High Speed Relations 2021, Taiwan, Hsinchu
Fast Landscape and its Spatial Revolution
High Speed Relations is a 540-minute, 12-channel work that displays the total journeys of the Taiwanese High Speed Rail, in sync with the system schedule. The same speed in various viewing distances and perspectives creates different senses of movement. The work is selected by the 2021 cross-art program by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
---- Real-time High Speed Rail Experiences: Taiwan High Speed Rail spans 350 kilometers in as few as 105 minutes at 300 km/h, covering 83 meters in a second. What physical and mental experiences do these distances and numbers evoke? “High Speed Relations” corresponds to the actual schedules of the rail service, and each segment of the work is equivalent to a two-hour journey. Using real commutes as a reference framework for time and space, the project showcases the experience of speed and movement, one that is the compression of space and the extension of time. ---- Juxtaposing Perspectives from the Air and on the Ground: The scenery outside the windows documents personal perspectives, while the Google Earth images present objective views at the height of 20m, 60m, 180m, 540m, 1620m, 4860m, each frame three times higher than the previous one. The two sets of imagery delve into the correlation between spatial distances and visual speed: the low-angle, close-range views disappear in an instant, while the scenery in the distance remains still, bringing varying sensations of speed while moving in the same actual time and space. ---- Synchronization to Actual Time-Space Movements: The screening time coincides with the timetable of Taiwan High Speed Rail: starting when a train leaves a station and stopping as it reaches its terminal, followed by another train in the opposite direction. Each moment of the 9-hour work is unique and non-repeating, aligning with physical trains running in real-time, passing through true locations somewhere across the landscape, and presenting experiences in actual times of the day.
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Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan
Tien Ling, Hsuan Fan