Category: Art Notes 藝文談暢
談藝術，談創作，回顧周圍看向前望。Art reviews and art criticism. Review on reviews. Critique on the practice of criticism. Back story to a performance. Free associations with a novel. Observations on the current milieu of art and social life. …
The Ventriloquists 14. Rybczynski: stretched vocabulary of narrativity, augmented attention to the material world 更多的圖形敘事解構，伸展了的敘事語彙，張開物理世界的奧秘。
More pictograms representing two experimental films by Zbigniew Rybczynski, New Book (1975) and Tango (1981), by 3 artists at the show Ventriloquists…Thinking Narratively (4-19 July 2020). A stretched vocabulary of narrativity. Multi-linearity, simultaneity, superimposition, convergence of trajectories, generative loops. 更多的圖形敘事解構，伸展了的敘事語彙。多向多線發展。共時性。重疊。弧度的結點、匯合。衍生式的循環。張開現實的奧秘。
The Ventriloquists 13. More generative literature trans-mediated: five episodes from Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” 衍生性文學圖像轉化：「烏利波」實驗文學搞手雷蒙卡奴的《風格的練習》
Like Calvino’s The Invisible Cities, Oulipo founder Raymond Queneau’s Exercices de style (Exercises in Style) is another example of generative literature transmediated as pictograms. Artist Madeleine Chan takes up 5 episodes of the work. After a generative principle, she produces 5 iterative views of the same event as pictograms, stretching Queneau’s textual play in written words.
The Ventriloquists 12. Intermedia dialogues with experimental literature: invisible cities 看不見的城市，看得見的後設城市藍圖
A pictogram is a form of knowledge; a pictogram that reconstructs another existing work is the stretching of the epistemological potential of a work. In the pictogram exercises presented at “The Ventriloquists … Thinking Narratively,” the reading and re-reading of Calvino’s The Invisible Cities combines the methods of music scoring, cartography, story-boarding and chronology-making, each with its own conceptual emphasis in presenting pictures of realities. Here, one pictogram offers glimpse of these concepts. 解構式的圖形是知識的具體表現；重塑已存在的作品的圖形是對現有作品的知識能量的擴展，同時也是對班雅明的「作者作為生產者」的想法的一種回應，關注個別的作如何站立於一個時代的技術生產當中。這裡以一個創作為例。
The Ventriloquists 11. Intermedia dialogues with experimental literature: World Like Mist by YU Hua 跨媒轉化，還覺世事如煙
Two artists read YU Hua’s novella World List Mists (1988) and translate it analytically and structurally into a pictogram form to augment textures of sentiments and narrative integrity, maximizing a fatal body of cybernetics through methods of scoring, cartography, chronology and storyboarding. 兩個圖像作品，兩個創作者對余華的《世事如煙》的轉化閱讀，呈現敘事性如何把哀愁、絕望化為結構，點對點的連線，網絡的展現，把個人的「命運」背後的人為操控層層展露。
The Ventriloquists 10. Meshes of the Afternoon: 3 pictograms of warped time & space 夢的秩序：午間的網陣，翹曲的時空
Three works interpret American avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, each visualizing a unique aspect of the film. 三個圖像，結構細節形骸有別，都是對準美國前衛名作《午間的網陣》，剖開不同層面的內部物質真相。
The Ventriloquists 09. Fishing with Popo. Visualizing personal remembrances 記憶魔法小時候
Connecting childhood: yours, mine and theirs. Fishing with Popo (2011) by Lilian Fu is among the artist-animator’s first experiments with documentary animation. Several young artists have responded… Two pictograms on this work, by William Phuong and Louise Chan, exhibited at The Ventriloquists…Thinking Narratively, 4-17 July 2020, are transmedia extension of Fu’s animated memories of her grandma.
The Ventriloquists 08. Animated, Moving, Half-awake. 9 montage pieces quietly thinking 動動象，喃喃自語，半夢半醒。
Four works on a monitor… collage, montage, still and moving. Restless assertions. Inquisitive hypothesis… 動動象。打開動畫。自言自語。若有所失。
The Ventriloquists 07. An Open Book that Moves, 8 thoughts streaming on a flat surface. 動動書。8種停留在桌面上的不安
Eight projections on a flat service… collage, montage, still and moving. Restless assertions. Inquisitive hypothesis… 動動書。一個意象接另一個意象。8個投在小桌面上的思考流，隨你參詳。
The Ventriloquists 06. From Dreamwork to Dream Narrative, 6 videos 夢境。夢作業。夢作為敘事法。夢作為藝術語言。
Five Ventriloquists artists show their dreamwork created with their own audio-visual language. It all lies in the crevices, fractures and gaps between shots, between locations, between actions… 夢作業是人存在的無形證據，實在處在夢象與夢象之間，在夾縫中，在虛處，在結合之間的斷裂處，是眾數的斷層。《腹語系》創作者也參與構築夢的敘事語法。
The Ventriloquists 05. The Hand that moves the artist, 2 pictograms on forced conformity 《腹語系》之隻手遮天。兩個解構操控與失去自主的數據圖像
The Hand comes in from everywhere. It interrupts, commands, dominates…; it is omnipresent, irresistible, almighty, dressed and decorated nonetheless mercilessly brutal.. Such is the condition of an artist who wakes up one morning to find his normal routine totally ruled invalid. 木偶藝術小子一覺醒來，伸伸懶腰又期待著新一天的開始。怎知道一夜間世界變透了。一隻無名的手，由溫柔禮待到強權粗暴，無處不在，無孔不入。
