Action Stations

This work was produced in a collaboration exhibition with Mark Freeman as part of the peer reviewed funded Linden Center for Contemporary Arts Innovators program. The exhibition consisted of multiple works made indepentently by myself and Mark Freeman for display as a composite installation.The works, as part of the Linden Innovators program, realtes to the field of research into the role of gestural abastraction as it may be interpreted in contemporary times. It was exhibited in an exhibition with 4 other chosen artists, all of whom have a long history of being engaged in a dialogue, about how painterly and sculptural genres and concerns of the past mutate into conversations about their relevance and importance in examining the role of art in the contemporary world. The works made sought to use commonplace objects, assemblage process' and sound to explore how the conceptual and existential concerns of the Abstract Exprssionists (AE) several decades ago may be relocated and reappraised in the complex mediated environment of 21st century. The CD soundtrack , which I am responsible for, used the sound of a bird aviary gradually being transformed in to the chatter of electonic machine noise. A relevant exhibition internationally is Abstract Expressionism in the 21st Century which was curated by Helen Harrison, Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. This exhibition in Sept 2011 put together both historical and leadiing contemporary practioners of AE in order to explore the key questions Mark and I were addresing. "Action Stations" sought to add to this research question and body of knowledge. 1/ Is Abstract Expressionism more than merely an historical syle and how may its intrinsic existential values be re-presented in 3D and sonic forms now? A catalogue essay, commisioned by the Center, wriiten by Miles Allison accompanied the exhibition. http://www.lindenarts.org/media/9137/innovators1catalogue2012.pdf本作品为我与马克·弗里曼（Mark Freeman）合作展览的产出成果，该展览隶属于经同行评审并获得资助的林登当代艺术创新者项目（Linden Center for Contemporary Arts Innovators Program）。本次展览包含我与马克·弗里曼各自独立创作的多件作品，以复合装置艺术的形式进行展示。 作为林登当代艺术创新者项目的组成部分，这些作品聚焦于当代语境下对手势抽象主义（gestural abstraction）内涵的研究领域。本次展览与另外四位入选艺术家的作品一同展出，这些艺术家长期致力于探讨相关议题：过往的绘画与雕塑流派及其核心关切，如何演变为当下关于其在审视当代艺术价值与意义时的相关讨论。 本次创作尝试运用日常物件、拼贴装配创作手法与声音媒介，探究数十年前抽象表现主义（Abstract Expressionism）创作者的概念与存在主义关切，如何在21世纪复杂的中介化环境中被重新定位与再评估。本人负责的CD原声配乐，以鸟舍的鸟鸣声为基底，将其逐步转化为电子机器噪音的嘈杂声响。 一场具有参考价值的国际展览为《21世纪的抽象表现主义》，该展览由波洛克-克拉斯纳故居与研究中心（Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center）主任海伦·哈里森（Helen Harrison）策划。该展览于2011年9月举办，汇集了抽象表现主义（Abstract Expressionism，简称AE）的历史创作者与当代顶尖从业者，以探讨我与马克·弗里曼所聚焦的核心研究议题。“行动站点（Action Stations）”旨在为这一研究议题与知识体系补充新的内容。 其一：抽象表现主义是否仅仅是一种历史风格？如今其内在的存在主义价值该如何以三维与声音形式进行呈现？ 该展览配套有由该中心委托、迈尔斯·艾利森（Miles Allison）撰写的展览目录文章，相关链接：http://www.lindenarts.org/media/9137/innovators1catalogue2012.pdf