程昕
杯子一定是平底嗎？什麼時候你會想用衛生紙編織出繩子？運水槃柴的神奇之處為何？建築也是一種建議嗎？我們如何來照顧每個片刻？為何人類是唯一需要錢生存的動物？呼吸的世界裡的能動性是什麼？輪胎為什麼如此神通廣大？什麼事情可以真正的完成？（以上問題提供，感謝 Temporary Services, 龐蘊，BBC for Business, 大野 一雄，坂口 恭平，Nicholas Yeck-Stauffer, James Carse）
在這場座談裡，不會提供答案，反之，她將擴大延展問題。
Why do cups need flat bottoms? How and when would you make ropes out of toilet paper? What is miraculous about drawing water and hewing wood? Could building be a special form of suggesting? How do you take care of every single moment? How come humans are the only animals that cannot live without money? What is agency in the breathing world? Why are tyres so versatile? Do things ever finish?
Xin Cheng will present something that do not attempt the answer these questions, but instead, expand on them.
(questions with thanks to James Carse, Temporary Services, BBC for Business, Nicholas Yeck-Stauffer, Kazuo Ohno, Pang Yun龐蘊, Kyohei Sakaguchi)
Image caption: Observations/hallucinations from a place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2014: the potentiality of holes, hooks, frugal things; the elasticity of materials, time and convivial experiences.
程昕2015/09/21演講紀錄：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGUdEd2A9sE
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Pablo Mercado
〈克拉普的記憶〉，2015
「克拉普」是《等待果陀》劇作家山謬爾．貝克特的獨幕劇主人翁的名字，他用磁帶錄音機記錄了三十年的日記。在這齣劇作中，克拉普不斷聆聽自己的記憶，想不起來屬於自己的經驗，而且他甚至不能理解他所使用的某些單字。而今最新的數據記錄技術也遇到類似的相容性問題，因為它的儲存技術不斷在演進中。
〈破碎的記憶〉，2014
這件作品屬於「全像物件」的系列，我在這個系列裡將物件打破呈不規則的碎片，然後利用木作結構使它們呈圍繞著以一個球體為核心的等徑分佈狀態。這件作品也是我先前的另一件「破碎的記憶」裝置的另一個版本，但這個裡影像仍然可以運作，為了做到這點，我將一個投影機放製在球體中央，如此一來它投射的影像定位在銀幕碎片上，創造出仍在運作的幻象。
〈回憶（?）的靈藥〉，2014
在柏拉圖「對話錄」裡，蘇格拉底談到埃及發明之神托特發明書寫的故事，他向埃及國王達姆斯呈現這項發明作為人類記憶的靈藥（但國王不以為然）。在這個故事與攝影的發明之間有一種關聯性，如同書寫，攝影協助保存特定的資料，但它也玩弄人類的記憶，提供虛假的線索來完成我們的想像。即有可能我們多數的記憶是仰賴照片並無中生有，多過於真實的體驗。然而，我們的潛意識卻挪用這些被創造的記憶，並且以假為真了。
Krapp memory, 2015
Mr Krapp, protagonist of the one-act play of Samuel Backett, “Krapp’s tape”, recorded a diary on a tape recorder for thirty years. During the play Krapp listen to himself and cannot remember his own experiences and even he cannot understand some words he used. New datalogging technologies have similar compatibility problems due to its constant evolution….
Fragmented memories, 2014
This work belongs to the series holographic objects where I fragment objects into irregular pieces and I arrange them on wooden structure that uniformly distributed them around a sphere placed in its nucleus. This work itself is also another version of my previous piece “Fragmented memories” but this television will still work. To do this, I placed a projector inside of the central sphere, so it projects a mapping video on the fragments of the screen, creating the illusion of operation.
Elixir of reminding, 2014
In “Dialogues” of Plato, Socrates tells the story of the invention of writing thanks to the Egyptian god Teut, who showed his invention to the King Tamus as the cure for human memory… There are a kind of relationship in between this story and the invention of photography. Like writing, photography helps preserve certain data but plays against human memory, giving false clues completing our imagination. It’s possible that most of the memories we have are grounded more in photographs and created from them that truly experienced. However, subconsciously we appropriate these stories invented and assumed as real.
Pablo Mercado 2015/09/21演講紀錄：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sJIHbMl07o
