Human Fabric Trilogy - The Haptics of Seeing II
In 'The Haptics of Seeing II', This work aims to create a different form of collaboration between art and science, based on sensory research, to develop a prototype for embodied practice and to discuss the possibilities of reinterpreting body-domination and ownership through the senses.
The work examines different massage techniques to address the delegated performances of individual and collective body boundaries, in the flow state between the body and the mind. The classical haptics experience should support who we are and where we are as a fundamental sensation.
The artist seeks to question the social practices developed under the hegemony of the eye, by examining the relationship between touch and vision through massage. The Cifang Care Center serves as a co-creation base, providing a temporary, intimate, and vulnerable artistic arena. Participants and the artist enter a pure state of service and being served, creating a vast spiritual space through a shared tactile experience. Through artistic expression, sensory stimulation, and bodily awareness, the work attempts to argue and re-examine touch and vision in the context of cognitive neuroscience, freely creating and weaving together memories and reality to form a different identity.
Through their participation in the same work, the participating artists engage in a dialogue that synchronizes their consciousness and emotions, playing with and revisiting many intangible life experiences between the output of creation and the input of the senses. Gradually, within the group, they construct their own cross-body aesthetic context.
Conceptual Video trailer. Full version is under requested.
透過實踐藝術理念在觸覺實務中,以感官研究為基礎,創造藝術與科學間不同的協作方式,發展原型實踐方法,討論身體支配與所有感再譯的可能。研究不同按摩技巧,處理個體和社群的身體邊界之議題,在其身體與心理間流動狀態。
「我想透過按摩,探討觸覺與視覺的關係,並對眼中心主義下發展的社會參與實踐提出形式、內容與觀點上質疑。」
本次創作以慈芳關懷中心作為一個共創基地,透過建立暫時性親暱且弱感的藝術場域:參與者與創作者進入服務與被服務的純粹狀態,弱感場域給予了偌大精神空間;在共享的觸覺經驗中,以藝術表達、感官刺激和身體覺知,嘗試辯證在認知神經研究方法的語彙中,自由創作與重新審視觸視感,交織記憶與現實間形成新身份。
參與創作者透過分別參與同件作品,對話使得意識與情緒的交流在無形中同步,於創作輸出與感官輸入間,玩味感受與回溯許多難以言說的生命歷程;並逐步在團體中,建構屬於自身的跨身體審美脈絡。
Conceptual Video Crew:
Director / Artist / Actor: Wang Yung An
Editor and Producer: Tapas Humi
VFX: Tsai Ming
(Original) Music by: Bao Zeng Shi
Gaffer: So Anthony
Photography: Huang Yi ting
Sound: Shiao Lou
Still Photographor: Chen Chang Chih
Actors:Hsaio Vivian 、Yao Yu wen、Samuel Bataille、 Lev Nachman、 Mario Armira
Participants and Collaborators:Hou Yu zhen, Tsai Wan shan, Hong Bi lian
Site: Cihfang Rehabilitation Center
Installation:
Exhibition Execution: Sandwishes Studio
VFX and Technical Support: Tsai Ming
(Original) Music by: Bao Zeng Shi
Site: C-Lab, Taipei, Taiwan