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南溟 The southern abyss

南溟 The southern abyss

09'56'' · 2017年 · 4K彩色单频动画 · 这个命名为《南溟》的作品串联了“沧海桑田”、“精卫填海”、“愚公移山”、“鲲鹏变化”等数段中国神话,这段录像可以看作是汤南南为“不息”表演所提供的另一种视觉脚本。“北溟”是巨大的神鱼寄居之海,神鱼化作大鹏鸟,飞往“南溟”。“南溟”是理想国,是资源问题和身份问题最终得以消融的场域。为了达到“南溟”,我们自己要先完成脱胎换骨的转化。作者用南方的木棉树树皮构造了场景中的山,用剥下的相思树充当海水,因为他深信,植物中藏着基因,植物是这一切变化的见证者。 09'56'' · 2017 · Stop motion animation · The Southern Under World combines several Chinese mythological tales:“Vicissitudes of Time”,“Jingwei Tries to Fill the Sea”,“The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains”,“Change of Kun and Peng”,and so on. This video can be regarded as a different version of visual script that Tang Nannan has devised for the performance Continuum. The Northern Underworld is a shelter for a large divine fish who changes to Da Peng and files to the Southern Underworld. The Southern Underworld is an ideal land where the problem of recources and the identity issue are eventually dispelled. In order to reach the Southern Underworld we have to completely transform ourselves. The artist creates mountains with bombax bark, and creates seawaters with barked acacia, out of his conviction that plants store historical heritage inside, which are illustrative of all changes.
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