当代媒体社会中的“书”似乎被赋予了新的含义:人们热衷于诸如“翻开离你手边最近的一本书的第四行是你接下来的运势”的赛博迷信游戏,也会拿出一本书截出其中看起来很漂亮的句子,然后拍照发一条断章取义的朋友圈。在这种对命运的疑惑和对社交完美形象的追捧的情感之间,书本本身连贯而结构化的表意形式似乎已经开始在夹缝中求生存。
《真空文字砖》这本书的诞生来源于2020年夏天我在成都艺术书展展出的一份小作品——二十余张写满了前言不搭后语的小句子的卡片,内容是从我的社交软件和备忘录上随机摘取下来的不连贯的句子。当人们挑选属于自己的发言卡时,他们的交谈和反应让我觉得十分有趣:有一位女生选择了“如果你觉得没有意义,你可以不发表评论”,并对我说要用这张卡片拍照发朋友圈怼杠精;很多本身是画画与设计专业的同侪带走了“喜提十张画了两个月的废稿”。有男生买了一张“你是闪闪发亮的甜蜜的奇怪可爱的”,说要送给没法和自己一起来看展的女朋友…
这一次,我将更多的句子汇集在一起,做了一本不能按照页面顺序翻阅的书:当你心中有所思也有所疑惑的时候,请随便翻一页,当这句话正好映照了你的心情,请在句子旁边的方框打一个勾。这种情感和文字的随机碰撞其实也是非常有趣的、实验性的现象体验,就像我刚刚抱着这本书,心想:我明天会是什么心情呢?
然后这本书回答我说:“活了,破土而出。”
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In contemporary media society, "book" seems to be given a new meaning: people are keen to play superstitious games such as "the fourth line of the nearest book is your next horoscope", or take out a book and cut out its beautiful sentences, then take a picture and post it on social media. Books' coherent and structured form of representation seems to be destroyed in the middle between this doubt about fate and the desire for a socially perfect image.
The book Vacuum Words Bricks was born from a small work I exhibited at the Chengdu Art Book Fair in the summer of 2020 - more than twenty cards filled with small sentences, the contents of which were randomly plucked from my social apps and memes incoherently. I was amused by the conversations and reactions of people as they selected their own cards: one girl chose "If you don't think it makes sense, you don't have to comment" and told me she was going to use the card to take a picture and post it to her friends to dislike the barbarians; Some guys bought a "You are shiny and sweet and strange and lovely" and said they wanted to give it to their girlfriends who couldn't come to the exhibition with them...
This time, I put more sentences together and made a book that can't be flipped through in page order: when you have something in your mind and some doubts, please turn the page randomly, and when the sentence reflects your mood, please tick a box next to the sentence. This random collision of emotions and words is actually also a very interesting and experimental experience of the phenomenon.