田中功起——记录另一种看待生活的方式
Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture
2008
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是的，你知道，我们的生活是复杂的
我想说生活的现实是由那些抽象的事物和瞬间构成的。让我们想想。今早你吃了什么？我吃了一个花生牛油三明治，橡胶，还有一杯咖啡。当然，我记得记得这些东西，但其实他们不再是真实的了。那是我关于早餐的记忆。我只是在此时重构了过去。即便你是正在吃东西，你也不能捕捉住关于你所食之物的所有事实。如果你能品尝到什么，也只是从你的口舌尝到这味道，但食物有许多各种不同的方面。让我们打个比方，花生牛油可以是绘画的材料，香蕉可以成为让人们摔倒的陷阱，而咖啡可以用来种植美丽的花朵。即便我们吃着和昨天一样老套的早餐，我们还是可以发现另外一种方式来看待我们的日常生活。在一个极其平常的时刻，我们可以同时看见一些新东西。有那么多抽象的事物和时刻等待我们去突破，找到新的视角
如果我们面对生活的现实，我想就可以让我们对于世界的理解更深刻。我一直试图在自己的生命中寻找到那一刻。
田中功起/2006
Yes, our lives are complicated, you know.
And I can say that reality of life consist of abstract things and moments. Let’s think about it. What did you have for breakfast this morning? I had a peanuts butter sandwich with banana and a couple of coffee. Of course, I can remember it but those things are not real anymore. That is memory of my breakfast. I just reconstruct the past at the very moment of now. Even if you are eating something right now, you cannot catch all the reality of that food. If you can taste it, you just feel the taste from your tongue and mouth. But the food has many different kinds of aspect. Let’s say, peanuts butter could be material for painting, banana could be trap for making people to slip on and coffee could grow beautiful flowers. We could find out alternative way to view our everyday lives even we are having banal breakfast same as yesterday. In the very usual moment, we could see something new at the same time. There are a lot of abstract things and moments waiting for us to brake through to a new perspective.
If we face the reality of life, I think we can deepen our understanding of the world. I always try to look for that kind of moment in my life.
Koki Tanaka/2006
田中功起：我们总是要面对“选择”的问题
Koki Tanaka: Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture 2008
我们总是要面对“选择”的问题
今天中午你想吃点什么？嗯， 我想来点印度菜，中国菜好像也不错，让我想想……这附近新开了一家印度餐馆应该不错，很多人最近都说起那。
最后，我决定去街角右转的花店旁边的一间日本餐厅，主要是想来点加州“寿司”。路过那的时候我实在太想吃点这玩意儿了。我喜欢加州“寿司”，尽管它是某种美国人的发明的假寿司，因为我从小学开始就讨厌生鱼片。那时，我和我的朋友们去池塘捉鱼，那些捉到手里的小鱼真是太难闻了。我只记得这成为我对生鱼片不感冒的故事之一，也许还有其他的什么理由，但我也说不清楚——这完全会是另一个故事。
今天你想去什么地方游泳？多瑙河？或许室内的游泳池也不错。我觉得在室外游泳不太好，在室内游泳可能好一点。不知为何最后去了电影院，在那，我看了新的《夺宝奇兵》，尽管哈里森看上去有点太老了，但是电影还行。斯皮尔伯格在组合这么多动作场景的方面实在是很棒，直到结尾电影都很流畅。多有趣的电影，我很高兴。
好吧，我时常会忘记那些在我脑海里的问题，而一些与原来的问题无关的，甚至是些以前我连想都没想过的问题会突然出现在我脑袋里。可是，我总觉得这是个可以做些新玩意的好兆头。
我想这不仅仅是关于我们的日常生活，同样也与我们的艺术实践，项目，展览，还有任何我们在做的事情有关。我们被授予那么多的可能性，但为了不知何故要实现的那些“目标”，我们必须从中选择。而且，我们被一种信念所套牢：这只有一个目标，其他你所实现的目标都是绝对错误的。等一下……真的只有一个目的可言么？ 不，即便在我们设想做出选择之前，这里也有非常多可能的目的。当我们得出某种结论，我们就倾向于相信只有一种选择是我们可以做的，甚至连一秒都不去设想我们拥有的那些可能性——其实，我们确实拥有！我们总是能有另一种选择，并且我们可以一次再一次的经历这个过程，尽管我们可能已经在这之前选择了什么。
所以，今天中午你想吃点什么？
田中工起/2008
It is the problem of “choice” that we are always faced with.
What do you want to eat for lunch today? I am feeling like to having some Indian, but Chinese sounds nice as well, so let me think… There is this new Indian restaurant that opened last month, and it should be nice… many people are talking about that.
Finally, I decide to go to a Japanese restaurant right around the corner, next to the flower shop – in order to have some California rolls. I am passing by and I do feel like to having some. I love California roll even though it’s an American invention and is sort of a fake Sushi, because I’ve hated row fish since I was in elementary school. My friends and I went to a pond to fish and we got some small fishes, but they smelt really bad on my hands. I just remember it to be one of the bad stories about row fish, but there may be something more than that -- but I have no idea -- this will entirely be another story.
Where do you like to go for a swim today? The Danube River, or some indoor swimming pool perhaps. I don’t think it‘d be so good to swim outside. I think swimming indoor may be better. Then somehow I end up going to a movie theater. There I see the new Indiana Jones. It’s okay even though Harrison looks a bit too old. Spielberg must have done a really good job focusing on how to put together that many action scenes as it seems be running smooth through the end. What an entertaining movie! I am really happy about it.
Well, at times I just forget about the question I’ve had in mind . Then suddenly another question that is not even related to the initial question, or a question I’ve never even thought about before and just suddenly occurs to me “pops up” in my mind. And yet, I still think it is sort of a good sign for doing something new.
I think this can be said not just about our everyday life, but our art practices, projects, exhibitions, and whatever else we do. There are so many possibilities we are granted, but we have to choose one of them in order to somehow reach our “goal.” And we are fixed into a belief that there is only one goal and all the other places you get to are purely wrong. But wait a minute, is there only one goal really? No, there are so many possible goals before even thinking about making choices. When we get some kind of an outcome, we tend to believe there is the only one choice you are entitled to make, and we don’t even think for one second that we have other possibilities -- but we do. We do always have alternative ones and we can go through this process over and over again, even though we might have already chosen something before.
So, what do you want to eat for lunch today?
Koki Tanaka/July 2008
*it is the occasion for writing this text for the catalogue “Recycling the Taipei Biennial, 1998-2006,” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008.
Koki Tanaka: Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture 2008
我们总是要面对“选择”的问题
今天中午你想吃点什么？嗯， 我想来点印度菜，中国菜好像也不错，让我想想……这附近新开了一家印度餐馆应该不错，很多人最近都说起那。
最后，我决定去街角右转的花店旁边的一间日本餐厅，主要是想来点加州“寿司”。路过那的时候我实在太想吃点这玩意儿了。我喜欢加州“寿司”，尽管它是某种美国人的发明的假寿司，因为我从小学开始就讨厌生鱼片。那时，我和我的朋友们去池塘捉鱼，那些捉到手里的小鱼真是太难闻了。我只记得这成为我对生鱼片不感冒的故事之一，也许还有其他的什么理由，但我也说不清楚——这完全会是另一个故事。
今天你想去什么地方游泳？多瑙河？或许室内的游泳池也不错。我觉得在室外游泳不太好，在室内游泳可能好一点。不知为何最后去了电影院，在那，我看了新的《夺宝奇兵》，尽管哈里森看上去有点太老了，但是电影还行。斯皮尔伯格在组合这么多动作场景的方面实在是很棒，直到结尾电影都很流畅。多有趣的电影，我很高兴。
好吧，我时常会忘记那些在我脑海里的问题，而一些与原来的问题无关的，甚至是些以前我连想都没想过的问题会突然出现在我脑袋里。可是，我总觉得这是个可以做些新玩意的好兆头。
我想这不仅仅是关于我们的日常生活，同样也与我们的艺术实践，项目，展览，还有任何我们在做的事情有关。我们被授予那么多的可能性，但为了不知何故要实现的那些“目标”，我们必须从中选择。而且，我们被一种信念所套牢：这只有一个目标，其他你所实现的目标都是绝对错误的。等一下……真的只有一个目的可言么？ 不，即便在我们设想做出选择之前，这里也有非常多可能的目的。当我们得出某种结论，我们就倾向于相信只有一种选择是我们可以做的，甚至连一秒都不去设想我们拥有的那些可能性——其实，我们确实拥有！我们总是能有另一种选择，并且我们可以一次再一次的经历这个过程，尽管我们可能已经在这之前选择了什么。
所以，今天中午你想吃点什么？
田中工起/2008
It is the problem of “choice” that we are always faced with.
What do you want to eat for lunch today? I am feeling like to having some Indian, but Chinese sounds nice as well, so let me think… There is this new Indian restaurant that opened last month, and it should be nice… many people are talking about that.
Finally, I decide to go to a Japanese restaurant right around the corner, next to the flower shop – in order to have some California rolls. I am passing by and I do feel like to having some. I love California roll even though it’s an American invention and is sort of a fake Sushi, because I’ve hated row fish since I was in elementary school. My friends and I went to a pond to fish and we got some small fishes, but they smelt really bad on my hands. I just remember it to be one of the bad stories about row fish, but there may be something more than that -- but I have no idea -- this will entirely be another story.
Where do you like to go for a swim today? The Danube River, or some indoor swimming pool perhaps. I don’t think it‘d be so good to swim outside. I think swimming indoor may be better. Then somehow I end up going to a movie theater. There I see the new Indiana Jones. It’s okay even though Harrison looks a bit too old. Spielberg must have done a really good job focusing on how to put together that many action scenes as it seems be running smooth through the end. What an entertaining movie! I am really happy about it.
Well, at times I just forget about the question I’ve had in mind . Then suddenly another question that is not even related to the initial question, or a question I’ve never even thought about before and just suddenly occurs to me “pops up” in my mind. And yet, I still think it is sort of a good sign for doing something new.
I think this can be said not just about our everyday life, but our art practices, projects, exhibitions, and whatever else we do. There are so many possibilities we are granted, but we have to choose one of them in order to somehow reach our “goal.” And we are fixed into a belief that there is only one goal and all the other places you get to are purely wrong. But wait a minute, is there only one goal really? No, there are so many possible goals before even thinking about making choices. When we get some kind of an outcome, we tend to believe there is the only one choice you are entitled to make, and we don’t even think for one second that we have other possibilities -- but we do. We do always have alternative ones and we can go through this process over and over again, even though we might have already chosen something before.
So, what do you want to eat for lunch today?
Koki Tanaka/July 2008
*it is the occasion for writing this text for the catalogue “Recycling the Taipei Biennial, 1998-2006,” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008.
