Dazzle

video installation、site specific
10’41”
2021


刺眼
錄像裝置、現地創作
10’41”
2021




Outer space is so far-off that, even with today’s booming space technology, I believe most people like myself cannot imagine having a chance of flying out of Earth. I never had a glimpse of a black hole or a star cluster – they are dazzling astronomy images that can only be found in popular science books. Compared to the sci-fi films that effortlessly lure us into the imaginary world, the objective existence given in science is perhaps more of a science fiction and more out of reach.

The Sun is our nearest celestial body. Be it a physical or psychological concept of distance, and even they are all equally out of reach, but every day I can at least look at them and feel them.

I have a bad habit. I always like to stare in trance at the uncomfortable dazzling light in spectacles such as the mirror by the window, the rear-view mirror of the scooter, or the light reflected from the building’s façade. Squinting from a certain angle, the dazzling light becomes a tunnel glistening in glows of rainbow from around. It is as if a tunnel for a connection between me and outer space, by the sunlight that bridges everyday life and the unknown, and to a faraway place.

By constructing an apparatus with gears and bearings and mounting it on an old camera lens, it allows a glass lens smeared with transparent fluids to rotate endlessly and captures light reflected from different everyday objects. Dazzling rays of light pierce through the apparatus and the lens, transforming sunlight into a cloud of light explosion akin to astronomy images as if they were magical light rays in the dark curtains of outer space. I attempt to reexperience and recognize a world at the intersection of everyday life and science.

The video is projected on a clear glass using rear projection and in this way the spectator can observe flashing lights from the images from different angles. The lights from the projector at the exhibition mimics the flashing sunlight as an echo of the sunlight in the video.

太空很遙遠，即便是太空科技蓬勃發展的今日，我想多數人應該跟我一樣，難以想像有飛出地球的機會。我從來就沒有辦法用肉眼看見黑洞、星團，只能在科普書籍上，看見這些迷人的天文影像。所以也許這些科學上的客觀存在，比起可以輕易帶我們進入另一個想像世界中的科幻電影更科幻，更遙不可及。

太陽是離我最近的天體之一，不管是就物理的距離而言，又或者是心理的距離，即便祂們一樣遙不可及，但至少我每天都看的到祂們，感受的到祂們。

我有一個不好的習慣，我總是喜歡盯著生活場景中一些刺眼的光發愣，像是窗前的鏡子、機車的後照鏡或是大樓帷幕裡反射的刺眼陽光，瞇著眼從特定的角度看去，刺眼的光就會變得像一條通道般，四周閃爍著彩虹的光芒。這個通道就像是是我與太空之間的連結，透過陽光連結著日常與未知的、遙遠的他方。

我用齒輪與軸承的結構製作了一個裝置（詳見下方圖），讓玻璃鏡片可以在鏡頭前無限旋轉，並於鏡片上塗抹濃稠的透明液體，並裝載於一顆老鏡頭上，拍攝生活日常中不同物件所反射的陽光。刺眼的光線穿透此裝置以及鏡頭，把陽光變成一團像是天文影像一般的炸光，就像是太空黑幕裡的奇幻光線。我試圖藉此去重新經驗與重新認知日常與科學相互交疊之下的世界。

作品投影板以背投方式投影，材質為透光的玻璃板，因此在觀看影像時，後方的投影機光會隨著觀者不同角度看出現刺眼的光，投影機光在展場中如同陽光般刺眼，以此呼應錄像裡的陽光。




《刺眼》錄像裝置展場圖，投影機的光隨著觀者不同角度看而出現炸光，如同陽光般刺眼。

   
《刺眼》錄像裝置展場圖

《刺眼》錄像裝置展場圖


《刺眼》錄像截圖








《刺眼》的拍攝裝置








展場空間位於地下室，有一採光窗將一樓的室外光線，透進地下室空間中。利用此空間特性，將窗口封板留下圓洞，並在一樓玻璃窗上貼上黃色卡典西德，使透進展場的光呈現暖黃色的。

遠處觀看此作品時，像是使用人造光源—聚光燈打出平面圓形的光。而近看時，才察覺是一個洞口，光是來自室外的自然光源—陽光。隨著展覽空間開放的時間，從中午最亮至傍晚漸暗，呈現不同的光線變化，以此呼應錄像裡的太陽。
 
《刺眼》空間裝置展場圖


《刺眼》空間裝置展場圖

   
左圖：從遠處觀看
右圖：從近處觀看