作品：製造太陽千個（昆士蘭省圖書館計劃）

製造太陽千個
白雙全


關於昆士蘭省圖書館的創作計劃，作品將於Light form Light中展出。展覽網站：www.maap.org.au/light-from-light

創作概念：
對於沒有觸摸過的物件(Object)，我們會用想像去證明它的存在。太陽是一件我們沒有觸摸過但相信它存在的東西，我們對太陽的想像是：圓形、光和熱力。這三個特質構成我們對太陽的想像，也構成「太陽」。

《製造太陽千個》(Making Thousands SUNs)是一個製造太陽的計劃，由一個太陽製造成千百個太陽。我們通過圖書館的系統，把印有太陽的圖書從不同的圖書分館運到中央圖書館，每一分館只需要尋找一本封面有太陽相片的書，圖書館管理員手持圖書拍一張照片，然後把圖書和相片寄去中央圖書館即可。我的想像是：不同大小的太陽從四面八方走近中央，最後組成一個巨大的太陽。

當帶住太陽的千本圖書集齊在中央圖書館後，我就會把這堆圖書編排在一個平面上，我在上面蓋上一張白色的牆紙，在每一本書的太陽位置我都開一個和太陽一樣大的圓孔，之後把牆紙分成若干塊份，貼在圖書館四面的玻璃牆上。當太陽的光線穿過玻璃牆上牆紙的小孔打落在地上，地上就會投射出大大小小圓形的光，而且帶有熱力。這是一個個真實的太陽。

這樣我們製造了心中想像的千個太陽，亦同時製造了千個在物理上真實的太陽。


(Left: Brisbane’s Sun, 2010.6.20; Right: Mulheim an der Ruhr’s Suns, 2010.7.10)
附件：圖書館的Newsletter。

English version:
Making Thousands of SUNs
A project for the exhibition “Light From Light” in State Library of Queensland
Pak Sheung Chuen

Concept:
For the object had never been touched, we can only use our imagination to prove its existence. The sun is something that we haven’t touched but believed in its existence, our perception for the sun is round, bright light, and heat. These three characters constitute our imagination of the sun, also the concept of the sun. Making Thousands of SUNs is a project to manufacture sun, to produce thousands of suns from one sun. By using the state library’s lending system, gathering books with sun on the cover from different regional branch libraries to the Queensland State Library. Each branch library will only needs to find one copy of the book with sun (photo image) on its cover, the librarian will hold the book and take a photo, then send the book with photo to the state library. My imagination is: the different sized suns from all directions coming close to the centre, eventually they will form one grand sun. After the thousands of books with sun arrived at the state library, I will lay these books on a plane, cover them with a large sheet of white wallpaper, following each sun’s position on the book cover, I will cut out a hole same size as the sun, then divide the wallpaper into portions, attach them to the glass windows of the library. When the sun is showering through the paper holes on the window, it will project different sized round shaped light onto the floor with heat. Therefore, each of the dots becomes the sun of it’s own. Now, while we have the thousands suns in our heart, we also produced thousands physically realistic suns.
(Translated by Paul Bai)

作品：製造太陽千個（Library Newsletter）

Pak Sheung Chuen wants every library in Queensland to be involved!


(Images: Susan Furness, Collection Maintenance Coordinator from the State Library of Queensland’s Collection Access found this book for Pak Sheung Chuen while he was in Brisbane for his Light from Light residency. The sun on the cover of Michael Haag’s ‘Alexandria’ will inspire part of Pak’s artwork.)

Newsletter from State Library of Queensland, on July 2010:
See the State Library of Queensland in a new light when international artists arrive in Brisbane. They have created artworks specifically for the library site for Light from Light, an exhibition that will be simultaneously mirrored at the Shanghai Library in China from October.

And it’s not only the State Library of Queensland that gets to participate in this unique exhibition about the properties and metaphors of light. A respected artist from Hong Kong, Pak Sheung Chuen, wants every library in Queensland to be involved.

The artist is creating a new artwork comprised of images of the sun collected from hundreds of book covers found in Queensland library collections. According to Pak, who visited the State Library of Queensland while on residency in Brisbane, the sun images will inspire a window sculpture that creates “thousands of suns from one sun”.

The artist hopes that library staff across Queensland will help him create the work simply by loaning one book from their collection.

For this exciting project, books that feature an image of the sun on the front cover will be on display at the State Library of Queensland to accompany the artwork. As part of the project, Pak will be also be creating an ‘online catalogue’ that shows the staff member who helped him create the work.

For more information about Light from Light and how your library can be involved in this special library project, please contact Kim Machan, Director of MAAP – Multimedia Art Asia Pacific and exhibition curator: kim@maap.org.au or 07) 3161 7960.


About the exhibition Light for Light: www.maap.org.au/light-from-light
About State Library of Queensland: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/

二樓五仔記事簿／夏05／德／一張雜亂的工作枱

一張雜亂的工作枱
白雙全

一張雜亂的工作枱，總結了我對剛果感覺和我在剛果的七日考察報告。一個有政府但似在無政府狀態的剛果，作為一個外來者我只能站在一個被隔離的位置去觀察市內百態和人們表面的日常生活：由警察勒索要錢，到超高的物價生活超低水平，到四圍燒垃圾的臭味，到各處都是死水蒼蠅疫蚊滿天飛的情景……仍然歷歷在目，剛果給我的印象就是這樣令人悲憤和心傷。這只是一個表面的觀察。

這裡的東西是我在剛果Kinshasa可以到的地方買來的幾作物件，還有幾段偷拍的短片和幾張相片。我把它們和一些中國買回來的東西放在一起做了這個裝置。其中三段短片是我和當地人合作完成的：我和一個剛果的朋友一起小便，兩個人排出的尿液成為一個小池在烈日下蒸發乾涸；我幫一個剛果的朋友抹汗，我把抺過汗的紙巾一直保留著到今天；我圍著Kinshasa的一個小區用清水在地上畫了一個圈，在水痕未蒸乾前我由尾追上，把水的頭尾相接。

2010-7-7

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A Messy Table
PAK Sheung Chuen

The messy table sums up my feelings of the Congo. It is my report on the 7-days-inspection in the Congo. The Congolese Government likes an anarchy system. As an outsider I could only stand in an isolated position to observe the surface of city life and the people's daily lives: extortion of money by the police, the super high prices but low living standard, the smell of burning refuse all round, the stagnant water everywhere, flies, infected mosquitoes flying scenes…… It is still fresh in my memory. Congo gave me a grief and heartache impression. But this is just a superficial observation.

Here's something I bought from Kinshasa where I only permitted to go to a few places. I also displayed some photographs and some stolen video shots. Combining with the things I bought from China, I made this installation. The messy table also included 3 short videos that I collaborated with local people: 1, I peed with a Congolese friend. Two discharge of urine formed a pond which evaporated slowly into air by the hot sun. 2, I helped a Congolese friend to absorb his sweating by a tissue. The tissue has been preserved until now. 3, I poured the clear water around a small district in Kinshasa. The water drew a circle on the ground. Before the water mark evaporated, I chased its tail until I could connect the tail with the head.

2010-7-7