Toilet Consciousness / 廁意識

 《廁意識》（Toilet Consciousness）是一件以建築研究為基礎的VR沉浸式作品，探索當代「廁所」作為生理需求、資訊沉溺與身分政治交織之場域的多重性。藝術家曾為公部門進行廁所調查研究，蒐集學校與商場等空間案例，並轉化為虛構場景，使廁所成為觀眾身分流動與社會結構省思的場地。

作品設計以一個對稱分隔的舞台為起點，觀眾在性別明確的廁所之間進入，透過鏡面設計模糊了主體界線。當馬桶沖水聲響起，觀眾被「沖」入虛構空間，依序進入長者、跨性別、身心障礙者等虛擬廁所場景，甚至包括動物或網路角色，並在每個場域中體驗不同身體如何與空間互動。

在體驗過程中，觀眾的主體感與認同不斷轉變——從男性到女性，從健全到身障，從現實到虛擬。這樣的角色流動呼應傅柯對「異托邦」的想像，以及巴特勒對身體表演性的討論：空間與身體彼此規訓、交纏。觀眾在如廁的最私密時刻，被迫直視自己的身份、權力與知覺界線。

如Wendy Chun所言，我們的感知空間早已被資訊與可程式化視覺重塑。廁所，這個原應功能單純的場域，如今也成為社群媒體的交匯點與價值觀碰撞的戰場。

最終觀眾回到原點，彷彿經歷了一場關於身份、排泄與意識流的循環旅程。作品不給答案，而是留下一道懸問：在這樣一個空間裡，我們究竟是誰，又成為了什麼？

Toilet Consciousness is a VR immersive artwork grounded in architectural research. Based on the artist’s fieldwork on public restrooms across schools and commercial spaces in Taiwan, the project reimagines the toilet as a site of bodily need, identity politics, and digital immersion.

The experience begins in a spatially symmetrical stage divided by gender. A central mirror subtly dissolves fixed roles, allowing the viewer’s reflection to inhabit both sides. When the toilet flushes, the viewer is metaphorically drawn into a series of surreal restroom spaces—each representing marginalized identities: the elderly, transgender, disabled, even animals and avatars. Within each, the viewer momentarily "becomes" that subject, encountering space anew.

The journey enacts a constant shift in identity—from male to female, abled to disabled, physical to digital—mirroring Foucault’s notion of heterotopia and Judith Butler’s theory of performativity. These toilets do not merely serve function; they discipline, reflect, and expose the self. As Wendy Chun suggests, even our most mundane spaces have become programmable, saturated with mediated vision and ideological friction.

Ultimately, the viewer returns to the stage transformed—no longer fixed, but diffused. The work offers no closure, only a question suspended in silence:
In this space of reflection and release, who have we become?

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S1

我是誰？我為何來到這裡？

Who am I? Why have I come here?

他們……又是誰？

And who… are they?

這是我的身體嗎？看起來有些陌生，又好像很熟悉。

Is this my body? It feels unfamiliar—yet strangely familiar.

那是我嗎？這個……也是我。

Is that me? And this… also me?

他、她、牠、祂……各種身分與資訊在瞬間湧現。

He, she, it, They… identities and data erupt all at once.

這裡是我身體的出口，也是我思緒的入口。

This is the exit of my body, and the entrance of my thoughts.

我開始沈落，一點一滴，無聲無息……

I begin to descend—slowly, silently, without a trace…

S2

廁所作為滿足生理需求的必要場所，如今已在人類社會中成為了資訊以及意識形態的聚集地。

The restroom, once a necessary space to fulfill physiological needs, has now become a gathering place for information and ideology in human society.

而我們在這裡排放生理上的廢棄物，以及資訊上的廢棄物。

And here, we dispose of both physiological waste and informational waste.

廁所，隨即成為了新型態的資訊匯集地；意識形態的戰場、社群媒體的實體交會點以及各種氣味的交集地。

The restroom has quickly become a new hub for information; a battlefield for ideologies, a physical intersection of social media, and a convergence point for various scents.

而我們沉浸在其中，難以自拔。

And we are immersed in it, unable to extricate ourselves.

S3

我們在以管窺天；以有限窺視無限

We are trying to view the vast sky through a small pipe; attempting to limit human behavior with limited knowledge.

作為人類基本生存需求的廁所，也變得無比複雜

The toilet, once a basic human necessity, has become incredibly complex.

在年齡、生理、心理、性別、動物之間不斷輪轉

It constantly shifts between age, physiology, psychology, gender, and even the animalistic realm.

最後成為了我們意識形態的牢籠

In the end, it becomes a cage of our ideology.

我們到底得到了甚麼?

What, then, have we truly gained?

我們到底成為了甚麼?

What, then, have we truly become?

S4

我是誰？我為何來到這裡？

Who am I? Why have I come here?

我們的身體在轉化，每一次凝視都無法定義。

Our bodies are shifting—each gaze unable to define us.

我也是他們嗎？還是我們都還在成形之中？

Am I one of them? Or are we all still taking shape?

我們緩緩升起，像一場等待命名的意識。

We rise slowly, like a consciousness awaiting its name.

在那懸空的巨石之上，意識形態之劍指向尚未決定的未來。

Above the suspended stone, the blade of ideology points toward a future yet to be decided.

NOP

廁所，一個滿足生理需求及意識形態的場所。

The restroom—a space that meets our basic bodily needs while also reflecting the ideology in human society.

NED

廁所，一個新型態的資訊匯集地、社群媒體的實體交會點。

The restroom—a new kind of information hub, a physical intersection of social media.