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出版Artangel, 2016
主題Art / History / Contemporary (1945-)Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
ISBN19111550089781911155003
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tcaUDAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Colony is a new video installation filmed by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê on a number of islands off the coast of Peru. In the middle of the 19th century, the islands were fought over by Spanish, American and Peruvian forces, all determined to exercise control over its exceptional wealth. Home to huge colonies of birds, mountains of guano had built up. As guano became known as the most valuable natural resource in the world, war broke out and in 1853 the US Congress passed the Guano Act enabling it to seize uninhabited islands around the world. Desolate and unforgiving, the Guano Islands are home to huge colonies of seabirds. No-one lives there now, but labourers still occasionally harvest the guano. Fascinated by the islands' brutal history, the plight of the indentured labourers who worked there, and its resonance with present-day struggles for control of resources around the world, Lê filmed the islands from on sea, on land and from the air, using drones to give birds' eye views of the arid landscape and its bleak architecture. Lê's three-screen installation plunges the viewer into the colonies of birds and the back-breaking work of the labourers as they dig and bag and load the guano. A voiceover narrates episodes from the history of the islands and a swirling soundtrack by American composer Daniel Wohl pulls the viewer into the epic scale of the labour which has shaped the history and the landscape.