<碎波上的星光行>，2024，单频影像，19分54秒
Music: YUAN Keru
3D Modeling: Jiayang Huang, HU Rui
Narrator, CHAN Tsuen
Commissioned by the exhibition One Way Ashore, A Thousand Channels, Guangdong Times Museum, Curated by TAN Yue
Special Thanks to XINTIANDI and UCCA "RanRan" Young Artists Support Program
Installation at Times Museum, Guangzhou:
Star House above the Breaking Waves explores the entanglement of ecological, historical, and economic narratives within a fictional coastal Namkong City by the Southern Sea in the 2040s. Through a fragmented narrative framed by a hacked AI archivist, the work juxtaposes ancient myths, tales of piracy, history of real estate development, and the conditions of climate change to depict a complex multigenerational relationship with the ocean. Tracing the lineage of the Chinese Gods of Fire and the South Sea, a Qing-era pirate turned scholar, a 20th-century Hong Kong real estate developer, and a near future when various factions explore different approaches to floating lives on the ocean, the work examines how systems of power and resistance shape our past, present, and speculative future as we imagine alternative ways of habiting the planet.
作品《碎波上的星光行》虚构了一个未来华南沿海城市--南港，当地为应对气候变化而开发建造水上社区，背后则暗含着源于历史的权力博弈。通过一位功能受损的人工智能档案员的叙述片段，作品将关于火神与南海神话、清朝海盗故事、20世纪房地产开发历史与未来气候叙事并置，描绘人与海洋之间微妙的跨世代连结，试图探寻其中生态、历史、经济与水陆视角之间的交织与纠葛。
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