重力波 Gravitational Wave
李德茂個展 LEE Te-Mao Solo Exhibition
2021
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重力波是能量的漣漪，從遙遠的宇宙傳了好幾億年來到地球，被 LIGO 的科學家偵測到。它改變的是空間本身，不是物質、不是運動。對應我們對於空間的感覺，如果空間是可改變的，如果感覺經驗和空間放在一起，將會打開什麼樣的問題？
空間是絕對的、相對的、可感知的，是相對論裡時空相關性的一部分。重力波是黑洞或中子星相撞瞬間所釋放出來的能量，科學家透過干涉原理搜索空間的擾動，從 2015 年第一次測到重力波開始，至今已經發現十幾次重力波經過地球。這一宇宙中的常態現象，使我們所在的空間每隔一陣子就微微的晃一下。
作品中重組後的干涉現象反映出可感空間的晃動，在空間性和物理空間之間搭建某種感性經驗上的關係。伴隨物理學揭露的空間本質，可感的空間經驗發生變異，重構出一種如巴什拉「認識論斷裂」般的空間性。當物理學再次往前走了一步去碰觸空間的本質，廣義相對論精準描述了時空的原貌，回到直接的現場經驗，會不會交織疊加出一個尚未能描述的空間領域？
Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in space-time that transport energy from the distant universe for hundreds of millions of years to earth, and were detected by LIGO scientists. What it changes is the space itself, not mass or movement. When we apply the theory of gravitational waves on how we perceive space, supposed that if space is changeable, and if perceptual experience and space are placed together, what kind of question will be disclosed?
Space is absolute, relative, and perceivable, and it is part of the space-time correlation in the theory of relativity. Gravitational waves are the energy released at the moment of a black hole or neutron star collision. Scientists search for disturbances in space with the principles of interference. Since the first discovery of gravity waves in 2015, the scientists have detected gravity waves passing through the earth for more than ten times. This normal phenomenon in the universe causes the space we are in to shake slightly every once in a while.
In this work, the artist reassembled the experimental apparatus to create the wave interference that reflects the shaking of the perceptible space, which builds a certain perceptual relationship between spatiality and physical space. Along with the nature of space revealed by physics, the perceptible spatial experience transforms, reconstructing a kind of spatiality like the “epistemological break” proposed by Gaston Bachelard. When physics once again takes a step forward to challenge the essence of space, and general relativity accurately describes the original appearance of space and time, if we return to discuss people’s direct experience on site, will it interweave with the physical theory and uncover a field of space that has not yet been described?
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∥ 藝術家 李德茂 LEE Te-Mao
目前居住於花蓮。自 2016 年開始以錄像發展作品，2018 年起嘗試從事策展，策劃了寶藏巖光節、斷層藝術節等，並於 2019 年成立志哈克藝術實驗場，讓當代藝術更頻繁地流動於花蓮。基於物理學、哲學、藝術背景，在 2018 寶藏巖光節中開始發展重力波相關的藝術想像，游移在純粹理性的科學實證和可感經驗的感性邏輯之間，尋找兩者的關連及斷裂。
Lee Te-Mao currently lives in Hualien. He has been developing video works since 2016. In 2018, he curated the Treasure Hill Light Festival and the Fault Line Art Festival, and has been engaging in curatorial practice until now. In addition, he established Gihak ArtLab in 2019 to facilitate the exchange of contemporary art in Hualien. He has been exploring the artistic imagination related to gravitational waves since the 2018 Treasure Hill Light Festival based on his background in physics, philosophy and art, shifting between the purely rational scientific evidence and the perceptual logic of perceived experience, looking for the connection and disconnection in between.
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∥ 展覽資訊 Exhibition Information
◍ 展期 Exhibition Period／2021.2.27 Sat. - 3.14 Sun. 1100-1830
◍ 開幕 Opening／2021.2.27 Sat. 1500
◍ 展覽地點 Exhibition Venue／台北市迪化街一段34-1號3樓(大稻城永樂市場對面，台灣物產3樓)
∥ 主辦 Organizer：北角工作室
∥ 贊助 Sponsor：國藝會