Mesuesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

生命中不能承受的輕

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2022

 

Sound installation

聲音裝置

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9'12"

 

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The work excerpts a passage from Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and uses two recorders to repeat the recording behaviour. The content of the recording gradually becomes blurred, and the time is constantly shortened and out of sync. Finally, it cannot be deciphered.

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The characters in the book seek physical and spiritual solace amid the wandering and helplessness of life. They cannot see and grasp life, and cannot distinguish the importance of life in an unbalanced state. However, the flow of life has never stopped. It can only continue to repeat in the world of wandering, escaping, incompleteness or ambiguity.

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作品節錄了米蘭·昆德拉《生命中不能承受之輕》的一段，以用兩個錄音器不斷重複錄音的行為，錄音的內容逐漸變得模糊，時間亦因此不斷縮短及不同步，最後無法解讀。

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書中的角色在生命的飄泊和無奈中追尋在肉體和精神的慰藉，對於生活看不透也捉不住，分不出生活中輕重的一種失衡的狀態，然而生命之流也不曾停止，我也就只能繼續在不知輕重的飄泊、逃逸、非完滿或是意義未全的世界不斷重複。