Borderline •Mirrorlike: 牛俊強「邊境Outland」

影像輸出 / 單頻道錄影 2008

2007年10月，右眼因視網膜破洞，接受雷射手術。手術後出現一些症狀如右眼瞳孔收縮較慢，出現眼痛、視力模糊、畏光、複影、空間的深淺遠近判斷變差等。接下來的半年，隨著症狀的時好時壞，我開始逃避「清晰」這件事情—越想要看清楚，「模糊」的邊界就愈分明。

這一系列的作品，我於夜晚拍攝城市中的大面積空地，如河濱公園的足球場、操場、正在施工的工地等邊緣性的場域。經由修像的方式，製造了一個更陌生的風景--它並不是忠實顯現我所見，而是將身體感(殘缺)轉化到影像上，機器為身體負載。於是，幽澀微光中，均質靜默的地景，是走不進的身體。

這些風景的想像本來是動態的畫面—我飄浮在絕對的黑暗中，前方一圈微光，打在一片平坦的草地上。漸漸緩慢的，我向那圈光暈靠近、靠近，黑暗像波浪安靜地包圍，隨著前進，身下的草地跟著光暈無止盡的向後退。

「Outland」之意為邊境。它與border和frontier不同是，「out」的位置性更明顯—有中心裡外的對應。但觀者無法從影像中尋找座標位置，主體(攝影機、觀者)是無從凝視的狀態，它欲抹去畫面的焦點，但失焦也是一種聚焦，看似有機的場域，被處理描繪為CG(computer graphic)均質質感。這種拉扯的狀態，對應了我對影像創作的另一種逃離，及對某些當代風景的無聲對抗。

Outland
Digital Graphics / Video 2008

October 2007 I had a surgery on my right eye due to retinal damages. Ever since the surgery I started having symptoms such as slower pupil reactions, discomforts around the eyes, blurred and doubled visions, sensitive to lights, worsen judgements on space and distance etc. In the following six months, with these symptoms continued to be unstable, I started to avoid clarity, the more I desire to see better the more obvious it becomes where the boundary to blurriness is drawn.

This series of work was taken at night in rural places in the city such as huge wastelands, football stadium by the park, racing tracks and under-constructed building sites. By making further adjustments and changes to the images, an even more unfamiliar scenery was created, it did not objectively and truthfully represent what I have seen and instead, my body senses (physical disabilities) were transformed on to these images, as if the machine was possessed by my body. In the softened beam of light, this silent and settled land is the body that cannot be entered.

These imaginary visions of sceneries were once moving images – I was floating in the absolute darkness and right in front of me there was a ring of faint light shinning on a flat and smooth patch of green, slowly and gradually I moved towards the ring of light, closer and closer, the darkness revolved around me quietly like waves. As I was moving foreword, the patch of green beneath me went infinitely into the opposite direction with the beam of lights.

What differentiates outland from border and frontier is that the location is pointed out more obviously with the word out, corresponding a relative relationship between the exterior and the interior of a central point. But the spectators cannot locate the coordinates in these images, the subject (camera, viewers) is in a position of being unable to see, it intends to wipe off the focus point in the image, however losing can also be perceived as concentrating on a focal point, a site that appears to be organic is now processed and made to be looked like and described as having computer graphic qualities. This contradictory situation is a reflection of a silent protest against particular contemporary circumstances and another way of escaping from my photographic works.

簡歷 curriculum vitae

1983 Born in Taipei

2002-2006 B.F.A., architecture design , Shih Chien University Taiwan

2006-2008 M.F.A., Graduate School ,Taipei National University of the Arts

牛俊強，1983年生，台北人。實踐大學室內空間設計學系畢業。目前就讀於台北藝術大學科技藝術研究所，從事影像、平面等多媒材創作。

早期作品以自身成長與居住經驗互相交錯產生的自我情緒為文本，指涉都市集體居住的焦慮。現階段的作品，以討論媒體觀看-影像與觀者之間重新對應，及時間展延在影像上的壓縮與重構為主。

Chun-Chiang, Niu .My major subject was architecture design ,graduated from Shih Chien University Taiwan. I’m the student of graduate school of art and technology, T.N.U.A. I'm good at video art , experimental film and multimedia creation.

In the past, the text of my creation were about the complex emotion I breed while I dwell and grow up in this city. After 2006, I tried to redefine the relation between Media and viewers. And other, I presented with video and graphic about time condensed.

參展

2006鹿特丹國際影展短片競賽地點:荷蘭鹿特丹

2006台北電影節地點:台北中山堂

2006南方影展「南方特賞」地點:台南藝術大學

2006第一屆台北數位藝術節地點:台北中山堂

2007桃園美術獎地點:桃園縣政府文化局

2007第二屆台北數位藝術節地點:台北西門町紅樓

2007 [城市寓言]城市行動藝術節地點:台北建國啤酒廠

2008 [小民市景]－台灣新興數位藝術展地點:台中國立美術館

得獎
2008 美術創作卓越獎

Exhibitions

2006 Tiger Awards Competition for Short Film, the 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam
2006 Taipei International Film Festival
2006 South Taiwan &Video Festival
2006 Digital Art Festival Taipei 2006
2007 Rubricate- the New Media art Exhibitions
2007 the 5^th Taoyuan Creation Award
2007 the 2^th Digital Art Festival Taipei 2007