The Trial審判
The Trial is a delicately schemed form of absurdist theatre in which the main character performed by the artist assumes a severe, militant like figure in uniform who harangues three vending machines in a ‘dialectical discussion’. It explores the exaggerated gestures of the revolutionary speaker and the archaic language typically employed in communist ideological discourse. The relationship between figure and the vending machine stands as a metaphorical dialogue between capitalism and communism. The protagonist’s objectives are earnest and practical; yet somehow appear out of sync in contrast to an arbitrary setting situated in the present. In fact, the character bears stronger resemblance to the literary figure Don Quixote and his nonsensical struggle with the windmill. Unlike the windmill that remains mute throughout the tirade undertaken by Don Quixote, in this performance, these vending machines are perfectly endowed to articulate their own defense – turning the situation back onto the revolutionary agitator whose position also comes under scrutiny.
《審判》可以被看成是一齣短小的荒誕劇。 藝術家扮演的審判者,誇張地運用了的革命時代的修辭和身體姿勢,跟三個自動販賣機展開了一場的理性又滑稽的超現實的辯論。 審判者與自動販賣機的關係無疑是共產主義意識形態和現下全球資本消費主義的某種矛盾關係的隱喻。 審判者就像大戰風車的唐吉訶德,然而,風車不會與唐吉訶德爭辯,自動販賣機卻巧舌如簧。 審判者同時也位於被審判的位置。
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