2021:記憶漫遊─ EP.1 2021: Cruising in my Memory – EP.1

    

2021:記憶漫遊──EP.1

2021: Cruising in my Memory–EP.1

2022

不鏽鋼、鐵、砂輪機、砂輪片、防火布、輪子、安全帽鏡片、影像輸出

 Stainless steel, iron, grinder, grinding disc, fireproof fabric, wheel, helmet shield, print 

尺寸 依場地而定

Dimensions variable

The Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival of 2021 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally, the festival was held to dispel plagues, and has evolved into its modern form of firing fireworks at the crowds. In order to join this festive occasion, the locals have invented many distinctive protection gears accordingly, which somehow seems to foresee the new normal in the post-pandemic period.

In this work, Wu Lien-Yin views the grinding disc as an album that records his personal memories, and broadcast these memories using the mechanical installation in the exhibition. Spinning and with friction, it plays the content about “beehive fireworks, pandemic, blacksmith shops” in my hometown In an analog way. The flying sparks connect the memories from three different moments in time, overlapping images, smells, sounds, and a sense of the body. The artist re-edits, combines, and compresses the elements in the three pieces of memories, embedding them into the machine.

As the audience open the fireproof curtains, they enter a small personal cinema that looks like a diorama. Interlacing the perspectives of viewing beehive fireworks, blacksmithing, and pandemic- prevention devices, he creates a first-person position that allows the audience to look into an interior space sealed from the outside through a safe window. The audience can watch the dangerous scene of flying sparks. The oncoming dots of light becomes a tunnel through time, creating a space in which the audience can freely roam and journey in the artist’s memories.

  

  

攝影提供:北美館