遊輪 / Cruises

形式：影像裝置

年份：2011

媒材：錄像 / video art

長度：10'00"

這是一支幾年前在巴黎左岸記錄下來的影片。載滿觀光客的遊輪己乎每十分鐘便經過我的窗前。船上投射燈金光四射照亮賽納河的兩岸，穿過兩旁的樹木，透過玻璃窗，鋪滿了整個天花板。我試圖將這樣的經驗透過作品轉移到展覽空間。這是一個有趣的“觀看關係”，在船上的遊客欣賞著岸邊的景色及居民的生活，船上的燈光照亮岸旁建築內的每一個房間，掩飾不了遊客的“窺視”。同樣身為觀光客的我被這個賽納河兩岸居民早已習以為常的異常光害所吸引，我也窺視著短暫停留窗前的遊艇。在展場裡，原本一成不變的影像忽然亮起，空氣中四逸著馬達的傳動聲，昏暗的展場空間被影像裡船上的燈照亮。觀眾（某種程度上的觀光客）被這樣的光害所吸引，注視著漂流而過的燈光，而後展場再度回到昏暗的氛圍。這樣的透過“光的窗戶”跨越時空而產生新的“觀看關係”。如同我們在電腦前透過“光的窗戶”觀看這個世界以及其他人的生活，同時我們的行為也被其他人透過“光的窗戶”窺視著。

 

It is a video shot few years ago at Paris left bank. Every ten minutes, a cruise full of tourists went by my window. The fixed spotlights on the cruises lit up both sides of the Seine. The light went through the trees no the banks of the river, came into windows, and spread all over my ceiling. I tried to transfer this experience onto an art piece in order to make it into an exhibition space. This is an interesting relation of “watching experience.” While the tourists on the cruise enjoyed scenery and people’s lives, the spotlights lit up every rooms in buildings by the banks. The voyeurism of tourists was even more obvious with the lights. As a tourist myself, I was attracted by the strange light pollution that the residents by the Seine were already used to long time ago. I also peeped into the cruises that stayed momentarily by my window. At the exhibition space, a still image is lit suddenly, and the sound of motors filled the air around. The dark exhibition space is shined by the boat appears in the image. The audience (tourists to some degree) is attracted by the light pollution, and stares at the lights that flow by. Then, the space again goes into the dim room. The new “viewing relation” came all the way from another time and space through a “window of light.” It is the same as how we see the world and other people’s lives through computers, a “window of light.,” and at the same time, our behavior is also peeped by others through this “window of light.”