Back-To-School 停校日

(work in progress) As declining birth rates continue, the number of schools closing each year steadily increases. Yet this social transformation remains largely peripheral to public attention. This long-term photographic project seeks to engage with society through artistic practice by focusing on campuses that have withdrawn from operation. It asks: what constitutes a school? What remains of spatial memory once its institutional function dissolves? Within demographic transition, is the gradual ruination and heterogenization of the campus an inevitable condition? As these sites shift from use to abandonment—occupying an interim state between presence and obsolescence—can the image locate forms of heterotopia within them? Through photography, the project explores whether this transitional phase can render visible the emotional projections and layered memories embedded in these spaces.

(進行中計畫） 少子化後退場學校逐年增加，然此社會現象並未存在大眾眼球，此長期攝影計畫期望透過藝術參與 社會，對退場校園空間所進行攝影計畫，並思考與實踐何謂校園、何謂空間記憶？校園的廢墟化 與異質化在人口結構的轉型之中是否為必然？在轉變為廢墟的過渡狀態中，透過影像，我們能不能在校園空間中找尋異托邦、並將此階段性狀態再現人們的情感投射與空間記憶？