HOLD/HOLE(D)

Very proud that the three of us（Leslie Yao, Ankar Arken, FRESHLYSQUEEZED)  gather together again, after our previous sound healing program, and join hands with Fiu Gallery to present this multi-layered visual and auditory exhibition.
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In this site-specific performance, the movement of the performers' bodies float and flood through the entire 3,4 levels of space, like existing in parallel timelines within the same space, or ghosts outside the boundary of time. The relationships between the performers and with the audience are neither close nor aloof, dynamic nor still, frenetic nor meditative, depicting possible stories before the abandoned building becomes ruins.

In this exhibition, the artist would create various site-specific works in the form of performance, video and installation, adhering the fluidity of bodies to the structures and objects that are about to vanish from the world. Working with the space and non-linear time fragments, the artist would unveil a poetic performance at dusk.

In the dark, one ought to seek the light.
Compiling the pre-existing architectural fragments and medical test tubes from the medical university against one single wall, indicating the fate of the entire building. Before all of them vanish, the fragments and the building has integrated into one inseparable entity.

The body movement of the performers are snippets of lives from the past, and the projections on the decaying building recall old memories from another time. The rejuvenation of an abandoned building, like in Night at the Museum, is a streak of dim light through the dark hole that nobody knows about in the city. Silent disco on the ruins is the unsettlement and confusion of the young generation when they are confronted by the unknown darkness in the world, as well as by themselves.


洞底之光

很荣幸同Fiu fiu以我们三位（姚念宇，安卡 艾尔肯，曾晨）的再一次聚首，继之前的sound healing program之后，呈现一次视听层次较为完整的展览。
这一次展览作者将以在地性（Site-specific）的创作方式，分别进行行为表演/视频及装置等不同形式的创作。将身体的流动性附着于将要被从地图上抹去的一桌一椅，以同一空间的非线性时间片段，展现一场较为诗意的黄昏表演。

以在地性（SIte-specific)的创作方式，让表演者的身体流动并充斥于整个三四层空间。像处于同一空间的不同时间线，又像跳脱于时空外的幽灵，表演者之间，表演者于观众之间的关系若即若离：行走或静止，癫狂或沉思，描绘着这一片废墟在成为废墟之前的种种故事的可能性。

身处于黑洞中，该适时地去寻找光。
利用医药大学本身的建筑碎片及医用试管，堆砌成一具隔墙相映的废墟；在从地图上抹去之前，结构与废墟已互为一体，一即是整，再不可分割。
投射的影像片段照射于废墟上空的墙上，穿透于单面透光玻璃，到达另一侧的房间。而另一间房间唯有一面镜子，大象视而不见（引：房间里的大象）。

表演者的身体动势已成为过往影像投射的碎片，在废墟上的投影更是诉说着往日的旧事。旧楼的回光复燃，似“博物馆之夜“，是地理上不为人知晓的城市黑洞传来幽暗的光；废墟上的静音蹦迪， 是年轻一代面对自己，际遇未知黑暗时的悸动与迷茫。


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09.2019