Nanshi Art Museum No. 1 was formerly the Nanshi Police Department and is one of the unjust sites in Tainan. (Photo by reporter Hong Ruiqin)
[Reporter Hong Ruiqin/Tainan Report]Do you know that Nanshi Art Museum No. 1 is a site of injustice? The first “Tainan Human Rights Month” commemoration event connects the four major exhibition areas of the Patriotic Women’s Hall, South American Hall 1, Zongye Art Center, and Xinying Shai Bookstore, interpreting the white years that people in the greater Tainan area have experienced together from different angles.
The four exhibition areas each have different themes and connect their respective geographical relationships. Nanshi Art Museum 1 was formerly the Nanshi Police Station. It was the first space where many southern Taiwanese political prisoners were arrested and interrogated after martial law was imposed across Taiwan. Contemporary creations reinterpret the site of injustice where the hardware still exists but the history has been gradually forgotten, unraveling the history of secret interrogations that have been buried here for many years.
The first “Tainan Human Rights Month” held an opening ceremony today (28th) at the Tainan Patriotic Women’s Center. (Provided by Nanshi Cultural Bureau)
The Patriotic Women’s Hall is also one of Nanshi’s unjust sites and was the first workplace of female political prisoner Shi Shuihuan after graduation. She was only 30 years old when she was executed in 1956. She is one of the most well-known local female political prisoners in recent years.
The exhibition area of the Zongye Art and Cultural Center focuses on the former agricultural town “Zengwen District”. During the “White Terror” era, many of the longest-serving political prisoners in Taiwan were from the former Zengwen District, including those from the Zongye Sugar Factory. Worker and Xiaying E farmer Hongliu were all imprisoned for more than 30 years.
For the Xinying Shai Bookstore, the curatorial team explored the Daxinying area, which was also a white terror-stricken area in the past, and invited teachers and students on campus to collaborate on the production of four “White Story Maps of Tainan”, which not only cover the human rights of political prisoners in this province and those from other provinces. story, and also draws an index map of farmers and campus political cases.
The opening ceremony will be held today (28th) at the Patriotic Women’s Pavilion. Tainan City Deputy Mayor Ye Zeshan said that “Tainan Human Rights Month” was planned from a deeply rooted local perspective to explore the history of Greater Tainan’s farmers, industry, businessmen, and civil servants being involved in political cases during the martial law period, and to respond to Taiwan’s pursuit of human rights as a democratic country. Value determination. The first Tainan Human Rights Month uses diverse forms such as artistic creation to encourage more exchanges and dialogues.
The Tainan Human Rights Month themed exhibition will be held at the Patriotic Women’s Hall from now until August 11. (Provided by Tainan City Cultural Affairs Bureau)
Tainan City Cultural Director Hsieh Shi-yuan said that Tainan held the “Tainan Human Rights Month” for the first time, with the theme of “If you can go back, then bring ____ back”. This is the first time that the local government has cut into it from its own perspective, through artistic creation and other diverse A large-scale exhibition event that explores “human rights issues”.
Human Rights Month planning includes exhibition tours, human rights story map readings, white terror translation lectures, etc. In addition, there will be a human rights concert in the outdoor circular square of Wuyuan on the evening of September 7, inviting rural armed youths, Lily Hua, Lanhua Dao, Huang Jie and Wang Yujun to perform.
The Tainan Human Rights Month themed exhibition will be held from now until August 11 at Nanshi Art Museum Hall 1 and the Patriotic Women’s Hall; from July 10 to September 8 at Madou Zongye Art Center and Xinying Shai Bookstore.
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Source: China