《索多瑪之夜》以十八世紀末薩德侯爵所著的《索多瑪120天》為靈感發想來源。
它並非再現書中故事或場景，而是以虛構的事件為敘事框架，重啟對當代性的思考；它包含視覺裝置作品與新媒體科技動態演出，兩個部分的主題相互呼應疊加，形成一個對文明困境與死亡昇華的大型跨域創作。
薩德推崇「自然」，認為「自然」就是宇宙萬物不斷生成與破壞的循環，這個巨大運動本身亦就是「惡」。《索多瑪120天》用百科全書般的筆法建構以「惡」為中心的假想體制，不只批判了人類社會中所遵循的的正常建制與規訓，也持續地逾越所有已知界限的思想實驗。
《索多瑪之夜》的動態演出以一個少年謀殺事件為主軸，共切分五個片段：「物的宇宙」、「殺人狂」、「憂鬱」、「解剖學」與「幽靈」。如同薩德將情色、變態、殘虐等，拆解為位置與動作的無盡組合。作品透過數位自動控制，將當代精神上的分裂、騷亂與生存的曖昧情境轉化為聲光影像、機械運動、體感偵測和鐳射光互動等元素的調度，呈現高度的象徵與隱喻。視覺裝置的部分，則以「憂鬱/少年」為主軸，展場中央矗立一座巨大絨毛漂浮裝置，另有環繞牆面四周的平面作品，以偽百科全書的方式開展，不同單字對應的拼貼圖像，與動態演出在主題上相互呼應。
《索多瑪之夜》作為一個科技互動視覺裝置創作，讓觀眾體驗介於敘事文本、新媒體視覺與劇場情境的嶄新經驗，並進一步思索當代科技對生命與感知的操控。它是否重新挖掘萬物間不可見的幽微關係？還是朝向更為徹底的毀滅？
The Night of Sodom takes its inspiration from Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom. Instead of reenacting the scenes in the novel, the exhibition uses the events of a fictional murder as a narrative frame to reconsider ‘contemporaneity’. A dynamic installation and new media performance echo and intensify the exhibition theme, constructing a large-scale, multidisciplinary work that deals with the plight of civilization and sublimation of death.
Marquis de Sade lauded nature for its evil and unending cycle of creation and destruction. In The 120 Days of Sodom, Sade created a hypothetical and encyclopedic system of evil that criticized society’s norms and rules, and continually went beyond the limits of all known experimental ideologies.
The performance component of the exhibition revolves around the murder of a teenager, and is divided into five sections: The Universe of Things, Homicidal Maniac, Depression, Gross Anatomy, and apparition. The intention is to identify elements, much like Sade did eroticism, perversion, and cruelty, and deploy them in various configuration with regard to position or action. The artwork is computer automated, interactive, and relates ambiguous situations, fissures and disturbances in contemporary life to video, mechanical movements, body detection devices, and lasers in a symbolic manner. The theme for the installation component of the exhibition is titled Depression/Teenager. Feathers float in the center of the installation, which are surrounded by two dimensional artworks on the venue’s four walls. Organized using an encyclopedic concept, different elements corresponding to words comes together to form these images, and build relationships between the exhibition themes.
The Night of Sodom is a new media, interactive installation. Through narrative content, new media visual effects and theatricality, the audience explores completely new experiences of how technology manipulates our lives and perceptions. But can technology reveal subtle and never before seen relationships among things, or will it lead us farther on our path to utter destruction?