「 嗨，朋友（希望你願意讓我這麼稱呼）。
此刻在閱讀這些文字的你，是在前往某處的路上，還是打算先待在這裡呢？
最近通勤的時候，時常因為沒能搭上預計好的那班捷運而感到小懊惱。雖然下一班列車兩分鐘後就會進站，我依然貪望要是能搭上預計好的那班列車，現在早已抵達目的地了；總覺得只要能快速抵達某地，就會像完成某種任務般且沾沾自喜著，在享受那種快感的同時也為急速的時間感到暈眩，這移動過程中好像漏掉了什麼，距離對我來說總是很模糊，身體更是無法感受自己經驗了這趟移動旅程。
筆友W偶爾在回信中會透露出等待我來信的焦慮，盼著收到我的信似乎是那麼漫長，而我想是因為自己總也在等待W的來信吧。無奈住所沒有獨立信箱可以收信，鄰居奶奶的外籍移工也認不得中文。在步入公寓大門走上樓的時刻，腦中關於期盼的各種幻想總不斷衝撞，這段期盼跟著爬升的腳步也漸漸攀升與延長了，而我甚至會踏上找尋信件的旅途。這次將信件視為傳遞媒介的主角，移動的主體不再是我的期盼，而我會不會是信件的延伸呢？
在想像它可以激發什麼樣的想像力、它的內涵和外延是否有邊界的那晚，我收到W的信了。突然間好像藉由這些臆想與寄情，重整了我對時差與距離的想像，似乎也構成了一段距離的可能，而這段距離是多麼緩慢卻深刻。
讀到這裡的時候，你到哪了呢？」
時間：2022.06.04-7.31
藝術家：Candy Bird、何彥諺
「你到哪了呢？一個距離的想像。」一展同時做為2022年《出口》國際藝術節的合作串聯場域，環繞「移動」為主軸，邀請藝術家Candy Bird與何彥諺，在移動的軌道上拉出不同的（或許）緩慢的軸線。
主辦單位：財團法人邱再興文教基金會 鳳甲美術館
協辦單位：世紀當代舞團、臺北大眾捷運股份有限公司
Where You At? A Picture of Distance
“Hey, my friend (hope you’d let me call you like this).
Reading these words now, are you on the way to somewhere, or just stay here for the moment?
Lately in commuting, I’m often a bit upset about my failure in catching the MRT I planned to catch. Even though the next train is just two minutes away, I still long for catching the expected train, which has already arrived at my destination by now. It’s as if a swift arrival to a place is like a mission accomplished, and that makes me complacent somehow. While I savor such ecstasy, I’m also overwhelmed by the rapidity. It seems along the way there’s something missing. Distance has always been blurry to me, and my body can’t even capture its sense of this journey.
Penpal W divulged her anxiety of looking forward to my letter in her correspondence from time to time. The anticipation of my letter seems prolonged. It is perhaps in part because I’m constantly looking forward to W’s reply as well. What a pity that there’s no independent mailbox at my place. The migrant worker of the grandma next door can’t read Chinese, either. As I climbed the stairs after entering the apartment’s gate, all kinds of fantasies about anticipation were colliding constantly. Such anticipation was also ascending and extending step by step on my way up. Meanwhile, I might even step on the journey in quest of my letters. This time, letter is treated as the protagonist of communication medium. The subject of mobility is no longer my anticipation. Will I be the extension of letter instead?
As I was picturing what kind of imagination it might trigger and pondering over if its content or extension has a boundary that night, I got a letter from W. All of a sudden, it was if through the guesswork and sentimentality, my picture with time difference and distance was restructured. They seemed to give birth to the possibility of a distance, which was so laggard yet so profound.
Where you at, when reading this?”
Time: 2022.6.4-7.31
Venue: Honggah Museum (11F., No.166, Daye Rd., Beitou District, Taipei City)
Artists: Candy Bird, HO Yen-Yen
The exhibition “Where You At? A Picture of Distance” serves as the collaborative venue with the 2022 EXIT International Art Festival. The exhibition centers around “mobility,” inviting artists Candy Bird and HO Yen-Yen to draw various (likely) slow axes over the trajectories of mobility.
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