作品說明About Artworks (from Artist)

臺灣藝術家林書楷與紐約FuturePerfect Studio創辦人韋恩．艾希莉，共同創作參與式混合實境藝術作品《幻影之城》。此計畫源於林書楷在臺南經歷的都市拆遷，他的家被強制拆除，「斷裂」成為這項長期藝術探究計畫的起點：城市如何被拆解、重新組織與記憶？在持續的都市轉型及更新的過程中，個人與集體的記憶又該如何得以存續？

本計畫有六個章節，在《幻影之城》的虛構世界中，以一名普通的上班族「陽台先生」為主角，他因失去工作與住處而導致人生驟然失序，從而開啟他的旅程，穿越於流離失所與對未來的追尋所形塑的想像世界──那個未來不再被任何既有之物所維繫。

本次展覽呈現的〈第一章：斷裂〉奠定了整個計畫的核心空間與敘事架構，參與者將配戴混合實境頭戴式裝置，使虛擬元素能出現在實體展覽空間之中。體驗從觀者面前的一座微縮巷弄街景開始──這座模型置於桌面中央，取材自臺南的城市空間。隨著作品展開，巷弄逐漸崩解、消融，街景的碎片飄浮進周遭空間。觀者可親手拾取這些虛擬碎片，將它們組裝成一艘小型太空船，將巷弄的殘骸轉化為一種脆弱卻可通行的載具。

City of Apparition is a participatory mixed-reality artwork created through a close collaboration between Taiwanese artist Shu-Kai　Lin and New York–based FuturePerfect Studio, led by Wayne Ashley. The project originates in Lin’s experience of urban demolition in Tainan, where his family home was forcibly removed. This rupture became the starting point for a long-term artistic inquiry into how cities are dismantled, reorganized, and remembered, and how personal and collective memory persists amid ongoing urban transformation.

Conceived as a six-chapter project, City of Apparition unfolds within a fictional world centered on Mr. Yang-Tai, an ordinary office worker whose life is disrupted by the loss of his job and home. His journey moves through imagined worlds shaped by displacement and the search for a future no longer anchored in what once existed.

Chapter One:　The Rupture, presented in this exhibition, is the first completed chapter of City of Apparition and establishes the project’s core spatial and narrative framework. Participants wear a mixed-reality headset that allows virtual elements to appear within the physical exhibition space. The experience begins with the viewer facing a miniature alleyway streetscape placed at the center of a table, modeled after urban spaces in Tainan. As the work unfolds, the alleyway collapses and dissolves, and fragments of the streetscape drift into the surrounding space. Viewers are invited to physically pick up these virtual fragments and assemble them into a small spacecraft, converting the remains of the alleyway into a fragile means of passage.
 

關於藝術家 About Artist

林書楷

1983年出生於臺灣臺南，國立臺北藝術大學美術系與美術創作研究所畢業，現居於臺南。

林書楷的創作以平面繪畫和空間裝置為主。他成長的臺南，是座充滿廟宇、彎曲巷弄及宗教圖騰的古都。林書楷將這些視覺和空間經驗加以內化，由個人生命經驗和體悟，經過多重拆解、重組，發掘出潛意識的符號。這些由細工筆描繪的符號，逐步堆砌成幻想建築，來描繪出想像中的島嶼和城市，建構了他獨創的《陽台城市》系列作品。然而他除了創作具有宗教象徵的圖像之外，也嘗試透過父親工廠所遺留下來的木質模具，將其建構成一座座的未來城市，藉以表達島嶼城市的無窮變幻。

曾受邀參展於高雄市立美術館、臺北市立美術館、國立臺灣美術館、韓國亞洲藝術殿堂及日本廣島市現代美術館等國內外大型企劃展，亦於德國、美國、荷蘭、泰國駐村或展出。

Shu-Kai Lin

Shu-Kai Lin was born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1983. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, from which he also earned a master’s degree. He currently lives in Tainan.

Graphic art and spatial installation are the staple forms of Lin’s oeuvre. Tainan, the place in which Lin came of age, is an ancient capital bristling with temples, serpentine lanes, and religious totems. The artist internalized these visual elements and spatial experiences, dismantling and reassembling the constituents of his personal life and epiphanies, thereby excavating the symbols buried deep within his subconscious. These symbols in an elaborate style gradually formed fantastic buildings that embody the cities and islands in his imagination, which resulted in his sui generis art series the Balcony City Civilization. Apart from creating images with religious implications, the artist seeks to turn the wooden molds left in his father’s factory into models of futuristic city, so as to reveal the myriad metamorphoses of cities and islands.

He has been invited to international and domestic large-scale exhibitions at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Asian Culture Center (South Korea) and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan). He has also worked as an artist-in-residence and presented his works in Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, and Thailand.

韋恩．艾希莉

韋恩．艾希莉是一位活躍於沉浸式媒體、現場表演與新興科技領域的製作人與創意總監。他是紐約 FutrurePerfect Studio 的創辦人，該跨領域工作室專注於混合實境（MR）、擴展現實（XR）與空間型作品的研究與製作。

在過去二十年間，艾希莉持續於文化與科技的相關工作，發展結合藝術與技術的計畫。他所開發的計畫橫跨虛擬實境與混合實境、裝置與表演等多種形式，並與多個世界知名的藝術家和機構合作，包括布魯克林音樂學院、紐約藝術現場、丹麥文化部、挪威領事館、鹿特丹 O.藝術節，以及威廉・肯特里奇、拉爾夫・萊蒙與 威爾・瑞曼等藝術家。艾希莉的創作實踐強調長期發展與跨領域合作，並探討沉浸式科技如何觸及身體經驗與共享的文化記憶。

Wayne Ashley

Wayne Ashley is a producer and creative director working across immersive media, live performance, and emerging technologies. He is the founder of New York-based FuturePerfect Studio, an interdisciplinary studio focused on the research and production of mixed-reality, XR, and spatial works.

Over the past two decades, Ashley has worked at the intersection of culture and technology, developing projects that bring together art and technology. He has developed projects spanning virtual and mixed reality, installation, and performance, collaborating with world-renowned artists and institutions including Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY Live Arts, the Danish Ministry of Culture, the Norwegian Consulate, O. Festival Rotterdam, William Kentridge, Ralph Lemon, and Will Ryman. His practice emphasizes long-form development and cross-disciplinary collaboration, exploring how immersive technologies can engage embodied experience and shared cultural memory.