Teleporting Project #02
Teleporting Project #02: Ju Ming 2024 is a site-specific sculpture project in the Digital Age Series conceived exclusively for the curated Beta+ exhibition at MoCA Taipei. It is an extension of Yeo's original experimental project, Teleporting Project #01: Ng Eng Teng 2023, which pays tribute to the sculptor.
Yeo was invited by the curatorial team of the Ju Ming Museum to present his solo show, A Beauty Centre @ Ju Ming Museum, in 2017. In 2019, the museum conducted a dialogue session between Yeo and the late master Ju Ming. In this remarkable first meeting, Master Ju confirmed that he had mentored the Singapore-based, Taiwan-born sculptor Chern Lian Shan, who studied at NTUA in the 1970s before moving to Singapore, where he became Yeo's sculpture teacher at NAFA in the 1990s.
Ju Ming passed away in 2023, and Yeo, as a member of the succeeding younger generation of sculptors, wishes to pay tribute to the late master through the upcoming Teleporting Project at MoCA Taipei. During the exhibition, a series of digital installations will enable visitors to access the digital dimension where the Titan resides, awaiting to be re-THINGing into tangible reality.
Artist Statement
Time flows slowly. Like breathing, it synchronizes with the 3D Printing in progress.
The stacking and construction of the digital pixels within the teleporting portal, proceeding at an average printing speed of 60 hours per block, create a distinct comparison between the light speed of digital transmission and the slow, dragging momentum of physical printing. This contrast echoes an unsettled condition in our conscious mind, caught between the definitions of the Eternal and the Moment.
Memories are like search engines; if no one initiates a search, even digital memories that exist infinitely in the digital dimension will eventually be forgotten and never retraced.
I search for a complete visual record of the deceased's life online, based on the fragmented memories I retain in the physical world where I currently live. I then attempt to reconstruct his digital entity using VR tools and teleport him back into this physical realm. Perhaps, in doing so, I am seeking a new dialogue that transcends time and space.
創作論述
時間緩慢的流動着。如同呼吸。於「列印」之間往返。
「電子像素單位」以單體列印均速六十小時的「傳送」頻率逐件堆疊構築於「電子傳送門」之中，以數字光速的時空穿輸對應着緩緩行進的列印傳輸現場，迴蕩於「永恒」与「刹那」之間所交疊出的未定意識流象。
回憶如同網絡搜索引擎，如果沒有任何人啓動搜尋，就算是處在於數字維度中無限不滅的電子記憶，也終會被遺忘而不复回朔。
我以個人活體記憶的殘存片斷，搜索着逝者可度量「一生」的網絡影像。以數字工具重塑其電子實體，再傳送回「我」所存在的三維物理世界中，期盼著一場跨時空的新對話