「您正在使用『生前記憶續存服務』，您將可選擇三段記憶。在您生命終結時，本服務將刺激您的神經元使其顯影。記憶記載時間為一根火的時間…」以眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意接收下來的記憶，儲存成文字、圖像、聲音、影像…。藉由記憶的碎片，我們得以回返某個特定的時間點，讓時空扭曲交疊，但記憶卻不一定可靠。導演陳芯宜與編舞家周書毅共同創作與演出，以舞蹈呈現記憶中難以言說的部分。殘影是人眼在物體消失後仍保留0.1-0.4秒的影像，而我們現在製造的影像或記憶，可以在未來留存多久？
這是我第一次製作VR影片，在構思與研究的過程中，不斷想著 「在人類文明歷史中，從聲音、圖像、語言、文字、影像…到虛擬 媒體，所留下的紀錄，有多少得以穿越時間與空間，來到我們（或 未來）的眼前？」於是影片設定了一個可以上傳記憶意識的未來世 界，藉由周書毅的舞蹈，捕捉在死亡之前、彌留之際無以名狀的情 緒。也藉此討論什麼東西值得留下？未來的VR是否直接就在我們 的腦內？甚而後設地看待這段舞、這段VR，是否能穿越？或是一 切都將化為塵土。
— 陳芯宜
合辦：西九文化區
場地: 西九文化區藝術公園自由空間
演出日期 / 時間
13–23.11.2019 12–10pm
24.11.2019 12–6pm
每節長約30分鐘
語言
可選國語或英文版本
場地
西九文化區藝術公園自由空間盒仔
門票
HKD$30
門票：https://www.westkowloon.hk/tc/vrdancevideo
創作團隊
導演及編劇：陳芯宜
編舞及舞者：周書毅
舞者：陳欣瑜、方妤婷、林修瑜、潘柏伶、田懿葳、王筑樺、王甯、楊奇殷、楊雅鈞、葉王洲、余建宏
陳芯宜
台灣電影導演。作品跨足劇情片與紀錄片，傳達對時下社會的長期觀察，擅長利用魔幻寫實的手法，突顯現實社會的荒謬性，用以陳述更大的結構問題。作品風格流暢明快，常在嚴謹的架構中，展現細緻綿密的情感鋪陳、與角色的深刻刻畫。作品曾入圍柏林影展、金馬獎、釜山影展、山形影展、台北電影獎、高雄電影獎、台灣國際紀錄片獎等國內外影展獎項與參展邀請。拍片之餘，陳芯宜同時也為許多影片及劇場製作配樂，因此她的作品總是充滿節奏感，具有豐富的音樂性。
Welcome to the “ Afterlife Memory Trust.” With us, you will be selecting three pieces of your memory to relive by the time you decease. When your life terminates, we will stimulate your neurons to bring out the designated memories. Each vision lasts a light time.
We perceive the world through eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. These sensory is stored as memory in words, pictures, sounds and moving images. With fractions of the transcribed memories, we are capable of returning to a specific point in time, which is an act of distortion and overlaying of time and space. However memories aren’t always reliable. A man wakes up in an unknown dimension of consciousness. What is it that he sees, hears and feels? Is it memory, virtual reality or terminal lucidity?
In Persistence of Memory, director Singing CHEN collaborates with choreographer Shou-Yi CHOU to perform the ineffable in memories. This metafiction film sets in a futuristic world, where memories can be uploaded and perpetuated, thus leads to the discussion of what in life is worth storing. Persistence of Vision; when an object in rapid motion vanishes from sight, human brain creates a 0.1-0.4 seconds of optical illusion. How long will the images and memories we create today live in the future?
This is my first VR video. While I was doing research and brainstorming, I kept thinking about the following question: How much of what human civilization has recorded through sounds, images, language, writings, video, and virtual media has travelled through time and space to be seen now (or will travel in the future)? For this reason, the film is set in a futuristic world where we will be able to upload our memories and consciousness. Chou Shou-yi’s choreography captures those emotions too vast to be described at the moment of limbo before death. The work also asks what is actually worth storing? In the future, will VR happen inside our brains? From a meta perspective, will this VR film work continue to exist, regardless of the boundaries of time, or will everything turn to dust?
— Singing CHEN
Co-presented by West Kowloon
Show Date / Time
13–23.11.2019, 12-10pm
24.11.2019, 12–6pm
Approximately 30 minutes per session
Venue
The Studio, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District
Language
Mandarin or English (Two versions)
Price
HKD$30
Ticketing：https://www.westkowloon.hk/tc/vrdancevideo
CREATIVE TEAM
Director and Writer：Singing CHEN
Dancers：CHEN Hsin-yu, FANG Yu-ting, LIN Hsiu-yu, Pan Bo-ling, TIEN Yi-wei, WANG Chu-hua, WANG Ning, YANG Qi-yin, YANG Ya-chun, YEN Wang-chou, YU Chien-hung
Choreography and Dancer：CHOU Shu-yi
SINGING CHEN
She conveys her long-term social observation through documentaries and feature dramas. Her approach of magical realism highlights the absurdity in reality, and points out the structural problem in the society. In her well-constructed fast-paced works, she is capable of delivering subtle emotion and in-depth dynamics in characters.
Throughout time, her works are screened and nominated in Berlin Film Festival, Golden Horse Awards, Busan International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Taipei Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival, and Taiwan International Documentary Festival. Aside from being on set, she also produces scores for theater plays and films. Chen’s ability thus makes her work rich in rhythm and music.