Find Shelter 庇護

一場3小時，共四場，為期兩週。
現場行為、聲音、文件，依場地而定，
市集廣場候船室，赫爾辛基，芬蘭，2023。
赫爾辛基國際藝術家計畫，藝術駐村為期三個月，1月9日至4月9日。

3 hours for one piece, 4 performances in two weeks.
Performances, audio ,documents, dimensions variable.
Kauppatori Ferry Passenger Pavilion, Helsinki, Finland, 2023.
HIAP-Helsinki International Artist Programme, Residency from January 9 to April 9.

《庇護－孤島旅遊》是一個奠基於特定場所與行為地理景觀的現地創作項目，處理個人與群體、隔離與接觸、本島與本島、城市與邊陲、未來與過去的結構，從中觀測現實時空在渡海的過程中如何發生質變。討論物質世界受物理限制的同時，人類的意識如何在機具與記憶之間擺盪切換，在時空的狹縫中受到突波擾動，切入狹縫中的庇護領域。

本計畫以芬蘭堡島和赫爾辛基市區之間的渡海交通旅程為起點，利用棄置空間－渡輪乘客候船廳的櫃檯介入乘客的候船時空，進行一場虛構的旅遊服務以製造現實狹縫。行為發生於櫃檯接待室，透過眼神和叫號鈴來進行現場干預，而虛構的旅遊服務則透過線上音訊檔案提供乘客在渡輪行駛至島上的過程中聆聽的『聲音導覽』。

聲音導覽的內容將結合當地居民的真實生活和有關台灣海峽移民的民間故事。藉此引導觀眾從這個安全的現實場所進入另一個危險的場所，重疊不同世界的生活經驗和渴望，並在時空擺盪之間展現安全和舒適的脆弱性，將芬蘭與臺灣的時空對折錯置。

“Find Shelter－Lonely Island Travel Tour” is a site-specific creative project founded on specific locations and social behaviors. It explores the structures of individual versus community, isolation versus interaction, outlying islands versus the main island, city versus periphery, and the future versus the past. Through this exploration, it observes how a transformation occurs in the spatiotemporal reality during the process of crossing the sea. While discussing the material world’s physical constraints, it explores how human consciousness oscillates and switches between machinery and memory, disturbed by sudden disruptions in the spatiotemporal fissure, thus entering the sheltered area within the gap.

This project begins with the sea journey between the Finnish island of Pargas and the city center of Helsinki. It intervenes in the waiting space of ferry passengers, specifically at the counter of the waiting hall—a space that has been neglected. Here, a fictional travel service is conducted to create a rift in reality. The performance takes place in the reception room, involving on-site interventions through eye contact and a calling bell, while the fictional travel service provides passengers with an “audio guide” to listen to during their ferry journey to the island.

The content of the audio guide combines the real lives of local residents with folk stories about Taiwan Strait immigrants. This guides the audience from a safe present reality into a different and potentially perilous space, overlaying the life experiences and desires of different worlds. It showcases the vulnerability of safety and comfort between the oscillation of time and space, juxtaposing the spatiotemporal dimensions of Finland and Taiwan.

The performance happened on March 20,22,31 and April 1 at 19:00-22:00 in 2023. This ferry passenger pavilion in the Market Square terminal was completed in 1952 for the Helsinki Summer Olympics. Since its construction, the building has served as the waiting area, and ticket office in the summer, for the passengers of Suomenlinna ferries. After the ticket machine was set outside, the reception space had been out of function for at least 5 years.

After the passenger approaches the receptionist for travel tour service, passengers can get the online link via QR code from the receptionist(performer), then use their own mobile and headphones to experience the online audio tour while on their way to Suomenlinna. The audio is designed as long as the ferry driving time from the city to Suomenlinna, which is around 13 minutes. The script of the story is based on the journey about crossing the ocean in the darkness, combining different life realities and backgrounds with local residents in Helsinki now and the folk story about immigrants from Taiwan Strait in the past. Leading people from safe reality in this site to another dangerous site, overlapping life experience and eagerness from different worlds, telling the weakness of safety and comfort.