Title: First Class

Artist: GAN Lu

Form: Audio-visual

This work reconstructs my first lesson in Hong Kong, capturing the disorienting experience of processing a second language in an unfamiliar academic setting. By blurring both sound and video, it simulates the ambiguous state of partial comprehension—where understanding seems within reach yet remains elusive. The piece explores the liminal space between auditory output and reception, questioning the stability of communication when clarity is compromised. In this abstraction of speech and perception, it seeks to uncover an alternative intimacy between language and meaning, challenging the boundaries of linguistic comprehension and sensory interpretation.

本作品重現了我在香港的第一堂課，捕捉在陌生的學術環境中處理第二語言時那種令人迷失的體驗。透過模糊化的聲音與影像，作品模擬了一種介於理解與困惑之間的曖昧狀態——理解似乎近在咫尺，卻又難以真正掌握。作品探討了聲音輸出與接收之間的臨界空間，質疑當清晰度受到削弱時，溝通的穩定性是否仍然存在。在語言與感知的抽象化過程中，作品試圖發掘語言與意義之間的另一種親密關係，挑戰語言理解與感官詮釋的邊界。