攝影:張志偉
Photo: Cheung chi-wai

 

 

 

 

 

聽寫王系列
TengSeWong/VoiceWriter Series

我__忘記 I'll _____ forget
  a mediated/live performance
HK Performance Art On the Move - June Art Action
03/06/2005
   
In memory of the June 4 incident in Tianman Square, I was invited to present the third work of the series in a performance art and music festival.

I first started with the sentence '我沒有忘記 I'll never forget' at the beginning. Microphone picked up my voice and input it into the TengSeWong software. The generated text was projected on the ground of an outdoor plaza in a housing estate. The transcribed text was spoken out by my assistant and was then copied by me with pieces of chalk writing on the ground and input into the computer again with my speech. After a series of repeated (mis)transcription, a whole paragraph of weird text was generated. Just like the text generated in other works in the series, the seemingly familiar phrases made up sentences of absurb meaning. Interesting enough, as soon as my assistant each time spoke out the generated text, I forgot the bulky and non-sensible sentences and could not repeat exactly the same words by speech or writing. What I will 'never' forget seems to be a myth at the end.

 
 攝影:張志偉
Photo: Cheung chi-wai
   
  The chalk writing on the ground was left behind after the performance, carried away by passer-bys and showers of rain, as if it had 'never' happened.
   
     
聽寫王系列
TengSeWong/VoiceWriter Series
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