Untimely 非时
Poetry / Performance / Video
2024
Untimely unfolds in a fractured choreography of language and vision. Through dislocated typography, letter repetition, and ritualistic pacing, the work evokes bodies caught between fragmentation and the longing for coherence. Trauma bends time—seconds ripple, meanings stutter, and chronology loops back on itself.
Visuals of Times Square—upside-down, yellowed, stained, water-warped—recur like corrupted memories. The image does not document, but pulsates. What once symbolized hyper-visibility now becomes a haunted landscape, flickering in reverse. Light doesn’t illuminate, it decays.
Serpentine motifs slither through text and image: a figure of recurrence, poison, and escape. Letters—p p p, w w w, b b b—repeat as wounds, rhythms, and refrains. Religious and mechanical symbols—clocks, halos, snake skins—collapse into one another, forming a field of tension where pain and peace touch.
In this non-time, Untimely opens a space where language and body dissolve and reassemble. It gestures toward a poetics of survival—not as clarity, but as persistent distortion.
《非时》是一段语言与影像交织的破碎编舞。作品通过错置排版、字母重复与仪式般的节奏唤起一种身体状态——在碎裂与对完整渴望之间来回摆动。
创伤弯曲了时间——秒钟泛起涟漪，意义结巴，时间线盘旋回返。
影像来自纽约时代广场：画面上下颠倒，泛黄，被污染，如同水波纹中浮现的旧记忆。它不再“呈现”什么，而是一种脉动。曾代表极度曝光的场所，如今变为回音空洞，倒转而腐烂的地景。光不是照亮，而是衰变。
蛇形在文字与图像之间游动——是重复，是毒，是逃离的轨迹。字母重复如伤痕、韵律、咒语（p p p、w w w、b b b），既是语言，也是身体记忆的碎片。钟表、光圈、蛇蜕等宗教与机械符号彼此重叠，构成一种高压场，在其中，痛苦与平静相互碰触。
在这段“非时”之中，语言与身体不断溶解与重组。
它指向一种幸存的诗学——不是清晰的真相，而是持续的扰动。
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