Project / Publication
Know not what it means, and I say YEAH (2024)
The Books of LOVE DIVE 愛潛水書 (2023)
2000sinned 孩子的房間;2000 (2022)
The Books of LOVE DIVE
愛潛水書 (2023)
The Books of LOVE DIVE 愛潛水書 (2023)
9 - 20 January 2023
Location: Hui Gallery, New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong
Participants: Ho Ting, Rainbow Siu, Kiki Li, Janet Chan, Rico Lau, and Cyrus Cheung.
Instagram: @the_books_of_love_dive
Exhibition poster designed by Ho Ting.
Printed on the occasion of The Books of LOVE DIVE 愛潛水書 (2023), in an edition of a single printed copy.
Curator and Contributor 策展及文字: HO Ting 何婷
Editor 編輯: HO Ting 何婷
Book Designer 刊物設計: HO Ting 何婷
Special Thanks 特別鳴謝: New Asia College 新亞書院
1st Edition, Winter 2022 二零二二年冬 第一版 © HO Ting 2022-2023
Printed in Hong Kong. All rights reserved.
Photo credit to Ho Ting, at the New Asia College, Hong Kong.
Photo credit to Ho Ting, at the New Asia College, Hong Kong.
Photo credit to Ho Ting, at the New Asia College, Hong Kong.
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二零二二年四月五日韓國標準時間18:01,一位韓國籍15歲的女性李賢瑞(이현서)躺坐在偽造飛船上呼喊起「Oh Perfect Sacrifice」,機械不再需要昂貴的燃油,少女們升C小調的彌賽亞在電腦程序內盤旋,納西瑟斯(Narcissus)隨Anti-drop下——屏住餘生的呼吸,向下墜落。他欲求於天運(fatum)的裝置(dispositif)中覺醒,回想(remémoration)遭受此種混亂的原因,納西瑟斯經已無法掌握人那四散的時間性。
二零二二年四月五日東部時間5:00,一位義大利籍男子 Davide Martello位波蘭與烏克蘭接壤的梅迪卡小鎮 (波蘭語:Medyka,烏克蘭語:Медика)起奏"Hallelujah"。以15小時車程由德國逆向行駛往臨時民營的篝火,音樂的物理性被獻祭予二氧化碳。凌晨未能抑止的雪,據目擊者指,一名老人將毛氈擅自蓋上演奏男子頭上,試圖阻止雪的干擾。
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[Translated version]
<Prologue>
On April 5, 2022, at 18:01 Korean Standard Time, a 15-year-old Korean girl named Lee Hyun-seo (이현서) sat on a fabricated spacecraft and shouted, "Oh Perfect Sacrifice." The machinery no longer required expensive fuel, and the girls' Messiah in C minor echoed within the computer program. Narcissus descended with Anti-drop, holding his breath, falling downward. He sought awakening in the device of fate (fatum), recalling the reasons for enduring such chaos, as Narcissus could no longer grasp the scattered temporality of humans.
On April 5, 2022, at 5:00 Eastern Time, an Italian man named Davide Martello performed "Hallelujah" in the town of Medyka, located on the border between Poland and Ukraine (Polish: Medyka, Ukrainian: Медика). Traveling in reverse from Germany, a 15-hour journey, to reach a temporary makeshift campfire, the physicality of music was sacrificed to carbon dioxide. Despite the snowfall that couldn't be stopped in the early morning, witnesses reported that an elderly person placed a woolen blanket over the performing man's head in an attempt to prevent the snow from interfering.
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本展覽從民族學與道德學角度組織,窺探「死亡」對千禧的規訓、「死亡」已浪漫化及風格化的集體道德困境。步入新自由主義經濟的賽博環境,天平間彷如純慾的屍姦,全球災難的在場與不在場,「死亡」作為公共的個人行為,以數概化形式在媒體上刊登,勞動人口的防控令「生命敘事」愈發離異,觸發如Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) 早於半世紀前所說的世界離異(world alienation),「死亡」在我們眼中是如此唯美、愛潛水式的史詩,為何政治家們的錯誤終要我們倖存者背負著債?集體陸續以「內在移民」作為生命策略又是回應政治家們的最佳方案嗎?
[Translated version]
This exhibition is organized from the perspectives of ethnology and ethics, delving into the disciplinary practices of "death" on the millennials, the collective moral dilemma in which "death" has become romanticized and stylized. In the cyberspace of the neoliberal economy, the balance between life and death resembles a pure necrophilia. The presence and absence of global catastrophes, the public nature of "death" as an individual act, quantified and published in the media, the control measures over the labor force leading to a growing estrangement of "life narratives," all trigger what Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) referred to as "world alienation" half a century ago. In our eyes, "death" is so aesthetically beautiful, in a love-diving style epic, but why must survivors bear the burden of politicians' mistakes as a debt? Is adopting "internal migration" as a collective life strategy the best response to politicians' shortcomings?
Photo credit to Ho Ting, at the New Asia College, Hong Kong.
死亡之舞的債是Z世代無法繳付的。如果《愛潛水書》是死亡之舞的當代轉化,那麼ive組合便是彌賽亞者們,引領我們一群全球災難存活者道德解圍。
《愛潛水書》為一本自我檔案的偽典。它沒有任何權威性和可信性的見證紀錄,全章以香港六個青年分別為「非第一身災難」存檔,致力建立不在場的假證物。
The debt of the Dance of Death is unpayable for Generation Z. If “The Book of LOVE DIVE" is the contemporary transformation of the Dance of Death, then the iVe group is the messiahs, leading us, a group of global catastrophe survivors, to an ethical resolution.
"The Book of LOVE DIVE" is a pseudo-canon of self-archives. It lacks any authoritative and credible testimonial records, and each chapter archives six Hong Kong youths as "non-first-person disasters," striving to establish false evidence of absence.
Photo credit to Ho Ting, at the New Asia College, Hong Kong.
Text and image by Ho Ting