This is a surreal collage “Essay Film” of alienation in the Dream-world which I have edited over the last 3 years. By following Duchamp's "ready-made" concept, most of my materials are adopted from everyday life around me from the past 10 years: texts (especially books, lyrics, advertisements, news and conversations that influence the Chinese perception and internalization of modernity and political ideals) and images (shot with a DVcam whenever and wherever, copied from DVDs, downloaded from the internet or recaptured from TV…). Using Google online translation to deconstruct these texts, and re-encode the time and the space, resulting in mutual redefinition, constant accumulation and extension, so that these different contexts under the independent and unrelated elements cross-collide with each other, and finally expand into a whole fragment, creating a gap in the language and eventually being lost to infinite transmission of meanings. With soundtracks of Chinese and Western love songs that completely lose their original meanings in a new context, when the translation turns them into political staments, became like poetry in our absurd time. (artist statement)

這是我用3年時間剪輯的一部有關夢幻世界異化的超現實拼貼「散文電影」。沿用杜尚的「現成品」概念，作品素材都是來自十年來在日常生活收集積累下來的文本（特別是影響中國對現代性和政治理想的認知和內化的書籍、歌詞、廣告、新聞和對話）和圖像（數碼錄像機隨時隨地的記錄、從DVD翻制和電視翻拍的資料）。通過谷歌翻譯來解構這些文本，並對時間和空間重新編碼，使之相互重新定義並不斷積澱延伸。當這些不同語境下獨立而互不相關元素相互交叉碰撞，最後膨脹成一個整體的碎片，最終陷入語言的間隙並迷失在無窮無盡的意義傳遞之中。當所有翻譯都變成政治宣言，中西方情歌在新的語境中完全失去其原來的含義，就像我們這個荒謬時代的詩歌。（藝術家自述）