A Place Without Dust
何處不惹塵埃
2023
Performance Documentation, Installation
行為紀錄影像︑裝置
As a part of Residency Solo Exhibition "The Necessity of Occasional Boredom" (2023), this work was created and exhibited in Art Site of Railway Warehouse Hsinchu City.
這個作品的名字來自於「本來無一物，何處惹塵埃」這句詩，然而想法卻來自於充滿落塵的鐵道藝術村工作室。只要幾天沒進工作室，桌上或層架上就會很明顯地積了一層灰，需要不斷地維護清潔，簡直到了徒勞的程度，沒錯，這就是標準的「無聊但是必要」的行為。在無止盡的除塵中，我心想何處惹塵埃這樣的狀態根本就像是理想氣體方程式一樣，雖然能推算出答案，卻不可能自然發生；應該說，如果本來真的無一物，確實不會有塵埃，但正因為環境中「有」東西，所以會不斷產生微小的屑屑。持續地製造塵埃，代表我們活著，塵埃正是我們實際存在的證據。
不惹塵埃之處，終究只可能是內心或者無塵室。
The title of this work came from a Buddhism poem “As there is nothing from the first, where does the dust itself collect?” However, the idea of this work actually came from the dusty studio in Art Site of Railway Warehouse. The flat surfaces in the studio start accumulating dust in just a few days. Constant maintenance is required, albeit almost futile. That is exactly the kind of act which is “boring but necessary.”
During my endless dust-removing, I thought about the poem and how it can only happen in an ideal world but not this material world. If there’s literally nothing in the world, not a single dust would be there for sure. However, “nothing” is never the case of our environment, dust is the proof of existence, the existence of us and everything. In the end, a place with dust can only be inside spiritual space or maybe in clean room.
