Memory Montage: Song Request

(2023)

此作品節錄了二零二二年二月五日（凌晨一時至二時）香港商業電台 881903節目 #失眠藥 點歌環節裡的其中七分鐘。藝術家（點歌者）與唱片騎師以廣東歌，無意地編織出一個關於「異國」和「家」的蒙太奇。

藝術家以此七分鐘的點歌內容為架構，再用影像、文字與紙張的不同切割，嘗試描繪旅居者的五味雜陳。碎片化後的內容成為一組組意義不明的字詞，猶如因文化差異而無法輕易言明的種種。看似錯配、缺失或是零碎的部份，是記憶，也是身份認同。希望透過觀者的理解與想像，去重新拼湊這一段揉雜了期昐、惦念與迷失的蒙太奇。此作品節錄了二零二二年二月五日（凌晨一時至二時） 香港商業電台 881903節目 #失眠藥 點歌環節裡的其中七分鐘。藝術家（點歌者）與唱片騎師以廣東歌，無意地編織出一個關於「異國」和「家」的蒙太奇。

This work features a 7-minute excerpt from the song request segment of the program Philosomnia , which aired on February 5, 2022, from 1 to 2 a.m. on 881903 Commercial Radio Hong Kong. The artist (song requester) and the disc jockey unintentionally weave together a montage about "foreign lands" and "home” through Cantonese songs.

The artist utilises this seven-minute excerpt as a framework, employing diverse cuts of images, texts, and paper to portray the complex emotions experienced by those living abroad. As the content is fragmented and transformed into sets of unreadable words, it echoes the myriad of indescribable experiences arising from cultural differences. The seemingly mismatched, missing, or fragmented aspects resemble the nature of memories, as well as identity. Through the viewers' understanding and imagination of this context, one may reassemble this montage that blends anticipation, nostalgia, and a sense of wandering.