Two-channel video installation
Dimension variable
video:
part one: (*based on request), 7min48s
part two: (*based on request), 9min54s
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Occupy movement.
A computer screen. A live channel.
An artist-in-residence program in New York
for three months. A witness of Hong Kong street occupation in the distance.
A barrier too hard to take strides across, politically, personally.
Different situations simultaneously occur
related to brand-new political circumstances and short-term change of living
environment which once again urging people to reflect the essence of life.
Fragments from individuals and community in the past to now are being
penetrated, even triggering issues about beliefs and contradiction of value.
While intentionally exposing deposits of these awareness and knowledge, all are
scattered memories. In that they always contain sense of loss at veiled
corners. Due to choices of escape, oblivion and fear, the emotions haven’t
being tackled for a long period.
Particular time and space collide; a moment
of departure. Regrets are pushed in front providing additional opportunities of
pondering the human world and relationship, as well as facing powerlessness
driven by growth, generations and urban life.
“Dance before departure” depicts the
artist’s anxiety from being distanced towards Hong Kong occupy street and his
residency in New York which dig concealed regrets out about relationship with
his playmate during growth. He has attempted to dance referred to similar cases
in the childhood of gaining the joy easily by just moving bodies. It is the
carefree time without worries. The process of tracing back integrated with
various scenes of Hong Kong and New York, along with showing text of the unsent
letter to the artist’s cousin. There is a distance too hard to be shortened
unpredictably connecting to Hong Kong political dilemma again that it seemingly
points out the difficulty of getting rid of the same consequences from many
kinds of affairs.
佔領運動。
在紐約的三個月藝術家駐場計劃。
截然不同的處境同時出現，相關革新的政治事態與生活環境的短暫變更，催迫人一再反思生活本質，穿透過去現在中個人與社會裡的片段，以至價值的信奉與衝突。若意圖揭露這些認知與知識的底蘊，都堆砌自零碎記憶，而記憶一隅總帶失落。被擱置的這些情感，或基於選擇逃避、遺忘、恐懼，而良久沒有處理來加以釋懷。
特別的時空碰撞；離異的一刻，遺憾再被牽扯在前，又一次思考世情與人際關係，面對成長、世代、都市生活的無奈。
“臨行前跳舞”訴說的是藝術家對應佔領及駐留產生的離異之愁，觸發想起潛藏已久的遺憾，直指跟兒時玩伴的關係，並嘗試以跳舞重塑童年很容易便得到的快樂，那無憂無慮的時代。追溯過程貫穿多段香港及紐約影像，伴隨給予堂兄但沒有寄出的信件文字，一種無法縮短的距離竟再聯想到香港政治困局，指出世事就似難逃迎來相同的結果。
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