尋找沉船 Search for Shipwrecks

尋找沉船 Search for Shipwrecks

單頻道錄像裝置 single-channel video installation、3D列印模型 3D printing model、 特製展示櫃 customised showcase，6'30"，61 (W) x 100 (L) x 133.5 (H) cm，2020

This work of art portrays the process of the artist's search for sunken ships. Green Island Township Chronicle tells the history of a Dutch merchant ship that had run aground and sunk near Green Island's shores in the late 1800s, approximately 1880, fully loaded with provisions. The ship's load would have sustained the islanders for three entire years, but as all of the arable lands on the island were laid to waste three years thereafter, residents of the island endured a considerable period of destitution and distress. In 2013, the underwater archaeology team of Academia Sinica initiated an exploratory survey based on these records and discovered a sunken ship that has since been named "Green Island No. 1." This video begins with views of the Green Island White Terror Memorial Park of today (previously a penitentiary for political prisoners) before diving from the sky into the sea and arriving at the excavation site of the sunken "Green Island No. 1."

At the same time, the artist has also constructed a replica of the sunken ship using 3D modelling and printing technology based on the hull dimensions specified in the survey reports and historical documents and displayed the model within the customized showcase. The digital model's irregular facets protrude from the display cases, representing a digitalized imaginative process of delineating unlived moments in history using contemporary technology.

這個作品呈現藝術家尋找沉船的過程。《綠島鄉誌》記載了一艘19世紀末的荷蘭沉船，相傳是1880年左右，滿載糧食的荷蘭商船遇風浪而迷失，在綠島近海擱淺沈沒。當時遺留下的米糧足夠島民吃三年，但三年後所有的耕地荒廢，島民在青黃不接的狀況下度過一段艱困的日子。在2013年，中研院的水下考古團隊根據此紀錄，探勘發現「綠島一號」沉船。這部影片從今日的白色恐怖綠島紀念園區出發（前身為收押政治犯的監獄），再由天空潛入海底，抵達「綠島一號」沉船的考古現場。

同時藝術家也依據考古報告當中的船身尺寸與歷史文件，透過3D建模及列印技術製作出想象中的沉船，並陳設在特製的展示櫃中。這些數位建模的不正常塊面打破展示櫃，呈現了一個數位化的想像的過程，是透過當代技術去想像一個我們從未經歷的時空。