Sounds Uncovered - Wu Chang Jung Solo Exhibition
聲聲幔－吳長蓉個展
2013.12.28 ~ 2014.01.26
聲聲幔－吳長蓉個展
2013.12.28 ~ 2014.01.26
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Sounds Uncovered is Wu Chang-jung’s latest solo exhibition at Project Fufill Art Space since two years ago. It includes four new artworks originated from her observation and imagination about “sounds in daily life.” Each audio-visual work stems from the experience of listening to and contemplating on life, world economy, the real and the imaginary as well as the intangible and indescribable relationships between people.
Due to the global economic crisis, Wu started working with her family in the pig-raising business a few years ago. Working in the pigsty, she learned that sick pigs needed to be covered and isolated by plastic canvases to ensure they had enough warmth. People could only observe the pigs’ health through the subtle differences in the sounds of breathing and digestion. For the artist, “sounds” became the medium of her imagination and the facts she had at hand to tell the reality. Through accumulation of experience, she learned to extract the truth from sounds. In 2013, she moved to Taipei, where her urban life has since become infused with much more technological sounds comparing to the one she had in the countryside, and has consequently created more audio impact for her in terms of the world and life. The artworks in this exhibition embody Wu’s observations on the “daily sounds” in the urban environment, revealing her creative fantasy connecting the audio and the visual as well as the imaginary and the real. Sounds Uncovered Sharing the same title with the exhibition, Sounds Uncovered, stemmed from Wu’s living experience since she moved to Taipei. Looking down from her window, she often finds the narrow streets are blocked and covered up by plastic canvas tents of various colors due to the activities taking place in the neighborhood. In this city jungle, the appearances of these tents often bring unusual audio experiences—ones that provide her much material for imagination even without personal presence. Through imagination and guessing at the meaning of the boisterous sounds beneath the tents, one comes close to know what is happening underneath the plastic canvases. This series presents 3D miniature models of sound installations that are comprised of traditional canvas tents often seen in Taiwan, attempting to uncover the “truth” of sound imagination blocked in this era of media explosion. On the Road On the Road is dedicated to the fighters that battle the cruel reality of life every day. This piece uses time-lapse photography to document patients covered with blankets, rehabilitating themselves back to health in school playing-field. Displaying with a speed of thirty images per second, the paces of the patients are combined with the sounds from timers of medical IV, delineating the world economy, imbalance in terms of energy and material, and the helplessness in real life. Excuse Me Although bicycles belong to the streets, the dangerous traffic in Taipei is incredibly oppressive and nerve-wrecking, Wu often rides her bicycle onto sidewalks like most of the bikers in Taipei. Passed by other bikers and meandering through pedestrians on the sidewalks, Wu always finds herself saying “excuse me” many times a day. This work captures all the awkward moments on the sidewalks of Taipei City, constituting a type of an urban game that describes the indescribable relationship and understanding between urban dwellers through the sounds created when people encountering and passing by each other. Lost in Taipei Having no sense of direction is a trouble in life. In a metropolitan like Taipei, Wu often needs the assistance of GPS in the mobile phone. This series not only demonstrates all the panic, anxiety, lightness, repetitiveness, games and habits when Wu is lost, it also reveals the cityscape in her life. Using the zoom-in function of a DSLR camera, Wu captures the familiarity of the streets and roads in Taipei, and displays the images with the cinematic speed of thirty images per second to create this piece. 聲聲幔-吳長蓉個展 《聲聲幔》為吳長蓉睽違兩年於就在藝術空間的個展，本次展出四件關於「日常聲音」觀察與想像的全新創作，為一件件生活聆聽經驗想像下，關於生命、世界經濟、真實與想像、以及人和人那某些無以名狀關係的聲音影像作品。 因全球經濟風暴牽動，前幾年吳長蓉和家人投入養豬場事業，奠基於過往豬舍工作的經驗，生病的豬會被隔離並以帆布防風罩遮蓋保溫，在遮蔽的狀況只能透過微異的呼吸聲、消化聲等等來察覺豬隻的身體狀態。對吳長蓉來說「聲音」成為產生想像與辨別真實的媒介，透過經驗累積的佐證而得知，各聲響所最接近的真實。2013年離開豬舍移居台北，都市生活相較於鄉村多了更多不同以往的科技冷調聲音，帶給吳長蓉對世界和生命有了更多聽覺的衝擊。本次展出的作品呈現在大城市中對「日常聲音」的觀察，呈現出創作者於聽覺與視覺關係間、想像與真實拉扯辯證間的觀察與奇幻異想。 《聲聲幔》 與展覽同名的作品《聲聲幔》來自於移居台北後的生活經驗，從我的住家窗外向下俯瞰，經常可以觀察到鄰近狹小的街道常因活動的舉辦而被彩色接龍帳篷、藍白帆布等覆蓋住，在這壅擠的城市中，帳篷的出現帶來一場場不同日常的聲響經驗，即使不用親身參與，透過想像推測、辨識帳棚下的熱鬧聲響也能對底下發生的事參透一二。這件作品藉由台灣傳統彩色帳篷帆布建構而成立體微縮模型聲音裝置，傳遞出這個世代媒體爆炸訊息中，攸關於遮蓋阻隔之下聲音想像的「真實」。 《我在路上》 ____________獻給每天和生命殘酷現實赤身搏鬥永不放棄的人們。 此作品藉由縮時攝影來記錄批著毛毯的病人於操場復健的過程，以每秒30張圖像的速度來播放，藉由畫面中病人的腳步節奏，結合醫療點滴計時器的聲響，企圖描述出所感受到的世界經濟、能源物質失衡、現實生命無能為力狀態下的種種感受。 《不好意思》 腳踏車的速度似乎較適合放在馬路上跑，但在凶狠的台北車流中卻又如此的壓迫與不適，於是我跟大部分自行車客一樣都選擇騎在人行道上。街上隨時呼嘯而過的單車騎士，以及漫步時左時右的行人們，讓穿梭在台北市人行道上的我，一天下來說最多的單字就是–不好意思。這件作品記錄和捕捉台北市人行道上的種種尷尬，企圖藉由和人相遇交錯之間的聲響，來建構出這城市間的默契遊戲進而描述人與人之間無以名狀的關係。 《迷路台北》 方向感差在生活中是令人困擾的一件事，在台北這大城市生活需要隨時拿出手機定位自己的方位。Lost系列作品不僅呈現出我面對迷路的各種慌亂、焦慮、輕盈、重複、遊戲、習慣般的感受，也呈現出當下生活的城市景象。這件作品運用了單眼相機鏡頭的zoom in來拍攝，捕捉我目前生活的台北城市熟悉的各大街景，在透過電影一秒30張圖像的概念，建構串連堆疊出此件作品。 |