Performance, 60 min.
《徵婚》
Marriage-seeking 2016![]()
Digital Printed on wall, water-based black color pen, Printer paper, Pencils, Labels, Transparent tape, Scissors, Wood dinner table with two wood chairs 1st September, 2016
Galleri Mjólkurbúðin, Akureyri, Iceland
Video Documenation by Ka Ki Wong
《徵婚》是一場行為作品，藝術家在公共場域中等待有人前來與她結婚。作品借用了徵婚啟事、浪漫期待與婚姻儀式的語言，將「等待被選擇」這件事轉化為一個表演情境。
藝術家等待中的身體既真誠，也帶有荒謬感。她將自己放置在一種可被接近、可被選擇的位置，暴露婚姻如何經常被想像成愛、穩定、合法性與歸屬感的承諾。然而，等待的行為同時揭示了這個結構之中的脆弱與暴力：尋求婚姻，也意味着將自己交給他人的判斷、選擇、拒絕與協商。
作品於 2016 年在冰島進行，將大家熟悉的婚姻腳本放置到一個陌生的環境之中。透過這種錯置， 《徵婚》追問：當親密關係需要透過公共制度來獲得承認時，尋找愛意味着什麼？婚姻是否能夠與幻想、公民身份、性別期待和社會價值分開？又或者，被愛的願望早已被那些決定什麼關係能夠被看見的制度所塑造？
藝術家等待中的身體既真誠，也帶有荒謬感。她將自己放置在一種可被接近、可被選擇的位置，暴露婚姻如何經常被想像成愛、穩定、合法性與歸屬感的承諾。然而，等待的行為同時揭示了這個結構之中的脆弱與暴力：尋求婚姻，也意味着將自己交給他人的判斷、選擇、拒絕與協商。
作品於 2016 年在冰島進行，將大家熟悉的婚姻腳本放置到一個陌生的環境之中。透過這種錯置， 《徵婚》追問：當親密關係需要透過公共制度來獲得承認時，尋找愛意味着什麼？婚姻是否能夠與幻想、公民身份、性別期待和社會價值分開？又或者，被愛的願望早已被那些決定什麼關係能夠被看見的制度所塑造？
《Marriage-Seeking 2016》 is a performance in which the artist waits in a public setting for someone to marry her. Borrowing the language of marriage-seeking advertisements, romantic expectation, and social ritual, the work turns the desire to be chosen into a performative situation.
The artist’s waiting body becomes both sincere and absurd. She places herself in a position of availability, exposing how marriage is often framed as a promise of love, stability, legitimacy, and belonging. Yet the act of waiting also reveals the vulnerability and violence hidden within this structure: to seek marriage is also to submit oneself to judgement, selection, rejection, and negotiation.
Performed in Iceland in 2016, the work displaces the familiar social script of marriage into an unfamiliar environment. Through this displacement, Marriage-Seeking 2016 asks what it means to look for intimacy through a public system of recognition. Can marriage be separated from fantasy, citizenship, gender expectation, and social value? Or is the wish to be loved always already shaped by the institutions that decide what kinds of relationships are allowed to appear?
The artist’s waiting body becomes both sincere and absurd. She places herself in a position of availability, exposing how marriage is often framed as a promise of love, stability, legitimacy, and belonging. Yet the act of waiting also reveals the vulnerability and violence hidden within this structure: to seek marriage is also to submit oneself to judgement, selection, rejection, and negotiation.
Performed in Iceland in 2016, the work displaces the familiar social script of marriage into an unfamiliar environment. Through this displacement, Marriage-Seeking 2016 asks what it means to look for intimacy through a public system of recognition. Can marriage be separated from fantasy, citizenship, gender expectation, and social value? Or is the wish to be loved always already shaped by the institutions that decide what kinds of relationships are allowed to appear?
“Marriage-Seeking 2016” is performed in Iceland on the first of September 2016 which contented that artist was waiting for people to marry her. The artwork will be performed in eight times during artist’s life, in every ten years.
Artist has declared that if there’s one applicant, she’ll marry her/him. If there’s more than one, she’ll choose one. If there’s nobody, she’ll wait until next decade. Audience had to fill out an application form if they want to marry the artist.
There were 10 applicants:
6 females, 4 men.
6 from Iceland, 1 from Sweden, 2 from Australia, 1 from Canadian;
1956, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1985, 1992;
2 of Aries, 1 of Gemini, 4 of Cancer, 1 of Virgo, 2 of Pisces;
2 are married, 3 are unmarried, 1 is married-getting divorced, 2 Single, 2 wrote DE FACTO;
3 holds Bachelor, 3 holds Master, 4 unknown;
5 Artists, 1 Student, 1 Cultural Manager, 1 Artistic Director, 1 Assistant Client Rep,1 Businessman;
9 confirmed, 1 cancelled.
Artist has declared that if there’s one applicant, she’ll marry her/him. If there’s more than one, she’ll choose one. If there’s nobody, she’ll wait until next decade. Audience had to fill out an application form if they want to marry the artist.
There were 10 applicants:
6 females, 4 men.
6 from Iceland, 1 from Sweden, 2 from Australia, 1 from Canadian;
1956, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1985, 1992;
2 of Aries, 1 of Gemini, 4 of Cancer, 1 of Virgo, 2 of Pisces;
2 are married, 3 are unmarried, 1 is married-getting divorced, 2 Single, 2 wrote DE FACTO;
3 holds Bachelor, 3 holds Master, 4 unknown;
5 Artists, 1 Student, 1 Cultural Manager, 1 Artistic Director, 1 Assistant Client Rep,1 Businessman;
9 confirmed, 1 cancelled.
Application forms by applicants during event.
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