滅絕物種的生活模式－第三部曲：妖魚獺誌
2021-2022
Dimensions Variable
Performance Video (Tilapia-eating monster): https://youtu.be/6wj5QyjjRsc
Performance Video (Return the environment to me): https://youtu.be/MvJ1GNBX1G0
〈妖魚獺誌-妖魚獺〉 行為表演
〈妖魚獺誌-還我河山〉行為表演
〈妖魚獺誌〉版畫系列，數位版畫，水晶樹脂與鋁框裝裱（多件）
The Classic of Tilapia-eating monster is a series developed through the artist's Shared-Title Method, comprising several independent but interconnected artworks:
〈The Classic of Tilapia-eating Monster〉performance video
〈The Classic of Tilapia-eating Monster: Return the Environment to Me〉 performance video
〈The Classic of Tilapia-eating Monster〉 print series, inkjet print on archival paper with diasec mount finishing (multiple editions)
The Eurasian otter is a very territorial species, also has the habit of using excretion to indicate the area. According to the analysis of the Eurasian otter in the Kinmen and the DNA sequencing study, the Wu Guo fish is the most commonly supplemented food of the otters in Kinmen (Wu Kuo fish are mainly Geely cichlids and Nile hatched fish). Since 1946, Taiwan has introduced a variety species of Wu Kuo fishes. Under the improvement of aquatic technology, new ones have been cultivated. Wu Guo fish is a wide-salt species which can survive in sea or fresh water. It has also become an important economic fish species in Taiwan's aquaculture fishery. Wu Guo fish has become an important source of food for Kinmen otters due to its easy survival and strong reproductive ability. DNA of Wu Guo fish has been found in more than 70% of Kinmen otter samples. Wu Guo fish is an exotic species with a devastating threat to many native fish species, which may cause the extinction of Kinmen native betta and other fish species, but it has become the main food source supporting the endangered Kinmen otter.
The artist starts from her home islands and outlying islands, the extinct and remaining Eurasian otters, as an ecological scale that connects the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. It transcends the historical status and structure of life as a Taiwanese, and it seems to tell a global common state of species life. The state of life is intertwined and struggling between the extinction of native species.
歐亞水獺是一種領域型極強的物種，也有利用排遺來標示領域的習性，而根據對金門地區歐亞水獺的排遺內容物分析法及DNA定序研究，吳郭魚是金門水獺食性裡最常被補食的物種（吳郭魚主要是吉利慈鯛及尼羅口孵魚兩種），台灣自1946年之後，引進多種吳郭魚類，在水產技術改良之下，培育出新的養殖品種；吳郭魚屬廣鹽性，在海域或淡水皆能存活，也成為台灣養殖漁業重要的經濟魚種。養殖食用引入吳郭魚在逃逸至金門各水域後，因其易於生存與繁殖力強的特性大量繁衍，也成為金門水獺重要的食物來源，在七成以上金門水獺的排遺樣本裡都發現了吳郭魚的DNA；吳郭魚對許多原生魚種而言是具有毀滅性威脅的外來種，可能造成金門原生蓋斑鬥魚等魚種的滅絕，卻反而成為支撐瀕危金門水獺的主要食物來源。
藝術家以自身家鄉本島與離島、滅絕與存留的歐亞水獺出發，作為一種連結歐亞非三大洲的生態量表，越過身為台灣人生命感受的歷史現狀與結構，也似乎訴說著一種全球共通的物種生命狀態，在原生種滅絕與外來種肆虐間交織與掙扎。
