歷史網站｜Historical Website：
Sam Alekksandra（馬耳他｜MT）
十方青年駐留藝術家｜DAC Emerging Resident Artist
駐留周期｜Residence Period：
2024.7.17 - 2024.8.22
駐留周期｜Residence Period：
2024.7.17 - 2024.8.22
藝術家簡介｜CV of the Artist：
薩姆-亞曆山德拉是一位來自馬爾他的多學科詩人。在她的創作實踐中，她希望通過物品、表演、詩歌和視頻等多渠道來傳遞文本，從而建立一種當代的、直接的、充滿記憶的、固有的碎片化和原始的個人哲學。她曾在法國、德國、馬爾他和中國舉辦過展覽。
Sam Alekksandra is a multidisciplinary poet from Malta. In her practice she looks to deliver text through a multi-channel of objects, performance, poetry and video, to build a personal philosophy that is contemporary, immediate, memory-fuelled, inherently fragmented, and raw. She has exhibited in France, Germany, Malta and China.
近期作品包括2024年7月，與她的藝術團體在上海朱家角舉辦的展覽；2024年5月，在柏林/慕尼克舉行的多城市表演；以及2024年3月，為馬爾他首屆雙年展創作的詩意表演和裝置藝術。
Recent works include a solo show in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai with her art collective (July, 2024), a multi-city performance called LET YOUR MOVE BE RESISTANCE, (Berlin/Munich, May 2024) and HESITATIONS, a poetic performance and installation for Malta’s first biennale (March 2024).
2023年12月，她在馬爾他的Rosa Kwir畫廊推出了自己的首部實驗電影《如果你確定我想》，此前她還獲得了馬爾他國家青年藝術家獎。
She released her debut experimental film “If You’re Sure I Want To” in December 2023, at Rosa Kwir gallery in Malta, after winning a National award for promising young artists.
近年參展 / 演出：
Select Exhibitions / Performances
[ANONYMOUS COLLECTIVE] solo exhibition, Shanghai, 2024
LET YOUR MOVE BE RESISTANCE, performance, Berlin/Munich, May/June 2024
I can’t write these kinds of poems, performance, Council of Europe, May 2024
OUTERPOETRY, installation, Valletta, Malta, April 2024
HESITATIONS, site-specific installation, Malta Biennale, March 2024
IF YOU’RE SURE I WANT TO, film debut, Rosa Kwir, December 2023
XQXS, Rosa Kwir, Malta, group exhibition, November 2023
IN SERVITUDE OF NOTHING, AHS Hasinheide Berlin, group exhibition, September 2023
FAR REACH, MaHalla Berlin, Berlin Art Week, September 2023 Beehive, Oikos Logia, R Gallery, group exhibition, April 2023
JA! JA! JA! poetic performance, R Gallery, July 2023
The first time I kissed a girl I thought I was a boy, Teatru Tal-Miskin, group exhibition, Valletta, October 2022
Politics of touch, chapbook of poetry, Ede Books, December 2022
Princess wonderful ft. heartsbeatingintime, Storeroom, June 2021
Princess wonderful, Bewyld festival, October 2018
Princess wonderful, Rock the South Festival, May 2017
關於本次駐留｜About Residency：
在十方藝術中心駐留期間，我計劃創作一系列作品，這些作品將圍繞著人類痛苦與快樂之間不斷循環的主題。我將通過在重慶這座城市中進行抽樣調查來展開這項工作，這座城市以其悠久的歷史韌性為背景，尤其是位於豐都“鬼城”內的廟宇群落。我將運用我的身體作為自我認知的場域，結合意識流寫作、水墨、膠合技藝以及實驗性印刷技術來進行創作。
我希望在我的研究基礎上更深入，聚焦於佔有與公共的觀念及與人類的痛苦快樂緊密相關的的象徵性藝術，並參照東西方思想中不同但也可能有交疊的“天堂”與“地獄”的觀念，來探索蘊含在環境中並隨感官體驗出現的主旨。
During my time in residence at Dimensions Art Centre, I look to develop a body of work in relation to the flickering loop of human pain and pleasure, through a select survey of research within the city and its vast historic tenacity, with particular focus on the temple complexes within the “Ghost city” of Fengdu. I will utlilise my tools of the body as a site of self-knowledge, stream of consciousness writing, ink, glue work and experimental printing.
I would like to build upon my research on the concept of occupation and public, symbolic art related to human/s pain and pleasure, in reference to the distinct but possibly overlapping Western and Eastern ideas of “heavens” and “hells”, through the exploration of the motifs within the environment and sensory understandings that arise.