HER Lab Space
Initiated by multiple imaginations on space, through experimentations and creative practices.
Her Lab Space was founded by CHEN Yow-Ruu in Kaohsiung City. Originated from the multiple imagination of space, and further bloom into inspirations, experiments, as well as creations, Her Lab Space collects everyday matters, living environments, history and memory as core materials, expand and develop these materials into deeper aspects and pluralistic positions. The team takes “space” as their core concern, exploring appearances and forms of time-space in a space or site from diverse aspects, and anticipate experimental and trans-disciplinary collaboration. Since its establishment in 2016, Her Lab Space initiated research on space and environment, and further attempt to position “characters” in texts into respective site or environment under the loose frame of “theatre”. This is also an exploration in search for conversation between “characters” and text as well as conversation on history and life experience between “characters” and architecture. The “space” hence move away from performing and imagining physical building, and push into the opening and examination of mental space.
她的實驗室空間集
由團長陳侑汝於高雄市創立,初起於對空間的多層想像,進而從其發想、實驗、創作,以現代為依歸,突破經典並融合多元創作形式,採集日常小事、生活環境為養分,開展並衍伸更為豐富的面向,探觸其多變的位置。團隊以「空間」做為創作發展的主要題材要素,從多方面來探索空間在時空裡的存在樣態與形貌,期待更多元的實驗與跨領域合作創作。
本團於 2016 年成立後,開始針對空間與環境著手調查研究,試圖在戲劇的框架中將文本或戲劇中的「角色」置入適合的現實場域或環境,找到兩者之間可以對話的彼此交流《宇宙寶萊塢機器:創作、實驗、演出計畫》空間,如 2017 年推出的作品《奠》,即是在日式舊建築中重新改造裡外環境,將全部角色擺放於其中,凸顯出在現今臺灣的真實空間中,可能存在的角色故事。又如在台北藝術節邀演共製的作品《但是又何 Night》中,在中山堂這樣在日治時期與臺灣早期作為公會堂與集會殿堂的場域中,置入了不同年齡層的兵種,企圖將角色與這樣的建築體產生某種歷史感與生命經驗的對話。
【她的實驗室空間集】期望未來將核心計畫更以不同領域創作者、多樣性媒材與多元實驗性空間作為持續發指基礎,透過邀請不同類型領域的創作者共同工作,引入不同創作
思維,建構屬於她的實驗室空間的各種可能。其中如 2019 年末和 2020 年初首次嘗試主辦的三場小規模讀書會『誰的邊境之南:「南洋」精神拓撲與研究計畫《南方演藝記》讀書會』,集結了分別來自劇場、當代藝術、藝術史以及文化研究等領域的成員。共學氛圍很受參與者肯定。