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上海独立艺术空间/驻地 Shanghai Independent Art Space/Residency

林圆 ​Lin Yuan

无题空间第103位驻地艺术家

2023年3月驻地艺术家

林圆

 

No. 103 UИTITLEDSPΛCE Resident Artist

March Resident Artist, 2023

Lin Yuan

 

 关于艺术家 About the Artist 

www.linyuaner.com
我是一个好奇宝宝，我做的作品是我对环境的反应。我骨子里喜欢到处乱走，体验新的感觉。我的媒介是我自己——去一个地方，走路，观察，联想，感受，并与当地的人和非人聊一聊。我喜欢随缘，不计划，事情会自己发生。我的思路没有开端，也不会结束。
我到一个地方会找当地的材料来画画、拓印、做会动的雕塑、声音装置和行为，我希望人们可以触摸我的作品并置身其中。我搞艺术的核心是感受人与人之间的连接——无论快乐、压抑或诡异。我的作品是我在这个世界上存在的证明。我不喜欢精英高雅艺术和观众之间的距离，我认为艺术就在日常生活中，并且就是日常生活。我想通过我的作品分享这种对艺术的看法。其实我的整个人生就是我正努力做的艺术作品。
I am a curious flâneur, and I make site-specific work. The desire to travel and experience new sensations is in my bones. My medium is myself – I go to a place, walk around, observe, draw connections in my head, process feelings, and interact with local people and non-people. My working process is spontaneous. I don’t plan – things unfold. There is no beginning nor end to my train of thought.
I use locally accessible materials to make drawings, impressions, kinetic sculptures, sound installations, and performances, where people can physically touch the work and be in it. The experience of human connection, be it joyful, depressing, or absurd, seems to be able to justify my art-making as well as my existence in this world. I despise the inane distance between the audience and elitist art. I believe art is in everyday life and IS everyday life. I want to share this view about art through my work. And my whole life is the artwork that I have to work on.
 过往作品  Previous Works 

入口 Entrance
金属，纸，还有我唱的歌 
Sound installation with metal, paper, and my singing voice
2017

翻译的本质是分享 The Translation Project
2017
 
我的美国诗人朋友Arlyce写了一首关于爱的英文诗，我们邀请亲朋好友把诗手写翻译成20种语言，再请这些译者找他们的亲朋好友把诗翻回英文。
My American friend Arlyce wrote a poem about love, and we asked our friends and family to translate it into 20 different languages by handwriting. And then we asked the translators to ask their friends and family to “re-translate” the poems back into English.
展示作品时，50余位观众每人拿到一个三层的信封，最外层的信封（左上）是译者和他们献诗对象的名字，第二个信封（右上）列举了原诗单词从不同语言翻回英文后的保留、增加与缺失，最里面的信封是用火漆封上的，我用没有墨水的笔抄写了不同语言的翻译，观众可以摸到字，但是读不了。如果把信封撕破打开，看到的是空白。
For the presentation of the project, I made 50 envelopes, each with two smaller envelopes in it, and gave them to the audience members.  The outermost envelope (top left) is an epigraph composed of the names of translators and their loved ones. The second envelope (top right) includes a chart about the recurring and loss of words in the “re-translations” back into English. The innermost envelope (bottom) is sealed with wax. I copied the translations without ink. People can choose to break the seal or not. They touch the words, instead of being able to read them.
 

给当地人的纪念品 Souvenir Museum
2019
 
保加利亚乡村驻地：把观察刻在石头上、画在卡片上做成纪念品送给当地人。内容包括：主人家教堂门口的容器，冰激凌蛋筒型的垃圾桶、木炭储藏室的小门，村里一年一度的户外表演、鳄鱼形的长凳等。
Gorna Lipnitsa was unlike anywhere I had been before. I really liked it there. So I thought, why not make a museum of souvenirs for the local people as my parting gift? I did drawings and carvings of what I found unique: a jar from the host family’s chapel, trash cans in ice cream cone shapes, doors for charcoal storage, the annual battle play, a crocodile-shaped bench, etc. On the day of the exhibition, I asked the visitors (locals and summer travelers) to each take home a piece of souvenir that they liked.
 

歪楼导游 The Wacky Tour
2022
 
葡萄牙波尔图驻地：带大家参观住宿的房子并发放小广告介绍驻地生活——楼里没有直角、地板是斜的、洗澡间没灯、火柴点煤气，有一天小伙伴爬上屋顶把海鸥宝宝送到爸爸妈妈身边，以及厕所正对马桶的洗手台镜子前看到的是一幅油画里深邃的双眼。
During my residency in Porto, I was introduced to Guruwalk by a fellow resident and attended three walking tours in Portugal. On the day of the open studio, I became a tour guide as well and introduced the visitors to the house we had been living in for a month – a semi-typical house in the center of Porto, roof falling, floors tilting, gas running out, shower with a flashlight, and the best part – a portrait staring at you while you are on the toilet.
 

好奇柜 Curiosity Cabinet
2022
 
拉脱维亚乡村驻地：在山里走的时候，我会拍照、唱歌、在石头上坐下、看书、捡起什么又放下。捡回来荡秋千的宝物包含：充满虫洞的树皮、鹿的骨头、马的下颌骨头、种石头仪式烧木头剩下来的炭、（也许是）当年占领这个村的德国军人的鞋底、疑似露露杏仁露的罐子被重新制作成含气的罐子、旧房子的屋顶碎片、厨房窗台一个木头雕塑头上的花环、长满青苔的树枝、当地一种长得很像鹤的鸟的羽毛、用来磨割石头的刀盘的砖头。
I took a lot of walks during my time in the countryside of west Latvia. During the walks, I would take pictures, sing, take a seat on a rock, read books, and pick up and study objects that I find interesting on the way. The objects that I collected include: leftover wood pieces with wormholes, deer bone in the woods, horse bone on the window sill of the owner’s work hut, charcoal from the wood that we burned for the stone planting ceremony, shoe soles from supposedly German troops who occupied the area, gas can which used to be Chinese almond milk can painted over with black paint, roof material from the old manor house, wreath on Japanese wood Jizo sculpture in the kitchen, branch with fancy mosses, feathers from local birds, brick for grinding stones.
 

展览开幕式石头盛宴 Stone Feast
2022
 
拉脱维亚乡村驻地：用驻地主人和当地人凿石头凿下来的碎片为开幕式特制甜品，主打芝士蛋糕、拿破仑和北海道，饮料是黑莓果汁加草莓奶泡。
During my residency in Pedvāle, the founder Ojars worked daily on stone sculptures in the yard, and there were piles and piles of chiseled rocks on the ground. Connecting this observation with the two formal gallery openings I attended in Latvia, I picked out pieces from the rock piles and prepared a feast for the opening of my end-of-residency exhibition.
 

垃圾游乐园×俄狄浦斯王 Musick for a While
2022
 
意大利山村驻地：让山里捡来的垃圾开个会，唱一首歌召唤神灵。垃圾们包括：打猎用的子弹的弹壳，某种球的碎片，干树皮，罐子铁片，可惜不是古罗马的建筑碎片，羊下颌骨，鹿角，小鸡玩偶，心形叶子。
During the hour-long walks in the mountains, I picked up some very nice trash from the side of the road. I gathered them in my studio and thought maybe they wanted to talk to each other. And one way to have the objects interact is to make kinetic sculptures. At that time I was fascinated by the aria “Musick for a While” from Henry Purcell’s Oedipus (1692), in which priests are summoning ghosts. So I decided to make a puppet theater or circus, or amusement park, where I connect myself with the objects while singing the aria.