SHIU JUI TSZ

The Ways to Pack
打包的方式
20223

Between frequent relocations, the body, as if never landing, lingers in the process of moving around. When the body carries the old space into a new one, my perception of space falls into the chaotic mingling of memory and reality. In the slow relocation process, the middle ground, the body and mind form a place for shelter. I repeatedly attempt to picture the structure of this comfortable place for which I hope to give a name and establish a rational and practical passageway for further travel. After closely examining the different possibilities of approaching this abstract concept of a place, I have realised that the pursuit of imagery, spiritual, and poetic imagination comes from my body’s strong attachment to the physical space.

To get close, I reflect on my connection with different spaces, regularly examining both the physical and emotional experience to grasp an internal order which follows wherever I go. Perhaps the concept is similar to packing. The step-by-step process of remembering, imagining, internalising and realising a space resembles organising, categorising, storing and packing things. With art as the approach, the exhibition observes the connection between people and space, repeatedly playing back memories and writing inventions. The Ways to Pack explores a passageway based on past emotion, experience, and awareness, compressing bodily sensations from the slow process of relocations into flashing moments while transforming geographical locations into spiritual spaces. In a subtle narration composed of installations, videos, sounds, and objects, the exhibition packs up the complex emotions and memories of places into the body. It exercises the migration of bodily sensations while presenting existing spatial awareness.

在移居異地後頻繁地更換居所，身體像是從未落地般地持續懸置在移居的過程中。當我將尚未脫離過往空間的身體試探地置入所在的場所時，我對於空間的感知便陷入記憶與現實的混沌裡，身體及意識彷彿構築了一個容身的場所，在緩慢移居過程中的、記憶與現實的銜接地帶。我不停地想像這個安適場所的結構，並希望為它定名，以理性且實際的方法，確立往返於這個抽象場所的路徑。我審視接近這個場所的不同方式，同時理解這種意象上的追尋、精神性的追求或是詩意的想像，對於我來說是一種對空間的依戀以及身體感的深刻連結。

為尋找接近的方法，我回望自身與不同空間的連結，反覆地檢視對於空間的記憶、情感經驗及身體感知，試圖在其中歸納出某種程序，以便我能攜帶並得以在任何地方展開。我想這類似於打包的動作。記憶空間的步驟、想像空間的步驟、內化空間的步驟與體現的步驟就如同將事物整理、分類、收納與打包。我以藝術作為媒介，嘗試找尋不同打包 ( 記憶、想像、內化、體現 ) 空間的方式。展覽《打包的方式》觀察人與空間之間的連繫，藉由反覆地回憶、想像，依循著情感、經驗與認知，探尋往返記憶場所的路徑，將地理場所轉換為精神性的空間；將身體感緩慢的移居過程壓縮為片刻。展覽運用幽微的敘事方式，以空間裝置、錄像、聲音、物件等，將對於空間龐雜的情感與記憶，打包進身體。《打包的方式》是為身體感的移居做練習，也是空間意識的持續狀態。

Text https://talks.taishinart.org.tw/talks/2/36862

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