Untimely 非时
Poetry / Performance / Video
2024
Untimely unfolds as a fractured choreography of language and image. Through displaced typography, letter repetition, and ritual pacing, the work draws bodies into a state suspended between fragmentation and the desire for coherence. Trauma bends time: seconds ripple, meaning stutters, chronology folds back on itself.
Images of Times Square—upside down, yellowed, stained, warped by water—return like corrupted memories. The image no longer records; it pulses. What once stood for hyper-visibility becomes a haunted terrain, flickering in reverse. Light does not reveal. It decays.
Serpentine figures move through text and image as signs of recurrence, poison, and escape. Letters—p p p, w w w, b b b—repeat as wounds, rhythms, refrains. Religious and mechanical symbols—clocks, halos, snake skins—collapse into one another, forming a charged field where pain and calm briefly touch.
Within this non-time, Untimely opens a space in which language and body dissolve and reassemble. It gestures toward a poetics of survival—not through clarity, but through sustained distortion.
《非时》是一段由语言与影像构成的破碎编舞。错置的排版、字母的反复、近乎仪式的节奏，将身体牵引至一种悬置状态——在瓦解与对连贯的渴望之间来回摆动。创伤弯折时间：秒针起伏，意义结巴，时间线反复回旋。
影像取自纽约时代广场：倒置、泛黄、污渍斑驳，被水纹扭曲，如同被篡改的记忆反复浮现。图像不再承担记录功能，而是一种脉动。曾象征极度可见的场所，如今化作幽影之地，倒放、闪烁。光不再照亮，而是在衰败。
蛇形穿行于文字与图像之间——象征循环、毒性与逃逸。字母的重复（p p p、w w w、b b b）既是伤口，也是节拍与回声。钟表、光环、蛇蜕等宗教与机械符号彼此坍缩，形成一片高压场，在其中，痛与静短暂相触。
在这一段“非时”之中，语言与身体不断溶解，又重新拼合。作品指向一种幸存的诗学——不是通过清晰抵达，而是在持续的失真中勉强维持。
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