matrix.24 N°0

Aftershocks give no warning. In the twenty-four hours after 3.11, the eyes stayed fixed on ceaselessly updating seismic reports while the ears strained toward every faint sound nearby; the body became a hypersensitive receiver, and time no longer flowed — it congealed, together with the taut nerves.

More than a year later, the work returns to those twenty-four hours at an almost clinical remove: three black cubic volumes, each built from twenty-four layered sheets of black acrylic, laser-engraved with every seismic waveform recorded across those hours. Light rises from below through the stacked sheets, escaping only along the engraved lines — invisible seismic waves develop, between black and black, into three-dimensional strata of waveforms.

Tremors once endured passively by the body are compressed and congealed here into an object that can be circled and observed. Looking becomes a belated act of sorting: in the order of data, facing once more the waves that could neither be seen nor foreseen.

With the support of the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.

餘震沒有預告。311 之後的二十四小時裡，視覺懸在不斷更新的地震資訊上，聽覺張開在周圍每一個細微的聲響之間；身體成了一具過度靈敏的接收器，時間不再流動，而是隨著緊繃的神經一同凝結。

一年多後，作品以近乎冷靜的距離重返那二十四小時：三個黑色立方量體，各由二十四片黑色壓克力層疊而成，鐳射刻痕記下那段時間內的所有地震波形。光自底部穿透層疊的板材，僅從刻線處洩出——不可見的地震波，於是在黑與黑之間顯影，成為一座立體的波形地層。

曾經只能被身體被動承受的震動，在此被壓縮、凝結為可以環視的物。觀看是一種延遲的整理：在資料的秩序裡，重新面對那些看不見、也無從預期的波。

本作品獲臺灣國家文化藝術基金會贊助。