創造工作室與爪爪風格：土城美甲師的微型空間實踐

Abstract

本文聚焦新北市土城區的美甲師，探討他們如何透過工作室與勞動實踐，在這些微型空間中創造出有別於政府治理的地方樣貌。研究採工作室民族誌作為混合研究方法，聚焦4位土城美甲師與其工作室，以及12位在Instagram發文的土城美甲師，從中拆解他們如何在場所創造（place-making）中賦予工作室特定的意義，分析他們在美甲勞動的過程中，如何建構與展演其身體感。美甲工作室的場所創造（place-making）是美甲師人生經驗與故事背後的風險承擔能力差異、微型族裔節點與當代性別分工，展現出實用空間政治。工作室還被賦予不同的文化意義，美甲師將其打造成值得等待的空間，以及能夠進行溝通協商的空間。美甲師的身體感貫穿在工作實踐的三個階段－社群媒體上的展演、美甲工作的勞動、創作後的手部拍攝展示，構成美甲師獨特的專業的美感知覺與風格。身體感不只是美甲師勞動的應對，例如他們對工具器材的選擇與使用、工作後對美甲師身體疲勞的修復；身體感還是蘊含文化性的美感生產與專業實踐的展現，例如社群媒體的頁面編排、風格論述，還是作品展示時，手部指尖的姿態調度與觀看方式的設計。我們容易忽視被潛藏在治理發展下的地方，但藉由土城美甲師的微型空間實踐，我們能夠理解美甲工作室是具備意義的場所。本研究揭示在發展均質的地方下透過多元的媒介認識地方，我們能體察到仍有許多人持續地透過日常生活中的實踐，不斷地場所創造 （place-making）出地方的意義。This study focuses on nail artists in Tucheng District, New Taipei City, examining how they engage in micro-spatial practices through their studios and labor to produce spatial forms distinct from those shaped by governance. Applying studio ethnography as a mixed research method, the study observed four nail artists with studios and twelve nail artists active in Instagram. It explores two core questions: how nail artists create specific meanings to their studios through place-making, and how they construct and perform sensory experience in the course of their nail work.The place-making of nail studios is based on the nail artists’ personal life experiences, revealing differences in their risk tolerance, the formation of micro-ethnic nodes, and contemporary gendered divisions of labor. These practices reveal a form of practical spatial politics. Beyond functionality, these studios are refashioned into “spaces worth waiting for” and “spaces for discussion and communication." The sensory experience of nail artists is woven through three stages of their professional practice. Firstly, nail artists are devoted to fashioning a sensory experience through performance in their social media. A distinctive visual composition of their nail work and the narratives cohesively articulated with photographs on their profile page and Instagram posts would point toward their unique mode of professionally aesthetic perception. Secondly, nail artists cultivate sensory experience inresponse to labor. A selection of tools and bodily recovery from fatigue after work would become an essential routine that enable them to work effectively and smoothly. Thirdly, nail artists foster a sensory experience in presentation of completed nail designs. A deft preparation on camera, light, background for photograph and delicate positioning instruction with distinctive approach on hands for showcasing nail works would embed their professionally aesthetic expression.Spaces concealed beneath layers of governance and development are often neglected. Through the micro-spatial practices of nail artists in Tucheng, nail studios are meaningful places. This study reveals that the mediums through which we come to understand place are diverse. Beneath seemingly homogeneous places, many individuals engage in persistently practices of place-making, they imbue meaning to place.