英文摘要 |
When artist Wang Molin stated that the ''little theatre is dead'' in 1990, almost at the same time, Francis Fukuyama declared the ''end of history.'' When the Taiwanese government enforced the financialization of land and moved towards neoliberalism, which columnist Thomas Friedman called ''the flat world'', Huaguang Community, where Wang's former residence was, was one of the sites wiped out in the name of neoliberalism in 2013. Based on the artist’s two performances before and after the Huaguang demolition incident, Wasteland: To Taiwan 80 (2010), and East of Eden: Act without Words 2012(2013), this paper attempts to explore Wang’s possible responses to the evolution from the end of history to the end of geography, which can be said to characterize the neoliberal development in Taiwan since the lifting of martial law. Geographer David Harvey points out that the movement against neoliberalism tends to fall into two traps, resorting to the false universality of human rights on the one hand and the nostalgia of false authenticity on the other. From this perspective, this study seeks to clarify how Wang criticizes the reproduction of democracy, human rights, and liberty as a form of emotional consumption in capitalism; in doing so, he avoids the trap of nostalgia, and forms a relationship with the multitude of the oppressed. The connections between them are helpful for continuing the dialectic between repetition and difference, indispensable to discovering the energy of resistance and the poetics of the body. |