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This is My Home
2016
Single channel video and stereo sound
This Is My Home (2016) is a single-channel video with stereo sound, built from archival footage of Queen Elizabeth II's arrival in Hong Kong on 21 October 1986. The work processes this footage through an algorithmic composition that reads the image data itself — the movement of bodies, the colour values of pixels, the original audio — as the generative input for its own transformation. The footage periodically flattens into hard-edged blocks of primary colour, collapses into black and white over the original, and the audio is drawn out into a sustained reverb that refuses to let the occasion end. The main song of the event, "This Is My Home"《這是我家》 written by James Wong (黃霑), was a sincere expression of local belonging performed for the departing colonial power. Thirty years later, processed through its own image data until the figurative content dissolves and only fragments of the lyrics survive, it describes not just an unfamiliar land but a sincerity that can no longer be located.
《這是我家》
2016
單頻錄像及立體聲
《這是我家》This Is My Home (2016) 是一件單頻道錄像及立體聲作品，取材自1986年10月21日英女王伊利沙伯二世訪港的原始影像。這件作品透過一套演算法作曲機制處理這段影像素材——以畫面本身的數據作為生成轉化的輸入來源，包括人體的動態、像素的色彩數值，以及原有的音效。影像在處理過程中週期性地瓦解為硬邊的原色方塊，令人聯想到風格派（De Stijl）的抽象構圖，並間歇性地在原有彩色影像之上坍塌為黑白；與此同時，音效被拉長延伸為殘響，令那個場合的聲音拒絕就此結束。當日活動的主題曲《這是我家》由黃霑填詞，是一首以全然真誠的姿態獻給即將離港的殖民宗主國的本土歸屬之歌。三十年後，這段影像的具象內容——人群、儀式、女王——在被自身的圖像數據消化處理後逐漸瓦解，僅剩歌詞的零碎片段得以留存。倖存下來的，已不只是對一片陌生土地的描述，而是對一種再也無法被定位的真誠情感的記錄。
