Through the Reflection of Green Island
White Terror remains a collective trauma in Taiwan’s history. Countless political prisoners were torn from their homes without warning and subjected to years—often seemingly endless—of imprisonment. Green Island, once a detention site for vagrants under Japanese colonial rule, had long been marked as a place of exile. During the authoritarian era, it became a prison for political dissidents, bearing silent witness to the fear, violence, and unspeakable sorrow of White Terror.
This curatorial theme, "If Green Island Were a Mirror," invites reflection on the island as a symbolic lens through which to examine the past and engage with contemporary human rights issues. By juxtaposing the concepts of "confinement" and "displacement"—two seemingly opposing forces—it opens a dialectic space for audiences to confront the many-layered challenges we face in thinking about human rights today. In doing so, the historical memory of incarceration on Green Island becomes a mirror that reflects not just the past, but also the present.
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Giloo紀實影音
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國家人權博物館
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2021 綠島人權藝術季
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