HSIEH Jhouyu 謝騆瑜: Shared-Title Method

同名系列

命名，往往是一種權力。然而，對藝術家謝騆瑜而言，混種生命拒絕被單一名稱所固定。

自 2015 年起，她持續圍繞「混種」與「滅絕」兩條創作軸線展開實踐。2021 年，她進一步發展出名為「同名系列」（Shared-Title Method）的創作方法：以同一名稱作為生成核心，透過不同媒材、形式、配置與展示脈絡，衍生出多件共享同一名稱、卻各自獨立的作品。

這些作品彼此獨立，卻又互相關聯，如同一張共同根系中長出的不同生命形態。名稱在此不再只是指向單一對象的標籤，而是一條持續繁衍、擴散與變形的生命系譜。每一件作品都不是另一件作品的版本、延伸或複製，而是共享同一名稱的獨立存在。

此方法包含《汐靈族》、《孢鳴魚》、《撿漿者》、《工具蟹》、《妖魚獺誌》等作品。因應不同展示條件與場域需求，部分作品會以副標題加以區分，但其核心身分始終共享同一個名字。

Shared-Title Method

Naming is often an act of power. Yet for artist Jhouyu Hsieh, hybrid beings resist being fixed by a single name.

Since 2015, Hsieh's artistic practice has revolved around two long-term trajectories: hybridity and extinction. In 2021, she developed a methodology called the Shared-Title Method, in which a single title serves as the generative core for multiple autonomous works. Through shifts in medium, form, configuration, and exhibition context, these works share the same title while existing as distinct and independent artworks.

Independent yet interconnected, they resemble distinct life forms diverging from a shared root system. Here, a title no longer functions merely as a label identifying a singular object; instead, it becomes a living lineage capable of proliferation, mutation, and transformation. None of these works is a version, extension, or reproduction of another. Rather, each exists as an autonomous work whose relationship to the others is established through a shared title.

Works developed through the Shared-Title Method include Tidal Spirits, Sporosonic Fish, The Sap-Gatherer, The Tool-Crab, and The Classic of Tilapia-eating Monster, among others. In response to different exhibition contexts and spatial conditions, some works adopt subtitles for differentiation, while their core identity remains inseparable from the title they share.