2016.05 The Seals Are Shedding Their Coats, Practice, NYC
3 January 2017

海豹脫下外衣的日子
PRACTICE
111 Eldridge, NY

2015年夏天,施昀佑在造訪北極途中遭竊,幾乎遺失了所有素材,這次旅程留下的唯一的證據是一份由瑞典皇家警局歸檔和出具的失竊報告。展覽「海豹脫下外衣的日子」就是以這些材料為起點,重新編織這段旅程,其中真實和虛構、影像和文本之間的關係幾經轉折,讓藝術家從單向關注外部世界,轉向對自身理解事物方式的處理,從對「永恆」概念的探求轉向對當代性時間的思考。這場「轉述」的展覽和原訂計劃作品之間的距離,也體現在展覽的空間設置和藝術家預先安排的觀看和體驗方式中——這裡產生的移動不僅是物理性,或說是旅行者的,也來自敘事在不同時間與空間的跳轉,以及調動人的各種知覺方式時與慣性產生的偏移。此次的展覽由不同作品構成,但展覽本身被視為一件完整而獨立的作品。

展出作品:
*無題(追拍北極燕鷗),彩色高清錄像,3分36秒,2016
*檔案編號:5000-K669841-15,檔案文件(A4檔案文件,共10張),望遠鏡,展示尺寸可變
*我看見三隻藍鯨潛入海中,2015年六月二十五日,斯瓦堡德,國王灣。美國郵政總局訂製郵票,快捷,47美分。5.3 x 3.3 cm,2016
*摸一下二角五分(一),化石,基座,20 x 20 x 18 cm,2016
*摸一下二角五分(二),文本,表演,錄音,18分鐘
*海豹脫下外衣的日子,剪貼文本,三十六張照片,共73頁,14x20cm

The Seals Are Shedding Their Coats
PRACTICE
111 Eldridge, NY

In the Summer of 2015, Ayo visited the arctic circle and got robbed during the trip. What remains were very few video clips and objects. The only existing proof was a police report archived and provided by Swedish Police Authority. The exhibition “The Seals Are Shedding Their Coats” began from here. Within the remaining materials, the relationship between real and fictional, images and text are constantly shifting, which becomes a re-examination for his perception of the experience rather than a linear way of narrating the external world, shifting his focus from “eternity” to “time, turning his story into an underway thoughts of now. The distance between these “re-told” works and the original plan, also reveals in the installation of the space and how audiences will experience it – the shift within is not only physical, or expeditionary, it is also from the switch of the stories in different time and spaces, as well as the digression while the artist maneuvering audiences’ percipience from their usual habit. This exhibition comprise different piece of works, but the exhibition itself was considered as a complete and independent work.

Works:
*Untitled (Chasing Arctic Tern), Color HD video, 3’36”, 2016
*File Number: 5000-K669841-15, Archive files (10 pieces), telescope, dimensions variable
*I saw three blue whales dive in the ocean, June, 25th, 2015, Kings Bay, Svalbard. Customized stamp from USPS, first priority mail, 47 cents 5.3 x 3.3 cm, 2016
*Touch The Fossil……25¢(I), Fossil, plinth 20 x 20 x 18 cm, 2016
*Touch The Fossil……25¢(II), Text, performance, recording, 18’
*The Seals Are Shedding Their Coats, Archive, 36 photographs,, 73pages, 14x20cm

Photo Credit: Zheng Yuan(鄭源)