house launching celebration. Iraraley, with Shih Lao-Bao, Chung Min-Hsiung and Hsie Li-Dao. Photo by Wolfgang Liebhart, Lanyu 2019.
Chien Hsiang Lin
talking about knowldege production in regard to the Tao people and about the relationship of humans and non humans in a shared environment. (January 2019, Vienna)
Women harvesting Taros on the field in preparation of the house launching celebration. photo by Si Pehbowen, Lanyu 2019
1980 deposit for radioactive waste (蘭嶼儲存場)
established with many scams and the close cooperation of the Taiwan Power Company(台灣電力股份有限公司) and the government (see Rudolph 2003, 103-106).
photo taken by Wei-Ya Lin on August 2008 Lanyu Island
goat catching in preparation of a house launching celebration. Iraraley, Photo by Si Pehbowen, Lanyu 2019
Forest
Chien Ping Kuo leading the team of creative (mis)understandings through the forste of Lanyu island
con | versation – de | fragmentation
Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin
Abstract
Our lecture performance for the SAR conference 2020 in Bergen presents some of the preliminary results of our artistic research project creative (mis)understandings supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, PEEK). This ongoing project (2018-2021) aims to develop transcultural approaches of inspiration (which we regard as mutually appreciated intentional and reciprocal artistic influence based on solidarity) by combining approaches from contemporary music composition and improvisation with ethnomusicological and sociological research. We encourage creative (mis)understandings emerging from the interaction between research and artistic practice, and between European art music, folk and non-western styles, in particular from the singing practices of the Tao, an indigenous group living on Lanyu island, Taiwan.
The path to knowledge production, which has been propagated through colonial structures in the so-called "modernity" (B.Latour), often relies on rigid categorization and anthropocentric ideas of efficiency. This means cutting a holistic image of the world into small fragments and portions of knowledge, and has been leading into ignorance of long-term relationships between humans and non-humans in a shared environment. Therefore we started with de|fragmentation of epistemologies.
During our research we established con|versations (in the original latin meaning: „making turns together“), between the generations of the Tao people, between outsiders and insiders, between experts living in diverse knowledge systems. In these process (mis)understandings often occur, but we see them as potential and fruitful ground for emergence of unexpected perspectives and creations.
Our contribution will focus on the following question:
Can our con|versation and the aim for de|fragmentation act as a catalyst for new initiatives in transferring knowledge and transforming its manifestations – between both, the different Tao generations, and insiders and outsiders?
And how?
Team of creative (mis)understandings in Ivalino village in the area of traditional houses, Lanyu 2019
Chang Chiao-Hua, Hsie Li-Ya, Si Pehbowen, Matthias Beier, Lin Wei-Ya, Ye Hui, Franz Schubert, Daliah Hindler, Johannes Kretz, Photo by Wolfgang Liebhart, Lanyu 2019.
New garbage truck song based on both, Beethoven's "For Elise" and traditional Tao song elements, composed by Chien-Ping Kuo, Wei-Ya Lin and Johannes Kretz