隔江山色·重链 「Hills Beyond A River · Relink」
音乐/音效 by 王懿「EAU」
导演/3D动画 by Miao Jing
版本2017-Rlink_v27112022
时长 7分20秒
“山不在高，有仙則名。水不在深，有龍則靈”
【隔江山色】的主要场景是取材于艺术家从小生长的城市，山城重庆。一个依山而建，靠水而出的重工业城市。艺术家希望通过从「下山-过桥-穿洞-上山」的视听角度来联结在这座城市的生活体验，以及由此产生的思考。
这次创作【隔江山色·重链】中加入了艺术家自2017年移居上海后，对这座城市的感知和体验，并试图寻找双城之链接。在无意中听到EAU的音乐专辑「火锅」中“红汤”，“白汤”曲目后，这两点“nostalgia”意味的曲目让艺术家更明确了自己想要的表达以及开展这次与音乐人EAU合作的端倪。音乐人EAU(王懿)同样生活在上海，他是一个非常细腻的电子音乐作曲家，从结构的情感描绘，到音效细节的控制，他的音乐就像一个摄像机，带领观众在视觉世界里游走，寻找故事和线索。这种视与听自然的碰撞，将会由这部【隔江山色·重链】讲述，期待！
“Mountains are famous for living saints; Waters gains miraculous for residing dragons. ”
Chongqing, (a.k.a. 山城Mountain City) is famous for its history as a heavy industrial city built on mountains and by ride of the Long River. The artist hopes to create the experience of "going down the mountain - crossing the bridge - going through a hole - going up the mountain" through the immersive audiovisuals.
In this creation of 【Hills Beyond A River · Relink】, the artist mixed his experience and thinking of living in Shanghai since 2017, attempting to find connections between two cities geographically and conceptually. When Miao Jing ran into Hong Tang / Red Soup and Bai Tang / White Soup from EAU’s music album “Hotpot”. The two soundtracks bring a sense of “nostalgia” to him, where a collaboration between Miao Jing and EAU is emerging.
EAU (Wang Yi) is a musician and composer based in Shanghai. His music is subtle and delicate, in terms of the structures and narratives. EAU’s music is like a virtual camera, which depicts images and leads an acoustic experience.
Let’s let【Hills Beyond A River · Relink】tell! The film will unfold the stories of how Miao Jing’s visual and EAU’s music collision and sparkles.
“Only when you stand the other side of the river, you will see the full view – the manufactured landscapes. ”
隔江山色 Hills Beyond a River
版本2017
Hills Beyond a River is a 3D animation, which created by visual artist Miao Jing in 2017. This 7 mins long video recreated the landscape of artist’s hometown in China, Chongqing, which is a city so-called “Mountain City” with two rivers, Long River and Jialing River, across the city. The artist has lived in this city for twenty more years, and totally see the process of the transformation of this city. The new replaces the old; the skyscraper replaces the already-high mountains; the new highway/roads replace the old street view, some old neighborhood is disappearing, etc. A huge nostalgia rise in artist’s heart, especially when he now lived abroad and couldn’t recognize his hometown whenever he came back. The nostalgic emotion includes the confusing reaction for the brand new “home” in construction, also a sentimental commemoration for the old landscape, the complex of childhood, the memory, the old home.
Artist uses his way to express his confusion of the rapid change of urbanization in China, which is obviously a contradict topic in today’s society. Inspired by virtual reality game, but refusing the VR headset system and individual experience, the artist decides to use tunnel lens to create an “up and down” immersive experience, which does not only correspond to the new perspective of immersive technology, but also the exact same feeling when you experience the city, Chongqing. The vivid gradient color is kind of the artist’s signature for this series of work, he used to use colorful paints for his oil painting work in his earlier practice to representing the over-consumption society. Then, the same aura, he uses the most fantastic color to metaphor the loss behind the surface, to question the progress is a good thing or bad. There is no answer in this movie, but an open-end question for people to think about it. It’s an homage to the great city, resonates people who have the same nostalgia.
In collaboration with Beijing-based musician/DJ Mickey Zhang and music band Whai, artist Miao Jing was inspired by the atmosphere of their music “China/瓷” , which resonates the experience and impression of Chongqing. The music video almost like an audiovisual synchronization and the sound sometimes become a trigger that suggests a new scene and represent the other kind tangible experience of the landscape.
Director／3D Animation : Miao Jing , Music: Mickey Zhang / WHAI, 2017
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