酷兒化「檔案」：臺韓酷兒檔案庫與創作轉譯

Queering Archive: Queer History and the Archival Creation in Taiwan and South Korea

2019年臺灣完成同性婚姻合法化的階段性成果，同年也是首爾酷兒遊行舉辦第20屆的里程碑。本文注意到的是另一個時空上的巧合：2019年臺韓亦同時舉辦了以「文獻檔案」為基礎的酷兒主題創作展——即「QueerArch」與「一次重訪臺灣同志汙名史的邀請：文獻x創作計畫展示」。這兩個展覽皆與「酷兒／同志檔案資料庫」的建構緊密連結，也呈現對於兩地酷兒／同志史的反思。透過讓臺韓兩地酷兒檔案庫與創作展互為參照，本文以「檔案的不可能」、「檔案作為主體／題」與「無痕閱讀」等幾組概念討論檔案的「酷兒化」，並認為歷史檔案不應被視為主體形成的源頭而是知識生產的對象，因此酷兒史的建構不僅是性少數的歷史修正工作，而是能讓共同體的塑造朝向更多元的歷史書寫與想像。

 

In 2019, Taiwan’s legalization of same-sex marriage and Seoul’s 20th queer parade all mark the mile-stone of LGBTQ history and movement in Taiwan and South Korea. These recorded public events have certainly become part of collective memories of a generation, while at the same time, raised the questions/tensions about/between dominant public history and submerged past. This paper observes the other two cultural events related to queer history happened in the same year of 2019: the exhibition of QueerArch in Seoul and of Revisiting the History of Tongzhi Stigma in Taipei, both reflect on the issues of queer archive. By inter-referencing the two exhibitions and the construction of queer archives in Taiwan and South Korea as an illustration, I propose a mode of queering archive that views archives not as sites of knowledge or subject retrieval, but of knowledge production. Furthermore, it calls into question the coming of the future, requires users, interpreters from different generations to wade through the diverse material of queer history in the making.