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Nessun Dorma 你是懂了嘛

Nessun Dorma你是懂了嘛

Chinese
Color
Sound
16:9
Single-channel Video
production year /
2012
duration /
3'41
挑選耳熟能詳的詠嘆調「公主徹夜未眠」,以義大利原文音譯,將歌詞改寫成無意義中帶有意義的中文戲謔獨白,以雙面同步投影裝置呈現,一面是義大利原文字幕,另一面則是改寫過的中文。
身為一個前合唱團員,總是需要演唱異國語言,首要學會如何發音,儘管知道一些單字片語,還是無法體會各種語言中細膩之處,於是唱著自己也不懂得意思的歌,表情劇力萬鈞,就連聲音也都被說服了似,我唱得真情,台下觀眾當然通通買單,只覺得這表演、這身段,真是厲害,但他們在唱什麼啊?台上與台下分別就著因襲的崇拜,上下交相賊,頭頭是道,皆大歡喜。

about the artist /

I-Hsuen Chen is born and raised in Taiwan. After receiving an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2012, he is now lives and works in Taipei. He has an interdisciplinary practice that experiments with photography, publishing, video installation, and performance.

Chen’s work has been shown at photo festivals and biennials internationally, including New York Photo Festival (2012), Singapore International Photography Festival (2014), Taipei Biennial (2016), Lianzhou Foto Festival (2016), JIMEI ARLES International Photography Festival (2016), and Offline Browser—Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (2018.) His work is also in the Permanent Collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Kadist Collection.

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