Sunrise
video installation、Inkjet print
11’08”
2023


日出
錄像裝置、藝術微噴
11’08”
2023




《日出》螢幕升降裝置展場紀錄,螢幕未升起
(圖片提供:台北當代藝術館MoCA Taipei,攝影:ANPIS FOTO王世邦)


《日出》螢幕升降裝置展場紀錄,螢幕升起中
(圖片提供:台北當代藝術館MoCA Taipei,攝影:ANPIS FOTO王世邦)


《日出》螢幕升降裝置展場紀錄,螢幕已升起
(圖片提供:台北當代藝術館MoCA Taipei,攝影:ANPIS FOTO王世邦)


“ The sun has risen, and the darkness has stayed behind. But the sun is not ours, we are going to sleep. ”— Cao Yu, Sunrise

The rising and setting of the sun have long defined human concepts of time and calendars. Even the human pineal gland, which regulates our sense of time, is synchronized by exposure to sunlight. The phrase“rise at sunrise, rest at sunset,”which once symbolized the stable rhythms of agrarian life, no longer fits the digital era. Our daily routines have drastically changed.

For many, sunrise now marks the moment when we surrender our time to work. Only after work do we reclaim time for ourselves, yet by then the sun has already begun to set—just like Chen Bailu, the protagonist of Sunrise, realizing that the sun was never truly hers.

After work, people's vision is occupied by "screens" until just before sleep. The glow of the screen has become a new kind of sun, gradually interfering with the pineal gland’s regulation of day and night, and blurring our perception of time.

Does "sunrise and sunset" now refer to the movement of the actual sun, or to the act of screens lighting up and going dark? Which sun do we truly live under?




「太陽出來了,黑暗留在後面,但是太陽不是我們的,我們要睡了」 — 曹禺《日出》

       
太陽的升起與落下,定義了時間與暦法,建立人類時間感官的松果體也透過接收「太陽光」來調節。形容農耕社會安定作息的「日出而作,日落而息」在如今的數位時代早已不合時宜,人們的作息起居已然改變。對多數人來說,太陽升起的時候,是把自己的時間交出去給工作的時後,下班後終於有了屬於自己的時間,太陽卻逐漸落下,就如同《日出》的主角陳白露一般,好像太陽不是我們的。

下班後的人被「螢幕」佔據了視線,直到睡前才甘願關掉眼前的螢幕,「螢幕光」成為了另一種太陽,逐漸介入松果體的書夜調節機制,時間感官也随之混沌。

「日出日落」指的是太陽的升起與落下,還是螢幕的開啟與關閉?我們的太陽又是哪一種太陽?



《日出》翻拍螢幕的攝影作品,拍攝台北下班懸日的場景





《日出》錄像截圖




(圖片提供:台北當代藝術館MoCA Taipei,攝影:ANPIS FOTO王世邦)


(圖片提供:台北當代藝術館MoCA Taipei,攝影:ANPIS FOTO王世邦)


(圖片提供:台北當代藝術館MoCA Taipei,攝影:ANPIS FOTO王世邦)




特別感謝:
文化部扶植青年藝術發展補助
台北市文化局藝文補助
哪裡有限公司
Lotos 樂土灰泥
水手9號私廚料理
國立臺北藝術大學新媒體藝術學系