DELUSIONS IN VIRTUAL PARALLEL SPACES 

RE-TRACING BURO (Somi Sim & Julien Coignet)

Text by Somi Sim, March 2022

Exhibitions in the post-COVID-19 age uncover not only the relationship between contact-free digital technology and art experience, but also the change in human cognitive capabilities. The experiences of separation, inconsistency, and instability for the contemporary people who cannot keep up with the speed and volume of information transmission will no longer be called psychopathological syndromes. This change is because today's art experience requires this psychopathological way of appreciation. Many exhibitions will remain empty without any physical artworks and welcomes the audience with a single QR code or microcode to enter a virtual parallel spaces. The exhibition experience is only possible when the audience separates themselves from the physical world and connects to the virtual link. In a way, we are demanded of a schizophrenic cognition. We now have entered an era in which we can no longer say that we saw the exhibition in person. Modern people's anxiety, which heightens the more they connect, obsessively begets the contactlessness and non-place experiences.

平行虛擬空間的幻覺

文｜ Somi Sim 2022.三月

在後疫情時代舉辦的展覽不僅揭示了非接觸式數位科技與藝術體驗之間的關係， 同時也改變了人類的認知能力。對於無法跟上資訊傳遞速度的現代人來說，分離、反覆無常及不穩定的經驗，已不再被稱為精神病理學上的消極表現。而這樣的改變，是由於當今藝術經驗需要如此精神病理學的欣賞方式——許多展覽會將實體的作品撤出，閒置其空間並徒留一QR code或微碼，以讓觀眾進入平行的虛擬空間。展覽經驗只有在觀眾離開自身及其所處空間以連結到數位網域中，才成為可能。在某種程度上，我們需仰賴精神分裂症的認知，也就是說，我們早已進入了一個無法親眼「看見」展覽的時代。 現代人與自身之的連結愈多，焦慮的感受便會愈加強烈，而正這種劇增的焦慮境況，創造了非接觸與非場所的經驗。