Murder at the Military History Museum Performed
「軍史館殺人事件」公演
Source: Army Museum Murder Revisited — Wang Mo-lin Unravels the National Myth
From: Liberty Times · Author: Wang Ling-li
Date: 2004/12/09
“Army Museum Murder Incident” (軍史館殺人事件), directed by Wang Mo-lin and performed by the Difference Theatre Company at the National Theatre Experimental Theatre in 2004, featured stage design by artist Chen Chieh-jen; sound was a central element of the live design. Responding to a murder, artist Lin Chi-wei used special sound frequencies — capturing audio live and generating “noise” — to answer this “Army Museum Murder Incident.”
The play is adapted from a real event on 19 June 1999. A high school girl had visited the Army History Museum to gather material for a military training class assignment — and was raped and killed by a serviceman on the premises. Director Wang Mo-lin, starting from the recognition that the state kills, excavated a deeper meaning: it is not merely that the state kills people, but that the already-dead within this state kill people — in other words, what truly killed was history.
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External Links
- Metaphors Lost, Puzzles Unsolved (Taishin Arts Foundation)
- History That Kills (Pixnet blog)
- Politics Never Takes a Day Off — The Political Nature of Contemporary Taiwanese Theatre (Hung Hung’s blog)