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Ising Suaiyung

Ising Suaiyung graduated from the Department of Education and Human Potentials Development at National Dong Hwa University. He used to be the project manager of the Formosa Indigenous Dance Foundation of Culture and Arts and a full-time dancer in TAI Body Theatre. Ising Suaiyung was also the curator of the 2021 “WE HA HAY” special exhibition and is currently the executive of TAI Body Theatre. His literature writing《Tjakudayi》won Honorable Mention of the 2012 Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Literature Award, Fiction Group.

Hail Mary in Paiwan Language

tjalja nangua ti Maria tjuluvu na ma puzangal
ulja sun na se ita djalan tjai naemati
tisun na tjalja nangua tua vavayavayan
avan nu si a tisun na pinatavanga tjai Yesu tjalja nangua an

ina ni naemati ti Maria
ulja tisun na nga inemenem tua nia paceva’
emasi tucu patja macai anga amen.

Creation for me is like the reflections on a stream. The image I see is vague.
I can only see the outline, and it is not like the reflection in the mirror which tends to be real.
It's like the different people and things I encountered in the different ages, the image being reflected are different from each other.

”Religious ritual scriptures are quite similar to traditional music and dance. They both have a distinguished 'call and response' mechanism and cycles of repetition.” Ising Suaiyung evokes such a concept - in rituals, behaviors, and bodily actions, into the foundation of his creation.

The artwork proposes that one may find the balance of all living beings or ways of catharsis through such patterns. In addition, the process of such a creation may lead people who have contrasting values to recognize and understand other's differences. One may learn how to come close to the forms and shapes of values that are distorted, fractured, constrained, or divided due to their nature beings, social values, perspectives, orientations, religions, and genders.

Ising Suaiyung

Hail Mary in Paiwan Language

INTERVIEW with Ising Suaiyung