-2019 -Land art
-Performance art -Experimental music -Single channel video , 13 mins, loop, 4K Display dimensions variable -Location: Dong Village, Guizhou, China
Courtesy of
Intangible Cultural Heritage Center(ICHC) of QingDongNan Auto-prefecture, Guizhou,China Wang Zhenxu, Chen Geshan, Xiong Yanze, Geng Minghui, Wang Qiuhan, Liu Zhe, Lu Xiaobao
Little Green is an exploration into technology and nature, consciousness and
the orientation of consciousness,
image and cognition, and the boundaries of
space.
With its compositional structure featuring
D harmonic minor as the
foundational color tone, and local ancient instruments "Bic bac" and "Oh is"
adding
distinguished characteristics to the musical form, the role of music in
this video is to re-create and alter the rhythm of the moving image.
In respect
of experimental music, synthesizers and modules are utilized to simulate
natural sound,
conversely, recorded pure natural sound is edited to fully take
on electronic attributes.
Such process serves as a virtual inversion of the
audio-visual,
which restores our sense to understand and to explore the
boundaries of sound in perceptual experience.
Little Green is presented in a way that transcends everyday visual experience,
it is both within and beyond our empirical predictions. As the sight revealed
by the drone perspective is deemed “actual existent”,
it contains, in essence,
ample and abstract parts that signify the unsubstantiated.
The ever shifting
object of vision only accomplishes the process of consciousness orientation
within
the range of the predictable from our past visual experience.
It is on
the basis of the drone vision that we extrapolate the objective existence of
the “Little Green”.
This very concept of objective authenticity here leads to
the questions of
how objectivity arises and how the consciousness makes
sense of an object and attaches meaning to it.
Eventually, where are the faith
in objectivity and the conscious behavior to attach meaning originated from?
Transforming the performance art itself into an audio-visual material,
artist
Xiong Yanyi takes this endeavor as a starting point,
intending to seek after
the process through which “traversing” and “transmitting”
take effect
between different spatial-temporal boundaries and artistic genres in the
present.
“Little Green” parallels along time in the approach of experimental
music, meanwhile disengaging from the moments of traversing.
It produces
a non-temporal existence within time, allowing changes to remain in the
eternally immutable.