Jung Hsu

This light/ audio installation is set in the half way of a long corridor along the hillside. It’s the main road for students to go up to classes or the dorm. Walk closely to the installation, you can hear a bass sound like train whistle. Then the light flash to your eyes, and soon you come up with a memory of passing through a tunnel on a train.

This piece showed up in campus for a month, which is a special project for art festival of NCCU. All participants have to chose a landscape in campus to build their own work. The inspiration came from a video clip I took on a train from Milan to my aunt’s house. The noise of wheels running on the railroad track. And the light randomly blocked by buildings and trees caused the shadow to move on the cabin’s floor and pass by immediately. The scene have filled me with nostalgia. Cause we’re always on the way from place to place. The travel time is like the gap between home and destination that let us change our mental state and be prepare for the arrival. Even the transportation improvement shorten the travel time. The moving lights and sounds still remind you that travel means away from the past to then.