Cat's Castle Without Walls

貓咪不喜歡牆壁(直譯:貓咪的城堡沒有牆壁)
Cat's Castle Without Walls
2023|Mp3, record cover, lyric|1:53

From an invitation by Fan and Kenneth, there's an online exhibition where a fictional online box is sent back and forth. As artists, our role seems to be placing our works (or used to be) inside this box. Everything has this peculiar premise (perhaps I'm the only one concerned about this setup), which seems a bit contrary to the usual exhibitions. You already know its final form, and perhaps even the format of the offline exhibition. Your only task is to produce its content or, in other words, seek content for it.

In a fictional "box," I contemplate what kind of artworks should be exhibited—unseen yet real. This reminds me of Schrödinger's cat, existing in a hypothetical space, simultaneously alive and dead. It prompts me to consider showcasing a relationship between past experiences and imagination: I, like the cat, am nurtured within the confines of the internet, where imagined things are not always untrue.

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來自在Fan與Kenneth的邀請裡(here),線上的展覽裡有一個線上虛構的盒子被寄來寄去,充當藝術家的我們,要做的仿佛是(曾經)放進盒子裡的作品,這一切都有這樣一個奇怪的前提(或許只有我這樣在意這個設定),跟一般的展好像有點反過來,你已經知道它的最終形式,甚至是線下展的形式,你唯一要做的就是生產它的內容,或者說:為它尋覓內容。

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我想著在一個虛構的「盒子」裡,要展出怎麼樣的作品,既不可見,卻又真實,這讓我想起薛丁格的貓,貓半死半活的處在一個虛構空間,進而想起我可以展示一種曾經實踐與想像的關係:我像貓被豢養於網路上,而想像的事物並非總是假的。


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