林冠名Guan-Ming LIN

 

在記憶中 / In the Memories of …

形式： Single channel video, slient

年份：2008

長度： 07’20”

 

如今，資訊已為我們所熟悉的事物劃出一道清晰界線，這一道界線如「信我得永生」般地宣判一切…
可以選擇「逃逸」，並非等同畏縮不前或背道而馳，不過是為了在宣判的夾縫中得以暢快…
對我而言，偶然發生在我眼前的事情總是比一切計畫完美來得美妙…
某日，在臺灣雲林與嘉義交界的河堤外海，偶然瞧見一只漁網飄蕩於海面之上，
這只漁網劃破風平浪靜，隨風盪漾在半空之中許久，接著又沒入大海…
內心的悸動為這只漁網所牽動，
在幾次飄蕩及沉沒的過程之後，不再復見蹤影，
面對一片寧靜的汪洋…
腦海不斷盈溢上一刻的遇見，內心反覆自問這是何等情狀？
飄蕩於空的是為何物？
顯然，漁網早已不以「漁網」現身在我眼前…
我選擇在這「是為何物」中逃逸一切宣判…
自由最終也不過如此。

Today, information draws a clear line for the known world. It dictates, as if it proclaimed, “believe, and you shall gain eternity.”
You may opt for “escape”, which is not seen as an act of cowardice or betrayal, but a desire for freedom between decrees.
For me, the unanticipated appeals greater than the expected.
One day, near the county borders between Yunlin and Jiayi (southern Taiwan), and beyond the river’s embankment, a fishing net floating above the sea caught my attention.
It swept the tranquil surface, hovered mid-air for some time, and eventually plunged into the sea.
My heart palpitated, solely for that fishing net.
After bouts of floating and the final dive, there were no signs of the net in sight, only a silent ocean left behind.
Fresh was the moment of the encounter that’d just passed. I asked myself repeatedly, what state of mind this is?
Apparently, the fishing net appeared not as a “fishing net”
I chose to escape the proclamation.
Freedom, it is merely so.