《我身體就是空污監測站》源自一場公聽會，災民處於無政府保護與被犧牲狀態，就像實驗室白鼠以肉身印證環境污染，取代無力監測的空污數值。

此「反美學」之藝術展，既是環境污染展覽，也可視為環保宣傳展覽，或是環保抗爭影像展覽。林泰州借用石化工業煉油「裂解」（Cracking）製程術語延伸於創作中，暗喻石化工業將人與環境造成質變並撕裂為碎片，災民與政府、廠方對立與溝通斷裂，體現其分化、衝突與矛盾本質。藝術家在影片中實踐「裂解剪接」，呼應俄國導演艾森斯坦（Sergei Eisenstein）提出的撞擊蒙太奇（Collision Montage）將兩個不同畫面剪接在一起產生新的概念與意義，也呈現「第三電影」（社會運動電影）的影片語法，在紀錄事件中做裂解的影像處理。 

My Body is an Air Quality Monitoring Station began with a public hearing where victims exist as sacrificial lambs without governmental protection, like laboratory mice using their bodies as evidence of environmental pollution in the place of the ineffective monitoring of the air pollution index.   

This “anti-aesthetic” art exhibition is also an exhibition of air pollution, and may be regarded as a promotional exhibition on environmental protection, or an exhibition of images of environmental protest. LIN Tay-Jou references and extends the petrochemical industry jargon for the refining “cracking” process in his work with the implication that the petrochemical industry has qualitatively altered the environment and human beings and caused it to fissure and fragment. Confrontations and the breakdown of communications between the victims versus government and industry are physical expressions of the nature of this polarization, conflict, and contradiction.  The artist’s practice of split edits in the film responds to the Collision Montage suggested by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein – constructing a new concept and significance by juxtaposing two disparate images, while also presenting the film grammar of the Third Cinema (social activism film), using a dialectical system of jumps, breaks and irrationality to “split process images within a documented event”.

林泰州 LIN Tay-Jou

英國愛丁堡 Napier大學影視製作碩士，現於國立雲林科技大學視傳系任教的林泰州近年投身環境影像記錄與創作，視記錄影像為公民監督國家機器的儀器。曾獲威尼斯影展未來電影協會首部長片獎、上海電視節亞洲紀錄片白玉蘭獎、台北美術獎優選獎。2015年投入環保運動，組成「PM2.5影像行動小組」，2016年與雲嘉南影像工作者進行《脫口罩•找藍天》影像行動計劃。

With a Masters degree in Film and Television Production from Napier University in Edinburgh, UK, LIN Tay-Jou is currently a university instructor. He has devoted himself in recent years to the documentary and production of environmental images, and regards documentary images as an instrument of the citizenry for supervising the state. He is a recipient of prestigious accolades including selection by the Venice Film Festival New Territories category, the Shanghai Television Festival Magnolia Award for Best Asian Documentary, and Taipei Art Awards Honorable Mention. He has been engaged in environmental activism since 2015, with the formation of the PM2.5 Action Group, and was involved with in the video activism project entitled Take off the Hygiene Mask • Seek Out Blue Skies with image workers in the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area.

PM2.5影像小組PM2.5 Action Group

始於2015年由林泰州與馮偉中、蔡崇隆、李孟哲組成。此次北美館林泰州《我身體就是空污監測站》個展，三位導演協助部分空拍與企劃。

The PM2.5 Action Group is a project began in 2015, driven by LIN Tay-Jou with directors Jimmy FENG, TSAI Tsung-lung and MJ LEE. The three directors assisted in aerial photography and planning for the exhibition of the My Body is an Air Quality Monitoring Station at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.