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第七屆台灣國際錄像藝術展—ANIMA阿尼瑪,鳳甲美術館、空總臺灣當代文化實驗場 C-LAB,台北,2020 - 2021

The 7th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition

鳳甲美術館、空總臺灣當代文化實驗場 C-LAB,台北,2020 - 2021
Hong-gah Museum、Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, 2020 - 2021

「anima」在拉丁文裡意指「生命」、「靈魂」。以此為喻,展覽試圖探索動態影像背後,幽微而難以用言語描述的影像性。

召喚未知事物往往透過儀式。儀式為精神世界與物理現實之間短暫地劃出界線,讓參與其中的我們,暫時與日常生活割離開來。儀式給予我們到達出神體驗的通道,不管在那一端是平行宇宙、另類真實或錯置的時空。

就像是催眠。透過特定形式的引導,我們看見──或至少是相信我們自己看見。在催眠時,我們並不真的沉睡,而是保持某種異樣的清醒。讓我們比平常還要專注,尋常事物顯得意義非凡。

此展試著把催眠想像為一場觀影的儀式,將影像本身作為催眠的媒介。正如催眠儀式引導出的那種「特殊的睡」,作品像是一個通道,帶我們進入某種介於混沌與清醒之間的中介意識狀態。你眼前所遭遇的作品,如果不是引導我們進入出神狀態的誘發物,也是展示如何逼近它的過程。

展覽中不少作品涉及夢境、奇想、幻覺、潛意識,但相較於一個主題展,「ANIMA」更關乎觀看的方法,圍繞著腦中的成像,以及觀影過程中如催眠帶來的出神狀態。有些作品的時間非常短暫,甚至僅僅是一個完全靜止的影像,卻不妨礙我們凝神靜觀,把某個停滯的瞬間,重新體驗成一段綿延的時間。部分時間長度不短的作品,則歡迎你以鬆散的注意力,或是視覺之外的感官經驗來捕捉它。

「ANIMA」關注的不是閱讀影像,而是體驗影像──重點並不是消化影像中所展示的資訊,而是洞見潛藏其中的真正話語。當我們「不讀」的時候,影像如何被感知?或推到極致,當我們「不看」的時候,影像是否還成立嗎?以催眠的影像為通道,我們得以進入那些如真似幻、看來不太對勁的各種另類真實──那是潛意識裡的現實、場景調度後的現實,被媒體中介後的現實,以及被記憶殘片怪異剪輯後的現實。

“Anima” is “life” as well as “soul” in Latin. As such, the exhibition aims to delve into the subtle imageries beyond description behind moving images.

It is often through a ritual that we summon the unknown. A ritual draws a line between the spiritual realm and the physical reality temporarily, so that we as participants are separated from our everyday lives for a brief moment. A ritual grants us the portal to trance, be that a parallel universe, alternative reality, or displaced space-time on the other side.

It is like hypnosis. Through a certain form of guidance, we see – or least we are convinced to see. In hypnosis, we do not fall asleep. Instead, we stay in a certain extraordinary lucidity. Hence, we are more focused than usual, while everything becomes extraordinarily meaningful.

This exhibition attempts to conceive hypnosis as a ritual of image viewing, where the image itself serves as the medium to hypnosis. Just as the “extraordinary sleep” induced by a hypnotic ritual, the works are portals that lead us to a mediated conscious state betwixt chaos and clarity. The works in front of your eyes are either inducers that lead us to trance, or the flows that demonstrate how we approach it.

There are more than a few works involving dreams, fantasies, illusions, or subconsciousness. Rather than a themed exhibition, however, ANIMA is more of means to viewing, the imageries haunted in mind, and the trance in image viewing as if induced by hypnosis. Some works have very limited playing time, or even are completely still images.Yet, it hinders not our gaze and contemplation that consumes us into a suspended instant to re-experience a never-ending duration. For those with a longer length, you are welcome to capture them with a loose attention or through a sensation beyond vision.

ANIMA emphasizes not the reading of but the experience of images – the focus lies not in the digestion of information exhibited in images, but in the insight into the true words beneath. How can an image be perceived when we “unread” it? Or to the extreme,can an image still be established when we “unsee” it? With hypnotic images as portals,we are granted with access into those alternative realities betwixt actuality and fantasy that seem out of place – the subconscious reality, the mise-en-scène reality, the media-mediated reality, and the reality awkwardly edited by fragments of memory.

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