Find Shelter 庇護

現地行為3小時四場、聲音13分5秒、紙本文件、叫號系統、現成物，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。

Performance 3 hours x4 with sound, audio13 mins 05 sec, paper documents, number calling system, readymade, 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》現地聲音行為，以交通運輸空間與社交行為模式基礎，將舒適與災難的情境並置探討安全的脆弱性。這場虛構的時間旅行服務，重啟廢棄五年的候船室櫃檯，透過聲音重新雕塑乘客的等待與通勤時空，分別以叫號鈴與語音導覽，測試公共空間的社會規範，以及探討個人與群體、隔離與接觸、邊陲與核心地區之間的結構轉變。

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，乘客得以使用耳機，在渡輪行駛至島上的過程中聆聽『聲音導覽』。聲音導覽的內容質疑幸福的穩定性，參與者於聲音導覽中體驗現實中的安全與遙遠災難的威脅交織在一起的敘事，形成安逸與災難之間的緊張衝突。導覽內容結合當地居民的真實生活和取材自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情境，重疊不同世界的生活經驗和渴望，並在時空擺盪之間思考安全和舒適的脆弱性。

“Find Shelter – Lonely Island Travel” is a site-specific sound-based performance set in transportation spaces and based on social behavior patterns. It juxtaposes comfort and disaster to explore the vulnerability of security. The fictional time-travel service revives a ferry terminal counter, abandoned for five years, and uses sound to reshape the passengers’ waiting and commuting experience. Through a calling bell and audio guide, the performance tests social norms in public spaces and examines structural shifts between individuals and groups, isolation and contact, and peripheral and core areas.

Through eye contact and a calling bell, on-site interventions take place in the reception area, while the fictional travel service is offered via an online audio guide. Passengers listen to the guide during the ferry journey to the island. The audio content challenges the stability of happiness, intertwining narratives of comfort with distant threats of disaster, creating tension between these dual realities. The guide combines the real lives of local residents with folk stories of Taiwanese Strait immigrants, leading the audience from a safe present into a potentially perilous space. This overlap of experiences and desires from different worlds emphasizes the vulnerability of safety and comfort as they oscillate between different spatiotemporal dimensions.

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.