袁廣鳴

City Disqualified

Yuan, Goang-Ming
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《城市失格―西門町》靜態影像系列，是袁廣鳴2002年的新作。畫面所見，是空曠無人的台北城市，景點選在繁華喧囂的西門鬧區。戲劇化的處理，使得城市猶如一座徹底清場之後的巨型劇場。一時之間，整座城市劇場彷彿去功能化了。
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作品影像的擬造過程，以傳統相機的實攝，結合電腦技術的再製、再生產與再現。藝術家大量重複「剪下」與「貼上」的動作，將原來車水馬龍與人煙鼎盛的城市抹去，覆蓋上去的，則是取自另外一張張「同一場景」的攝影影像中的「無人」的「片段」。
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於是，《城市失格―西門町》從實體空間轉換為抽象時間，而且是並置與高度壓縮的前後不一的時間。電子掃描與重新拼接之後的「超平面」影像，每一畫格都來自如假包換的真實。然而，這種經過重置與再輸出的城市畫面，卻形成了一幅「超真實」（hyper-real）――如真似幻――的全新「影像繪畫」。（節錄自王嘉驥『2002 台北雙年展世界劇場專輯』）
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City Disqualified–Hsimen District, a static image series, was created by Yuan, Goang-Ming in 2002. It shows an openTaipei City with no people, in Hsinmen District which is usually bustling with noises. Such a dramatic processing makesthe whole city look like a giant theater after all the audience was asked to leave. Out of sudden, the whole city theatre lostits functions.
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The image works are created with traditional photos reproduced, duplicated and represented with computer technologies.The artist repeats cuts-and-pastes time and again, to remove all the people and vehicles from the city, and then covered itwith a people-less picture taken from the same scene. Hence, City Disqualified–Hsimen District was transformed into anabstract time from a physical space. This abstract time is a juxtaposition of highly compressed, varying times in sequence.The super flat image produced with electronic scanning and montages comes from all the frames taken from the reality.However, the city image re-arranged and re-printed becomes a hyper-real picture, a brand new imaginary painting that isbetween reality and fantasy.
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