土婆章魚：潰裂語存體 ／ 混種殘片系統 系列二
Tupuo Octopus: Fractured Lingual Retentive Entity
Hybrid Fragment System .2
Biogenus-Cephalomna 01.02.00
2025
尺寸依展場而定 Dimensions variable
製圖於布料 Digital print on fabric
謝騆瑜 Jhouyu HSIEH
〈土婆章魚：潰裂語存體〉為《混種殘片系統》子模組，靈感源自澎湖潮間帶章魚的群體記憶。土婆（Thóo-pô），學名近於Octopus minor，亦稱「Tsio̍h-kū」、「Nuā-kha-á」，昔日漁民於農曆元宵至媽祖誕辰之間，以燈火「照海」捕捉。這不僅是生計，也是與海共謀的記憶儀式，如今因漁獲減少而退隱，化為語言中的回聲。
在作品中，土婆化為介於生物與神話之間的混種生命，交織章魚的擬態神經、冰河期鬣狗的骨骸記憶、錯位的銀合歡根系、未竟的媽祖祭語與地方歌謠，以及斷肢再生所引發的記憶錯層。作品引用章魚身體結構、海中折光、水道拓印與化石殘跡的檔案圖像，浮現如失衡難辨的章魚遺體。繡入的詩句來自同步發表的詩集《土婆之聲》，暗示其為「尚未孵化的語根殘體」，在內部翻動未定形的記憶。
Tupuo Octopus: Fractured Lingual Retentive Entity is a sub-module of the Hybrid Fragment System, rooted in the intertidal memory of Penghu’s octopuses. Locally named Tsio̍h-kū, Nuā-kha-á, or Thóo-pô, and akin to Octopus minor, Tupuo was once sought each spring between the Lantern Festival and Mazu’s birthday, when villagers illuminated the tides to trace her elusive form. What began as sustenance became ritual—a bodily choreography with the sea, now fading into language as catches decline.
Here, Tupuo emerges as a hybrid entity between biology and myth—composed of octopus mimicry neurons, Pleistocene hyena bone-memory, misaligned Leucaena roots, unfinished Mazu chants, fragmented folk songs, and the regenerative logic of severed limbs. Archival images drawn from cephalopod anatomy, underwater refraction, watercourse rubbings, and fossil remnants rise like the disoriented body of a cephalopod. Embroidered text fragments, sourced from the simultaneously published poetry collection The Voice of Thóo-pô, mark the octopus as a “yet-unhatched linguistic residue,” where unformed memories continue to twist within the fabric.
混種殘片系統｜土婆之聲——潮汐記憶的詩性神話編年
Hybrid Fragment System｜Thóo-pô
The Voice of Thóo-pô — A Mythopoetic Chronicle of Tidal Memory
長篇詩集 Longform Mythopoetic Narrative Poem
謝騆瑜 Jhouyu HSIEH
2025
《土婆之聲》是《混種殘片系統》中的長篇詩集，以一隻在潮間帶記憶層中甦醒的章魚為主體。牠不是比喻，而是一種介於生物與神話之間的智慧生命，能以觸覺「感知聲音」。當牠伏在鬣狗骨骸上，體內的「骨語腺」被喚醒，觸手與皮膚開始記錄未竟的祭儀詞句——媽祖的低語、遺忘的誓言、未孵化的神話。同時，外來植物銀合歡滲入其神經，改寫觸覺，將殖民語言植入骨層。過往的聲音反向追尋牠，迫使牠成為記憶的容器。自此，牠體內滋生「微光骨蟲」，孵化未命名的記憶節理；語言不再經由口舌，而是從裂縫與骨縫滲出。詩集分為兩部：〈潮池記憶〉描寫甦醒與結合，〈裂縫潰散〉書寫失序與殘留。她說話，不為理解，而是為容納尚未出生的聲音。
The Voice of Thóo-pô is a long-form poetry collection within the Hybrid Fragment System, narrating the awakening of an octopus in the tidal strata of memory. Neither metaphor nor character, Thóo-pô is envisioned as a form of intelligence at the edge of myth and biology, perceiving sound through touch. Resting upon the bones of a hyena, its dormant Bone-Speech Gland stirs, enabling it to record unfinished ritual phrases through skin and tentacle—Mazu’s whispers, forgotten vows, unhatched myths. Meanwhile, invasive Leucaena infiltrates its neural system, rewriting tactile memory and implanting colonial language into its bones. Past voices begin to pursue it, compelling the creature to become a vessel. From that moment, lumina-boneworms emerge within, incubating unnamed fractures of memory. Language no longer issues from the mouth but seeps from fissures, dislocations, and sutures of bone. The collection unfolds in two movements: Tidal Pool Memory, charting awakening and attunement, and Fractured Dissolution, tracing dispersal, transparency, and residue. The octopus speaks not to be understood but to host voices yet unborn—language weaving fault lines within, until it becomes not creature nor myth, but an unsealed seam of speech itself.
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氣泡，不是依序浮升，
而是一次、同時、爆裂。
The bubbles didn’t rise in sequence—
they burst, all at once.
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像皮膚內層錯裂；
像數千個遺忘同時甦醒；
像無數名字，
嘶啞地，爬向水面。
Like the dermis splitting from within;
like thousands of forgotten things waking together;
like names—
rasping—
climbing toward the surface.
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但在抵達之前——
就碎了；
就碎了；
就碎了。
But before they arrived—
they shattered.
They shattered.
They shattered.
🌑（聲音碎片在水膜背後擴散成尚未命名的皺摺光。）🧷
🌑 (Voice fragments diffused behind the water membrane,
becoming folds of light
not yet named.) 🧷
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