登月

阿姆斯壯在1969年成功登陸月球，為人類歷史上的創舉，半世紀後越發成熟的VR技術，也如同另一個「登月點」，給予我們全新的觀看與感受體驗。因此，黃心健和蘿瑞．安德森於2018年再次合作，重思月球與地球、人類的關係。在十五分鐘的VR體驗中，觀眾將會從地球出發，並在月球低重力的表面漫步飛行，穿梭在太空碎片中，並且飛越DNA所聚集成的骨架，最終在象徵著月球山的山壁落下。最初觀眾似乎取得一個太空人的身體，但卻在最末失去這具身體，並接著獲得新的軀體，擁有外星人般的細長觸手。藉由此身體質變的奇幻體驗，黃心健意圖探問人如何感到自由？如何不受到心智與身體的局限？配戴略顯笨重的VR裝置就如同穿戴太空人的裝備，雖然移動有所限制，卻能夠探索浩瀚的宇宙。VR所帶來的無限可能性，正是《登月》試圖傳遞給觀眾的訊息。

In 1969, Neil Armstrong accomplished the groundbreaking task of landing on the moon. Half a century later, the increasing maturation of VR technology has given us another “moon landing,” providing us with new viewing and sensory experiences. Hsin-Chien Huang and Laurie Anderson collaborated once more in 2018, reflecting on the relationship between the moon, the earth, and human beings. In the 15-minute VR experience, viewers set off from the earth and glide on the low-gravity surface of the moon, wandering amid space debris and soaring past skeletons made up of DNA structures, and fall off a mountain wall that symbolizes the lunar mountain. At first, audiences seem to gain the body of an astronaut but lose this body at the end and instead receive a new body that is equipped with long alien-like tentacles. With this fantastical change in the body, Huang explores how human beings experience freedom and how to break free from the restrictions of mind and body. Although the heavy VR equipment limits movement like space suits, it allows the wearer to explore the vast universe, precisely the message of To the Moon.