主題： Memory, Activism, and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project in Llyong Topa（記憶、行動主義與社會正義：高俊宏在拉流斗霸的大豹社計劃）
講者： Irmy Schweiger
Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden
主持人：林淑慧
國立臺灣師範大學台灣語文學系教授
日期：2024/3/19(二)15:15-17:15
地點：國立臺灣師範大學體育館3樓金牌獎堂（台北市和平東路一段162號）
主辦單位：國立臺灣師範大學臺灣語文學系、國際台灣學研究中心
協助單位：國立臺灣師範大學高等教育深耕計畫辦公室
聯絡電話及信箱：02-77495522；吳助理xyu18251@gmail.com
【講者簡介】
Irmy Schweiger教授任教於瑞典斯德哥爾摩大學亞洲及中東研究學系，研究專長為台灣與中國的現當代文學和文化領域。她對歷史創傷和文化記憶、文學和文學史中的世界性和本土性動態、作為官方話語的反敘事的文學感興趣。目前正進行關於記憶的未來和未來的記憶的項目，探索當代台灣文學和文化。
【講座摘要】
In 2016, Taiwanese activist, artist, and academic Kao Jun-honn 高俊宏 started his long-term Topa (大豹社 Great Leopard) project. The focus of his investigation is the aborigine Atayal Topa Tribe of Taiwan and the descendants of these colonized people who were expelled from their land and nearly annihilated by serial colonialization that swept the island.
Based on long-term fieldwork and on-site investigation Kao recreates the “Great Leopard Incident” documented in the advance of the frontier guard line between 1903 and 1907. Kao traces the ruins of frontier guard posts that were instrumental for separating the “savages” from the “civilized”, colonizing the Topa tribe’s space, and expanding the economy of the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan. The frontier guard system was subsequently governed by the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek during the white terror era. After martial law was lifted, colonialization of indigenous land shifted to establishing postmodern entertainment parks for the urban middle class driven by coercive environmentalism and neoliberal policies.
Kao’s Great Leopard Project has resulted in a documentary film, two book volumes, video works, topographical maps of the Topa river basin, installations of archives etc. Kao himself, however, is less concerned with these artifacts as such but with the agency and the possibility of art and how it can intervene into and engage with reality in general and with global capitalism and postcolonial struggles in particular. Taking his documentary Llyong Topa 拉流斗霸 (2021) as the point of departure, Professor Irmy Schweiger will argue that Kao successfully employs art activism to reinvent historical colonial sites and to push for transitional justice and social change.
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