《旅館計畫三:THE HOTEL》,複合媒材裝置,500×300×300cm,2005
《Hotel Project Ⅲ:THE HOTEL》, Mixed media installation, site-specific, 2005
《旅館計畫三:THE HOTEL》,複合媒材裝置,500×300×300cm,2005
《Hotel Project Ⅲ:THE HOTEL》, Mixed media installation, site-specific, 2005
《旅館計劃三:THE HOTEL》作品使用多個文化面向的旅館房間影像來轟炸自己與觀者,細密而瑣碎的片段,充滿異國風味的物件,以及自身與充滿異國情調的場景之間的密切互動,試著營造出另一個虛幻卻錯亂的旅館房間,以物質性的影像誘發出深藏於心的出走慾望,展開一場精神性非肉體的旅行。我在這過程不僅擔任起空服員、旅行者、攝影師、觀察者、異鄉客,或是創作者,在暫時停留的空間裡,將自己喜歡保存與蒐集回憶的個性恣意地發洩出來,一種近似暴食的心理狀態,用相機喀咂喀咂不停去攝取當地的養分,好似貧窮或飢餓過渡,深怕一旦離開不能再擁有同樣的事物。
希望這些異度空間裡都能留下自身曾經存在的證據,也許是被清潔人員所忽略的床底下有我掉落的頭髮;或許是掉入沙發縫細裡的餅乾碎屑;或許是數位相機裡的我的數位身影。
這是關於:抵達、翻開行李、再打包行李、最後離開,這之間一直重複循環的過程。儀式化的紀錄過程,固定展開的步驟,反覆進行觀察與拍攝,然後賦予這些步驟一個計劃性的目標:注意不同的異國特色,最後,將這些照片經過藝術化的處理過程,成為作品的重要元素。
Hotel Project III: The Hotel features bombarding images of hotel rooms pictured from different cultural aspects. Through the detailed and trivial fragments, exotic objects, and the intimate interaction between exotic scenes and myself, I try to create a hotel room with illusion and confusion. The material-based images evoke the deeply hidden desire to escape into a spiritual journey, instead of a physical trip. Throughout the process, I have taken the roles of a flight attendant, traveler, photographer, observer, foreigner, or creator. During my short stay in every place, I release my true self, especially the part of me who love to collect and preserve memories. Like a person, someone who is poor or hangry, who has a serious problem with food-crazing, I swallow every local thing I see with my camera with the fear that once I stop I will never have them again.
I hope I have left some traces of my presence in these alien spaces, like my hair under the bed missed by hotel cleaners, biscuit crumbs in sofa crevices, or the digital pictures of myself in my digital camera.
It is an endlessly repetitive process of arriving, unpacking, packing, and leaving. I thus document the process as a ritual of fixed and organized procedures. The continuous observation and photographing ultimately provide a goal for these steps: to observe various “exotic qualities.” In the end, I process the photographs and make them important artistic elements in my works.