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The Microphone Test series is named after writer Huang Guo-Jun’s work Microphone Test. Two months before Huang committed suicide, he wrote an essay in epistolary style titled“To Mother,” in which he expressed his intention to kill himself to his mother. The writing style is filled with black humor and expressive quality, but he killed himself two months after he wrote this letter, and he did not leave any suicide note.

Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun is a video letter to Huang Guo-Jun. Through conversations with Huang’s works created before he died, the letter depicts private family memories of three good friends, and attempts to portray what in fact belongs to my, or perhaps everyone’s memories through the memories of these others. Or perhaps, what is important is not whose memory it is, but the process that memory is constructed and viewed. I invited Yuan Zhi-Jie, Chen Liang-Hui, and Lo Tien-Yu to go back to the event site, and reenvisioned their memories in front of the camera.

　

「麥克風試音」作品系列的名稱是來自作家黃國峻的著作《麥克風試音》。黃國峻在自死兩個月前，寫了一篇書信體的散文作品〈報平安〉，對著母親講述自己自殺的念頭。文筆充滿表演性質的黑色幽默，但卻在寫完這封信的兩個月後就自殺了，自殺時反而沒有留下遺書。

〈麥克風試音：致信黃國峻〉是寫給黃國峻的錄像信，透過與黃國峻生前作品的對話，描述出三位好友的私密家庭記憶，也試圖透過這些他人的記憶，描繪出實際上也是我自己的、或許也是大家所共有的記憶。又或者重要的不是關於誰的記憶，而是關於記憶如何被建構與被觀看的過程。我邀請袁志傑、陳良慧、羅天妤回到事件的地點，在鏡頭前重演他們的記憶。