Wafer Bearer Deep Rain
晶舟靈雨
2022
Single channel video installation with sound
12 minutes
Director | lololol
Sound | Sheryl Cheung
Camera and Editor | Xia Lin
The conception of this project started during Covid lockdown in Taipei 2021 in close collaboration with eteam ( Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger)
Semiconductors are essential infrastructure for building the future, and in this continuously shifting and modulating world, Taiwan, as a semiconductor hub, is an epitome of the global technology production. Technical objects are produced, exhausted, eliminated, and reborn here, and all of which are inextricably linked with people’s lives. Extending from the artist duo lololol’s long-term iterated observations and responses on the phenomena of natural, industrial, and electronic environments, the collective applies everyday scenarios from their surrounding urban landscapes and uses a multi-narrative audio-visual video installation to regulate the dynamic relationship between technical objects and human beings and to organically imagine the technological reality behind semiconductors on both global and local scales.
Along with the wind and sounds of the rain,
tides get high and fall low,
setting off an invisible storm, as you come and I go.
A wafer bearer sways in dynamic balance,
drifting, floating in symbiotic coexistence.
半導體是建設未來的必要基礎設施，在持續「調變」的世界經脈中，臺灣作為半導體產業的聚集地，是全球科技生產的縮影，技術物在此製造、損耗、消亡與重生，皆與人們的生活發生著千絲萬縷的聯繫。延續lololol藝術雙人組長期以來對自然、工業、電子環境的迭代觀察與現象回應，藝術家透過自身在城市山水中的生活情境，以多重敘事的錄像聲音裝置，來調節科技物件以及人類之間的能量關係，有機的去想像全球／地方半導體的技術現實。
乘著風雨聲調潮起潮落，你來我往，掀起一陣無形風波。
一葉晶舟在搖搖晃晃的動態平衡中，飄移，流動，互存共生的生存狀態。
Artist Talks https://youtu.be/w1Yb-XmONok
Along with the wind and sounds of the rain,
tides get high and fall low,
setting off an invisible storm, as you come and I go.
A wafer bearer sways in dynamic balance,
drifting, floating in symbiotic coexistence.
半導體是建設未來的必要基礎設施，在持續「調變」的世界經脈中，臺灣作為半導體產業的聚集地，是全球科技生產的縮影，技術物在此製造、損耗、消亡與重生，皆與人們的生活發生著千絲萬縷的聯繫。延續lololol藝術雙人組長期以來對自然、工業、電子環境的迭代觀察與現象回應，藝術家透過自身在城市山水中的生活情境，以多重敘事的錄像聲音裝置，來調節科技物件以及人類之間的能量關係，有機的去想像全球／地方半導體的技術現實。
乘著風雨聲調潮起潮落，你來我往，掀起一陣無形風波。
一葉晶舟在搖搖晃晃的動態平衡中，飄移，流動，互存共生的生存狀態。
Artist Talks https://youtu.be/w1Yb-XmONok
Still of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Single channel video installation with sound, 12 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Photo Courtesy: MOCA Taipei