VHS-家變詩篇
VHS-Poem of Video Pill

2016
VHS 影像與身體表演，30分鐘
VHS Video and Performance, 30'00"

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VHS(錄影帶)普及至家庭成為簡易拍攝工具的年代大約為80-90’s間，而這段時期剛好也是年輕新媒體創作者的幼年時期，時光與家庭記憶被存放至一卷卷的影帶中，這些薄質的過往影像似乎成為一種靜止不動的永恆時態，然而這些陳舊的時光與回憶是否有脫離原本自身事件脈絡，再次被重新編寫、甚至長成新的媒體成為一種即興表演可能呢？
 
於是我運用VHS放映機的機械特性，使用雙手甚至是手腕直接去觸碰放映機內部的讀取影像磁頭，甚至讓自身心跳頻率與表演時的喘息聲產生影像與聲音的干擾。拆開機殼擦拭磁頭去除影像雜訊是我自身幼兒時所學習到的經驗，也可以說是我創作影像的開端。借由物理上直接的觸碰進行薄質影像的破壞，而這些被干擾的雜訊畫面，讓過往與現代開始有交疊的可能，讓觀眾更強烈地感受到雜訊以及影像視覺上的衝擊。 

VHS (videotape) became popular among families as an easy-shooting tool roughly between 1980s and 1990s during which current young new media artists were still in their childhood. Time and family memories were stored in rolls of film and became static and permanent. Yet, is there any chance that these time and memories can be detached from their original contexts and become live performance as a kind of new media after being recreated?

So I take the advantage of the mechanical properties of VHS player, letting my hands or even my wrists touch the internal magnetic read heads that further allow my heartbeats and gasps during performance to create visual and sonic interferes. Opening the top cover of the VHS player to clean the tape heads for removing image noises has been the experience I gained since childhood, which inspired me to get started in video-making. However, the screen noises resulted from the damaged videos caused by physical interferences allow the past to overlap the present, bringing the audience a strong visual impact through projection space and noises. 

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