你往何處去：終日的行走

Walking On: A Directionless Path

媒材：攝影、錄像、輸出、文件

尺寸：依現場空間而定

年代：2015

Materials: Photos, Video, Digital Output

Dimension: Arranged according to the exhibition space

Year: 2015

 

行走時間：16小時40分鐘(1000分鐘)
行走距離：42.89公里

開始時間：2015/4/18  am 5:09
停止時間：2015/4/18  pm 9:49 
開始地點：台北市中正區同安街(25°01'21.4"N 121°31'13.1"E)
停止地點：台北市北投區中央北路四段(25°07'44.5"N 121°28'12.4"E)

Duration of Walk: 16 hours 40 minutes (1000 minutes)
Distance of Walk:    42.89 kilometers
Start Time: 2015/4/18   5:09am
End Time: 2015/4/18   9:49pm
Departure Point: Ln. 72, Tong’an St., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan(25°01'21.4"N 121°31'13.1"E)
End Point: Sec. 4, Zhongyang N. Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan(25°07'44.5"N 121°28'12.4"E)

接近天亮的時刻，我從家門外的巷子口出發，完成創作計畫「你往何處去」。

從清晨5點09分到夜晚9點49分，歷時16小時40分鐘(1000分鐘)，這件作品的主題就是行走，行前不預設任何目的地，我只是在每一個路口前做出選擇。

如果說這段步行給我什麼較為深刻的感受，即是體驗到這座城市驚人的活動能力吧，好似科幻電影裡經常出現的動態爬藤植物一般，街道上到處充斥著各式物理活動所遺留下來的汙垢與裂縫。

伴隨著愈見沉重的腳步，這段不預設目的地的行走帶我經歷了許多毫無預期的城市角落，城市的每個部位就連汙穢都有其層次之別與酸鹼之分，或者，我向來體會到的城市面貌，僅僅侷限在那日常生活的地點與地點之間吧。

16個小時40分的步行與其說是苦行的作為，毋寧說是體現自日常生活裡的繁瑣與重複，那些繁瑣重複即是煮蛙的溫水，你覺得痛了發出呻吟，休息個幾天好像又沒事了，就差不多是這樣的程度而已；生活總是用比較緩慢溫柔的方式殺死每一個人，以10年20年作為度量的單位。

Around dawn one morning, I set out from the lane in front of my home to accomplish my creative work “Walking On: A Directionless Path”.

I walked from 5:09 in the early morning till 9:49 at night, for 16 hours and 40 minutes in total. The theme of the work is walking, with no destination set ahead. I walked on and on, and simply made spontaneous decisions to turn in whichever direction it might be on arriving at crossroads.

To describe the deep impressions the walk gave me, I’d say I’d experienced the incredible vitality of the city. It resembled the imagery of climbing plants on the move in sci-fi movies. The network of streets was filled with the remains of dirt and cracks left behind by all kinds of activities that had gone on there before.

With each step becoming heavier and heavier, this walk with no destination brought me to many unknown corners of the city. Each location differed even in terms of level of dirtiness, and also in its acidity and alkalinity. Perhaps the city I am acquainted with is limited to the areas related to my daily living.

The walk of 16 hours and 40 minutes is not an ascetic act. Rather, it reflects the trivial and repetitive nature of daily life. The triviality and repetition can be compared to the frogs cooked in warm water - you feel painful and groan, and after taking a few days’ rest, you seem to feel fine again. That’s what the level of pain is. Life kills a man in a slower and gentler way, with a decade or 2 decades as the basis of measurement of time.