Gonna Salvage You Each Time!

鋪鋪打救您！

Gonna Salvage You Each Time! / 鋪鋪打救您！

Video Game / Video Installation 電子遊戲 / 錄像裝置

2018

Did your parents ever smack you in order to save you? Have you heard of this proverb, “Whoever spares the rod hates their children?” In tears, parents smack their children in order to teach them valuable lessons. Imagine the pain they have to go through in order to do so! Ouch! it is painful for all, but loving smacks build great character. You play video games, and your parents will come and salvage you! Smacks after smacks with all their strength, they are going to salvage you! Let’s game! You will be part of a game of your parents saving you… From video games!

Playing video games is often regarded as entertainment and a waste of time. How can we discuss its values and meanings? Many people seem to share this view. Maybe that’s why people want to assign meanings to game playing, and to affirm its benefits and functions. With this work, I’m hoping you’ll indulge in and discover the fun within playing. Perhaps we could come up with new modes of discussion and perspectives to the value and meaning of playing video games? But games by nature are supposed to be something good. The mere fact of being fun-filled makes games a necessary human experience. Spending time for fun isn’t a waste, is it?

您爸媽有打救過您嗎？總之爸媽懷住初心，就無錯！爸媽含淚打救千萬兒女，幾十億人怎能不為爸媽苦心垂淚？好鬼很痛！烈愛千斤重，公義更是浪重重。您打機！爸媽打救您！鋪鋪！全力！打救您！一齊打機，打爸媽打救您打機！

打機玩樂都被人等同娛樂、浪費時間，我們可怎樣討論它的價值意義呢？很多人似乎都有這個想法，其實這正解釋了為何人們都想為遊戲附加意義，來認定它的好處和作用。我今次的作品以電玩的遊戲目標作為主題，希望你投入去玩和發現當中的玩味，為打機的價值意義帶來新的討論模式和觀點！其實遊戲這活動本身是好東西，純粹好玩已經是一種人類必需的經驗狀態，大家花點時間愉快地耍玩不等同浪費吧？

Exhibited at Sparkle! A Good Waste of Time (Oi!, Hong Kong)

展於 火花！耍樂是青年 (油街實現，香港)