Mountain, Ghost, Sunlight, Umbrella—
Unreal Images Flow in Time and Space for Hundreds of Years ,Dynamic experiment image, 15'09'',2022
Artist Statement
The title of this work, Mountain, Ghost, Sunlight, Umbrella, uses four nouns to form a series of narratives highlighted by a verb. The narratives are adapted from a true story: The story is about a little girl, who passed away because of leukemia, and the various events that ensue her death. The four stages are “In the Mountain Fog,” “A Ghostly Encounter,” “Bringing the Ghost Down the Mountain in Daylight,” and “The Ghost in an Umbrella,” which adopt abstract image narratives to portray the idea of a body-less spirit.
This work explores how animation technologies are connected with ghosts and illusions. In this case, “ghosts” refer to illusions created by visual afterimages. They linger among different temporal-spatial “nodes,” producing illusions and spiritual disturbances by playing on the inability of the “human eye” to catch up with the “eye of machine.” As early as 1896, the worldview informed by the techniques of stop motion and substitution splice created by Georges Méliès (1861-1938) already gave birth to many spectral and spectacular illusions. As of today, artists are using various technologies, including animation substitution, algorithm, and face swap, to transport the body of modern people into an illusory space-time more than a century ago—the past time of Méliès’s films.
Will the time be broken in the future? Will films no longer be used as proofs of temporal progression? Or, when the “past, present, and future” time are all represented at the same time point, will the manipulation and forgery of space-time become a popular maneuver in future crimes? The films left in the future will not be evidence anymore but an enshrouding fog of time. The future will be a world, in which immortals, substitutes, zombies, ghosts, and human bodies co-exist.
00:00-00:05 Mountain, Ghost, Sun, Umbrella
00:08-00:12CHEN,I-CHUN
00:15-00:20 Amidst the Mountain’s Beguiling Mist
00:33-00:47 Who am I
00:38-00:47 Who are you
00:43-00:47 You are me
00:47-00:52 I am you
00:56-01:00 We are identical
01:04-01:09 After your death,
01:12-01:17 half of me died too
01:23-01:28 Leukemia
01:30-01:34 took you away
01:44-01:48 I, with the same DNA,
01:56-02:01 also count down the moments with fear
02:51-02:55 Encountering A Ghost
03:50-03:55 I began to hike the mountains
04:16-04:20 wanting to encounter a ghost
04:34-04:39 You, who are the same as I
04:54-04:58 Just where should I come and go
05:28-05:32 I see myself in the mirror
06:12-06:19 I ask Do you want to come down the mountain with me
06:29-06:32 You ask me
06:39-06:42 From which era of me should be chosen
06:55-06:59 to accompany you down the mountain
07:16-07:21 Inviting the Ghost to Descend the Mountain in Daylight
07:49-07:53 My left hand holds the sun
08:23-08:28 My right hand holds the black umbrella
09:05-09:09 I place the sun into the black bag
10:04-10:08 and allow you to come under the umbrella to leave with me
10:04-10:08 We traverse across many places
10:31-10:35 The you in the mirror is both you and me
10:58-11:02 The Ghost in the Umbrella
11:21-11:25 I am used to holding up the black umbrella
11:48-11:53 while sharing with you the memories we once possessed together
12:06-12:10 If every well contains your whisper
13:00-13:04 The you in the mirror in every century
13:20-13:24 You as a ghost choose to become old with me
13:34-13:38 to fossilize together
13:53-13:57 to be eroded by the wind together
14:09-14:13 to become sand together
14:24-14:28 To disappear into the world, both eyes obscured
14:34-14:38 When I once again rub both of my eyes
14:44-14:48 You shall be by my side
14:53-14:57 having never left
山鬼日傘－幻影時空的百年流轉 ，動態實驗影像, 15'09''，2022
作品〈山鬼日傘〉以四個名詞山、鬼、日、傘，去串接成一個動詞所彰顯的一連串敘事，敘事改編自一段真實故事：關於一位小女孩罹患血癌去世，所衍生的種種事跡；其中「山中的迷霧裡」、「遇鬼」、「日光下將鬼請下山」和「在傘裡的鬼」四個階段，以抽象敘事的方式做為影像引動出竅靈魂的概念。
本次作品談論動畫技術與鬼影、幻影間的關係，而那個「鬼」，指的是動畫中視覺殘像的錯覺，鬼穿梭在每個時間與空間的「結點」中，它藉由「肉眼」跟不上「機器之眼」而產生幻象及靈魂騷動，早在1896年喬治．梅里愛(Georges Méliès) 停抽格技術的世界觀中，就以此產生了許多鬼魅的奇觀幻影；到如今，藝術家以動畫替身、演算法和換臉等技術，將現代人的身體，置換在一個幻影時空的百年流轉－回到梅里愛的影像過去……。
未來的時間是否將被摔破，影像是否無法成為時間足跡的證明，又或是影像將時間的「過去、現在、未來」都再現於同一個時間點上的時候，空間和時間的捏造、偽造，是否也將成為未來犯罪的顯學；在未來遺留下的影像，將不再是證據，而是一團時間的迷霧，未來，將是不死之身、替身、喪屍、亡靈、肉身都同時存在的世界。
00:00-00:05山鬼日傘
00:08-00:12陳依純
00:15-00:20山中的迷霧裡
00:33-00:47我是誰
00:38-00:47你是誰
00:43-00:47你是我
00:47-00:52我是你
00:56-01:00我們長的一樣
01:04-01:09你死了以後
01:12-01:17我的一半也死了
01:23-01:28血癌
01:30-01:34把你帶走了
01:44-01:48擁有同樣基因的我
01:56-02:01也時刻倒數著恐懼
02:51-02:55遇鬼
03:50-03:55我開始爬山
04:16=04:20想遇見鬼
04:34-04:39那個和我一樣的你
04:54-04:58我到底要何去何從
05:28-05:32我看見鏡中的自己
06:12-06:19我問你要跟我下山
06:29-06:32你問我
06:39-06:42要選哪一個時代的我
06:55-06:59陪你下山去
07:16-07:21日光下將鬼請下山去
07:49-07:53我左手拿著太陽
08:23-08:28我右手拿著黑傘
09:05-09:09將太陽放進黑袋子裡
10:04-10:08讓你進到傘下同我離開
10:04-10:08我們走過許多地方
10:31-10:35鏡子中的你 是你也是我
10:58-11:02在傘裡的鬼
11:21-11:25我習慣撐著黑傘
11:48-11:53同你分享我們曾經共同的記憶
12:06-12:10如果每一口井 都是你的耳語
13:00-13:04鏡中的你 都是每個世紀
13:20-13:24是鬼的你 選擇跟我一起變老
13:34-13:38一起化為化石
13:53-13:57一起被風吹 風化
14:09-14:13一起成為 沙
14:24-14:28消失在世間 迷濛的雙眼
14:34-14:38當我再次 搓揉我的雙眼
14:44-14:48你將在我的身旁
14:53-14:57從沒有離開
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