My friends are my power station. It is an installation about loneliness in big cities. This installation employs a large number of units of spinning wire, with statements about intimate relationships projected onto the spinning surfaces. These words, and the battery units that propel them, form a poetic, subtle, and interactive understanding of loneliness and transience. By making loneliness more visible, and shared in a public platform, this work also aims to send a central message to viewers: you are not alone.
我的朋友是我的发电站。这是一个关于大城市孤独的装置。该装置使用大量的旋转单元，并在旋转单元的表面上投影有关孤独内心独白和人际关系的陈述的文字。这些话以及推动它们的电池单元形成了对寂寞与短暂的诗意，微妙和互动的理解。通过使孤独感更加明显并在公共平台上共享，这项工作还旨在向观众传达中心信息：您并不孤单。我的朋友是我的发电站。这是一个关于大城市寂寞的装置。该装置使用大量的旋转单元，并在旋转表面上投射有关亲密关系的陈述。这些话以及推动它们的电池单元形成了对寂寞与短暂的诗意，微妙和互动的理解。这项作品还旨在通过使孤独感明显地在公共平台上共享的反差，向观众传达中心信息：你并不孤单。
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The title "My friends are my power station" is the story of my friend Yu Tian. When she went through a recent heartbreak, she would take a 2-hour train ride to her best friend's home, talking with her on her sofa all night. After spending this time with her friend, she felt better and more energetic.
I selected key quotes from their stories and projected the sentences on a flat paper surface attached to the spinning battery structures. The result was that a single word appeared each time the structure would spin. Upon first glance, this installation may look separated and undecipherable because different words appear and change each second. However, once viewers focus on one rotating unit, waiting for the changing words to converge as sentences, the lonely message spelled out in these words becomes clear.
This work pairs traditional mechanical materials with digital live stream projection tools to provide an intimate feeling of reading other people's loneliness. It creates a delicate contrast between flashing spinning moments and continuous stories, a single unit encompassed within a large number making up the whole, the singularity of each story set against the industrial rhythm of the structure's rotating movement. When loneliness can be visible and intimated, you are less alone. Through these juxtapositions, I hope that the viewer might relate and feel less alone.
标题“我的朋友是我的发电站”是我朋友于田的故事。当她经历了最近的伤心欲绝时，她将坐火车2小时到达她最好的朋友的家，整晚都在沙发上与她交谈。与朋友共度这段时光后，她感觉更好，更有活力。
我从他们的故事中选择了关键语录，并将这些句子投射在与旋转电池结构相连的平面纸上。结果是每次结构旋转时都会出现一个单词。乍一看，此安装看起来可能是分离且难以理解的，因为出现了不同的单词，并且每秒变化一次。但是，一旦观众将注意力集中在一个旋转的单元上，等待变化的单词汇聚成句子，这些单词中所表达的孤独信息就会变得清晰起来。
这项工作将传统的机械材料与数字实时流投影工具结合使用，以提供一种阅读他人孤独感的亲密感。它在旋转的瞬间和连续的故事之间形成了微妙的对比，一个单一的单元包含在整个故事中，每个故事的奇异性与结构旋转运动的工业韵律形成了鲜明的对比。当寂寞可见并暗示时，您就不那么孤单了。通过这些并置，我希望观看者可以保持联系并减少孤独感。