2003-12-07 10:51:29程展緯
Easy to Learn Cantonese Chapter One:我愛你
作品概念：
當「語言」發生在學習語言發音的情境時，「語言」的對話形式就會變成鏡子的關係，就例如老師教「我愛你」這句子的發音，學生也會跟著老師的發音說「我愛你」。這過程中除了衍生了鏡子的關係，同時亦把句子的本來含意抽掉，並懸空地剩下句子的發音和說話者的意識及姿態：老師的發音呈現了肯定的訊息並包含了教授的意味，學生的發音呈現的是不確定的自信與詢問對錯的姿態。
《Easy To Learn Cantonese》第一章：「我愛你」就是發生在上述的語言關係上，我在紐約P. S. 1當代藝術中心的工作室內舉辦了四百個單對單的廣東話班，向參觀者教授「我愛你」的廣東話發音，然後將每個學生的發音攝錄成一個五秒鐘的影片。P. S. 1位於紐約皇后區，前身為一所公立學校。
(《Easy To Learn Cantonese》系列的首三章教授的句子分別是「我愛你」、「再見」、「對唔住」。在香港人的日常對話中，這三句說話時常由英語取替。)
About the video:
When the acoustic acting-out of language is under the context of language learning, it creates a mirror effect between the interlocutors in teaching-and-learning process of verbal enunciation. For example, when the teacher teaches the enunciation of the sentence “I Love You”， the student will respond by repeating the enunciation of “I Love You.” Together with the mirror effect, the meaning the sentence signifies has been eliminated and only the enunciation and the gesture of the speaker have been left behind. The enunciation of the teacher contains a signal of certainty and demands a learning behavior. The enunciation of the student contains a signal of lack of confidence and it requires for a certainty from the teacher.
The making of EASY TO LEARN CONTONESE Chapter 1: I Love You is based on the same concept regarding the interesting relationships between the meaning and the enunciation of a language, and the teaching and learning process of a certain language. During my residency in P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, originally a public school in Queen, New York City, I conducted 400 one-to-one Cantonese classes in my studio to teach visitors the Cantonese enunciation of “I Love You”. At the end of each class, I recorded the pronunciation of every student into a five-second video.
(The sentences taught in first three chapters of Easy to Learn Cantonese were “I Love You”, “Bye Bye”, and “Sorry”, respectively. In the daily communication of people in Hong Kong, these three sentences are usually spoken in English. )
當「語言」發生在學習語言發音的情境時，「語言」的對話形式就會變成鏡子的關係，就例如老師教「我愛你」這句子的發音，學生也會跟著老師的發音說「我愛你」。這過程中除了衍生了鏡子的關係，同時亦把句子的本來含意抽掉，並懸空地剩下句子的發音和說話者的意識及姿態：老師的發音呈現了肯定的訊息並包含了教授的意味，學生的發音呈現的是不確定的自信與詢問對錯的姿態。
《Easy To Learn Cantonese》第一章：「我愛你」就是發生在上述的語言關係上，我在紐約P. S. 1當代藝術中心的工作室內舉辦了四百個單對單的廣東話班，向參觀者教授「我愛你」的廣東話發音，然後將每個學生的發音攝錄成一個五秒鐘的影片。P. S. 1位於紐約皇后區，前身為一所公立學校。
(《Easy To Learn Cantonese》系列的首三章教授的句子分別是「我愛你」、「再見」、「對唔住」。在香港人的日常對話中，這三句說話時常由英語取替。)
About the video:
When the acoustic acting-out of language is under the context of language learning, it creates a mirror effect between the interlocutors in teaching-and-learning process of verbal enunciation. For example, when the teacher teaches the enunciation of the sentence “I Love You”， the student will respond by repeating the enunciation of “I Love You.” Together with the mirror effect, the meaning the sentence signifies has been eliminated and only the enunciation and the gesture of the speaker have been left behind. The enunciation of the teacher contains a signal of certainty and demands a learning behavior. The enunciation of the student contains a signal of lack of confidence and it requires for a certainty from the teacher.
The making of EASY TO LEARN CONTONESE Chapter 1: I Love You is based on the same concept regarding the interesting relationships between the meaning and the enunciation of a language, and the teaching and learning process of a certain language. During my residency in P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, originally a public school in Queen, New York City, I conducted 400 one-to-one Cantonese classes in my studio to teach visitors the Cantonese enunciation of “I Love You”. At the end of each class, I recorded the pronunciation of every student into a five-second video.
(The sentences taught in first three chapters of Easy to Learn Cantonese were “I Love You”, “Bye Bye”, and “Sorry”, respectively. In the daily communication of people in Hong Kong, these three sentences are usually spoken in English. )