《擔架》
Stretcher《擔架》是一場於香港行為藝術節期間發生的行為作品。作品由金鐘地鐵站開始，途經蘭桂坊，最後抵達上環山上的位置；當表演者抵達計程車的一刻，作品正式結束。四位表演者以一張可摺疊鋁合金擔架為中心行動：三位男性承載着一位女性身體，穿越城市中不同的公共場景、坡道與街道。

作品借用了急救、醫療運送與身體支撐的視覺語言，但並沒有提供一個清楚的事件原因。擔架上的身體似乎受傷、似乎被保護，也似乎被展示和搬運。這種曖昧狀態使作品在不同城市景觀中產生不同的閱讀方式：在藝術節的脈絡中，它可以被理解為行為藝術；在蘭桂坊的街景中，它可能被誤認為一場醉酒、意外或執法後的場面；在地鐵站與上環山路之間，它又像是一種集體搬運、儀式或公共干預。

作品的製作方法同樣重視觀看角度的差異。藝術家邀請三位攝影師從不同位置與感知方式記錄行為：一位攝影師主要捕捉表演者的情緒狀態；一位錄像攝影師作為事件的行動紀錄；另一位平面攝影師則拍攝人物與城市環境之間的關係。這些不同的影像視角，使作品不再只有一個固定的觀看位置，而是成為一個由身體、街道、觀眾誤讀與攝影共同組成的事件。

在 《擔架》 中，擔架既是支撐身體的工具，也是一個移動中的舞台。三位男性承載一位女性的身體，形成一種關於照顧、權力、性別與依賴的動態關係。作品關注的不是單一敘事，而是身體與身體之間的互動如何在不同城市場景中被重新命名：它可以是救援、控制、親密、暴力、表演，或者一個無法被立即理解的公共事件。

《Stretcher》 is a performance that took place during a performance art festival in Hong Kong. The work began at Admiralty MTR Station, passed through Lan Kwai Fong, and ended on the hill towards Sheung Wan. The performance concluded at the moment the performers reached a taxi. Centred on a folding aluminium stretcher, the work involved four performers: three men carrying a female body through different public spaces, slopes, and streets of the city.

The work borrows the visual language of emergency care, medical transport, and bodily support, but it does not offer a clear reason for what has happened. The body on the stretcher appears injured, protected, displayed, and transported at the same time. This ambiguity allows the work to shift meaning as it moves through different urban landscapes. Within the context of a performance art festival, it may be read as a performance. In Lan Kwai Fong, it could be mistaken for a scene of drunkenness, accident, policing, or nightlife aftermath. Between the MTR station and the slopes of Sheung Wan, it becomes something closer to a collective carrying, a ritual, or a public intervention.

The documentation of the work was also structured through multiple perspectives. The artist invited three photographers to record the performance from different positions and sensitivities: one female photographer focused mainly on the emotional state of the performers; one videographer documented the movement of the event; and another photographer captured the relationship between the figures and the surrounding urban environment. These different viewpoints prevent the work from having a single fixed perspective. Instead, Stretcher becomes an event composed through bodies, streets, spectators’ misreadings, and photographic witnessing.

In 《Stretcher》, the stretcher functions both as a tool of support and as a moving stage. The image of three male performers carrying a female body creates a shifting relation between care, power, gender, and dependence. Rather than presenting one stable narrative, the work asks how an interaction between bodies can be renamed by its surroundings: as rescue, control, intimacy, violence, performance, or an unresolved public event.

Performers: IP Wai Lung, YEUNG Sau Churk, YIP Chun Kit
Cinematographer: FUNG Kira
Special thanks: LAM Yan Yu