Flâneur

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Yun-Hsuan Mai

Video Art

Brief

In this project I want to describe the loneliness of the flâneur. This idea came from one of the sentence in the project brief.

- The flâneur has no specific relationship with any individual, yet he/she establishes a temporary, yet deeply empathetic and intimate relationship with all that he sees.

I thought if so then he/she must be lonely , because the flâneur is deep in love with what he sees but is not part of it. It is similar to those little loneliness that we feel when watching a stage show. Or being the cameraman when taking a group photo.

Then I related it to myself , as I have been constantly moving between cities and schools. Even tho I liked it that way , I finds it hard to build deep relationships with the people that I have met.

I wonder if the flâneur feels the same.

Why a box mask

- To hide identity

Anyone can be the character , anyone can have this kind of feeling. I wanted people to feel connected. If possible , I will not want any identity in my future work too. What it is is much more important than who it is.

- To be Blind

As in not seeing anything valuable even if there is.

- To act

In order for me to be the actor…

http://youtube.com/v/g3lLvNf9VZc

Creative Writing

I guess this is not it eitherI have forgotten where and when

I begin searching for something to bind me tightas the clouds flew past my home miles away

I stood in this contradictory streetand nothing makes sense

I wonder , I feel , I touch but I am not I see people smiling

but that does not make use WEI see people hugging

but that does not warm this winterIt is like there is a touchable glass before meblocking any form of temperature and force

after all I am I , one “I”

Creative Writing

我在寻找的东西 / 是不是这里也没 有呢 / 已经不知道去过多少地方 / 又

找了多久 / 我始终找不到能束缚我的 城市 / 我猜可能是因为地球太圆 /

很容易滑落 / 我即找不到立足之地也 抓不到着力点 / 我也想过如果能抵达

世界度顶端 / 大概就能停下来了吧 / 但我知道那样的地方并不存在 / 我们

会一直在中间 / 當然也可能是因為我 太笨 / 理解不了這些充滿矛盾的街道

/ 他們時而充滿驚奇亂得令人炫目 / 時而又靜的令人顫抖 / 我不斷地凝視

著這樣的地球和它身上無數條的街道/ 卻什麼也找不到 / 不是這個 / 大概

也不是這個 / 我曾經以為是這個 / 但好像也不是

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