甘蔗人：混種殘片系統 第七部曲 [HFS-7]
組件：
〈 南方蔗種的幽靈學與甜度政治〉圖像裝置、甘蔗（裝置組合依展場變動）
〈別人種的原料甘蔗不可吃，自己種的亦不可吃〉散文詩集
Elements:
〈Hauntology of Southern Cane and the Politics of Sugar〉 fabric installation, sugarcane(configurations vary by exhibition site)
〈The Raw Cane of Others is Not to be Eaten; Even Your Own is Forbidden〉 prose-poem collection
2026
謝騆瑜 Jhouyu HSIEH
虎尾是台灣僅存少數仍在製糖的糖廠，1950年代，戰後初期的台灣以糖、米等農產品作為外銷主力。當既有蔗種面臨病蟲害威脅時，台灣糖業公司自南非納他爾（Natal）試驗場引進 N:Co310蔗種，因其高含糖量與廣泛適應性而迅速推廣，成就了台灣糖業的黃金時期，台糖也成為當時台灣的最大企業。1956年，在虎尾糖廠旁的同心公園（原糖廠廠房）建立「引種南非叁壹零蔗種紀念碑」，他是傳統台灣農民的樣子，帶著斗笠，抱著長長的甘蔗，傳說裡他晚上會削甘蔗給經過的人吃。然而，經濟奇蹟的敘事，往往抹平了土地勞動、遷移家庭與眷村體制的複雜歷史。
〈甘蔗人〉是我長期創作計劃《混種殘片系統》中的一個子模組。作品聚焦於台灣糖都虎尾，透過對台灣戰後糖廠引種自南非納他爾（Natal）試驗場的 NCO310 蔗種之考掘，試圖重新拆解戰後經濟奇蹟敘事下的身體與地景。
Huwei remains one of the very few places in Taiwan where sugar production still continues. In the early 1950s, during the initial years after the war, agricultural exports such as sugar and rice formed the backbone of Taiwan’s economy. When existing cane varieties faced serious disease and pest threats, the Taiwan Sugar Corporation introduced the N:Co310 cultivar from the Natal experimental station in South Africa. Because of its high sugar content and broad adaptability, the variety spread rapidly and helped generate the golden age of Taiwan’s sugar industry. At that time the Taiwan Sugar Corporation became the largest enterprise on the island. In 1956 a monument commemorating the introduction of the South African 310 cane variety was erected in Tongxin Park beside the Huwei sugar factory, a site that had once been part of the factory complex. The statue depicts a traditional Taiwanese farmer wearing a conical hat and holding a long stalk of sugarcane. According to local stories, the statue cuts sugarcane at night and offers it to people who pass by. Yet the narrative of an economic miracle often smooths over the complex histories of land labor, displaced families, and the military dependent village system.
The Sugarcane Man is a sub module within my long term artistic project Hybrid Fragment System. The work focuses on Huwei, a town long known as the sugar capital of Taiwan. Through an excavation of the sugarcane cultivar NCo310, introduced after the war from the Natal experimental station in South Africa, the project attempts to dismantle the bodies and landscapes embedded within the narrative of the postwar economic miracle.
