器官重组 Recomposing Bodies

艺术家：Josh Harle 澳大利亚

展期：2015/12/04 – 2015/12/11

地址：重庆市九龙坡区黄桷坪126号501基地1楼 器·Haus空间
艺术总监：杨述

策展人：倪昆

策展助理：易晓婷

艺术家自述

我在重庆，躺在床上试图摆脱严重的感冒。我刚参加了澳大利亚珀斯的一个生物艺术会议…那里有很多关于免疫系统、基因以及新奇怪异甚至可怖的生命的介绍。

现在我在想激动剂和拮抗剂，这些分子形状或者能有效地适应我们身体内细微的感受器或者会对其产生破坏。但这两种情况都是一类关系。我的身体已经被这疾病破坏，它迫使我卧床休养还通过发烧来扰乱我的思想。

I’m in my bed in Chongqing trying to fight off a bad cold. I’ve just come from a Bio-art conference in Perth, Australia… lots of presentations on immune system, DNA, and new, weird, monstrous life.

Now I’m thinking of agonists and antagonists: molecule shapes that fit either productively or disruptively with the tiny receptors in our bodies. Both are a type of relationship. My body has been broken up by this illness that has kept me in bed trying to recover and confuses my thoughts with fever.

我习惯用来感知世界和联络他人的科技在这里都是无用的；脸书、谷歌地图、谷歌邮箱都被封锁了，所以我一边试图通过一些不稳定的VPN连接它们，一边尝试着使用一些新的、本地的科技产物。我用它们来和他人交流，查询单词和学习语言。

在严重发烧时我仍在学习中文，但对于我来说很多声音和符号都产生了错误的联系：极像是我已经明白了，但其实我没有。晚上我总是梦见这些虚幻的符号和文字，我的潜意识正尝试着去处理多如洪水的新意义。这门新语言的文字，声音和符号全部混合在一起，并形成毫无帮助的联系，最终只能让我感到困惑和挫败。

The familiar set of technologies I use for making sense of the world and connecting to others is useless here; Facebook, Google Maps, Gmail are all blocked, so I try to get through with an unreliable VPN and start to figure out some new ones, some local ones. I’m using them to try to communicate, to look up words and learn the language.

I’m learning Chinese while the fever still rages, and to me many of the sounds and symbols spark false connections: similar enough to make me think I’ve got it, but then wrong. I have nights filled with dreams of these imaginary symbols and words, my subconscious trying to deal with the deluge of new meanings. The words, sounds and symbols of this new language get mixed up and make unhelpful links that just end up confusing and frustrating me.

一个移居到此的德国艺术家给我从中国的药房买了一副药，我通过VPN登陆了维基百科查询“盐酸金刚脘胺”的作用。它在大部分国家都是处方药，但在这里人们可以无需处方直接在柜台购买。维基百科告诉我它是通过何种机制来起到作用的——通过阻断病毒获取能源的质子通道。那是一个微小的管道，病毒通过它连接外部世界。但维基百科也告诉我疾病预防控制中心发现100%的流感已经改变了这种渠道的结构，因此流感病毒现在对这种药物有抗药性。这让我联想到了中国强大的防火墙和它自动感知并屏蔽VPN尝试，感觉这两者的关系非常类似。

我在这里患上的疾病：最终我的T细胞将会与病毒的形状完美的结合，然后将病毒撵走吞噬。我的身体终于开始对事物有了前所未有的更好的感知，但学习的过程是发烧、感冒、咳嗽、虚弱和极易受伤害的。

A emigre German artist buys me medicine from the Chinese pharmacy, and I look it up via my VPN to wikipedia to find what “Amantadine Hydrochloride” does. It is prescription in most countries, but here we can get it over the counter. The wikipedia page tells me the mechanism through which is works – blocking the proton channel the virus gets its energy through. A tiny tube connecting it to the outside world. But it also tells me the CDC found 100% of influenza have mutated to change the structure of this channel and are now resistant to the drug. I think of the Great Firewall of China and its attempts to automatically learn and block VPNs, and this feels like a very similar relationship.

The illness I’ve got here: at the end of it my T-cells will bind perfectly to the shape of the virus, and it will be whisked away to be digested. My body finally making sense of things much better than I ever could, but the learning process was fever, cold, coughing, weak and vulnerable.

展览作品现场

（照片由Melanie Stegemann拍摄）

艺术家Josh Harle编写了一个名字叫“重庆”的APP，这也是本次展览的作品之一。

“重庆“软件安装指南

Chongqing App Instruction

1. http://tacticalspace.org/files/Chongqing.apk
2. 点击下载APP 。Click to download app.
3. 选择下载选项，并选择“安装“ 。Select download and choose “Install” .
4. 如果安装失败，请修改“安全设置“选项中的“允许安装未知来源软件” 。If install does not work, you may need to change security settings to allow install from unknown sources .软件手机屏幕截图

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