Dark Wall

Live Art / Installation / Burnt Fir, fog machine
Dimensions variable
2021

黑牆

現場行為表演 / 燒杉板、噴煙機
尺寸依場地而定
2021

"Examining many of the strange, indeed horrifying, rites and ceremonies of primitive initiation, we are led to the conclusion that the purpose and actual effect of these exercises of severance are to drive the psychê out of the body, to push it beyond the last bounds of the world, and yet to bring it back again, revived, tempered, and enlightened. This is the basic motif of the universal hero's journey—leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth to a richer or more mature condition. The so-called rites of passage, which occupy such a prominent place in the life of a primitive society—rights which attend a lifetime from birth through puberty, marriage, and death—are distinguished by formal, and often very severe, exercises of severance, whereby the mind is radically cut away from the attitudes, attachments, and life patterns of the stage being left behind. The period of retirement may be long or brief, during which, by means of various ceremonies, the mind is prepared for the life-patterns and feelings of the new stage. Then, when the crisis of the ordeal is passed, the worshipper is reborn in the world anew, refreshed and resolved."

— Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The inside and the outside of the wall represent two different stages of a journey. Being within these stages, one perceives the surrounding things and discerns their location. By crossing the wall, one gains a clear understanding of the wall's appearance.

In past creations, I attempted to understand the influence of family relationships on individuals through my own body. At each stage of creation, I would look back and re-experience those specific moments of memory. This time, I am trying to immerse myself in all things, using sound conduction to awaken subtle memories.

「考察來自原始部落及過去偉大文明的許多怪異儀式時，這些儀式引導人們跨越那些艱難的轉化門檻—同時要求意識以及無意識生活模式的改變…。在原始社會生活中佔有顯著地位的所謂成長儀式(出生、命名、成人、結婚、喪葬等禮儀)，藉由正式且非常嚴格的隔離練習（exercises of severance）而凸顯出來；透過這種練習，心識與前一階段的態度、執著和生活模式全然切斷。接下來會有一段或長或短的隱退間隔，此時制定好的儀式將引介生命歷險者，進入他生命的形式及固有的感受中，所以最後當回歸日常世界的時機成熟時，被啟蒙者便有如再生一般。」 ――喬瑟夫．坎伯《千面英雄》

牆內和牆外是兩種不同階段的歷程，身處其中感受周遭事物，辨明所在之處。跨越了牆，認清了牆的樣貌。過往的創作中，嘗試以自身身體體認家庭關係之於人的影響，在每個創作階段，重新回望，再次經歷那些特定記憶的時刻。這次，嘗試將自身融入在萬物之中，以聲音傳導，喚醒細微記憶。