Name: 邪惡的遊戲：凱尼爾沃思城堡關於伊麗莎白女王一世的藝術裝置，作者：Lindsey Mendick (Wicked Game : an art installation at Kenilworth Castle about Queen Elizabeth I, by Lindsey Mendick)
Uploaded: 2025-07-18T18:44:47.000Z
Duration: 5 min 44 s

轉承詞

My name is Inzi Mendic and I'm an installation artist based in Margate. I make humorous but also quite eerie environments that talk about the complications of identifying as female at this current time. When I started my masters at the Royal College I finally started firing my work and using glazes and as soon as you fire that first work you never look back because it's such a magical alchemy that nothing can beat that rush and that high. I got addicted to it since then. My first impressions of Kenilworth Castle was the dream backdrop to my work. It feels intrinsically gothic, it's beautiful, it's a real building that shows its time. Queen Elizabeth I granted Robert Dudley Kenilworth Castle and on one of her last visits Robert Dudley put on a 19 day hedonistic, wild, ridiculously extravagant party in order to convince her to marry him. There were 300 dish feasts, there were masquerade balls, there was hunting and by about day 11 Elizabeth I think had had enough and it became something else entirely. The title of the installation is Wicked Game which will be taking place in the Great Hall. It's going to be an installation of a dilapidated chess board. At the centre and with the game of chess it all culminates around checkmate.

我叫 Inzi Mendic，是一名裝置藝術家，工作地點在馬蓋特。我的作品既幽默又陰森恐怖，講述了當下女性身份認同的複雜性。當我開始在皇家學院攻讀碩士學位時，我終於開始燒製我的作品並使用釉料。只要你燒製出第一件作品，你就再也不會回頭了，因為這是一種神奇的鍊金術，沒有什麼能比得上那種衝動和興奮。從那時起，我就沉迷其中了。凱尼爾沃斯城堡給我的第一印象就是我作品的夢幻背景。它給人哥特式的內在感覺，它很美，它是一座真實的建築，展現了它的時代。伊麗莎白一世女王賜予羅伯特-達德利凱尼爾沃思城堡，在她最後一次來訪時，羅

程度副詞

We'll have Elizabeth as the lion and then Dudley and all the other people, the plots against her, crawling towards her trying to grab for her. This is the culmination of the chaos that was encased around her. I was really interested in places like the Acropolis where the sculptures were in fragments and I'm imagining all of these sculptures to be fragments of the past. I want the installation to feel as though it's a masquerade ball but then also a point of metamorphosis. I think there's a point in every party that I've been to when it tips, when they say nothing good goes on after 12 o'clock. This point that we become more animalistic, drinking, the hedonism, everything makes us into the creatures that we never hoped to be in everyday life. A lot of the female protagonists are the hunted, deer, foxes. A lot of the male protagonists are the dogs or the pigs. So we've done Elizabeth as this lion, the lion that she saw that she was, kind of maybe to tear herself away from her own femininity. We've taken inspiration from the rainbow portrait, considering this is meant to be the pinnacle of a hunt or also like the game of chess and checkmate. We chose that one because they had this great symbolism all over it of eyes and ears, which was sort of nodding to her massive network of spies who were protecting her and the way that she saw and heard everything. And that was why she was able to reign in the way that she did. We're doing Robert Dudley as the bear because on his coat of arms there was also, he was always the bear and you can see it throughout Kenilworth. We're actually transforming

伊麗莎白就像一頭獅子，然後達德利和其他人，還有那些針對她的陰謀，都爬向她，試圖抓住她。這是她周圍混亂的頂點。我對像雅典衛城這樣的地方非常感興趣，那裡的雕塑都是碎片，我把所有這些雕塑想象成過去的碎片。我希望裝置作品給人一種化妝舞會的感覺，但同時也是一個蛻變點。我想我參加過的每一個派對都會有一個高潮，人們說 12 點之後就沒有什麼好事了。在這一點上，我們變得更加獸性化，喝酒、享樂主義，一切都讓我們變成了我們在日常生活中從未想過的生物。很多女主角都是被獵殺者，如鹿、狐狸。很多男主角則是狗或豬。是以，我們把伊麗莎

第二類條件句型

Dudley into a bear that's reaching up and begging Elizabeth to marry him. In the same group we have Alain Resson, who also was going to be marrying Elizabeth, one of her suitors, and Philip of Spain. So these all surround her, but then next to them are each of the women that they kind of trampled through in order to get closer to Elizabeth. When Elizabeth first entered the castle, Dudley had actors sort of dressed as sybils that came to greet her to sort of use Greek mythology to tell her her fate. I am conveying the sybils to be more of a realistic viewpoint of what would happen if she was to marry. I think there's always so much talk around who was it that Elizabeth loved, but the more and more I've been looking into the story of her and Dudley, the more he becomes another person or another pawn in this sort of game of power. There's sort of a duality of what I want people to take away from this. I think it's always great if people start reading more into their history, and at the same time as that, I think I'd really like it to be a spectacle. And rather than looking at Elizabeth as a formidable queen who got it right, actually delving into her history and seeing what a struggle for power it was.

達德利變成了一隻熊，伸手乞求伊麗莎白嫁給他。同一組的還有阿蘭-雷松，他也將與伊麗莎白結婚，他是伊麗莎白的求婚者之一，還有西班牙的菲利普。是以，這些人都圍繞著伊麗莎白，但在他們旁邊的是他們為了接近伊麗莎白而踐踏過的每個女人。當伊麗莎白第一次進入城堡時，達德利讓演員們打扮成西庇阿的樣子來迎接她，用希臘神話來告訴她自己的命運。我將西比爾人的形象更多地從現實的角度來描述如果她結婚會發生什麼。我認為，人們總是在談論伊麗莎白愛的人是誰，但我對她和達德利的故事瞭解得越多，他就越成為這場權力遊戲中的另一個人或另一顆棋子。