Drive

Research background The city as phenomena has often been presented as a space of alienation, or conversely utopianism, and has been the subject of art since the 19th Century. Drive investigated the idea of a city as an inconclusive space, familiar and habitual to those incessantly moving within the urban space; a location where one may experience narratives formed through a type of disembodied interiority. Drive posed the question: by stepping out of our conscious sense of predetermination and by drifting within our minds while driving, is our experience and sense of 'being' more subject to forces or choices that arbitrarily alter our sense of purpose, particularly as journeys by definition usually must go somewhere? Research contribution This project involved the research, development and production of a video installation investigating the concept of city as passageway, a site of fluidity. Drive presented ideas of moving image as 'painting' within a large multifaceted installation, to present multipart personal and social visions via fragmentary glimpses through sensory heuristic components. The research investigated the role of passivity within the act of producing and viewing. Passivity may be formed within a perpetual compulsion for mobility, dynamism or drive, a state formed through a condition based in viewing, in looking on, consuming, enacting and partaking through inaction, characterised and framed within contemporaneity, and specifically free market capitalism. The research investigated and examined the question of passivity as inherent to perpetual transition and as a notable conscious, or unconscious activity of our times within free market capitalism. Research significance The research and production of this installation was supported by a peer selection Arts Project Grant from The City of Melbourne. The exhibition of the installation at Blindside was selected through a peer selection process.

### 研究背景
城市作为一种社会现象，常被阐释为异化空间，或是乌托邦理想的具象载体，自19世纪起便始终是艺术创作的核心主题之一。本作品《Drive》围绕“城市作为一种非定论性空间”展开探究：对于持续穿梭于城市空间中的个体而言，这是一片既熟悉又习以为常的场域，人们可在此借由某种非具身内在性，体验由其构建的叙事。《Drive》提出了如下设问：当我们跳出既定的自觉预设，在驾车途中任由思绪漫游，我们的体验与“存在”感知是否更容易受到任意改变我们存在目标的外力或选择的摆布？尤其是，旅途从定义上来说本就指向某个明确的目的地。

### 研究贡献
本项目围绕“城市作为通途与流动性场域”的核心概念，开展了影像装置的调研、开发与制作工作。《Drive》将动态影像视作“绘画”，依托大型多维度装置，通过感官启发式的构成要素，以片段式视角呈现多重视角下的个人与社会图景。本研究探讨了创作与观看行为中的被动性维度。被动性或诞生于对流动性、活力与驱动力的永恒渴求，这种状态根植于观看、旁观、消费、践行与被动参与的行为之中，以当代性为框架，尤其依托自由市场资本主义的语境。本研究还探究并审视了“被动性作为永恒过渡的固有属性”这一命题，以及它作为自由市场资本主义时代一种显著的有意识或无意识行为的相关议题。

### 研究意义
本装置的调研与制作工作，得到了墨尔本市（The City of Melbourne）通过同行评审遴选的艺术项目基金支持。该装置在Blindside画廊的展出，亦经由同行评审流程遴选而出。