[…] 超渴望敘事 ([…] craving for narrative)

名稱 / […] 超渴望敘事([…] craving for narrative) 
形式 / 投影影像
年份 / 2015
長度 / 23 min’
媒材 / 錄像
藝術家 / Max Grau(德國)

〈[…] 超渴望敘事〉幾乎完全是由現成影像組成,作品主要擷取電影《火爆浪子》中的23秒片段,藉由無止盡的重複播放所組成。電影最後高潮歌曲「你是我要的唯一」,被簡化為作品的第一段曲調。除現成影像外,在螢幕(或投影)下方,原是字幕出現的地方,則會出現一些文字敘述。這些敘述有時好像天外飛來一筆,或是不斷呢喃迂迴,有著自己的起承轉合。《火爆浪子》的片段在整部影片中不斷循環,呈現出兩種時間性──線性與循環──則是作品中的基本命題之一。

The video,  […] craving for narrative, is almost exclusively based on found footage. The main clip – a 23 sec. excerpt from the movie ‹Grease› – is permanently looped. The movie’s final cathartic song ‹You’re the one that I want› is reduced to its first verse. Besides found imagery, there’s a text based narration happening in the lower region of the screen (or projection), where normally the subtitles would be. This narrative – although being at times slightly swerving or circular – has a beginning and an end. The clip from ‹Grease› is continuously looped throughout the whole piece. Those two modes of temporality – linearity and the loop – might be one of the basic concerns of the video.