泉 Fountain
手臂模型、电子控制喷水系统
Hand Model, Sensor-Controlled Spray System
36 x 10 x 10 cm
是一件感应式的雕塑装置，名称似可关联到杜尚使用小便池现成物的〈喷泉〉。卢征远过去也曾针对这个艺术史的案例指出：「技法是制造真正艺术的重要因素，而创作〈喷泉〉这件作品则几乎不需要技法。〈喷泉〉让我们接触到原始对象，它仍然是原始对象，但也以转化的哲学与形上学状态存在着。它展现了康德式的崇高：它是一件超越形式的艺术品，但也是可理解的；它摧毁了一个概念，但同时也让概念更强烈地出现。」但是在他自己的〈泉〉这件作品中，卢征远并非只有「动脑」或「动口」，而是真正地「动手」，他将时下感应式洗手台「伸手，水就会出来」的机制转换成一个幽默的艺术概念和互动的艺术作品——他使水龙头隐藏消失，然后让手本身演出感应和出水的连续动作，运用这种裁切、嫁接手法，艺术家让这只指示性的手，同时扮演了指挥者和被操控者的双重角色。
The Fountain is an interactive sculptural installation. Its title is reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, which the artist made with a readymade urinal. Lu Zheng-yuan has talked about this instance in art history, “technique is a crucial element in making real art. However, the creation of Fountain almost did not require any techniques. Fountain allowed us to come into contact with an original object. It is still an original object, but it simultaneously exists in a philosophical and metaphysical state; it displays the Kantian idea of the sublime; it is an artwork that transcends artistic form, but remains comprehensible; it destroys a concept, but more strongly embodies the concept at the same time.” Nevertheless, when he made The Fountain, Lu did not simply “use his brain” or “use his mouth,” but rather “use a real hand.” He took a modern sensory hand-washing fountain with its mechanical notion of “reach out your hands, and the water comes out,” and converted it into an interactive artwork with a humorous concept—he removed the standard water faucet and turned the hand into a sensor as well as a faucet. Using such an approach of removal and recombination, Lu enabled the pointing hand to simultaneously perform a dual role of the directing and the directed.