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SABIWA
(Taiwan)
Bio:
SABIWA is an audio-visual performer and Visual artist. She is currently having her research in film. She records and dissects sounds and visual from natural and synthetic sources, making them interact with complex texture and abstract patterns, also using her voice processed as guiding path in her compositions. Her live performances consist in different format, such as short film, live A/V show, on 1 or multi-projections, installation and body performance. She is working in between Berlin, Taiwan and Copenhagen, in the fields of audio-visual,video art, performance and installation. In 2023-2024, she has been selected into part of the shape platform artist.
CONCEPT
Taking the song and inspiration from ⺠主阿草(A Democracy Bumpkin) by ⿊名單工(Blacklist
Studio)for this remix project.
Blacklist Studio was formed in 1987. For most of the group's history, the lineup consisted
of Wang Ming-hui (王明輝), Chen Ming-yu (陳明瑜), Chen Ming-chang (陳明章), Will Lin (林
暐哲), Keith Stuart, and Chen
Chu-hui (陳主惠), Christine Hsu (許景淳) and Lin Mei-mang (林美璊), Puyuma-
Paiwan musician Ara Kimbo (胡德夫), and Susu Yeh (葉樹茵).
It was in 1989, two years after martial law on Taiwan was lifted, when there was a sense
of anticipation in the air for a more liberal and progressive society. In that particular year,
Blacklist Studio released their revolutionary debut album "Songs of Madness (抓狂歌)"
Emerging from Taiwan's post-martial law era, The album "Songs of Madness" has been
regarded as a pioneer in politicizing popular songs sung in the Taiwanese language. The
group channeled its discontent over the political situation then through different music
genres, and paving the way for the New
Taiwanese Nativist Music movement (新台語歌運動) in the 1990s.
The song"A Democracy Bumpkin (⺠主阿草)" from the album, however, touched the nerve
of the central government and was banned from broadcast. Widely seen as outright
political satire.
(blacklist studio introduction info resource: Taiwanese Ministry of Culture)
In the remix, breaking the lyrics form the song ⺠主阿草(A Democracy Bumpkin) and mix
it with the sounds from the important protest from my generation “sunflower student
movement” 2014. The singer of the song ⺠主阿草, he has also joined the movement at
that time and singing for the protest. And i have also joined the protest in 2014 as well. I try
to reconstruct the lyrics they wrote from the last generation’s protest and keep the words
which still fit the protest scenes of our generation.
Lyric
MANDARIN (TAIWAN)
The lyric I took from ⺠民主阿草:“
透早出⾨天清清 歸陣散步來到西⾨町
看到歸路的警察與憲兵 全身武裝⼜隔向投前
害阮感覺⼀時心頭冰
咱來借問矣警察先生 是不是要來準備戰爭
伊來笑講肖年家 政治欸代誌你嘸通插太多
彼邊有⼈在冤家 你卡緊返去才是好⼦弟
哪無乎⼈抓去籠仔底 你就會叫天搆叫地喔
我講敬愛的警察先生 阮是農村來的少年家
初次遊覽來貴地 想要看電影兼遊街
偣在冤家跟我無關係 拜託拜託 請你乎我過站在隔壁的阿伯仔笑阮傻 政府講明天呀會更好 一定是空呀兼起孝
阿伯仔愈講愈抓狂 衝去頭前講要做先鋒
我要抗議
The lyric I took from 不不歌 original :
“不左不右 不敵不友 不明不白白 這世界真可愛“
The lyric I took from 橄欖樹 :
”不要問我從哪裡來來 我的故鄉在遠方方“
ENGLISH
The lyric I took from ⺠民主阿草:
go take a walk with friends in the morning it was a good day
we walk to the city center
we saw all the street cover with police fully armed
It scared me so much that my hair stood on end
so we go to asked the police” Are we preparing for war now ?”
the police laughing and said ” you young people shouldn’t care too much the political
issue”
“There are some people having conflict in front.
you should go home as a good citizen
otherwise who knows maybe you will got arrest too and end up in jail if you go near, then
you can only cry. “
I said “ dear police man, I come from the countryside, it’s the first time I visit this city. We
just want to go to watch movie and shopping. The conflict is not my businesses so please
let me pass.”
There is a old man stand next to us, and he introduce himself as part of Democratic
Progressive Party and talked about what’s happening, more he talked about the situation
he got more and more emotional and said “I’m going to join the protester to fight the
dictator in the first line.
The government told us tomorrow will be better. It must be retarded and crazy.
I wanna protest ”
The lyric I took from 不不歌 original :
”Neither left nor right, neither enemy nor friend, so unclear, this world is so lovely”
The lyric I took from 橄欖樹 :
“Don't ask me where I come from, my hometown is far away”
