This video artwork examines the temporal disruption created by the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically marking the moment when Taiwan's CDC announced Level 3 alert measures. At this critical juncture, my planned journey to France was abruptly suspended.
While physically confined, my digital calendar continued its relentless rhythm—sending notifications about boarding gates, departure times, and closing cabin doors for flights I could never board. This created a peculiar sense of bifurcated reality: while I remained stationary, an alternate timeline of my intended movements continued to unfold virtually, generating a profound disconnection between physical presence and digital expectation.
In response, I meticulously constructed an animated simulation of my canceled itinerary, documenting with precision each segment of the journey that never materialized—the exact duration of train rides, flights, taxi transfers—every movement that would have transported me to my destination. The animation terminates at what would have been my final arrival point, completing a virtual journey that exists only in digital space.
The work investigates how we reconsider past states in a post-pandemic world, where technological systems maintain their programmed certainty even as human movement becomes suddenly impossible.
Sunday, March 8th, 2020 22:20(CST) (2023)
Single Channel Video
15mins
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei Taiwan