Co-Writing Plan: Liminal Space
2024
Books, Stationery
Where there are 'borders,' there is a centre, the concept categories things into binary oppositions. it helps us define our place in the world. Beneath this lies a landscape shaped by power-effective yet inherently insufficient. This work focuses on things and people that straddle borders, existing in liminal state, unclassifiable by either side. The piece features dozens of books curated around this theme, all borrowed from libraries with marginal notes written by others. Viewers are invited to add their own notes, thus turning the work into a collective, time-based process. By moving these books from the institutional library to the exhibition space, the work transforms/triggers reading experience from individual to collective. It challenges institutional narratives, and opening space for non-canonical histories.
有「邊界」，就存在著中心，它將事物編撰入二元對立的分類方式、幫助我們瞄定自身於世界中存在的座標，潛伏於底層的是權利部署的地景 — 它既有效、卻也註定不足。此作聚焦於一些可能既同時橫越邊界兩側、同時卻也因此無法被兩側完全定義或描述，介於中間狀態（Liminal）的被排除人事物。
作品涵蓋數十本按此主題策劃的書籍，特別的是，它們都是從圖書館借來、含有他人寫下眉批的書籍，而此作品邀請觀眾在這些書本上寫下他們自己的筆記。書籍作者、時間中的人、創作者、觀眾，而成為一個透過時間作為媒介、眾人共筆的過程。
書本從出版、到被圖書館篩選為館藏，「圖書館的書」它本身代表著機構建構主流歷史敘事的排他過程。此作將這些書本移出機構空間、搬移至展場，從此閱讀經驗不再個人，而轉為集體；透過參與式創作的介入，嘗試鬆動中心、消弭邊界、觸發非正典歷史書寫之可能。
