關於台北雙年展2010的創作提案二
白雙全, 2010-8-6
創作概念
藝術家站在美術館的大堂，等候一個願意讓他陪伴回家的觀眾，他在大堂擺設了一支直立的宣傳旗幟，上面寫著「讓藝術家陪你回家！」，招募現場觀眾參與他的活動。在路上，觀眾站在一個和藝術家對等的位置上，觀眾既是觀眾，亦是提供創作內容的人，而藝術家亦同樣扮演著創作人和觀眾的兩個身份。兩個人，一條路上，分享四重角色。
當觀眾走入美術館看藝術品，他卻遇見藝術家。藝術家等／不等於藝術品？若果藝術品是一件擺放在美術館內供人欣賞的物品，當你在美術館遇上藝術家，你就是遇上一件流動的藝術品，一個流動的美術館。你和藝術品是點對點的相遇，但你和藝術家在路上卻是兩條平衡線的重疊，在時間線上每一刻都可以是藝術。而你甚至可以相信，你就是藝術家。
當藝術家站在大堂等待一個觀眾出現的同時，他變成了「觀眾」。他期盼著驚喜和精彩的情節在他眼前一幕幕展現：首先是一個未知的人，接著是一條未知的路，最後是一處未知的地方。人生的故事濃縮成動人的電影，未知和神秘使人內心雀躍。
回家計劃是藝術家和觀眾互換角色的場景，在觀眾的家，藝術家完全變成了觀眾。回家計劃是帶領觀眾離開美術館的計劃，藝術不只出現在美術館，它也在路上，也在你的家。但在於我，回家計劃是一個拿公費和陌生人去旅行的計劃，經驗一個台灣人帶我遊台灣的旅程，在這要感謝館方和觀眾支持。
回家計劃由藝術家策劃，然後和觀眾一同去完成。它讓藝術家和觀眾站在一個對等的位置上，彼此認識和發現，既強調交流和信任的重要，亦重視創作過程中的偶遇和隨機性，它並沒有一件所謂的完成品，或者完成品就是過程中的一個變數。
執行日期
第一回測試期：8月12日至15日(共4天)。
第二回執行期：9月4日至15日(共12天)，安排在開幕前3天和開幕後9天進行。時間：每天下午3:00-5:30（閉館前兩個半小時，星期六6:00-8:30）。
第三回執行期：11月8日至14日(共7天)，為了使我不在美術館時(即9月15日後)，觀眾也可以參與回家計劃，所以我安排在展覽完結前的七天做回家計劃的最後一回。願意參加第三回的觀眾請填上表格，投入木箱。我會在所有的表格內抽出七個觀眾，每一天安排去一個觀眾工作的地方，等他放工，然後陪伴他回家。
回家計劃的旅程記錄將會在藝術家的部落格發放：www.oneeyeman.com
PS1:
我第一次和女朋友去台灣是在2004年的聖誕節，我們去了九份玩，還買了幾盒芋頭酥，因為太晚，我們在路口等不到回程的車。那時餅店的老闆走過來叫我們上車，由九份送我們到台北，雖然他們說是順路，但車子也要走個多小時才到台北呢，而我們買的只是幾十元港幣的手信。我們真的很感動，我太太昨晚還在說九月我們再回台灣時，一定要去九份探他們。就是這樣簡單，相信和感激使我們在未來的路上重遇～～或者就是這個回憶，我真的很想在台灣做這個「回家計劃」，它是使人與人本應有的一份簡單的信任，再一次體現。
PS2:
這件作品是在澳門的旅遊計劃《重繪記憶的地圖：澳門站》的延續。
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II. Go Home Project
An artist stands in the museum lobby, waiting for an audience willing to let him accompany him/her home. He has placed a vertical banner in the lobby that reads “Let the artist go home with you!” to recruit viewers on the scene to participate in his event. Go Home is a site “artist” and “audience” can exchange their roles. On the way, the audience takes a position of parity with the artist, both acting as audience and providing creative content, while the artist similarly plays dual roles as creator and viewer. In this way, between the two people and the road, four roles are shared.
When the viewer enters the museum to view works of art he encounters the artist instead. Is this equal to/not equal to art? If an art work is an object placed in a museum for people to view, when you encounter an artist in a museum you are coming face to face with a fluid art work and a mobile museum. You meet the work of art in a point to point encounter, but you and the artist in transit are two overlapping parallel lines, where each moment along the time line can be art. And you might even believe that you are the artist.
The artist himself becomes an “audience” as he stands in the lobby waiting for an audience to appear. Like viewing a film, he anticipates the appearance of unexpected surprises and exciting developments before his eyes: first is an unknown person, followed by an unknown route, and finally an unknown place. “The unknown” is both mysterious and magnetic, and the biggest creative impetus. When the audience leads the artist to depart the museum, the audience becomes the leading role. They become the follow travelers on the way. Their role are changing. When the artist arrived the audience’s home, audience become “artist”, and his home become a “museum”.
The Go Home Project places the artist and viewer on equal footing, to get to know and discover each other, both stressing the importance of exchange and trust, and placing importance on arbitrariness and randomness in the creative process. It is not a finished work, per se; perhaps the finished work is a variable itself.
Installation and Execution
As the Go Home Project is conceived in line with the principle of leaving the least possible amount of objects in the museum, the entire installation consists of just one banner and one sheet of paper. The banner stands on the floor (like political campaign pennants) with Chinese characters reading Let the artist go home with you! The banner can be rolled up and taken away, and will only be set up when I am there on site. In addition, I am also considering keeping a list of people who take me home with them and the relevant dates for posting in the museum. My interaction with audience members in the Go Home Project is of a private nature and thus will not be openly displayed at the museum, but will be recorded on my personal blog with their consent.
First round dates: Aug 12 through 15 (total 4 days)
Second round dates: Sept 4 through 15 (total 12 days): three days prior to the opening and nine days after the opening.
Third round dates: Nov 8 through 14 (total 7 days): In order to enable all the audience participation in the Go Home Project when I am not present at the museum (after September 15) I will arrange for a second round during the seven days prior to the opening. I will make a sign and leave a registration form for audience members willing to let the artist go home with them to take part in this event. I will select seven audience members from among all the completed forms, and arrange to go to the workplace of a viewer, where I will wait for him to get off work and accompany him home.
