过去几年间，一度看似淡化的政治边界又逐渐地浮出，人们在世界各地用各种方式修筑边界，无论是透过国族的号召、法规的修订或是实体的墙面。而这次展览就是对这样状态的一种思考和回应。

和展览名称相同的作品“筑墙练习”是一件现地制作的装置，我建造了低矮的薄水泥墙，一比一地在展场中构建了台北景美看守所这个政治监狱的会客室平面图。观众可以在空间中随时跨越这件作品，但也可能因为疏失而被墙面绊倒。藉由这种状态，我想回应戒严时期人们与政治权力共处的关系。其他在空间中的作品，透过将象征政治权力的紧急警报声与大鼓鼓谱转换成物件，以及对日常政治礼仪场域的变体，来探索权力主体如何以声音和集体意识在生活中创造无形的界线，规训彼此生活的样貌。

录像厅中的影像装置作品“沿海录音（一个取代蜂鸣警报的声音提案）”，则是一个我与友人共同在一座政治监狱小岛上进行录音的影像纪录：希望记录下这座岛屿的日常声音——海浪、风雨与虫鸣鸟叫——这些过去被监禁者在无比漫长的时间中日复一日的声音记忆。这个录音是一则用来取代警报声的提案，希望这些声音能成为历史的一部分，并取代旧有的权力象征，提出一种新的边界的可能。

In the past few years, the once seemingly faded political boundary began to emerge again. People have built boundaries in various ways around the world, whether they embody in the appeal of nations or ethnic groups, the revision of regulations or the physical wall. This exhibition is a reflection and response to such situation.

The work “Mending Wall, A Practice” which shares the same name with this exhibition is a fabrication on site. The artist builts a low thin cement wall as well as the reception room of the political prison in Taipei Jingmei Detention Center the same size of its original plan.  The audience can pass through the interior space  at any time, but they are likely to be tripped over by the wall-face by accident. This kind of situation is a response to the relationship between people and political power during the period of Martial Law. Other works on the spot explore how power corpus create invisible lines in daily life with voice and collective consciousness in a bid to discipline each other’s life through the objects transformed by the emergency warning sounds and drums that symbolize political power.

The video installation in the hall “Sound Recording Along the Seashore (A Proposal For Replacement of the Emergency Alarm)” shows the video of the artist and his friend recording on a political prison island: the artist takes down the common voices of the island —— of waves, wind, rain, insects and birds——the voice notes of those who have been imprisoned in the past for a long time. This recording is a proposal to replace the alarm. The artist hopes that these sounds can become part of history and replace the former symbol of power in the efforts to propose the possibility of a new boundary.