TEDxWomen 2012
Sue Austin: Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair
蘇 ‧ 柯士甸 (Sue Austin): 坐輪椅潛行深海
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16年前蘇 ‧ 柯士甸 (Sue Austin) 得到一部「能量椅」，並覺得重獲自由 ── 但外人卻認為她所失甚多。透過藝術作品，她希望與外界分享，坐輪椅漫遊世間嘅心路歷程，其中包括一段她用潛水輪椅潛行海床、穿梭魚群之間、360 度浮游的水底片段。(攝於TEDxWomen)
Sue Austin - Performance artist
In repurposing her wheelchair to create fantastical art, Sue Austin reshapes how we think about disability. Full bio
In repurposing her wheelchair to create fantastical art, Sue Austin reshapes how we think about disability. Full bio
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It's wonderful to be here
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很榮幸能在這裡
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to talk about my journey,
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說說我的心路歷程
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to talk about the wheelchair
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說說輪椅
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and the freedom it has bought me.
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還有它帶給我的自由
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I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago
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16年前我開始使用輪椅
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when an extended illness
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一場大病
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changed the way I could access the world.
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令我不得不改變接觸世界的方法
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When I started using the wheelchair,
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當我坐上輪椅
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it was a tremendous new freedom.
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它帶給我嶄新的自由
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I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted.
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我的人生曾經離我而去 被禁錮起來
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It was like having an enormous new toy.
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所以，當我坐上輪椅，簡直是一件新奇的玩具
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I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again.
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我可以再以迎風呼嘯，感受世界的美好
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Just being out on the street was exhilarating.
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可以再次上街實在令人振奮
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But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom,
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雖說我自此獲得新生的快樂和自由
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people's reaction completely changed towards me.
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外人對我的反應卻截然不同
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It was as if they couldn't see me anymore,
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他們彷彿視我如無物
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as if an invisibility cloak had descended.
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就像我身上披著隱形斗篷
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They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions
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以乎在他們的成見中
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of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.
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我坐在輪椅上定必會如何如何
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When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair,
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當我問人們「提起輪椅，你們聯想到甚麼？」
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they used words like "limitation," "fear,"
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他們會說「局限」、「恐懼」
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"pity" and "restriction."
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「可憐」、「拘束」
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I realized I'd internalized these responses
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我想我曾經深受這些成見的影響
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and it had changed who I was on a core level.
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他們的反應直入我心深處
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A part of me had become alienated from myself.
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我心中的一部分開始疏遠自己
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I was seeing myself not from my perspective,
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我曾不敢用自己的角度審視自身
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but vividly and continuously from the perspective
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而是不斷地、深深地受到他人的成見
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of other people's responses to me.
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影響我看待自己的方式
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As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories
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有感於此，我知道我必須為自己寫下新篇
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about this experience,
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關於這次經歷
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new narratives to reclaim my identity.
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重塑自尊，再創新天
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["Finding Freedom: 'By creating our own stories we learn to take the texts of our lives as seriously as we do 'official' narratives.' — Davis 2009, TEDx Women"]
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[ 尋找自由：在開創自己的故事時，
我們學會認真看待寫照生命的一字一句，就如同我們在自敘人生一樣。── Davis 2009, TEDxWomen]
我們學會認真看待寫照生命的一字一句，就如同我們在自敘人生一樣。── Davis 2009, TEDxWomen]
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I started making work
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於是我開始藝術創作
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that aimed to communicate something
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旨在與他們傳遞
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of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair --
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我使用輪椅時的快樂與自由
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a power chair -- to negotiate the world.
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我叫它做「能量椅」── 助我涉足天下
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I was working to transform these internalized responses,
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我想扭轉深深影響我的外間反應
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to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped
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透過出奇不意的影像
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my identity when I started using a wheelchair,
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改變世間對我當初使用輪椅時
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by creating unexpected images.
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那些曾經牢不可破的成見
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The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with.
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輪椅變成一件可畫可玩的器具
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When I literally started leaving
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當我為我的快樂與自由
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traces of my joy and freedom,
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留下印記
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it was exciting to see
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令人耳目一新的是
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the interested and surprised responses from people.
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人們看到作品時的意外反應
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It seemed to open up new perspectives,
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這像開創了新的眼界
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and therein lay the paradigm shift.
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進而奠定典範轉移的基石
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It showed that an arts practice
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這證明藝術創作
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can remake one's identity
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可以重塑一個人的自我
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and transform preconceptions by revisioning the familiar.
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用重新審視的方式，來轉化先入為主的看法
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So when I began to dive, in 2005,
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當2005年我決定坐輪椅潛水
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I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity
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我認為潛水裝置於常人抑或輪椅使用者
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in just the same way as a wheelchair does,
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其實發揮同等功能，擴展在水中的自由度
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but the associations attached to scuba gear
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但全副潛水裝上陣
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are ones of excitement and adventure,
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給人刺激歷奇的印象
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completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair.
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同時徹底改變外人對輪椅用者的看法
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So I thought, "I wonder what'll happen
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於是我想：如果將兩者結合效果會如何？
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if I put the two together?" (Laughter) (Applause)
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(笑聲) (掌聲)
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And the underwater wheelchair that has resulted
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於是我們成功製作了一部潛水輪椅
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has taken me on the most amazing journey
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於過去七年
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over the last seven years.
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帶我體驗了非一般的水底旅程
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So to give you an idea of what that's like,
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為了讓你們明白這非凡經歷
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I'd like to share with you one of the outcomes
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我想和大家分享這件法寶
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from creating this spectacle,
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帶給我的其中一次奇觀
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and show you what an amazing journey it's taken me on.
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以及那個精彩美妙的旅程
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(Music)
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(音樂)
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(Applause)
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(掌聲)
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It is the most amazing experience,
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這是我至今最難忘的經歷
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beyond most other things I've experienced in life.
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及此過去種種皆無可比擬
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I literally have the freedom to move
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基本上我可以自由活動
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in 360 degrees of space
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360 度亳無拘束
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and an ecstatic experience of joy and freedom.
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體驗至高無上的快樂與自由
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And the incredibly unexpected thing
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實在喜出望外，妙不可言
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is that other people seem to see and feel that too.
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見證此事的人都可以感同身受
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Their eyes literally light up,
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他們眼前一亮
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and they say things like, "I want one of those,"
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會說「我想要那部潛水椅！」
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or, "If you can do that, I can do anything."
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或者「如何她做得到，我也能做任何事！」
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And I'm thinking, it's because in that moment
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我想，因為刻下
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of them seeing an object
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他們見證著
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they have no frame of reference for,
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一件前所未見的事
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or so transcends the frames of reference
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或者超乎他們
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they have with the wheelchair,
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對於「輪椅」的想像
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they have to think in a completely new way.
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他們得開放新思維
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And I think that moment of completely new thought
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我認為成就創新看法之時
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perhaps creates a freedom
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或許同時開創了新的自由
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that spreads to the rest of other people's lives.
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這自由亦延及其他人的生命之中
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For me, this means that they're seeing
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對我來說，這代表他們看得到
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the value of difference,
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差異的價值
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the joy it brings
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箇中的快樂
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when instead of focusing on loss or limitation,
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而非著眼於喪失或拘束
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we see and discover the power and joy
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以新觀點看世界
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of seeing the world from exciting new perspectives.
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可以發掘出振奮人心的能量與喜悅
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For me, the wheelchair becomes
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於我而言
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a vehicle for transformation.
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輪椅是一部轉化器
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In fact, I now call the underwater wheelchair "Portal,"
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其實我現在稱呼這潛水輪椅為「變身器」
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because it's literally pushed me through
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因為事實上它從後推我一把
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into a new way of being,
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幫我踏入全新的生命
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into new dimensions and into a new level of consciousness.
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揭開人生新一頁，對自身重新覺悟
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And the other thing is,
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另一方面
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that because nobody's seen or heard
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因為從來無人知曉
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of an underwater wheelchair before,
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潛水輪椅應該是怎樣
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and creating this spectacle is about creating
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創造這法寶時
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new ways of seeing, being and knowing,
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就同時創新了一種看法、認知、認同
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now you have this concept in your mind.
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現在這看法已植根在你的腦海了
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You're all part of the artwork too.
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你們也是這件作品的一部分了
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(Applause)
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(掌聲)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sue Austin - Performance artistIn repurposing her wheelchair to create fantastical art, Sue Austin reshapes how we think about disability.
Why you should listen
Multimedia, performance and installation artist Sue Austin keeps a fascinating mission at the center her work: to challenge the idea of disabled as “other” and represent her experience as a wheelchair user in a brighter light. She does this by creating quirky, unexpected juxtapositions -- bringing a sense of whimsy and empowerment to the discussion of disability.
Austin is the founder and artistic director of Freewheeling, an initiative aiming to further the genre of Disability Arts. In 2012, she was asked to be a part of the Cultural Olympiad in Britain, a celebration of the arts leading up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The work she created for the event, called “Creating the Spectacle!,” is a groundbreaking series of live art and video works of an underwater wheelchair.
Sue Austin | Speaker | TED.com