I'm a fool to want you

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2022

 

Sound installation 

聲音裝置

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Size variable

尺寸不定

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The work is derived from Lam's behaviour of repeating the recording of the same lyrics with two tape recorders. The lyrics are Frank Sinatra's jazz song I'm a Fool to Want You. The act of repeating the recording of the lyrics has gradually become blurred, shortened and out of sync, and finally unintelligible. The work is finally presented with two identical but blurred and out-of-sync lyrics played on two players each, to express the emotional complexity of the relationship and the limitations of language expression.

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In Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, the lover's discourse and insights are fundamentally fragmented and incoherent, and the appearance of semantics will be in vain, and the lover's fragmented discourse will generate various imaginary scenarios. People in love are diverse, uncertain, and fluid. A paragraph of nonsense has become an imaginary without a central meaning and criss-crossing.

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作品衍生至林氏以兩個錄音器重複為同一段歌詞朗讀錄音的行為。歌詞是法蘭克·辛納屈 (Frank Sinatra) 的爵士樂曲 I’m a fool to want you。歌詞經過不斷重複錄音的行為已逐漸變得模糊，時間亦因此不斷縮短及不同步，最後無法解讀。作品最後以用兩個播放器各自播放兩段一樣但模糊了且不同步的歌詞呈現，借以表達關係中的情感複雜性與語言表達的限制。

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羅蘭·巴特的《戀人絮語》中，戀人的情話和灼見從根本上是片段的，不連貫的，而語意的出現會徒然節外生枝，戀人的片段式情話會衍生出各種想像的情景。戀愛中的人是多元的、不確定的、流動的。一段段癡言成為沒有中心意義和縱橫交錯的意景想像。