尾 流 / Wakeflow
HDV3‘51” 2012

1．“尾流”这一奇怪的字面组合其实是航空界的专有名词。指的是飞机在高空飞行时，由尾部发动机热量与高空冷空气混合后产生的螺旋形雾状结晶气流。
2．山阴路是一条新旧历史混杂的街道，在山阴路的两侧里弄中遍布着破旧失修的老式别墅，而其中许多最具价值的早已经由权力被再次分配。
3．2012年前后，关于边境、岛屿与主权的消息时常出现在新闻中。山阴路的上空也常常可见战机滑过的痕迹。
4．我必须保持足够的真诚与无聊才能够回应这些一闪而过的讯息。

“徐喆用玩具与一些廉价的塑料日用品改装成乐器，再用他们吹奏出走样的乐声。作品《尾流》中的乐器就是一把用塑料漏斗改造的小号，徐喆用它吹出军队的起床号，在城市的角落，漏气的号声孤单落寞，但又唤起了一代人残存的集体主义经验。在徐自拍的影像中，这个爬上凉台高处费力吹出号声的过程有些百无聊赖，但也成为了一次执意的孤独出游，正如展厅中不时奏起的号声，既能让我们无聊，也会给我们增添另一层情感。”

-ON/OFF 画册

“Xu zhe uses cheap toys and plastic items to create an instrument, then uses a mouthpiece to create a sound. The musical instrument in wake flow is a trumpet fashioned from a plastic funnel, which xu uses to play a reveille. The sound of the trumpet floats, deviates, and leaks throughout the exhibition space. Lonely and desolate, it serves to recall the surviving experience of collectivism in his generation. In this video, xu records himself climbing to the top of balcony and strenuously blowing into his instrument . The video ‘s slow pace reveals an intense solitary journey of increasing emotion, as the notes are broadcast over and over. ”---ON/OFF exhibition catalogue