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Seeds of the World: Overture

3-screen video installation, color, sound
30mins
2022
Seeds of the World: Overture is a three-screen video installation. The work is based on the Gulangyu Island on the southeastern coast of China, which attempts to rethink relate questions in the context of the Anthropocene. How the island as a sacred land in the ocean, or a mountain in the sea, has become a matrix of re-origination and re-imagination, and how the “seeds of modernity” spread and grow in the flow of the so-called civilized land to the wild island. The three-part video in the work creates a dialogue through the arrangement of images and music. Using industrial technology, exotic plants, and sunbath as narrative clues, through a form of “overture”, it describes the seeds of “modern civilization” in the context of myth, history and present, it carries joy and crisis, like a ghostly voice, in the process of diving into the romantic primitive island at dusk. The aggressiveness from the beginning gradually developed into an ambiguous state, which once again stirred up the separation between nature and civilization, triggering continuous thinking about the relationship between the savage mind and modern civilization.

世界的种子:序曲
三屏影像装置, 彩色, 有声
30分钟
2022
《世界的种子:序曲》是一件三屏影像装置作品。本作品以中国东南沿海的鼓浪屿岛作为背景,试图在人类世的语境下,重新思考岛屿作为海洋中的神圣土地,亦或海中山,如何成为一种有关再次起源与重新想象的母体,以及“现代性的种子”如何在所谓的文明之地向荒野之岛的流动中蔓延与生成。作品中的三部分影像通过图像与音乐的编排产生对话,以工业技术、外来植物、海滩日光浴为线索,通过一种“序曲”的形式,描述了“现代文明”的种子在神话、历史与当下的交织语境中,携带着愉悦与危机,如一个幽灵之音,在黄昏时分潜入浪漫的原始之岛的过程。从伊始的侵略性逐渐发展成暧昧不明的状态,它再次搅动了自然与文明的区隔,触发了关于野性思维与现代文明关系的持续思考。

 

 

                   

               

 

 

 

 

Date: 12月 20, 2022