時間裡的它方
Somewhere in time
2018
Somewhere in time
2018
「它停止了，我帶它回家，為它做一條跑帶，讓它不停止於前進。」
運作的物件是一輛玩具小車，它無盡的向前行進，因運轉而成立的時空，渺小即逝，只存在此時此刻。對物件自我投射的真實身體官經驗， 從小車投射的糢糊風景暗喻，是一路上追尋的過程，不是終點的目的地。
藝術家蔡宜婷買下一輛二手玩具車，並為這台車製作一條持續運行的跑帶，隨著跑帶的運轉，它亦不斷地朝向前方邁進，它的生命看似得到延續，實際上卻是不斷地追尋著無法企及的目的地。在這條綿延的時間軸裡，它前行的未來轉瞬成為過去，「此時此地」成為玩具車的生命寫照，未竟的旅程則構成了擋風玻璃上投射出的模糊前景。
如果時間與空間是相對的，那在世界上的每個個體，似乎都試圖在自身的經驗中建立出自己的參照系。透過生冷的動力裝置，藝術家將夜裡獨自駕駛的經驗，轉化為孤獨慢駛的玩具車，呈現出無限循環的末路荒蕪感。她藉由玩具車所形成的微觀時空，探討前進與停滯間的弔詭關係，同時重新思考關於存在的意義。
It stopped. I took it home and made a belt, for it to run ceaselessly.
Tsai, Yi-Ting bought a second-hand toy car and made a belt for it to run ceaselessly. As the belt runs, and constantly the car runs forward as well. Its life seems extended; it is a constant pursuit of an unreachable destination, nevertheless. On this stretched belt of time, the future it marches to turns into the past instantly. “Here and now” becomes the picture of life for the toy car, as the journey beyond lays out the blurred prospect projected on the windshield.
Should time and space be relative, individuals in the world appear to strive for establishing a reference system of their own on top of the respective experiences. Through an aloof motor device, the artist transformed her lone driving experience at night into a toy car that progresses slowly in solitude, demonstrating a never-ending loop of desolation at the end of the road. Through the micro space-time formulated via the toy car, she explores the paradoxical relationship between progression and stagnation while reconsidering the meaning of existence.
運作的物件是一輛玩具小車，它無盡的向前行進，因運轉而成立的時空，渺小即逝，只存在此時此刻。對物件自我投射的真實身體官經驗， 從小車投射的糢糊風景暗喻，是一路上追尋的過程，不是終點的目的地。
藝術家蔡宜婷買下一輛二手玩具車，並為這台車製作一條持續運行的跑帶，隨著跑帶的運轉，它亦不斷地朝向前方邁進，它的生命看似得到延續，實際上卻是不斷地追尋著無法企及的目的地。在這條綿延的時間軸裡，它前行的未來轉瞬成為過去，「此時此地」成為玩具車的生命寫照，未竟的旅程則構成了擋風玻璃上投射出的模糊前景。
如果時間與空間是相對的，那在世界上的每個個體，似乎都試圖在自身的經驗中建立出自己的參照系。透過生冷的動力裝置，藝術家將夜裡獨自駕駛的經驗，轉化為孤獨慢駛的玩具車，呈現出無限循環的末路荒蕪感。她藉由玩具車所形成的微觀時空，探討前進與停滯間的弔詭關係，同時重新思考關於存在的意義。
It stopped. I took it home and made a belt, for it to run ceaselessly.
Tsai, Yi-Ting bought a second-hand toy car and made a belt for it to run ceaselessly. As the belt runs, and constantly the car runs forward as well. Its life seems extended; it is a constant pursuit of an unreachable destination, nevertheless. On this stretched belt of time, the future it marches to turns into the past instantly. “Here and now” becomes the picture of life for the toy car, as the journey beyond lays out the blurred prospect projected on the windshield.
Should time and space be relative, individuals in the world appear to strive for establishing a reference system of their own on top of the respective experiences. Through an aloof motor device, the artist transformed her lone driving experience at night into a toy car that progresses slowly in solitude, demonstrating a never-ending loop of desolation at the end of the road. Through the micro space-time formulated via the toy car, she explores the paradoxical relationship between progression and stagnation while reconsidering the meaning of existence.
"To be is the here and now"
It had stopped moving. I brought it home and made it a conveyor belt to keep it moving forward.
It all began with a small toy car I saw in a flea market. I made a conveyor belt for it. The belf churns nonstop. The toy car moves but stays in one place. The future immediately becomes the past. The churning gives the car a sense of being; being is the here and now. The car is so small, the future immediately becomes the past. Once gone it is gone forever. Everything is in the here and now.
