Proof I 證明I

For my project Proof I, I invited the most important people in my life to participate: my parents, relatives, old lovers, best friends and others. I made arrangements to meet them, perhaps at their house, a coffee shop we had frequented, or perhaps the place where we first met.

I gave each a video camera and asked, “If I were to disappear off the face of the earth suddenly , and you could have any part of my life, what part would that be?” A part of my life could be anything I own, an individual characteristic, or perhaps one of my experiences. Then the person holding the camera, one of those people I am very close to, would answer the question while filming me, and perhaps the camera would shake when they heard my question. My subjects did not know what I would be asking before the session started, and I had no way of knowing what they would answer, so my immediate response was recorded on the video.

For the second part of the project, I asked the same participants what they would leave me if they were to disappear. Perhaps it would be scenery they had enjoyed, music they love, a favorite scene from a movie, or some object they own. I then used various methods to recreate the moment that the participants described, so it feels like we are returning to the place where the memory was created.

在《證明 I》這個計劃中，我請我目前生命中，最重要的幾位核心人物：父母、親人、舊情人、摯友…… 等，跟他們相約在一個地點進行這個作品計畫，可能是他們的房間、我們最常去的咖啡廳、或是我 們第一次相遇的地點。

他們拿攝影機拍攝我時，我會問他們：「如果我即將消失在世界上，你可以從我生命中取走一個部分， 那會是什麼？」這裡面包括我所擁有的物件、個人特質、我所經歷過的事件……等。所以攝影者── 這些與我最親密的人，他們在攝影機後方回答，同時必須持續手持攝影機拍攝，畫面可能會因聽到 問題的反應而晃動。這些拍攝者都不知道我要問的問題，我也無法預測對方的回答，因此我的反應 也會在被攝錄在影像中。

第二部分是我請這些參與者，反向提供給我若是他們消失，他們想讓我保留的部分，可能是他們看 過的風景、喜愛的音樂、最愛的電影畫面、或是他擁有的一個物件等。這部份請他們提供給我詳細 的細節，我再用各種方式還原那個當下，像是我與他們重新處在那個記憶的現場。

「取走我生命的部分，並擁有它」是這個作品的命題。取走的部分不一定我最愛的，也許是我從未 意識到自己的面向，而這些親密的人他們要給予我的部分，也許不是他們最珍惜，但是卻與我有更 深刻的連結，在這樣的交換過程中，我與他們的關係與歷史被重新建立。