吳燦政 WU Tsan-Cheng

樹作為一種靜默的存在，隨著風與氣流的改變，肩負起過濾或降溫，甚至是棲息的種種功能。而公園的樹種與配置，則調控與發展出不同的城市自然生態景觀，各種可控與不可預測的事件，也映印出城市文化發展的現象。

公園是一個城市中最抽象的規劃概念，是為了因應開發過程所產出的公共空間，更是某種尋求協調與對話交流的場所。藝術家透過拍攝城市公園裡的樹種，並選編執行多年的台灣聲音地圖計畫，累積了對城市中特定場所──公園的觀察。此作品揭露了城市的規劃與規訓，以及許多因地制宜的生存置入。公園既是公共也是私人領域，聲音在此隱顯出不斷變遷的城市文化發展現象。

Existing in deep silence, trees tend to perform multiple functions (e.g., filtration, cooling, and even habitat) against the mercurial air flow. The varieties and configurations of trees in parks have also metamorphosed into the city’s distinctive natural ecology. Moreover, the controllable and unpredictable events of all stripes have mirrored the state of urban culture development.

Park is the most abstract concept in urban planning. It is not only a public space in response to urban development, but also a place for coordination and dialogue. Treating parks as specific sites in the city, the artist has offered considerable observations on them by photographing the trees in parks and compiling the files of his “Taiwan SoundMap Project” that he has undertaken for years. The work Park reveals the city’s planning, discipline, and many lives embedded in line with local circumstances. A park has a Janus-faced nature of publicness and privacy, where sounds implicitly suggest the ever-changing phenomena of urban culture development.

藝術家介紹 About the Artist

吳燦政 1973 年生於臺灣雲林，2009 年萌生製作《臺灣聲音地圖》的構想，以十年的時間足跡遍及臺灣各地，實地集錄聲音並整合 Google Maps 地圖定位功能，完整呈現聲音的內容在時空變化過程中的差異與現象，讓觀者在聲音體驗中思考自身與生活環境的關係。

WU Tsan-Cheng was born in Yunlin, Taiwan in 1973. In 2009, WU conceived the idea of "Taiwan SoundMap Project," and planned to spend a decade visiting numerous locations in Taiwan to record and collect sounds. The project has also been integrated with the positioning function of Google Maps to fully represent the variations and phenomena in audio content in the changing time and space. Through his sound maps and what they have reflected, audiences are encouraged to contemplate on the relationship between their lives and the living environment in the sound experience.