Koh Pich's ABC's
鑽石島小典
2020
There are two versions of this book, the first full version was published on the website of Nusantara Archive on 2020 and published the paper book on 2021, the collector's Edition by NFT was published on 2023. The compact version was published on 2020, it have been showed in Befitting Art (Aug, 2020) and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. (Dec, 2020-Feb, 2021)
Special Thanks | Rikey Tenn
Special Thanks | Rikey Tenn
Cambodia is currently experiencing a neo-colonialism operated in the name of development aid. The emergence of Koh Pich (Diamond Island) has revealed the symbol of such issue, among which consists of all kinds of communities that have been trying to dominate the resources, and a share of those communities originated from Taiwan. In recent years, even though issues related to Southbound national culture exchanges and postcolonial narratives are much discussed in Taiwan, there is a lack of reflection on Taiwan’s role in Koh Pich. When I first set foot on Koh Pich in 2016, it was the time when the island was experiencing its development period; when I visited Koh Pich again in 2019, apart from the increase of buildings, a large number of Chinese enterprises and rental advertisements began to show up. My hope is to preserve some records for the island that has been exposed to drastic changes and to explore what Koh Pich has experienced for the last past century. With the assistance of local friends, I found some people who used to be the residences of Koh Pich and tried to recover the island’s original appearance. The Koh Pich‘s ABCs was accomplished through the collection of relevant interviews and data, and certain sensitive information was modified in the article.
柬埔寨正面臨以援助為名的新殖民主義，鑽石島的出現毋寧顯露了問題的表徵，當中匯聚了各方試圖掌握資源的群體，包含部份來自於台灣的族群。近年來，關注於與新南向國家文化交流、後殖民相關論述持續發酵的台灣，卻少見對此的反思。我在2016年首次踏上鑽石島，恰巧經歷島上的發展時期；直到2019年再次踏上鑽石島，除了建物的增加，島上開始出現大量華人商家與招租廣告。我想為劇烈改變中的島嶼保留些許紀錄，並探究在鑽石島在過去半個世紀以來經歷了什麼事？在當地朋友的協助下，我找到過去居住在鑽石島的居民，試圖還原島嶼原本的樣貌，與其他相關的訪談、資料共同完成了《鑽石島小典》，部份不便公開的資訊則稍加擅改收錄在文章中。
The compact version of Koh Pich's ABC's, 2020
Documantry of Koh Pich in Dec, 2019