大洪水－諾亞方舟計劃 / 3D列印 / 800x180x184H 公分 / 2014

The Deluge – Noah’s Ark / 3D printings / 800x180x184H cm / 2014

因近期的渡輪翻船事件，洪水問題等生態議題，這件作品希望表現人類在面對如此浩劫的無能為力。如果象徵人類救贖的諾亞方舟都沈了，人類和非人類還有什麼區別？人類在世界主宰的中心地位看起來就變成了非常地可笑。這次，我使用一個郵輪的3D模型來代表一個現代的諾亞方舟，並且用軟體將之變形。這個變形的平均態勢充滿著美感，如同是經過上帝的手。在台北雙年展的大約5個月展出期間，我使用30台小型3D印表機來打印這台翻轉的船，將美術館打造成工廠，從開幕夜的從零開始到結束那天的8米巨船完成，佔據整個空間。

In response to recent ferry sinkings and the escalating ecological crises brought about by flooding and climate catastrophe, this work seeks to articulate a profound sense of human helplessness when confronted with disaster on such a scale. If even Noah’s Ark—the ultimate symbol of human salvation—were to sink, what distinction would remain between the human and the non-human? Humanity’s presumed position at the center of the world order suddenly appears fragile, even faintly absurd.

For this project, I employ a 3D model of a cruise ship as a contemporary analogue to Noah’s Ark. Through digital manipulation, the vessel is algorithmically deformed. The averaged curvature of these distortions generates an unexpected aesthetic quality, as though shaped by an invisible, godlike hand.

During the approximately five-month exhibition period of the Taipei Biennial, I operated thirty small-scale 3D printers to continuously fabricate this overturned ship. The museum space was thus transformed into a site of production—a factory rather than a static display. From zero on opening night to the final day, the vessel gradually accumulated into an eight-meter-long monumental structure, ultimately occupying and overwhelming the entire space.