Godspeed — WA LIU 刘娃

Godspeed
2021
Painting & sound installation
Infinite duration

“Godspeed”— a spatial soundscape of four paintings & sound installation by Wa Liu & Yang Bao—captures four impressions of the plants as continuation of their video work “Late Night Savage.” Based on the structure and pattern of his musical composition, Bao introduces a black geometric shape on each of Liu’s paintings, using the black hole to allude to the relativity of time and space. While Liu employs vibrant and hallucinating colors to arrest fleeting moments when the mesmerizing neon light sweeps over the plants’ leaves, Bao uses the black geometric shape to compress the eruptive life force into a deafening void, from which his music emanates in infinity. Within the anechoic chamber, the four pieces of infinite music are experienced in both chaos and synchrony, structured by their underlying musical patterns and codes. The organic and psychedelic combinations of sound resemble echoes in the canyon, activating the still images to constantly be in a state of flux with endless possibilities.

神速
2021
绘画音乐装置
时长无限

作为影像作品《午夜魑魅》的延伸，刘娃与鲍杨的四件绘画及声音装置《神速》将植物的几个瞬间凝固下来。鲍杨根据其音乐创作的结构和形状，在刘娃的每一件绘画上添加了一个黑色几何形，看似深邃的黑洞，隐喻时间和空间的相对性。绘画中饱满的色彩和朦胧的光感，再现了光束在植物叶片上扫过的瞬间，而黑色几何形又在充满张力的画面上用扁平的二維结构进行压缩，这个黑色几何形即是音乐发声的出口。鲍杨为每幅绘画创作的无限长音乐循环往复又富于变化，在封闭的消声室中，四首曲子有时错落有时同步，形成随机而巧妙的组合，就像峡谷里的回声，激活了静止的画面，使空间产生迷幻而流动的体验，延展出无限的可能性。