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在這些行動紀錄裡，我挑選了幾個我們所熟悉的生活的場景，透過行動將這些場所轉換成為表演的場域，一旁的民眾看似也參與了表演，卻又只是一般日常裡的普通路人，櫥窗內的現實與櫥窗外的展示，模稜兩可又似是而非的混沌滲透著彼此，無論是品牌櫥窗還是電子媒體，它們製造了一個可以讓我們「表演日常」的通道，曾幾何時櫥窗內的生活經驗也只是個想像，當這種想像無時無刻地滲透每個人的思緒，任何生活的經驗看起來都會像是一場表演，透過家裡的落地窗你表演著人父陪女兒玩耍，透過FB直播賣魚丸讓你成為大明星，台灣夏日午後的阿公阿嬤會坐在便利商店裡表演打嗑睡給路人看。

我們的生活出現了好像在體驗VR般見山不是山的詭異思辨：透過媒體化的視野建立感知並以此審查自己，當體驗真實的慾望無法被知覺，我們經驗到的是否只是自我感官的模擬？對健美體態的響往開啟了彌補現實的那道缺口，穿戴名牌抬頭挺胸走在大街上的自信來自於品牌給你的想像，直播賣的冷氣吹起來好像比較涼，大數據告訴你今天吃幾片火腿油價會上揚…。放眼所見我們一直在演繹著別人如何詮釋當代生活的實驗與企圖，對於生活的想像與期待像是洋蔥般被層層包覆，這有點像是滿心期待眼看著小雞即將從蛋裏孵化，結果出來的卻是另一顆雞蛋！蛋殼裏所包覆讓人摸不著頭緒的，或許只是自己在現實處境的心理映射，而我們將會察覺如果要窺探裡面的真相就得創造屬於自己的預言，如果現實是實踐預言的最佳場所，我們要準備好迎接一個滿地都是先知的時代。

When you think you are eating a chicken drumstick that you cannot see, are you still eating a drumstick? We have grown more and more accustomed to seeing newfangled things and ideas anytime in this world. Through the Internet, media and the streets we walk on daily, consumerism feeds us its imagination of the future world and shapes our life and behavior. We even need to have a bite of fried chicken via the smooth layer of advertisement screen. As we sit behind the transparent glass of the convenient stores, using their free internet in the acclimatized space, we are unaware that our lives have been undergoing a transformative prediction. Our living experience and our ways of savoring life have been slowly manipulated and contained by certain media experiences, through which we take in other people’s imagination and internalize it as part of our own lives. Eventually, we even convert ourselves into part of the media, reveling in the rush of controlling the world and grasping the power of having the ability to destroy a stranger’s life in an unknown place by pressing one button on social media. This interface hinders physical perceptions, such as warmth and coldness, yet it boils people’s mind and blood with everything that goes on in the virtual world—the intertwined, collective consciousness that becomes our passion of life; however, are we able to savor life through it?

For these performance videos, I have chosen a few quotidian scenes that we are all familiar with, and transformed them into sites of performance through actions. The people in the videos seem to have taken part in the performance, however, they are just ordinary passers-by. The reality in the window and the display outside of it form an ambiguous, paradoxical and perplexing combination. Whether it is the name brand display windows or the electronic media, they have produced a channel for us to convey our “daily performances.” The living experiences displayed in the shop windows are mere products of imagination; nevertheless, when such imagination becomes pervasive in our life, any living experience seems like a performance. Whether it is a person performing playing games with his daughter by the floor-to-ceiling window at home, or someone selling fish balls via live streaming on Facebook, or a Taiwanese grandpa or grandma taking a nap in a convenient store for the entertainment of pedestrians on the streets.

As if living in virtual reality, we seem to be living our lives in an uncanny world when our perception is not to be trusted: we have constructed a way of perception with the media and examine ourselves through it. When we cannot perceive our real desire, is what we experience simply something simulated by our perception? The longing for a fit physicality mends the lack people experience in reality; the confidence of strutting down the streets when wearing name brands comes from the imagination constructed by those brands; the air conditioners seem much cooler when they are sold via live streaming online; big data can tell you how many slices of ham one eats will cause oil price to rise. Taking a look at our lives, we have been performing other people’s experiments and attempts as they interpret the contemporary life. The imagination and anticipation of life are like an onion with multiple layers. It is like one is looking forward to seeing the hatching of a baby chick when it is another egg that comes out eventually! What is inside the egg baffles all; perhaps, what it contains is only the projection of our own psyche influenced by our situations in the reality. Finally, we will realize that if we want to learn the truth inside the egg, we must create our own prophecies. Therefore, if the reality is the best place to realize these prophecies, we must be ready to welcome an age when everyone is a prophet.

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