Spatial installation, mixed media, 2023.
https://jam.jutfoundation.org.tw/voc-guide/4086
Here are 102 copies of driver’s manual, please feel free to browse through them.
“Outside the window of the venue, the Jianguo Expressway is on your right-hand side. Take the National Highway No.1 and then Expressway No. 65. It will tell you the interchange at which you should get off, and it is the way back. Try to concentrate on driving, don’t get frustrated.”
The exhibition is on view for 102 days. A copy of the manual will be taken away per day.
They’ll be gone eventually, but they’ll (at least) leave traces.
Candy Bird’s work Concentration (102 Days) is based on his personal experience and writing, depicting the inevitable dematerialization in the course of time and interpersonal relationships. Candy Bird engages in an internal dialogue and rumination by disassembling the self in his memory. He blends easy-to-use objects and images into physical sites and visitor-oriented interactions, thereby constructing an abstract composition that conveys a sense of existence. He guides the visitors to embark on an adventure of perception, which also echoes the state of life that cannot be defined by any single philosophy.
這裡有102本駕駛手冊，請隨意翻閱。
「窗外，建國高架道路就在你的右手邊。走國道一號，接著轉台65線高架道路。它會告訴你該在哪個交流道下車，那是回家的路。試著專心開車，不要沮喪。」本展覽共展出 102 天。每天都會有一本手冊被帶走，它們終究會消失，但（至少）會留下痕跡。
Candy Bird的《專心（102天）》源於他的個人經歷與書寫，描繪了在時間與人際關係流變中，那種不可避免的「去物質化」過程，藝術家透過拆解記憶中的自我，進行一場內在對話與反芻。他將日常物件與影像融於實體場域和觀眾互動之中，構築出一種傳達存在感的抽象結構，引導觀眾展開一場感知冒險，同時也呼應了那種無法被任何單一哲學所定義的生命狀態。
