大洪水－諾亞方舟計劃        2014 台北雙年展作品

The Deluge – Noah’s Ark 2014 Taipei Biennial project

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 ecological crises—such as ferry disasters and flooding—this work seeks to articulate humanity’s profound sense of powerlessness in the face of catastrophe. If Noah’s Ark, traditionally a symbol of human salvation, were itself to sink, what distinction would remain between the human and the non-human? In such a scenario, humanity’s presumed position at the center of the world appears not only destabilized, but profoundly absurd.

In this project, I employ a 3D model of a cruise ship as a contemporary analogue of Noah’s Ark. Through digital manipulation, the vessel is algorithmically deformed. The resulting averaged state of deformation possesses an unexpected aesthetic quality, as though shaped by the hand of God. This transformation oscillates between destruction and creation, suggesting a form that is at once catastrophic and strangely sublime.

Over the approximately five-month exhibition period of the Taipei Biennial, I deployed thirty small-scale 3D printers to continuously produce fragments of this inverted vessel. The museum space was transformed into a factory: from a state of zero at the opening night to the completion of an eight-meter-long overturned ship on the final day. The work gradually occupied the entire exhibition space, foregrounding a durational process that collapses distinctions between production, display, and ruin.