13.3.10

Nord Art, Büdelsdorf, Germany



Invisibility is going to be featured in Nord Art in Germany!!
from 12 Jun - 3 Oct,

It's an interesting contemporary art exhibition (it's a bit like an art fair I think...)
anyway, if anyone is around there, or interested in

Please come!!!

http://www.kic-nordart.de/

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大概是傍晚七點多,下班回家的地鐵裡,車廂很擠。

或許是宗教信仰的關係,或許只是緊張,他不停的寫著類似’21h’的文字。

但我確定不是。

我相信不是。

她是個右撇子。

她寫的很快,那21h似乎是一個字。

我數不清楚到底寫了幾個。

一行大約有二十五個,一頁大約有二十行。

我遇到她的時候,某一頁正寫到開頭的部份,並不知道是不是第一頁,又或許已經是好幾頁之後了。

隔壁的女生跟朋友不停用眼神示意。

她看起來很緊張,眉頭深鎖。

右手還是快速著寫著,有時候按照著筆記本的行列橫著寫;又有時候跳著先寫了每一行的第一個字。

寫到累的時候,還停了下來,伸展了一下指頭。

她寫的非常快。

我一直相信相由心生,想必她是個很緊張的人。

車廂裡的人們都看著她,竊竊私語的討論著。

他有時候抬起頭來看了一下周遭的人,用著很謹慎的表情。

但很快的又回到筆記本繼續寫。

頁面的右上角寫著24 Dec,並不是今天。

在寫完第二頁後,她結束了,把筆記本收到包包裡。

她跟我同一站下車。

並不高,或許160cm左右吧,穿著略顯大雙的靴子,走路的時候發出很大聲的聲響,像是很大力的踏著腳一般。

外面下著大雨,她似乎並沒有帶雨傘,至少在跟我分開前並沒有拿出來。

想必她是個吃完飯後會洗碗盤的人吧。

一個後背的大背包,黑色的,左手提著一個黑色皮包,跟一個廉價成衣的紙袋。

但裡面的東西並不像剛採購的戰利品。

或許是在禱告吧我想。

我相信是在禱告。

9.3.10

Artful Scriptorium, Climate Gallery, New York

Artful Scriptorium, Climate Gallery, New York
April 3 - April 25, 2010
37-24 24th Street, Suite 406, Long Island City, NY 11101

The book 'Reasons to Travel' is going to the art book exhibition in Climate Gallery, New York from April 3 - April 25, 2010.

The opening is on 10 April, from 6pm-9pm
Please come and discover more good books!

http://www.climategallery.com/

4.3.10

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大約是六點到七點之間

她上車的時候正在講手機

‘嗯 嗯 I really appreciate that. No, no, mann, you don’t know how much I appreciate that. Yeh... I am on the train already. Yes, no no I am not lying, I really appreciate that, thank you, okay okay, bye’

她說話的聲音非常大聲,像是裝了麥克風一般。

在對面的男子下車時,她直接跟他要了手中的報紙。
他露出略微驚訝的表情。

但她並沒有開始閱讀。

車上開始廣播下一站名,她突然開始說話,似乎在說,她錯以為這是他要轉車的那站。
我並不確定她是不是在跟我說話。

在隔壁車廂的人下車後,她也走了過去拿了剩下的雜誌,接著又走回了我身旁的座位。

她開始說他晚上睡不著的事情。

‘我需要一些睡前閱讀’,她說。
‘我連續失眠好幾天了’

我從包包裡拿出已經看完的免費雜誌。
‘這個給你’
她看了看標題,念了出來,‘很好,這很好,謝謝’。放進了包包裡。

她背著一個仿製的LV包包。至少我認為是的。
或許50歲左右吧(請原諒我非常不會辨認年齡)。
她開始告訴我她最近睡不著時讀的書。

是一本關於吃甚麼對身體好的書。

她講話有濃濃的口音,但由於我也不是本地人,我聽不太出來來自哪裡。

她說,嚼parsely對牙齒好。
我說,真的嗎?
‘對,對,真的。你把它切碎,嚼一嚼,很久都不會蛀牙。‘
‘真的嗎?那我要試試看,我牙齒很差。’
但我並沒有告訴他,其實我不喜歡parsely的味道,對我而言太過濃烈。

我們還分享了有關‘女人要喝牛奶,因為對骨頭好’的這件事。她說她很曾經愛喝牛奶,但是不知道從甚麼時候,就不再喝了。還說,喝不慣semi-skimmed的人,可以把semi-skimmed的和一般的混著喝,慢慢就會習慣了。

而我說,我倒是喜歡喝semi-skimmed的。

到了她該轉車的那站。

我說,你的站到了。
他說,阿,對,對,差點錯過了。

‘很高興跟你講話’
‘很高興跟你講話’

她下車了。





在opening之後,我加入男友的朋友聚會。

面對著一桌講著不同語言的人,我感到孤單。

竟然有點想念她。



希望她今晚可以入眠。

3.3.10

Reasons to Travel in Hermes Dental Clinic

Reasons to Travel

Hermes Dental Clinic, 205 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, Westminster, London, SW1V 1ER (Nearest tube: Victoria Station)
3 March 2010 - 14 April 2010


‘It’s not about travelling, it’s about finding the place we identify as home’.


‘Reasons to Travel’, as the title suggests, uses the answers people give to explain why they travel and the photos taken in foreign places to explore the meaning of, and the relationship between, travel and home. The project was inspired by the travel experience of the artist herself. As a Taiwanese living in London, Cheng has visited many countries in her life, for work as well as tourism. She became interested in the reasons why people travel and in the relationship between people and places.


How does the environment change our mindset, and how do we become transformed by a place where we do not belong while we are travelling? What is the difference between travelling to a completely new place, and travelling back home – to Taiwan or London, say? The photographs, taken by Cheng while visiting different countries, can be seen as an experiment of existing ‘in the state of travelling’. The text, consisting of quotations from the artist’s friends and drawing on her own ideas, cites multiple reasons for why people travel. Travelling becomes here a process of finding out where the place we identify as our home is, and of figuring out how we identify ourselves on and via our travels.



Reasons to Travel is exhibited in Hermes Dental Clinic, London from 3 March - 14 April 2010

If any one is interested, please come to the clinic and take a look!


The book can be bought on http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1201396 at the price of £8.95 for paper back, £18.95 for hardback