Welcome to the Border of Desire

• Main Authors: Yen-Chen Wu, 吳衍震
• Other Authors: Kai-Huang Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dar34p

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 美術學系碩士在職專班 === 99 === I have always been focused on issues of the desire, death, fear and society, and all of my works have grown from my personal lifestyle. For many years now, I have been collecting death masks, dolls and skulls from all over the world, and these items have slowly expanded into my everyday life. They are objects that have become indispensible to me, and they are the source of my creative spirit. At the same time, I also have a habit of collecting films. My huge collection provides me with an environment in which I can soak up and digest various media. I often discover new revelations from these objects and media forms which provoke me to work on new projects; the stimulation affects my thinking and arrangement of media, producing new images and symbols. This kind of lifestyle creates in me deeper reflections on concepts of life, death, loneliness, anxiety, desire, brutality, evil, the dark and the absurd. They all intersect in my process of creation and extend out through my works, arousing people’s memories. Considering the huge distances and cold treatment held within the relationships between people in this contemporary era, artistic works endeavor to touch the nameless wounds of modern society. City people seemingly live in the hustle and bustle of the urban environment, but most of them are actually just replaying the same events every day. They suffer from extreme boredom which, coupled with their natural animal instincts, manifests itself as an endless cycle of empty void. Using sociology and phenomenology to observe social alienation among contemporary people, we can see that people’s physical distance is quite close but their emotional distance is cold and far, even in the crowded streets of Ximending in Taipei. People are cool with each other; they want to protect themselves while at the same time they still thirst for love. In this era of online relationships, the truth is hard to catch, and the world is creating greater instances of cheating and crime. People are constantly searching for stimulation to fill in the cracks of emptiness that exist in their lives. They cannot identify themselves as who they are. There is a sweet yet cruel absurdity behind the façade of happiness. Such “the desire field territory”, often is only one kind of invalid seeking pleasure. To the social subject''s observation, the desire space inquire, movie''s massive onlooking correspondence, latter supposes the nature to present belongs to own bad savoring, the work presents me by one kind of black humor to the dark world imagination. This series is based around the idea of “The Black Hole of Desire”. It discusses problems of eroticism emerging from the padded miscellany at the core of relationship creation. Upon pondering different views of space, from psychological, sexually desirable, spiritual or fearful, I talk about the “boundaries” of imagination from the standpoint of a dark aesthetic. It is one kind of fuzzy edge, is also an overlap reality laboratory, is fills crisis''s space, the right and wrong empirical rule world, is also the imagination which the work must discuss. I explore my own actions, from my collecting evil and death objects to force-feeding myself horror movies. These interests, these actions, coalesce into the strong darkness that make up my own borders.