On 28 April 2013, ninety-five years after Finland's civil war (27 January–15 May 1918), artist Kaisa Salmi created a performance called Fellman Field: A Living Monument to 22,000 People. It was a site-specific event organized at Fellman Park in Lahti. There, for almost a week in 1918, thousands of civil war prisoners were held to await transport to a prison camp. In 2013, an impressive number of people (close to 10,000) gathered at this site to participate in a commemoration of the civil war, which is still one of the most repressed traumas in the national consciousness of the Finns. This article discusses Fellman Field as an artwork in terms of its utilization of embodied empathy: the sympathetic understanding of the other through physical and emotional experience. The case of Fellman Field demonstrates the challenges and successes of a site-specific participatory performance that aims to promote understanding and constructively handle the complexity of a national tragedy.

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记住芬兰内战：体现同理心和费尔曼场

2013 年 4 月 28 日，芬兰内战 95 年后（1918 年 1 月 27 日至 5 月 15 日），艺术家凯萨·萨尔米创作了一场名为Fellman Field：22,000 人的活纪念碑. 这是在拉赫蒂的费尔曼公园举办的针对特定地点的活动。1918 年，在那里将近一周的时间里，数千名内战囚犯被关押等待被送往战俘营。2013 年，令人印象深刻的人数（接近 10,000 人）聚集在该地点参加内战的纪念活动，内战仍然是芬兰人民族意识中最受压抑的创伤之一。本文讨论费尔曼场作为一件艺术品，它利用了体现的同理心：通过身体和情感体验对他人的同情理解。的情况下费尔曼场展示了针对特定地点的参与性表演的挑战和成功，该表演旨在促进理解和建设性地处理国家悲剧的复杂性。