Book, 185mm×280mm
——Re-Living the City (Affiliated exhibition: Co-Living) —Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, (Xipu new residence in Longgang district, Shenzhen
——2015年深港城市/建築雙城雙年展分展場「共享之屋」龍崗西浦新居項目
44P
2015
Take a walk at Xipu, shoot some interesting objects (probably abandoned, out of tune, domestic, etc.) based on my observation within the area and write from the first perspective a memory-piece style story for each of them.
Like what Calvino intended to show us in his 「Invisible City」: 「Spaces become cultural symbols through imagination. Human ideas are capable of the construction of worlds」. What Calvino built are cities beyond the space-time vision, they are lands of 「elsewhere」. Since nowadays, the 「elsewhere」 no longer exists, the whole world is homogenised. This kind of imagination in the novel which interlace cities of the past and the future allows comparisons, questions and debates about the contemporary cities in nowadays. In this case, I tried to seize the potentially existing 「fantasticality」 in the objects that were placed in the city context. Through imagination, such places/objects can be inlaid within the world. The photos and writings will finally be combined into a diary of this place.
在西埔新居散步觀察，拍攝在當地範圍內所觀察到的、有意思的（也有可能是被棄置的、格格不入的、家用擺設的等等）物品，然後以它們為第一視角出發，為它們各自杜撰一段碎片記憶文本。
正如卡爾維諾在《看不見的城市》一書中所試圖表現出的：「空間在想象中變為文化符號，人的觀念是可以構築世界的」。卡爾維諾所構築的是超越於時空想象的城市，是一些「別處」的大陸，因為在今天，「別處」可以說已經不再存在了，整個世界趨為一致。在小說中那種對過去的和對未來的城市的交叉想象，令今天的我們可以藉此展開進行關於現代城市的比較、質疑與討論。在這個方案中，我試圖去獲得的是在被放置於這個城市背景下那些物品身上可能存在的「幻想性」。通過想象可以將這些地方/物品「鑲嵌」到這個世界上。照片和寫作文本最後將被合編為一本此地的記憶日記。
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