Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art

Translator: Thu-Huong Ha Reviewer: Morton Bast

譯者: Gina Wang 審譯者: Yuguo Zhang

I love to collect things.

我喜歡收集東西

Ever since I was a kid, I've had massive collections

我小的時候，收集很多不同的東西

of random stuff, everything from bizarre hot sauces

從世界各地的奇異的辣醬到昆蟲

from all around the world to insects

從世界各地的奇異的辣醬到昆蟲

that I've captured and put in jars.

被我我抓放在罐子裡

Now, it's no secret, because I like collecting things,

現在，這已不是秘密，我喜歡收集東西

that I love the Natural History Museum

我喜歡自然歷史博物館

and the collections of animals

還有在博物館裡

at the Natural History Museum in dioramas.

不同動物的擬真模型櫥窗

These, to me, are like living sculptures, right,

這些對我而言就像是活的雕像

that you can go and look at,

你可以去那邊瞧瞧

and they memorialize a specific point of time

它們會紀錄該動物生命中

in this animal's life.

某種生活的當下片刻

So I was thinking about my own life,

因此我開始想到我的生活

and how I'd like to memorialize my life, you know,

我要如何記錄我的生活

for the ages, and also — (Laughter) —

紀錄年輕時光，還有...... （笑聲）

the lives of my friends, but

我朋友的生活

the problem with this is that my friends aren't quite keen

但問題是，我的朋友並不想

on the idea of me taxidermy-ing them. (Laughter)

被製成標本（笑聲）

So instead, I turned to video,

所以，我轉向影片

and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize

影片是次好的方式，可以保存並記錄某人的生命 並捕捉他某個片刻的生活

someone and to capture a specific moment in time.

影片是次好的方式，可以保存並記錄某人的生命 並捕捉他某個片刻的生活

So what I did was, I filmed six of my friends

所以我所做的是，我為6位朋友錄影

and then, using video mapping and video projection,

然後，使用視覺映象原理和影片投射

I created a video sculpture, which was these six friends

我做出影片的雕像，讓這6位朋友

projected into jars. (Laughter)

被投影在罐子裡（笑聲）

So now I have this collection of my friends

所以現在我收集了這些朋友

I can take around with me whenever I go,

我可以隨身攜帶

and this is called Animalia Chordata,

這作品名為《Animalia Chordata》

from the Latin nomenclature for

其拉丁原文的意思是

human being, classification system.

人類、分類井然的系統

So this piece memorializes my friends in these jars,

所以這個作品將我朋友們放在罐子裡 並紀錄他們

and they actually move around. (Laughter)

它們其實可以活動（笑聲）

So, this is interesting to me,

所以我覺得這個很有趣

but it lacked a certain human element. (Laughter)

但卻缺少某些人類的特質（笑聲）

It's a digital sculpture, so I wanted to add

這是數位雕像，因此我想要增加

an interaction system. So what I did was,

互動系統，所以我所做的

I added a proximity sensor, so that when you get close

是增加距離偵測機，所以當你接近

to the people in jars, they react to you in different ways.

罐子裡的人，他們會用不同的方式與你互動

You know, just like people on the street

就像你太靠近

when you get too close to them.

街上的陌生人那樣

Some people reacted in terror. (Laughter)

有些人的反應是覺得很恐怖（笑聲）

Others reacted in asking you for help,

有些人反應是尋求幫忙

and some people hide from you.

有些人會躲起來

So this was really interesting to me, this idea of

所以我覺得這個主意真的很有趣

taking video off the screen and putting it in real life,

它把影片從螢幕擷取出來 放到真實生活

and also adding interactivity to sculpture.

加上與雕像的互動

So over the next year, I documented 40 of my other friends

因此隔年，我記錄其他40位朋友

and trapped them in jars as well

也把他們困在罐子裡

and created a piece known as Garden,

創造一個作品，名為《花園》

which is literally a garden of humanity.

其實本質是一個「人性花園」

But something about the first piece,

但第一件作品《Animali Chordata》

the Animali Chordata piece, kept coming back to me,

讓我我不斷回想思考一些事情

this idea of interaction with art,

也就是與藝術品互動這個概念

and I really liked the idea of people being able to interact,

我很喜歡人們能與藝術品互動的概念

and also being challenged by interacting with art.

並被此互動所挑戰

So I wanted to create a new piece that actually

所以我想創造一件新作品

forced people to come and interact with something,

迫使人們來與它互動

and the way I did this was actually by projecting

而我做的方式

a 1950s housewife into a blender. (Laughter)

是將1950年的家庭主婦投影到果汁機裡（笑聲）

This is a piece called Blend, and what it does is

這件作品叫《混合》

it actually makes you implicit in the work of art.

它讓你成為這藝術品的一部分

You may never experience the entire thing yourself.

你可能永遠無法徹底體驗這件藝術品

You can walk away, you can just watch as this character

你可以離開，你可以看著這個人物

stands there in the blender and looks at you,

她也站在裡面看著你

or you can actually choose to interact with it.

或你可以選擇與她互動

So if you do choose to interact with the piece,

假使你選擇與她互動

and you press the blender button, it actually sends

你按下「混合」的按紐

this character into this dizzying disarray of dishevelment.

它會讓這個人物進入頭暈腦脹的混亂狀態

By doing that, you are now part of my piece.

當你這麼做，你成為我作品的一部分

You, like the people that are trapped in my work

就像是其他被困在我作品裡的朋友

— (Blender noises, laughter) —

（果汁機的聲音、笑聲）

have become part of my work as well. (Laughter)

你也成為我作品的一部分（笑聲）

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

(Applause)

（掌聲）

But, but this seems a bit unfair, right?

但這看起來有些不公平，對吧

I put my friends in jars, I put this character,

我把我朋友放到罐子裡

this sort of endangered species character in a blender.

我也將這「瀕臨絕種」的人物放到果汁機

But I'd never done anything about myself.

但我都沒有對自己做任何處置

I'd never really memorialized myself.

我從來沒有真正記錄自己

So I decided to create a piece which is a self-portrait piece.

所以我決定創造一件自我肖像

This is sort of a self-portrait taxidermy time capsule piece

像是把自己做成標本的作品

called A Point Just Passed,

稱為《剛過的時光》

in which I project myself on top of a time card punch clock,

我將我自己投影在打卡鐘的上面

and it's up to you.

然後你可以做決定

If you want to choose to punch that punch card clock,

若你想要打卡

you actually age me.

你會讓我變老

So I start as a baby, and then if you punch the clock,

所以我一開始是嬰兒，如果你打卡

you'll actually transform the baby into a toddler,

你會讓我從嬰兒長成幼兒

and then from a toddler I'm transformed into a teenager.

然後從幼兒成為青少年

From a teenager, I'm transformed into my current self.

從青少年成為我現在的樣子

From my current self, I'm turned into a middle-aged man,

再從我現在的樣子成中年人

and then, from there, into an elderly man.

然後再成為老人

And if you punch the punch card clock a hundred times

如果你1天內打卡100次

in one day, the piece goes black

這個作品會變黑

and is not to be reset until the next day.

然後直到隔天才能開始新的循環

So, in doing so, you're erasing time.

所以當你這麼做時，你消除了時間

You're actually implicit in this work

你成為這作品的一部分

and you're erasing my life.

你也消滅了我的生命

So I like this about interactive video sculpture,

所以我喜歡互動式影像雕像

that you can actually interact with it,

你可以真的與它互動

that all of you can actually touch an artwork

你們都可以觸摸一件藝術品

and be part of the artwork yourselves,

並且成為該藝術品的一部分

and hopefully, one day, I'll have each and every one of you

我也希望，有一天，我會把你們每個人

trapped in one of my jars. (Laughter)

都困在我的罐子裡（笑聲）

Thank you. (Applause)

謝謝（掌聲）