The Other Symmetries of an Absence
屏镜两侧的被消失者
No confinement is ever dignified. And each seclusion is the calcification of suspicions between a state and its people; A mineralised distrust that turns itself into boundaries and borders and margins and walls of containment.
The Other Symmetries of an Absence is a two player installation, written to ponder such confinement.
Created to lament the detentions of authors, poets, students, professors, reporters, lawyers and activists in my country (India), the game is a modest attempt at finding solace in the promise of companionship, while contemplating the violent cost of withdrawing bodies from public spaces and imaginations.
After all to bind a body in confinement is to bind it to the most limited definition of itself; It is to turn the project of citizenship into a pantomime of such bodies that are devoid of landscapes and devoid of society. Until the world at large is dotted by the singular absences of people who have been violently withdrawn, leaving only a reflection of their presence in our lives.
拘禁剥夺尊严。封闭会固化国家与人民之间的猜疑，而固化的不信任则会自我转化为局限重重的的边界与高墙。
《屏镜两侧的被消失者》是一个探讨此类拘禁的双人游戏。
我们扼腕于我国（印度）羁押各类作家、诗人、学生、教授、记者、律师和活动家的行为，因此创作了本游戏。游戏通过一些微末的尝试，试图在友谊带来的希望中寻求慰藉，同时深入思考了将人身从公共空间和想象力中剔除所要付出的惨烈代价。
毕竟，将人身拘于一处意味着将其拘于人最局限的定义中；将人身隔绝在自然与社会之外则等同于将其公民权利转变成一幕哑剧。待到最后，世界上会遍布这些人被强行消失后残存的独一无二的空洞，只给我们留下他们存在过的倒影。
Credits :
Simplified Chinese localization by Echoriver Translators.
Displayed at :
The Final Prophet at the Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival : 26.12.2020 to 26.01.2021 & curated by Iris Long.