Space Oddity

Space Oddity was a work commissioned by Linden Gallery in St. Kilda for its show of the same name. The independent curation of my work and the funding of the exhibition by the Australia Council are testament to its excellence as well as evidence of peer review. My work was sited on the large public screen at the St. Kilda Junction for which I prepared eight ten second videos. My work specifically evoked a post-apocalyptic world in which a lone survivor travels with his shopping trolley searching for food and shelter yet remains avidly attuned to the pithy one liners uploaded to the twitter hash tag tweetsforthendoftheworld. My intention was to critique the dangers an obsession with the virtual world creates in the physical world. This project extends my previous work on large public screens at Federation Square and the Age building through the employment of new strategies designed to address the transient and media embedded commuter audience. To this end the work was site-responsive and constructed to blend in with the other advertisements on the screen. There was an additional interactive element in which audiences were able to tweet to the hash tag and have their words inserted into the videos throughout the course of the shows run.

《太空怪客》（Space Oddity）是圣基尔达市林登画廊（Linden Gallery）为同名展览委托创作的作品。本次展览由澳大利亚委员会（Australia Council）提供资助，且作品采用独立策展模式，这两点既印证了该作品的艺术水准，也证明其经过了同行评审。我的作品被安置于圣基尔达路口的大型公共显示屏上，为此我创作了八部时长十秒的视频短片。该作品具象化了一个后末日世界：一名孤独的幸存者推着购物车四处寻觅食物与庇护所，却仍热切关注着发布在推特（Twitter）话题标签#tweetsforthendoftheworld下的犀利短句。我的创作初衷在于批判人们沉迷虚拟世界时，对现实世界造成的种种危害。本项目延续了我此前在联邦广场（Federation Square）与《时代报》大楼（The Age Building）大型公共显示屏上的创作实践，通过全新的创作策略，针对性地适配了行色匆匆、沉浸于媒体环境的通勤受众。为此，该作品采用场地响应式创作手法，力求与显示屏上的其他广告自然融为一体。展览期间还增设了互动环节：观众可向该话题标签发布推文，其留言将被嵌入整场展览期间播放的视频片段中。