Chirpy Chirpy Cheep

啾啾吱

Video installation, 2023
影像裝置, 2023

賽馬會創意藝術中心藝術節2023
JCCAC Festival 2023

"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep" is a dual-screen audio-visual installation. The front screen displays some snapshots of birds we can see in daily life, without sound, yet it coincides with the sound from the back screen. The opposite screen uses noisy sounds created in everyday life to imitate the chirping of birds, but it is repetitive and rigid.

It employs the "causal listening" mode among the three listening modes to trace the sound back to its source. However, it explores the subtle relationship between image and sound using a fictional sound source. The sound and image create an intriguing illusion that repeats in a loop. During the process, as viewers observe the images themselves, they imagine the corresponding sounds, which may not necessarily match the actual sounds. This emphasizes the ambiguous relationship between sound and image.

啾啾吱為雙屏幕的聲音影像裝置,正面為日常看到的鳥類快拍,沒有聲音,卻與背面影像的聲音不謀而合;另一面以日常生活中所製造的躁音模仿小鳥的叫聲,卻重複又生硬。

作品利用了三種聆聽模式中的「因果聆聽」,將聲音回溯至聲源,但又以一個虛構的聲源探討影像與聲音之間的微妙關係,聲音與影像形成一種有趣的幻想,重複循環的,過程中因看到了影像的本身,而產生對聲音的想像,卻又未必是相對的聲音,強調他們之間模稜兩可的關係。