Horologe, 2013
钟
site-specific installation
steel nails, fishing threads, broken electricity supplier (found), smashed blue mirror (found)
dimensions variable
dimensions variable
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The marks on the wall as a result of the flaking off of the paint resembles but inaccurately the sundial in ancient times, where time is not engraved into even graduations, but instead, the shadow it casts manifests and rotates on a plane (the dial).
This map of time expands its territory in the course of enduring external force as time elapses. While I tried to record this territory of time with a bundle of nails, I had to apply force on it, thus sometimes I changed the territories of this map unintentionally. The twists and turns of its unnatural territory bear memories of happenings (of force and tension) in this once private room from time past – laughing, shrieking, scolding, quaking…as far as I know of a small room crammed with an atom (family). The room has been evacuated (for demolition), but is it, or is that wall burdened with all the memories appeased? These "memories" scattered on the plane/wall, now, by converging on the deserted, broken power bar, travel through the three-dimensional space under the pulling force of transparent threads and thereby become unavoidable. They then fled from the room in pieces of broken blue mirror. The threads shimmered in the wandering light. The empathy with the body of the room occurred while I contemplated the swaying tree shadows cast through the pane-less window-frame onto that wall, chorusing with the summer breeze. This work starts from that calling for consolation, for a ritual of recalling, appeasing and letting go. My attempt to document the territory of personal time/memories of this room with a bundle of nails and a hammer, revived my own memories of the familial rooms I lived in. Nine days of nonstop knitting and unknotting, hammer after hammer, thread after thread, I went through a ritual of appeasing and letting go of unsettling memories I myself was burdened with. The body of my memories stayed with the body of the room, which was soon to melt into air in demolition. |
墙皮剥落留下的印记，使人想到古时的日晷：它不以均匀的刻度分配时间，而只是显示出时间在平面上的投影。
这份时间的地图，随着时间自身的增长、因受外力而扩张版图。在我试图用钉子记录下这版图时，也成为了施力者，并偶尔无意间再度改变了它的疆界。 墙皮剥落处转折最为尖锐、明显或是重要的位置（时间点），记录着许多这里过去的私人“事件”（力的发生）。分布于平面的时间点回到（已是公共的）空间中并汇聚起来，令人无法回避。它们落在转换机般的旧物上（从电到铃声），再以蓝色反光碎片的形式流走，如同建筑本身的命运。 在九天不间断的打结、解结、扯线与敲击中，我完成了一场对回忆中童年家庭房间里那些暴力时刻的和解仪式。 artist writing:
钟：时间的投影 水（边）路：蓝色不准 |
Unfinished Book | Pan Li × Gao Yuan
Space Regeneration Project: Jianshan Project #3
24 Aug 2013 - when the building was demolished
No. 5 Shengli Building, Hong Guang Li, Hexi District, Tianjin
Space Regeneration Project: Jianshan Project #3
24 Aug 2013 - when the building was demolished
No. 5 Shengli Building, Hong Guang Li, Hexi District, Tianjin