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Art Lighting II - Rice Mill Theater Lighting Project Exhibition: "Time in Taoyuan" (20251225-20260308) (米倉劇場燈光計畫展《桃園的時間》)
This work is a lantern that gathers everyday "information" like an umbrella closing.
Even in the modern era overflowing with digital information, information recorded on paper has not disappeared, continuing to linger in every corner of daily life. They are like a quietly approaching silent storm, blowing around us when we least notice.
When we re-examine Taiwan's history from a fluid rather than solidified perspective, fragments of lost hometowns, life in new lands, family routines, and the sounds of children playing emerge before our eyes like layers of ripples. Through interviews in Taoyuan, I was able to transform these layers of time into physical perceptions.
As a creative medium, paper, unlike digital media, is an existence that deteriorates and changes with time. However, such changes can both visualize the passage of time and become a device for deeply engraving information and memory into the body. More notably, in contemporary society, paper also possesses the characteristics of a recycled medium that is used, recovered, and recirculated.
Like the prayers carried by lanterns, the light of this work illuminates both the words on the paper and the path beneath our feet, silently projecting light and memory like an echo, reflecting the time and the road ahead as they slowly unfold.
"Time in Taoyuan" remains in a corner of Taoyuan, accepting the wind of information and continuing to sway gently.
Special lighting artist Yasuhito Suzuki uses light, sound, and place as themes, creating and presenting through diverse expressions such as painting, installation art, and performance art. In his creative concept, "measuring (hakaru)" symbolizes confirming the location of existence by identifying one's own position, while "arranging (naraberu)" involves placing collected items equally without distinction, thereby proposing diverse ways of seeing. He uses this philosophy to conduct art projects with local communities, continuing to transform stories from daily society and life into artistic expressions through field research and dialogue during the production process.
Even in the modern era overflowing with digital information, information recorded on paper has not disappeared, continuing to linger in every corner of daily life. They are like a quietly approaching silent storm, blowing around us when we least notice.
When we re-examine Taiwan's history from a fluid rather than solidified perspective, fragments of lost hometowns, life in new lands, family routines, and the sounds of children playing emerge before our eyes like layers of ripples. Through interviews in Taoyuan, I was able to transform these layers of time into physical perceptions.
As a creative medium, paper, unlike digital media, is an existence that deteriorates and changes with time. However, such changes can both visualize the passage of time and become a device for deeply engraving information and memory into the body. More notably, in contemporary society, paper also possesses the characteristics of a recycled medium that is used, recovered, and recirculated.
Like the prayers carried by lanterns, the light of this work illuminates both the words on the paper and the path beneath our feet, silently projecting light and memory like an echo, reflecting the time and the road ahead as they slowly unfold.
"Time in Taoyuan" remains in a corner of Taoyuan, accepting the wind of information and continuing to sway gently.
Special lighting artist Yasuhito Suzuki uses light, sound, and place as themes, creating and presenting through diverse expressions such as painting, installation art, and performance art. In his creative concept, "measuring (hakaru)" symbolizes confirming the location of existence by identifying one's own position, while "arranging (naraberu)" involves placing collected items equally without distinction, thereby proposing diverse ways of seeing. He uses this philosophy to conduct art projects with local communities, continuing to transform stories from daily society and life into artistic expressions through field research and dialogue during the production process.
Event Details
- 2026-01-01 — 米倉劇場