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」，覺得重獲自由 ── 但外人就覺得佢所失甚多。透過藝術作品，佢希望同外界分享，坐响輪椅漫遊世間嘅心路歷程，其中包括一段佢坐响潛水輪椅潛行海床、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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好高興可以响呢度
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to talk about my journey,
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同大家分享我嘅心路歷程
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to talk about the wheelchair
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講下輪椅
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and the freedom it has bought me.
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同埋呢張輪椅帶畀我嘅自由
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I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago
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十六年前我開始坐輪椅
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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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令我唔可以好似以前咁接觸世界
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When I started using the wheelchair,
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當我開始坐輪椅
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it was a tremendous new freedom.
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佢帶畀我全新嘅自由
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I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted.
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我曾經以為病後傷殘，下半世一定唔好過
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It was like having an enormous new toy.
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但呢張輪椅就好似一件神奇玩具
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I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again.
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我可以出返去吹風，大叫
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Just being out on the street was exhilarating.
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可以出到街真係好爽
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But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom,
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雖然重獲自由我真係好開心
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people's reaction completely changed towards me.
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但街外人對我嘅態度就完全唔同晒
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It was as if they couldn't see me anymore,
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佢哋好似當我透明
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as if an invisibility cloak had descended.
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就好似我著咗件隱形斗篷咁
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They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions
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佢哋帶住一份成見嚟睇我
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of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.
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覺得我坐輪椅就一定會係點點點
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When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair,
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當我問「一提起輪椅你哋會諗起乜嘢？」
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they used words like "limitation," "fear,"
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佢哋會話「局限」、「恐慌」
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"pity" and "restriction."
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「可憐」、「無自由」
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I realized I'd internalized these responses
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我估我暗瓦底都受到呢啲成見影響
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and it had changed who I was on a core level.
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亦响深處令我對自己嘅睇法唔同咗
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A part of me had become alienated from myself.
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有一部份嘅自己好似疏遠咗咁樣
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I was seeing myself not from my perspective,
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我再唔係由自己嘅觀點出發去審視自己
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but vividly and continuously from the perspective
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而係來來回回受其他人嘅睇法
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of other people's responses to me.
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影響我點睇自己
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As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories
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於是我覺得咁唔掂，我要創造自己嘅故事
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about this experience,
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關於呢個經歷
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new narratives to reclaim my identity.
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我要重新演繹，定義自我
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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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[字幕] 尋找自我：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。Davis 2009
我們學會認真看待寫照生命的一字一句。Davis 2009
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I started making work
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我開始做一啲作品
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that aimed to communicate something
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旨在同大家傳遞
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of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair --
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我坐輪椅嘅份內喜悅同自由
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a power chair -- to negotiate the world.
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我叫佢做能量椅 ── 去同個世界摙過
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I was working to transform these internalized responses,
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我將我內心嘅感受盡量傳遞出嚟
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to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped
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透過破格嘅攝影
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my identity when I started using a wheelchair,
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去改寫當初我開始坐輪椅時
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by creating unexpected images.
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令我疏遠自己嘅外間成見
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The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with.
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張輪椅變咗一件我可以又寫又畫嘅嘢
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When I literally started leaving
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當我開始為自己嘅快樂同自由
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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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外界睇到我嘅作品時所有反應
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the interested and surprised responses from people.
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都令我好雀躍
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It seemed to open up new perspectives,
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呢啲作品好似打開咗眼界
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and therein lay the paradigm shift.
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樂在其中嘅一切由我主導
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It showed that an arts practice
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表現到藝術創作
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can remake one's identity
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可以重塑一個人嘅自我
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and transform preconceptions by revisioning the familiar.
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同時為司空見慣嘅嘢改變睇法，改變成見
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So when I began to dive, in 2005,
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當我2005年開始坐輪椅潛水
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I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity
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我發現潛水裝置無論對常人抑或坐輪椅嘅人
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in just the same way as a wheelchair does,
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一樣响水底帶畀佢同樣嘅自由
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but the associations attached to scuba gear
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但全裝上陣潛水，帶畀人嘅印象
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are ones of excitement and adventure,
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係充滿刺激同歷奇
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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嘅睇法
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So I thought, "I wonder what'll happen
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我心諗：唔知兩件事擺埋一齊會點呢？
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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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最終我哋真係做咗部潛水輪椅
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has taken me on the most amazing journey
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响過去七年
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over the last seven years.
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佢帶我體驗咗非一般嘅水底旅行
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So to give you an idea of what that's like,
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為咗令你哋明白我講嘅經歷
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I'd like to share with you one of the outcomes
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我想同大家分享呢件法寶
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from creating this spectacle,
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帶畀我嘅其中一段體驗
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and show you what an amazing journey it's taken me on.
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同埋佢帶咗我去一個幾咁精彩嘅世界
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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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呢個係我呢世人至今最精彩嘅體驗
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beyond most other things I've experienced in life.
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以前種種都無得比
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I literally have the freedom to move
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我基本上可以自由咁郁動
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in 360 degrees of space
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360度通行無阻
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and an ecstatic experience of joy and freedom.
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體驗至高無上嘅快樂同自由
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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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而見證住呢件事嘅人都可以感同身受
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Their eyes literally light up,
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佢哋對眼當堂發晒光
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and they say things like, "I want one of those,"
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又會話：我都想要要部咁嘅嘢！
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or, "If you can do that, I can do anything."
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或者：如果你都做得到，我都一定得！
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And I'm thinking, it's because in that moment
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我覺得，因為嗰一刻
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of them seeing an object
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佢哋睇緊一件嘢
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they have no frame of reference for,
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係佢地前所未見
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or so transcends the frames of reference
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或者超乎佢哋想像
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they have with the wheelchair,
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打破晒「輪椅」兩隻字嘅成見
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they have to think in a completely new way.
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佢哋會重新睇呢件事
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And I think that moment of completely new thought
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我覺得响新睇法出現嗰一刻
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perhaps creates a freedom
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可能就開創咗新嘅自由
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that spreads to the rest of other people's lives.
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伸張到其他人嘅生命之中
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For me, this means that they're seeing
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對我嚟講，佢哋睇得到
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the value of difference,
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差異嘅價值
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the joy it brings
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箇中嘅快樂
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when instead of focusing on loss or limitation,
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而唔係著眼於損傷或者局限
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we see and discover the power and joy
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用新觀點去睇世界
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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嘅力量同喜悅
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For me, the wheelchair becomes
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對我嚟講
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a vehicle for transformation.
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輪椅係一部轉化器
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In fact, I now call the underwater wheelchair "Portal,"
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其實我而家叫呢部潛水輪椅做「變身器」
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because it's literally pushed me through
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因為事實上佢從後推我一把
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into a new way of being,
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幫我踏入全新嘅生命
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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，對自我嘅新覺悟
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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
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of an underwater wheelchair before,
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潛水輪潛應該係點
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and creating this spectacle is about creating
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創造佢嘅事候
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new ways of seeing, being and knowing,
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就等如創新一種睇法、認知、認同
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now you have this concept in your mind.
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而家呢種睇法入晒你哋腦喇
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You're all part of the artwork too.
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你哋都係作品嘅一部份
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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