環遊世界2023 Around the World 2023

3 channel video installation (2023)

《環遊世界》為台北的一棟集合式社區住宅，整座社區是一個口字型的向內封 閉系統，相比於以異國城市來命名社區內大樓，產生了巨大的錯置與矛盾。

作品中穿插兩個文本，一是1873年出版的小說《環遊世界80天》，描述主角在 80天內環遊世界的驚奇歷險;二是紐約記者奈莉布萊，於1889年模仿上述小 說中的路線旅行，所撰寫的《環遊世界72天》。地點之間的距離在時間的意義 上逐漸縮短，當這樣的旅程被移植與安置在1995年完工的《環遊世界》社區， 距離彷彿徹底消失。住戶們身體在同一社區中移動，意識卻是每日都在旅行 遠方，環遊世界成為了他們的日常操演。

在2023年的今日，我試圖用影像時間，回應小說中提出的疑問:「難道人們不可能用更短的時間來環遊世界嗎?」

Around the World is a name of collective community building in Taipei. The architecture is an inwardly closed round system. Com- pared with naming the buildings after foreign cities, it creates a huge misplacement and contradiction.

Two texts are interspersed in the work. One is the novel “Around the World in 80 Days” published in 1873, the other is “Around the World in 72 Days” written by a New York journalist in 1889, which imitated the travel route in the novel. The distance between places gradually shortens in the sense of time. When such a journey is transplanted and placed in the Around the World built in 1995, the distance seems to disappear completely. The residents move physi- cally in the same building, but their consciousness is traveling to distant places every day. Traveling around the world has become their daily practice.

In 2023, I attempted to use video time to respond to the question raised in the novel: “Is it impossible for people to travel around the world in a shorter time?”