基因髮廊的紅房子
Genetic Salon - Red Room

《基因髮廊的紅房子》呈現一段半虛構的千年歷史，從2018年第一個基因編輯人類嬰兒的誕生，到2020年全球新冠肺炎大流行，再到3018年基因髮廊的誕生。

這段歷史通過短片、文本，現成物和雕塑的展示，揭開基因髮廊牽涉的歷史事件和局勢，當中包含發生過和可能發生的歷史情景，它們如何觸發了這個未來的誕生。

展場正在醞釀著危險、緊迫和暫時的氣氛。 這個房間裡的展品滿是灰塵，有些已經支離破碎。 當投影儀大多時間不在運作，觀眾需要用手電筒上體驗，房間瞬時變成考古遺址； 當投影儀播放視頻時，房間立即變成放映室。

(展場的錄像乃是《基因髮廊－等候室》的短片)

In a dark and red room, a corner of a particular forgotten history can be found: a span of historical events stretching from the first gene-edited human babies in China in 2018 and a global pandemic in 2020, until the birth of Genetic Salon a thousand years later. This history celebrates human genetic engineering as the core of the interpretation of the history through a display of video works, text and archival objects.

However, it appears that shortly afterwards the Genetic Salon closed down and this historical narrative was forgotten.

The exhibits in this room are dusty, and some of them become fragmented. The projector mostly reflects a red screen, does the projector get broken?

(The video in the installation was the excerpt from “Genetic Salon-waiting room”)

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