製造:關於純淨的信念

PRODUCE : Faith of Sublimation

2019

影像裝置 
與戴謙共同創作

Video installation
Wooden corridor, photo paper frame
Documentary on TV: Black is Nature (16:30) 

製造:關於純淨的信念

PRODUCE : Faith of Sublimation

2019

影像裝置 
與戴謙共同創作

Video installation
Wooden corridor, photo paper frame
Documentary on TV: Black is Nature (16:30) 

事情起因於我們受邀在燕巢工業區內的展覽,藉此機會我們生活在當地、並帶著一種異常的身份試著融入當地的語境;短短一個多月的時間裡,我們造訪了許多工業區內的企業主,令人訝異的是,近年令社會熱議的「產業升級」、「製造高值化」、「永續能源」等焦慮情緒,在這些公司辦公室的茶桌上,彷彿不存在般,取而代之的,只是一種對產業堅定的信心。

我們所在的日盛倉庫群可視作典型燕巢工業形態的縮影,滿載運行的機具背後,是幾十年來逐步站穩腳跟的歷程;以螺絲製造為主體的燕巢,現今從日常五金到精密電子儀器,各種工業產品裡都有他們的參與。外界很難想象他們倒底有多樂觀,一位董仔跟我們說「(燕巢)最難熬的日子已經過去了,至少到2050年都沒問題的啦!」

這樣的落差使我們得以深思,尤其是身為年輕藝術家群體的一員,我們對於製造/生產的的信心何在?藝術的製造/生產又該是什麼樣貌?高雄的螺絲業以對鋼材的純淨到加工技術的講究等「老方法」,低調地成為了「全球製造」的一員,並使自己牢牢地嵌入當代物質生活的結構裡。面對全球化的語境,我們該如何思考藝術的實踐價值,藝術的「生產力」又是什麼呢?我們便從最小格局出發想象著。

本作可分為兩個部件:一為在燕巢工業區內部拍攝、以太陽能板的造形展示的工廠內部影像——月光板(LunarPanel)。二為經由前者「輸送」能量後所照亮的攝影作品——西曬。

我們感受著工廠從落日到夜晚,感受著其生命力,將我們的思緒表象成一種比喻:當代社會的藝術價值,或許不是如正午的太陽般露骨地直射,也可能是夕陽的耀光所激起的張力空隙,又或是夜晚灑落的月光所能令人感悟的陰翳能量,藝術家或許就該在此、在最邊陲的處境,思考著最真切的問題:

這裡有著某種產物:關於製造與純淨的信心。生活物與藝術物的生產從不是無關緊要的主題,製造與其過程除了展示了其對自身的態度,也顯示了人與他(她)整個的文明。“當代製造”,總是關於某種系統性的語境,本作中,能源、生產、消耗,被我們營造成目光和光的隱喻,在幽微的廠房裡,在西曬陽光烘烤的鐵皮屋頂上,一種純淨的製造在想像中再生。”

“At that time, I felt that this was the most similar tornado I had ever drawn in my life and could never be surpassed.”

Human beings, by virtue of their unique ability to represent, manifest their imaginations as visible inner impulses that shape the world. Because representation is different from images and symbols, it always points to transcendence, so in a sense, painting can also be said to be the form given by the author for what he has received; and the dimensions it can reveal. , by no means limited to those already there, and by no means exhaustive of its interpretation in the world. Regarding the wind, even if there is a visible part, the connotation of the painting object is not about the visual form, but about the movement of the sense. In fact, every brushstroke of the painting is trying to repeat a sense of reality. .

In a gathering with friends, we discussed the topic of “What is the source of my (possible) creation?”; when the topic talked about the experience of painting as a child, I remembered a memory – when I was very young , I just remember that I was very intently scratching on the paper with the pencil, my face against the paper, the lines piled up like fast, repeating, repeating, repeating, beyond the scope of vision; that tornado, I was I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever painted.

In the project “Between the Storm”, I went to several elementary schools to get along with the Primary One children, and asked them simply, “Do you know what the “wind” looks like?” They did not hesitate and loudly The answer: “I know~”. Then, we painted the wind together and spent a period of time – I observed, some of the children were venting furiously with their eyes closed, some were gently brushing the paper with pens, some were lying on the ground He moved his arms around, somewhat repeatedly, on a small point; just like this, the “images of the wind” were naturally produced. Finally, I collected these children’s drawings and filled a room with them.

Walking into this room surrounded by “wind” is like entering an Apple Store version of Lascaux’s caves. The homogeneous white space is lined with hundreds of paintings. Scanning this space, the same air flow formed by rheology and other qualia is hovering in the air, and the cold and heat are uncoordinated; like the north wind and the sun, it is somewhat childish and violent, whenever the viewer grasps some similarities, even trying When summarizing the “painting school” or logic, the individual and differentiated details will eventually surround the viewers without being able to distance themselves.

As one of the participants in making this happen, in the face of interpenetration with others, it seems futile and inappropriate to interpret one-dimensionally to unify concepts and meanings; The point is only, the power that unfolds in these simple relationships gives me a touch of life, that is – fascinated by the uncertainty of creative feeling; also expect the viewer to be in these storms manifested by children Find room for feeling and inspire some thinking about what it means to be creative.