A SECRET TALK ABOUT NATURISM 秘密的風景


   

Natrurim, also known as nudism, was a social movement that rose alongside the Industrial Revolution in Europe in the late 18th century. Discontent with industrialism, environmental pollution and the bourgeoisie, the rebels used nudity as a means to shatter social class. The clothes which represented social class were removed to embrace one’s natural state. In the past 200 years, nudity and sex have formed an inseparable tie. Today, the often private naturist events still seem mysterious and provoke many myths and stigmas.

Is public nudity immoral? How are bodies and sex understood? Does nudity necessarily lead to sex? Is sex a sin? Yu-Chun Lo wants to know how people imagine nudist events. And how naturalists perceive themselves. Lo designed an image-based app for debates. The users can make a collage that best represents their imagination or experience with the images found online. The collage is then uploaded to the cloud, creating a database. The users can view the uploaded collages afterwards and compare the perspectives of the insiders and outsiders, contributing to the debates on their personal values.

天體營又稱自然主義者,是18世紀末源於歐洲伴隨著工業革命產生的社會反抗運動,對於進入工業生產模式、環境污染、資本階級的產生感到不滿的群眾企圖以裸體作為回歸自然與去除階級象徵(穿著)的反抗手段。兩百年後的今天,裸體與性之間難以切斷的連結,讓人們對於處於非公開且神秘的天體營活動仍充滿許多想像與污名化。

公開裸體是否真的違反道德倫理?人們如何看待身體與性?裸體是否必然會產生性?性是一種罪惡嗎?我好奇大眾是如何想像天體營活動?而自然主義者又是如何理解自身?她設計了一個影像辯論軟體,讓人們可以透過搜尋現有圖片並利用軟體的拼貼工具(Collage)去組合出最貼近自己想像或體驗的景象,並上傳到雲端,參與者們可以從持續累積影像中直觀地檢視與對比圈內人和圈外人的視角,透過視覺辯證藏在內心深處的價值觀。

January, 2019



Images created from the workshop