Chen Dandizi 陈丹笛子
Waiting for the Secret Moments 独自等待秘密的时刻, 2016
video installation: single-channel video on old TV, wind chime, chair 录像装置：老电视机播放单频录像，风铃，椅子
dimension variable 尺寸可变
(video 录像: 1'28'')
(video 录像: 1'28'')
Edition of 5 plus 1 AP
Window, wind chimes, wooden chair. A 1’30’’ video playing on an old TV set. I shot the piece by handheld DV on a full-moon and cloudless night; it took me...
Window, wind chimes, wooden chair. A 1’30’’ video playing on an old TV set. I shot the piece by handheld DV on a full-moon and cloudless night; it took me nearly three hours waiting in my balcony before I saw a cloud passing before the moon.
Expecting a cloud passing before the moon at a cloudless night is quite a ridiculous thing for me. The whole process is a bit like “Waiting for Godot”.
If I had waited longer but still did not catch the “coincidence”, would I give up, or keep waiting? Actually, I don’t know as well.
Besides, “waiting” is a thing full of uncertainty and ambiguity, and it gets even more unstable as time goes by. After hours of waiting, I finally saw the thing I had been expecting: a cloud was slowly floating and approaching the moon. So I turned on my camera and waited in my lens. I prefer hand-held DV, because it can also record my mood and breath. Slight movements of my breath and hand are actually a hint of “my” presence, unlike those fixed, cold, and certain shots taken by tripod.
窗，风铃，木椅。旧电视播放一个一分半的录像，记录的是我在一个月圆无云的夜晚手持DV一个人在阳台等了近三小时才等到一片云刚好从月亮面前通过。
期待晴朗无云的夜晚能出现一朵碰巧从月亮前经过的云朵，我自己有点感觉是有一丝丝荒谬的味道的，那个过程有一点类似在“等待戈多”的状态。
如果我在阳台等了更久依然没有等到这“巧合”，是会放弃，还是继续？其实我也不知道。
以及“等待”这种具备不确定性和暧昧不明的事情，随着时间流逝，将变得更加不稳定。在等待了好几个小时之后我终于看到远处有那个我在等待的东西，它正在慢慢朝月亮飘过来，所以我打开录像机，在镜头里等着。我比较喜欢用手持录像机的方式，因为我觉得它同时也把我当时的心情和气息也记录下来了，呼吸和手的颤动，其实都能很好地暗示“我”的在场，不像用脚架固定那么冷冰冰和有确定感。
Expecting a cloud passing before the moon at a cloudless night is quite a ridiculous thing for me. The whole process is a bit like “Waiting for Godot”.
If I had waited longer but still did not catch the “coincidence”, would I give up, or keep waiting? Actually, I don’t know as well.
Besides, “waiting” is a thing full of uncertainty and ambiguity, and it gets even more unstable as time goes by. After hours of waiting, I finally saw the thing I had been expecting: a cloud was slowly floating and approaching the moon. So I turned on my camera and waited in my lens. I prefer hand-held DV, because it can also record my mood and breath. Slight movements of my breath and hand are actually a hint of “my” presence, unlike those fixed, cold, and certain shots taken by tripod.
窗，风铃，木椅。旧电视播放一个一分半的录像，记录的是我在一个月圆无云的夜晚手持DV一个人在阳台等了近三小时才等到一片云刚好从月亮面前通过。
期待晴朗无云的夜晚能出现一朵碰巧从月亮前经过的云朵，我自己有点感觉是有一丝丝荒谬的味道的，那个过程有一点类似在“等待戈多”的状态。
如果我在阳台等了更久依然没有等到这“巧合”，是会放弃，还是继续？其实我也不知道。
以及“等待”这种具备不确定性和暧昧不明的事情，随着时间流逝，将变得更加不稳定。在等待了好几个小时之后我终于看到远处有那个我在等待的东西，它正在慢慢朝月亮飘过来，所以我打开录像机，在镜头里等着。我比较喜欢用手持录像机的方式，因为我觉得它同时也把我当时的心情和气息也记录下来了，呼吸和手的颤动，其实都能很好地暗示“我”的在场，不像用脚架固定那么冷冰冰和有确定感。