The Four Gazing Segments of Cicada 蟬鳴的四個凝視 (4-channel sound installation, 2010)

Does nature consist the concept of mourning? On 4th June 2008, listening the cicada’s sounding in the silent tribute of Tiananmen Square massacre gathering in Hong Kong, I supposed that I had to evade the linkage between cicada and the silent tribute of this gathering. Cicada are not mourning indeed; it is their basic instinct. However, this occasion with this sound and this silent moment becomes the deep-rooted impression and experience every year.

Based on the recording of capturing the silent moment and cicada of that night, the sound installation aims at constituting the other perspective on looking at this historical wound in China. Choosing four random point and freezing it, the work articulates the correspondance of the on-location experience of that night.

二OO八年的六月四日, 我們一同的悼念; 同一時間, 我按動錄音機錄下默哀中的寧靜。當夜, 蟬一直在嗚叫。這種聲音的經驗一直揮之不去, 大自然沒有「悼念」的概念, 而我們就好像覺得蟬為此而嗚。 蟬鳴在此時此刻成為當夜一個聲音符號, 直到現在它一直都是我每年六月四日的一種聲音的想像與經驗。而在這個作品, 我一直試圖凝視於過去, 並由此錄音的四個隨機的凝視, 進入另外一種關於六四另外一個側面的聲音經驗。