环海旅社第五期“海洋性身份”将探索当代艺术实践中兼有海洋维度的酷异身份，邀请来自太平洋南部与西部不同地区的艺术家与策展人，他们的创作深受个人与家庭的越洋移民史影响，直面失去家园的土地与海洋。一种持续流变的状态常常与家族谱系的文化发生交融或冲突，以至传统知识被重新诠释，并逐渐呈现出酷异化的特质。
活动将由策展人吕玮伦的主题演讲开场，聚焦南太平洋艺术中的性别政治，探讨艺术家对不被二元性别定义的神话与祖先信仰的重新创造。
随后的影像呈现将带来三部作品，其中包括澳大利亚越南裔艺术家詹姆斯·阮与其父母和友人作曲家凯齐亚·叶共同合作的《Portion 53》。作品拍摄于乔治河沿岸一处被忽视的地点，这片土地属于达鲁瓦尔原住民领地，也曾是东山移民收容所的所在地——阮的父亲作为越南难民曾在此居住。《Portion 53》反映了城市发展过程中移民历史在官僚体系中被抹去。
拥有泰雅族和河洛血统的台湾艺术家林安琪（泰雅族名Ciwas Tahos），则从自身文化与语言的移居经验出发，常通过行为表演和影像创作挑战异性恋父权观念。她的作品将泰雅族口述史中关于 Temahahoi（泰雅族语，代表仅女性居住的空间）的叙述，和殖民历史及不育的环境隐喻联系在一起。
现居台北的阿美族艺术家璞萨可久甸带来16分钟的纪录短片《Misafafahiyan：蜕变》，讲述七十岁阿美族跨性别表演者和美发师皓皓的生命历程。他早年游走于日本与台湾进行表演，直至90年代末回归部落。璞萨可创造了Misafafahiyan一词，结合阿美语fafahiyan，“女性”，和前缀misa-，“转变”，以此映照皓皓在生活与舞台上的性别表达，以挑战阿美族文化中传统的性别结构和原住民社群的形象生产。
本次活动的压轴演出由艺术家宋祖承带来，上海外滩美术馆委任的进行中的作品《遗烬：人眼之盲》的首次亮相。该作品直面殖民历史中对原住民战士身份的抹除。宋祖承从自身的跨洋家族史出发，探索身体如何演变为记忆、失落与重塑的容器。
Starting in November 2024, the AUUUUUDITORIUM launched the project Becoming Rehearsal, a process-oriented and practice-based initiative aimed at broadening the discourse on performative practices. At the core of Becoming Rehearsal is an open call extended to Shanghai-based artists and collectives to use the AUUUUUDITORIUM space for rehearsals and gatherings over the course of five months. Participants will engage in workshops led by three international artists: Bhenji Ra, an Australian Filipina artist working at the intersections of dance, video and community activation; Isaac Chong Wai, a Berlin-based Hong Kong artist using performance, video, installation, photography, and drawing as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena; and the Vietnamese German artist Sung Tieu, whose artistic practice spans multiple mediums, including sound installations, video, sculpture, photography, performance and public interventions.
Four local artists or artist groups were selected: Ella Xie, Pan Yingda, Awc Chuwen Wang & Wenchu Ye, and Niaowu Art Group. Occupied the space of AUUUUUDITORIUM in January 2025 with the project Field-ing, Pan brought together a group of collaborators to present a series of programs including workshops, improvised theatres, rehearsals and performances.
At the heart of Pan's project is the week-long workshop “Running and Writing”, in which the participants are encouraged to write together after physical excerises. In the Chinese language, the words "running" and "digging" are both pronounced "pao" and etymologically related to each other. Imitating each other to dig and run, Pan's workshops center on the interplay between words and bodies, and the collective development of the imporvised theathre Field-ing.
