A friend of mine who was studying in Newcastle recently had a staged pop-up show. After I communicated with him, he agreed with me to experiment with some sound. I think this is a good opportunity to experiment in a real place, and the audience is visiting the painting in a real space and hearing the sound at the same time.
His paintings are also relatively abstract paintings. The paintings I used in intervention 2 are his works as well.
After intervention 4, I thought that sound and painting are different media for expressing emotions. If they are used as different media to express the same emotion, even if there is no direct correspondence between the content they express (for example, the sound in my intervention 2 is mainly description The content of the painting), can it better convey the information?
- So the first thing I need to do is understand what the artist wants to convey in this series of artworks. He said:” The name of my series of works is ‘This Is What We Have Gone Through’. Before the pandemic improved, I came to a strange city alone as an international student. I have experienced a long time with myself, and I often feel very lonely. In this series of works, I ,as a recorder, use an artistic perspective to record the pandemic that I have experienced. What I saw, what I thought, and what I felt. The epidemic has changed the trajectory of many people’s lives, and I hope my works can also bring some thoughts to the audience.”
- Based on the interview with him and his paintings, I try to create the sound of ‘Lonely, wrapped and alienated’.
3. Testing the sound in the exhibition hall.
