A Practice of Intimacy Relationships No.2
親密關係的練習，貳
2024 | 親密關係的練習，貳 A Practice of Intimacy Relationships No.2 | WU PIN-YU
媒材 | 3D列印 / 動力元件 / 影片
Media | 3D Printing / Power components / Videos
*Received a subsidy from the National Culture and Arts Foundation*
*〈親密關係的練習，貳〉獲 2023 年國藝會創作補助*
This creative project is a continuation of the work "A Practice of Intimate Relationships". It starts from the fictional year 2200 AD and consists of a preliminary workshop and four fantasy objects.
Imagine a future where revealing intimate relationships no longer exist, and in this society, too many psychological problems have caused social costs to be unbearable. Scholars point out that the disappearance of revealing intimate relationships and the indirect loneliness, lack of trust, alienation and other phenomena are the key to the problem. The future government and scientists start to study how to regain this ability.
The work explores this phenomenon by speculating on a series of future "intimate contact machines". These machines can engage in non-sexual intimate contact with humans and stimulate the secretion of a large amount of oxytocin. It is hoped that people can communicate in a more relaxed and trusting manner before establishing physical relationships, so that spiritual communication can once again return to an important position. In addition, the "intimate contact machine" also promotes the standardization of intimate behaviors, meets the requirements for the speed of relationship formation in the future, and also reduces the frustration and rejection that people feel because of possible failures and the need to re-establish understanding.
Through future fantasy and object production, the work not only explores intimate relationships, but also hopes to arouse more thinking about existing social concepts such as family, patriarchy, and parenthood, as well as the possibility of intimate human-computer interaction. It is hoped that in the chaotic social atmosphere, it can help people find out their position or direction in complex social relations.
本創作計畫延續作品〈親密關係的練習〉，虛構西元 2200 年時，親密關係的維持出發，以前導工作坊與四樣幻想物件構成。
想像一個未來，揭露式親密關係不復存在，而在這個社會中，過多的心理問題，造成社會成 本已不堪負荷。學者指出，揭露式親密關係的消失，間接造成的孤獨、缺乏信任、疏離等現 象，是形成問題的關鍵，未來政府與科學家，著手研究如何使這項能力失而復得。
作品藉由推測一系列未來的「親密接觸機器」，來探討這個現象。這些機器可以與人類進行 非性行為的親密接觸，刺激大量催產素分泌，希望人們在尚未建立肢體關係前，就可以以更 放鬆、信任的方式交流，使心靈層面的溝通，再度回到重要位置。除此之外，「親密接觸機器」也促進了親密行為的標準化，符合未來對關係形成速度的要求，也降低人們因為可能的失敗，需要重新建立默契，而感到的挫折與排斥。
作品藉由未來幻想與物件產出，探討親密關係外，更希望藉以引起更多對家庭、父權、親職 等現有的社會既定概念的思考，以及人機親密互動的可能。希望在紛亂的社會氛圍中，幫助 人們找出自己在複雜社會關係中的定位或方向。
◥The Infatuation Stage in Human Relationships
The infatuation stage is a stage in human intimacy where both parties are immersed in a romantic atmosphere and want to be with each other all the time. According to the love triangle proposed by Sternberg, love is divided into passion, intimacy and commitment. The love period is the peak period of "passion". The length of The infatuation stage varies, and can last from about two months to a year. During this period, people often have unrealistic and perfect imaginations about the other person and regard the other person as the perfect life partner.
◥The Maintenance of Infatuation Stage
Therefore, during the infatuation stage, people can ignore many problems in reality through unlimited intimacy and fantasy, which becomes a way to maintain intimate relationships. This work refers to the results of the workshop and develops four types of intimacy practice machines to help people create and get used to romantic feelings in order to extend the time of passionate love. They are the finger-clasping fixture, the sexy posture practice fixture, the conversation practice machine, and the romantic spinner. People who practice properly can earn the Good Lover certification, marking a qualified human being fit to be a companion.
◥人類關係中的熱戀期
熱戀期是人類親密關係中的一個階段，雙方沉浸於浪漫氣氛中，無時無刻都想跟對方待在一起。根據 Sternberg 提出的愛情三角論，把愛情分成熱情、親密和承諾，熱戀期即為「熱情」的巔峰時期。熱戀期的時間長短不一，大約可以維持兩個月到一年之久，在這個期間，人們對對方常有不務實的完美想像，視對方為完美的人生伴侶。
◥熱戀期的維持
因此，在熱戀期間，人們可以藉由無限的親暱和幻想，來忽略現實中的許多問題，成為親密關係維持的一種方法。此作品參考工作坊的結果，發展四種親密關係練習機器，來幫助人們製造、習慣浪漫的感受，以延長熱戀的時間，分別為十指緊扣治具、性感姿勢練習治具、對話練習機、浪漫迴旋機。經過適當練習的人們，即可獲得 Good Lover 認證標章，標記適合成為伴侶的合格人類。
◥<A Practice of Intimate Relationships No.2>— Ideal Partner Workshop
In the early stages of this project, through workshops and post-human imagination as a medium, a contemporary concept of intimacy was constructed and used as a reference for the development of the work. The conceptual flow chart of the workshop is as follows,
There are three purposes of the workshop. The first is to collect participants’ thoughts on intimate relationships, and by comparing the differences between reality and ideals, we can observe people’s unsatisfied areas and potential needs. The second is to expand the aspect of the work, through the participants' fantasies, to observe more imaginations about the functions of the human body, and the desires and social functions that may be hidden behind these imaginations. Third, in order to help participants find their own position, shifting from the imagination of an ideal intimate partner to the imagination of ourselves. In this process, we can reflect on why we need such a partner and what such a partner can bring. What kind of help do we have, how do we interact with our partners, etc., we shift from expectations for external conditions to examining why we need such expectations, and find our own role and positioning in the relationship.
◥ <親密關係的練習，貳> — 理想伴侶工作坊
本計畫初期，藉由工作坊，以後人類想像為媒介，建構一個當代親密關係概念之樣貌，並作為作品發展之參考。工作坊概念流程圖如下：
工作坊目的有三。一為蒐集參與者對親密關係的想法，並藉由比較現實與理想的差異，去觀察人們無法滿足的地方與潛在的需求。二為擴增作品的面向，藉由參與者的幻想，去觀察更多對於人體功能的想像，與這些想像的背後，可能隱藏的慾望與社會功能。三為幫助參與者找尋自身定位，第三個環節必須從對理想親密伴侶的想像，轉為對自身的想像，這樣的過程中，我們可以反思自己為何需要這樣的伴侶、這樣的伴侶可以帶給自己什麼幫助，我們又如何與伴侶產生互動等，從對外在條件的期待，轉而檢視自身為何需要這樣的期待，找尋自己在關係中的角色與定位。
