Hong Yizhen (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University) Note: The original title is ""To the Martian anthropologist" - to the quiet big talk, I flow" If the world forgets you, say to the silent great: I flow; To the swift flowing water: I am here. ——Rilke And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 by RM Rilke In order to get closer to the contemporary art exhibition "For Martian Anthropologists" curated by curator Zhang Junyi this year (2020).
I made an exception and went straight to the New Taipei City Arts and Culture Center exhibition hall without doing too much prep. Prejudice" viewing attitude. First, I accidentally broke into the dark second exhibition area (Figure 1), and blindly photo color correction services searched for the QR Code that should have been attached without knowing the rules of the game. 1_ Panorama of the second exhibition room Photo Credit: Provided to Martian Anthropologists Figure 1: Panorama of the second exhibition room. When all my groping was fruitless, I wandered in the dark room, indeed in a trance like a Martian Trek landing on Earth.
I quickly understood that my perceptual dissonance should be very different from the culture shock that Martians may have, and that my sense of dissonance can only be rooted in the usual human viewing habits of exhibition venues, including the existing experience of online exhibitions. In the past, the art space was divided into a physical exhibition venue and an online platform, which made the viewers ignore other possibilities of intertwining and dialectical between the two.