How can art become a sensibility to re-imagine mental illness, transforming it from a state of personal vulnerability into a site of social control and ideological interpellation?
As part of the exhibition The Faceless under the Mask, an artist talk featuring Ricky Yeung Sau Churk and Angela Su, the two participating artists in the exhibition, they would share their works in the exhibition and how they explore illness as a contested territory of control and resistance.
Ricky Yeung’s new commissioned work in the exhibition delves into the profound reconfiguration of the self in the face of illness. He proposes a radical shift: 病有我 "to make illness the subject." In this framework, the individual does not have an illness but belongs to it. Angela Su, in her video essay The Afterlife of Rosy Leavers, tracing the legacy of the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) and their infamous slogan, "Turn illness into a weapon," which sought to channel the plight from mental distress into a revolutionary attack against the capitalist system.
This conversation promises to be a gripping exploration of the dialectics of weakness and power. Can mental illness be a form of resistance, or is it ultimately a condition of profound vulnerability to external systems? Join us as these artists guide us through the precarious boundary where the fragile self meets the ideologies that seek to define it.
Talk will be conducted in Cantonese
藝術如何成為一種感知方式，重新想像精神疾病，將其從個人脆弱的狀態轉化為一種社會控制及意識形態呼喚的場域？《The Faceless under the Mask》展覽兩位參展藝術家楊秀卓與徐世琪將舉行一場藝術家對談，分享他們在展覽中的作品，以及他們如何探索疾病作為一個充滿矛盾的控制與抵抗領域。
楊秀卓在展覽中的全新委約作品深入探討面對疾病時自我的深刻重構。他提出了一個激進的觀點：「病有我」，即疾病成為主體。在這個框架中，個體並非「擁有」疾病，而是「隸屬於」疾病。徐世琪在她的錄像散文作品《The Afterliffe of Rosy Leavers》中，追溯1970年代西德 Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) 的歷史遺產及其著名口號「將疾病變成武器」。這句口號試圖將精神困擾的苦難轉化為對資本主義體制的革命性攻擊。
這場對談將是一場扣人心弦的探索，深入探討脆弱與力量的辯證關係。精神疾病能否成為一種抵抗形式？還是最終淪為受外在系統深刻影響的脆弱狀態？誠邀您與我們一起，在這場對話中走進那條危險的邊界——脆弱的自我與試圖定義它的意識形態交匯之處。
座談將以廣東話進行
