My baby & I |Digital installation
This artwork is based on my little daughter’s growing moments from my pregnancy until her three years old. I keep collecting all kinds of her talking sound and singing since she was born, even when she was in my stomach during my pregnancy in the hospital for check up. I record her heartbeat sound from ultra sound scan. Even now, I keep most of her drawings, it’s really interesting to observe her life improvement through this little baby’s perspective. Both as a mother and an artist, it really reminds me of making something creative from our valuable moments.
Therefore, I put her sounds in to this pregnant model, when people touch her big belly, they will hear my baby’s heartbeat. Or when people touch the model’s butt, they can hear my baby was crying for vaccine injection on her butt. Or when people touch the feet, they can hear the chatting conversation between my baby and I during the time I took her to the preschool every morning. In all, this sound installation contain so many little but meaningful moment in our times, I also put her drawing into my animation together in the same space. I want to use this artwork to encourage other women the sweet and hard time being a mother, at the same time, to remind your childhood with your mother. Looking back the time you were embraced by your mom in the worm.
Therefore, I put her sounds in to this pregnant model, when people touch her big belly, they will hear my baby’s heartbeat. Or when people touch the model’s butt, they can hear my baby was crying for vaccine injection on her butt. Or when people touch the feet, they can hear the chatting conversation between my baby and I during the time I took her to the preschool every morning. In all, this sound installation contain so many little but meaningful moment in our times, I also put her drawing into my animation together in the same space. I want to use this artwork to encourage other women the sweet and hard time being a mother, at the same time, to remind your childhood with your mother. Looking back the time you were embraced by your mom in the worm.
我蒐集我女兒的聲音還有塗鴉,從懷孕時期在醫院產檢時的心跳聲到現在她牙牙學語的母女對話,運用電路板觸碰裝置安裝在懷孕的假模特兒上,只要你碰觸那個懷孕母體模特兒,不同身體部位會發出我女兒的不同聲音情境,像是撫摸肚子,就會聽到當時我在醫院產檢時,跟醫生拜託錄下我女兒的心跳聲,撫摸到腳時,就會聽到我跟我女兒每天上學帶她去幼稚園的走路的腳步聲與母女的日常對話,還有摸到屁股,你就會聽到她醫院打預防針時的哭聲,我在哄她的聲音。一切的微小對話片刻,對我跟我女兒來說,都是最真實的生命連結。或許,這些對話,也對你來說,勾起某些你與母親的時刻。
而這件數位聲音裝置作品曾發表在c-lab空總2020年12月由鄭淑麗老師帶領的lab kill lab的”科技妄想”子計畫中,當時只是一個初步概念的發想,從女性在社會上被寄予的身分角色與社會期待,反思到自身身為母親,從懷孕、生產到養育陪伴一個從你自身創造出來的生命,命運的牽連如何把兩人的生命緊緊相繫。尤其身為媽媽藝術家,創作歷程與我女兒的成長是共同交織、互相影響的,因此這次特別想把我這幾年來記錄下來的難忘時刻的影音素材作應用,讓我女兒也成為創作者之一,更進一步藉由空總的這個進駐計畫,繼續集結更多不同母親與孩子的成長紀錄影音,把創作在延伸到募集親子民眾的成長中最難忘的幾個片段,用聲音與塗鴉為素材,作品會擴大到更多尊懷孕的假模特兒身上,並選擇於空總的沉浸式DOME圓頂劇場做360度的動態影像投影,影像將會是從塗鴉發想的動畫,並讓觀眾能觸碰這些不同部位會發出不同聲音的模特兒,聲音與影像交織與互動,而選擇在空總的dome圓形頂劇場演出,也是隱喻回到母體子宮裡被包圍的安全感。這件作品裡出現的母親與孩子都是共同的創作者,也讓創作者與參與觀眾再次回想起自己與母親人生的重要時刻。
而這件數位聲音裝置作品曾發表在c-lab空總2020年12月由鄭淑麗老師帶領的lab kill lab的”科技妄想”子計畫中,當時只是一個初步概念的發想,從女性在社會上被寄予的身分角色與社會期待,反思到自身身為母親,從懷孕、生產到養育陪伴一個從你自身創造出來的生命,命運的牽連如何把兩人的生命緊緊相繫。尤其身為媽媽藝術家,創作歷程與我女兒的成長是共同交織、互相影響的,因此這次特別想把我這幾年來記錄下來的難忘時刻的影音素材作應用,讓我女兒也成為創作者之一,更進一步藉由空總的這個進駐計畫,繼續集結更多不同母親與孩子的成長紀錄影音,把創作在延伸到募集親子民眾的成長中最難忘的幾個片段,用聲音與塗鴉為素材,作品會擴大到更多尊懷孕的假模特兒身上,並選擇於空總的沉浸式DOME圓頂劇場做360度的動態影像投影,影像將會是從塗鴉發想的動畫,並讓觀眾能觸碰這些不同部位會發出不同聲音的模特兒,聲音與影像交織與互動,而選擇在空總的dome圓形頂劇場演出,也是隱喻回到母體子宮裡被包圍的安全感。這件作品裡出現的母親與孩子都是共同的創作者,也讓創作者與參與觀眾再次回想起自己與母親人生的重要時刻。