，藉由影像的導航，我裸身面對牆上投影的身軀，慢慢描繪出身體的內在消化結構。 從外物的穿入身體空間到排出，這樣的消化系統甬道，其實早成為個人複雜情狀的繁殖場——飽脹的滿足、焦慮的痛楚…，那場場真實的翻製場景，竟有著令人不可偏廢的虛擬況味，我以逆旅之姿，探訪身體的敏感突觸，這其中的交付隱私、任人（自己）擺佈，卻透露出冷冽的質感，映示著當代人處於自我與現實、真實與想像、存在與虛幻之間不穩定的流動邊界，它成為一個預示與聯繫的真實肉體系統。

此件作品創作過程應有的戒慎恐懼，結果竟反示著冰冷的調子，它強力的模糊對愛慾之焦慮面向察覺，以冷淡為車駕，駛向異化身體的漂浮情狀。於是，身體的外顯型式不是終止，而是久處於不斷分解狀態的圖考。

The body is the final boundary of existing space, and is sometimes also the place where the media world and the pulse of biology encounter each other. Today this realm of life's mysteries has achieved an unprecedented degree of connection due to technology's ability to link what is "internal" and "external."

I want to cause the physicality of the body to disappear in an interlinked visual image system. The intermediary instruments and equipment play the role of understanding and expressing in the space between the body and myself. I have therefore filmed video images of the body, and projected them in extremely enlarged form. I try to expand the breadth of the body's space. Using the images to guide me, the projected form of my naked body facing the wall slowly portrays the inner digestive apparatus of the body.From when foreign objects enter the body to the time they are excreted, the digestive tract is actually a breeding ground for an individual's complex moods: swollen satisfaction, the suffering of anxiety… Those true translated situations have a virtual flavor that can neither be ignored nor overemphasized. I have taken the position of an inn and probed the body's sensitive synapses. The delivery of privacy and surrender of control to others (self) in fact reveals a chilly texture. This texture reflects how contemporary people are caught at the unstable, fluid boundary between self and reality, truth and imagination, and existence and delusion. It has become a true bodily system that presages and connects.

The fear and prudence that must be part of the creative process are reflected as icy tones. This powerfully awareness of a vague anxiety involving love and desire takes indifference as its vehicle body and drives off towards the uncertain state of alienation of the body. Accordingly, the outwardly-visible form of the body is not ended, but rather is a pictorial volume in a prolonged state of decomposition.

《自畫像 I》參展紀錄 “Self-Portrait I ” Recording of display

2002 「美術高雄2002—游牧、流變、擴張」，高雄市立美術館，台灣

2003 「2003年台北美術獎」，台北市立美術館，台灣

2005   2005年世界婦女年會：第九屆國際跨領域女性大會藝術展，「第三屆女性藝術三年展—幻想亞洲」SungKok美術館，首爾，韓國

2006 「新版圖」蘇格蘭國際即場藝術節，Tramway藝術空間，格拉斯哥，英國

2014 「許淑真紀念展」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，台灣

2002 Art of Kaohsiung 2002 : Nomadic - Developing – Expanding, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2003 year Taipei Arts Prize, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2005 Women’s Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women (WW05), The 3rd Women’s Art Festival: "Fantastic Asia ", SungKok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2006 New Territories, Scotland’s International Festival of Live Arts, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

2014 Commemorative Exhibition of Hsu Su-chen, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

《自畫像 II》參展紀錄 “Self-Portrait II ” Recording of display

2004 「有相 vs. 無相 ─ 女性創作的政治藝語」，華山藝文特區，台北，台灣

2005   2005年世界婦女年會：第九屆國際跨領域女性大會藝術展，「第三屆女性藝術三年展：幻想亞洲」SungKok美術館，首爾，韓國

2014 「許淑真紀念展」，高雄市立美術館，高雄，台灣

2004 Form vs. Formless：Political Words of Women’s Art, Huashan Arts

2005 Women’s Worlds 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women (WW05), The 3rd Women’s Art Festival: "Fantastic Asia ", SungKok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2014 Commemorative Exhibition of Hsu Su-chen, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

公共單位典藏紀錄 Works in Public Collections

2013 《自畫像 II》，高雄市立美術館，高雄

2008 《自畫像 I》，高雄市立美術館，高雄

2008 《自畫像 I》，布理斯托大學—臨場藝術檔案，英國

2013 “Self-portrait II”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2008 "Self-portrait I", Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2008 "Self-portrait I", University of Bristol—Live Art Archives, UK

自畫像II-作品裝置說明