Conversation Errors
無法對話, 2020Live Performance (Improv #3)
She speaks. He listens. He copies, and she listens to his copies. Are they having a conversation?
I sound. I listen to my sounds. You listen to the sounds I am listening to, but you can’t sound. Are we having a conversation error?
Conversation Errors interrogates various models of conversation (or failing conversation). We utilize languages as tools to express personal feelings and address objective truths. We can also treat languages as a pure sonic phenomenon that carries abstract and symbolic meanings. How much we are willing to listen determines how much we are willing to achieve conversations. What pathetic is that we don’t have the power and possibility to achieve conversations from the beginning, as what we hear and how we listen are already dictated by the autocracy.
她說話、他聆聽她的話。他重複她說的話、她聆聽他的重複。所以他們在對話?
我發聲、我聆聽我的聲。你聆聽我所聆聽的聲、但你不能發聲。所以我們無法對話?
《無法對話》審視不同對話(或無法對話)的模式。語言能作為表達個人情感、客觀事實的工具，亦能作為抽象及具象徵性的聲音現象。我們有多願意聆聽別人的話，就有多願意和別人對話。可惜的是，獨裁者控制著我們能聽到什麼和如何去聽，我們從一開始便沒有對話的空間和權力。
