# Pavilion of the Common

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在第一個展館Pavilion中，策展人想探討共同體的概念，回應個人主義高張的年代。作品有的是關於藝術家如何以各種方式凝聚社群，有的是藝術家對於社群消逝的哀悼跟懷念。策展人提問，除了在各自的微小政治場域探索各種可能，我們要如何在這個不平等、不友善的世界創造共同的事物？

策展人不論在展件或是說明文字，都大量運用編織跟針線的意象，來講述人們如何串聯，個體與個體是如何交織、凝聚，像針線一樣形成網路、圖案，以及透過針線修補缺口，修復被衝突、意外破壞的關係。一進展場，右手邊是李明維的The Mending Project，作品概念源自藝術家在九一一後痛失親友，縫補衣物成為一種療傷的方式。志工在現場講述作品背後的故事，並幫民眾縫補、刺繡圖案，互動效果很好。左手邊的展品則是義大利薩丁尼亞島的藝術家Maria Lai用針線刺的地圖，文字。David Medalla的A Stitch In Time，邀請觀眾加入刺繡的行列，於是一大塊垂掛的布上被放上紙鈔、塗鴉紙片、衛生棉等各種匪夷所思的物件。Franz Erhard Walther的立體針織雕塑，則扮演背景布幕，邀觀眾加入使作品完整，但觀眾一旦緊鄰作品，也就無法抽離的觀看作品了。

主要策展論述寫得蠻不錯的，也有提出重要的問題，但是展版的說明文字有的好牽強。老實說，除了李明維的作品跟幾個紀錄片，大部分作品我不是覺得很想翻白眼就是看不太懂論述。像Maria Lai的作品Lenzuolo，用針線勾勒成書本的文字形狀，遠看很像一行行字，但近看又不成字體，只是針線的排列。藝術家為什麼要用針線模擬文字，就有非常多想像的空間。但我覺得說明文字既無聊又限縮了可能性。

**Pavilion of Common策展論述**
Next on our journey, the Pavilion of the Common greets us in the Arsenale around the work of artists exploring the notion of the common world and the way to build a community, as a way to counter individualism and self-interests, which represent a worrisome threat in today's troubling climate. This topic was particularly vibrant in the history of contemporary art from the late 1960's through the 1970's, and remains just as relevant to this day although tarnished by the failings and disillusions of such utopian dreams. The anthropological aspect is particularly important here, with a number of historical works addressing the issue of the common world where conceptions of the world appear the most different, or rooted to the earth and community as common denominators, regardless of ideology. Several artists have even embraced the participatory approach as a recurrent modus operandi that they implement with varying scales. Other more ambivalent works regret the loss of the common and express their longing, although sometimes with the feeling of having reached a dead end. How do you build something in common in a world that has failed to realize all its projects of equality and fraternity, other than by attempting to recreate, here and there, at the micropolitical level, conditions for new possibilities?

**Maria Lai作品Lenzuolo的說明**
The key element of Lenzuolo is the theme of the writing. Following the shuttle between the threads of the weft and warp it is easy to see the reference to the writing hand, to the composition of weaves and wefts. For that matter, the imaginary weaving includes many expressions that refer to writing, to the text, the dialogue and the invention. The text shares with weaving the property of being woven, thus weft and fabric, a relational net that is defined in a structure of relationships. The sewing machine replaces the pen and the color of the thread and objectifies the ink.