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Dissociated Fuses

游離的引線

Mixed media installation (wood, stainless steel, wire, computer, screens)

There is a belief that the Taipei Basin, where Taipei City is located, “was once a lake.” Did the Taipei Lake really exist? From evidence tracing back to remnants of the sea from the Neolithic period found in Zhishanyen and Yuanshan to descriptions of the Taipei Lake from Small Sea Travel Diaries three centuries ago, we look into this legend as a starting point and delve into a discussion about mythology and unofficial history through technological conversion.

The submarine has various functions, such as drilling, measuring, and uncovering unknown things. It dives into the water, using imaging equipment and sonar feedback – technologies that work like phantom limbs – to capture a certain “reality” hidden or scattered in the darkness. This process is similar to an “unknown measuring” of the city through “everyday experiences” – an external expansion of one’s experiences that helps portray, capture, and re-capture the contour of “truth.”

In our project, the submarine serves as a metaphor and a stage to display our research and collection of Taipei Lake. The movements of the submarine serve to bridge the gaps between reality and historical text. “Submersion,” “traces/observation/exploration,” “expanding boundary: phantom limbs,” and “surfacing” are the dissociated fuses of reality, through which we try to gauge the possible boundary and area of “Taipei Lake” by observing the current cityscape of Taipei. It also foreshadows the scenario where Taipei City is submerged due to future sea level rise, which are shown in a way reminiscent of viewing through the submarine’s monitors. The periscope, like a tunnel of geological archaeology and prophecy for the future, allows us to observe culture, history, and their ambiguous intersection beyond the limit of space and time.


Size: 550 x 248 x 300 cm

複合媒材裝置(木作、不鏽鋼、電線、電腦、螢幕)

現為台北盆地的台北市區所在範圍,始終流傳著「台北以前是一座湖」的說法。台北湖真的曾經存在嗎?從新石器時代如芝山岩、圓山等鹹海區域的遺留物,到三百年前描寫台北湖面景觀的《裨海紀遊》,我們以這個傳說為起點,透過科技轉化的方式談論神話野史。

潛水艇具有鑽探、測量、發掘隱藏事物的功能,潛艇浸入水體,透過器材所顯影的影像或聲納反饋的探測,以一種類似幻肢的受器,捕捉藏匿、錯落於無光之處的某種「真實」。這就猶如「日常經驗」之於城市剖面「未知的測定」,以一種外於自身經驗的經驗擴充,去描摹、捕捉以及重新捕捉關於「真實」的下一層輪廓。

我們以潛水艇作為這個探索計畫的譬喻,同時讓其成為一個舞台,呈現我們對台北湖的研究及採集。我們想像潛水艇的動態視為仿擬現實、歷史文本間的縫合狀態——「浸入」、「痕跡/觀測/探勘」、「邊界擴充:幻肢」、「浮出」作為游離在現實中的引線,在現下的台北景觀中,測定過去「台北湖」可能的邊界及區域,匯出成台北湖底樣貌,亦是對於未來海平面上升後,台北城被淹沒的水面所在情景的預演,呈現在艦艇內的監看螢幕上,潛望鏡化為地質考古與未來預言的通道,跨越時空觀測著文化與歷史間曖昧的輪廓。


尺寸:550 x 248 x 300 cm

Artist collective Hyper wave

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