discharge what you charged: room edition
作品名稱:『discharged what you charged: room edition』
年份:2020
媒材:metal sheets, cooling components, customized OTG USB, glass room
尺寸:size variable
Title: discharged what you charged: room edition Year: 2020 Medium: metal sheets, cooling components, customized OTG USB, glass room Size: dimensions variable
作品概述:
Description : 個展「同化者:Assimilator」中的作品，藉由重新更新，由剝奪現代人日常生活所必須的行動通訊裝置與限制人在一定時間內的自由去增加觀眾對於感官與對於時間認知的體會，以強化觀者對於時間與空間的存在性。
The artist revises his own work previously on show in the solo exhibition entitled ‘Assimilator’. By depriving the audience of both mobile devices of communication —generally understood to be essential in modern daily life—, and freedom within a certain period of time, the installation enhances and reorients the viewer’s cognition towards a more direct experience of time and space.
Discharge What You Charged: Room Edition
Title: Discharge what you charged: room edition
Year: 2020
Medium: Metal sheets, cooling components, customized OTG USB, exhibition entrance/exit
Size: Dimensions variable
Description
This work is an expanded version of the original "Discharge what you charged" (2019), reimagined for the solo exhibition "Assimilator." The installation features a glass room that becomes both the artwork's container and its mechanism of control.
When visitors enter the exhibition and place their mobile phones on the designated platform at the entrance/exit, the installation activates a dual process of deprivation: the device begins draining their phone's battery while simultaneously locking the exhibition entrance/exit door, trapping the visitors inside for 15-20 minutes.
During this enforced period of confinement, visitors are stripped of both their primary means of digital communication and their physical freedom to leave the exhibition space. The locked entrance/exit creates a controlled environment where visitors must remain within the exhibition while their phones slowly discharge within the installation.
The work creates an intensified experience of temporal and spatial awareness by removing the two things modern individuals rely on most: constant connectivity and unrestricted mobility. Only when the phones are nearly drained does the entrance/exit unlock, releasing both the devices and their owners back into the world.
By depriving the audience of mobile devices of communication—generally understood to be essential in modern daily life—and restricting their freedom within a certain period of time, the installation enhances and reorients the viewer's cognition towards a more direct experience of time and space. The work forces a confrontation with our dependencies while creating unexpected moments of stillness and reflection within the confined exhibition space.
