This is an installation work consisting of “space”, “hearing”, “seeing”, “touching”, that derived from public streets of the local area in Hong Kong. I tried to simulate and reproduce the mutual influence and the unalienable relationship between us towards the ordinary street posts and the fading telephone booths.

The artwork consists of three parts, an interactive telephone booth, a video projection, and 10 channels audio attached to metallic street posts.

Street posts from everywhere are a function of blocking dangers from the road to the pedestrian street, that we neglect the metal-made waist-high columns; The telephone booths mostly survive for a resting box with Wi-Fi, that they guard us from any moment we stop by. They are about a pause of our city, an evidence of us being exposed in the public street, also, they have gently recorded a few decades of significant changes of Hong Kong. In visual, a ceaseless loop of position measures the rhythm and order of a city; in auditory, sounds are reflected and diffracted from every street post to our ears, with a dedicated soundscape; In tactile, they provide a place to rely on, recording someone’s memory.

We are losing the experience of walking in the street, as we are entering the digital and virtual era, as space is being even extravagant. We are designed to finish every task in-door in the future world, so that wandering in public streets would be a history. So I am trying to reproduce an outdoor scene in a room, in order to remind us of our habit, experience of wandering, waiting in the landscape we own together.

Do you miss the feeling of wandering freely through narrow streets and alleys?

(Note: This is the video documentation of the installation Street Language.)

這是一件由“空間”、“聽覺”、“視覺”、“觸摸”組成的裝置作品，來源於香港當地的公共街道。我試圖模擬和再現我們之間對普通的街道郵報和褪色的電話亭之間的相互影響和不可分割的關係。

作品由三個部分組成，在展場牆邊的互動電話裝置，影像投影，及十聲道的由街柱組成的聲音裝置。

隨處可見的街柱，起到了阻隔馬路到步行街危險的作用，忽略了金屬製成的齊腰高的柱子；電話亭大多是為了一個帶 Wi-Fi 的休息箱而存在的，它們可以保護我們，防止我們停下來。它們是我們城市的一次停頓，是我們暴露在公共街道上的證據，同時，它們也溫柔地記錄了香港幾十年的重大變化。在視覺上，位置的不斷循環衡量著一個城市的節奏和秩序；在聽覺方面，聲音從每個街道的柱子反射和衍射到我們的耳朵，具有專用的音景；在觸覺上，它們提供了一個可以依賴的地方，記錄某人的記憶。

我們正在失去走在街上的體驗，因為我們正在進入數字和虛擬時代，空間變得更加奢侈。我們旨在完成未來世界中的每一項室內任務，在公共街道上閒逛將成為歷史。所以我試圖在一個房間裡重現一個戶外場景，以提醒我們在我們共同擁有的風景中徘徊、等待的習慣、經歷。

你懷念在橫街窄巷中隨意遊蕩的感覺嗎？

（註：本作品為裝置作品《街道語言》的紀錄片段。）