March 28,2010
Hard Target
Finally stepped out of the town since I flew back before last Christmas. Three months actually is not too long, just feels like a year.
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Wexner Center in Columbus is exhibiting a group of works about SPORT. Most of the works are photos and sculptures, many works are presented in video projecting as well. The title of the exhibition is called HARD TARGET.
These works are artistic presentations of sport. The artists break down the phenomenon of sports. They re-construct these ideas and build them into exhibitionable formats. Couple artists use words (text) as the carriers. Glenn Ligon 's Gold Mudbone (Liar) #2 is a print with a paragraph of written story. The story related to the sport theme in terms of the story describes an incredible power of African ethnical male. It refers to a specific racial group as athletics who dominated and often seen as the most competitive component in the contest. The print looks like a urban underground prophet because of its dustiness and brownish texture.
The other work by Doug Aitken is a lighten text of "START SWIMMING" the surface of the text is actually a bird-view photo of a snowy industrial area. From a distance, the work just words in blue and white color, yet look closely, it is pictures of little trucks, box buildings, and squares of land covered by snows. "Start swimming" shows so much energetic and pleasure in it. Composed by elements that is cold, dark and lifeless, the work contradicts itself in both heartbreaking and hopefulness ways.
There are many other works showing. Includes Matthew Barney's , Cremaster 4, weird video as usual, also Harun Farocki's Deep Play, which displays various screens that show different sports technologies in terms of usage for broadcasting and strategical planning.
The show also includes some star power. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno projects images of Zidane on two walls of a 90 degrees conner. Same Taylor-Wood also uses the image of Courtesy Jopling and David Beckham in his video installation.
From global super star to local high school players, to U.S.A. SPORT is the spirit of the nation, yet very criticizable. I've always like sport. It makes me aware of true humanism although in the current world both "true" and "humanism" are such ignorance words.
-------A horrible-quality youtube to open this article----------
--------and this is my blog so I don't care----------------------
Wexner Center in Columbus is exhibiting a group of works about SPORT. Most of the works are photos and sculptures, many works are presented in video projecting as well. The title of the exhibition is called HARD TARGET.
These works are artistic presentations of sport. The artists break down the phenomenon of sports. They re-construct these ideas and build them into exhibitionable formats. Couple artists use words (text) as the carriers. Glenn Ligon 's Gold Mudbone (Liar) #2 is a print with a paragraph of written story. The story related to the sport theme in terms of the story describes an incredible power of African ethnical male. It refers to a specific racial group as athletics who dominated and often seen as the most competitive component in the contest. The print looks like a urban underground prophet because of its dustiness and brownish texture.
The other work by Doug Aitken is a lighten text of "START SWIMMING" the surface of the text is actually a bird-view photo of a snowy industrial area. From a distance, the work just words in blue and white color, yet look closely, it is pictures of little trucks, box buildings, and squares of land covered by snows. "Start swimming" shows so much energetic and pleasure in it. Composed by elements that is cold, dark and lifeless, the work contradicts itself in both heartbreaking and hopefulness ways.
There are many other works showing. Includes Matthew Barney's , Cremaster 4, weird video as usual, also Harun Farocki's Deep Play, which displays various screens that show different sports technologies in terms of usage for broadcasting and strategical planning.
The show also includes some star power. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno projects images of Zidane on two walls of a 90 degrees conner. Same Taylor-Wood also uses the image of Courtesy Jopling and David Beckham in his video installation.
From global super star to local high school players, to U.S.A. SPORT is the spirit of the nation, yet very criticizable. I've always like sport. It makes me aware of true humanism although in the current world both "true" and "humanism" are such ignorance words.
January 4,2007
United Center in Chicago
芝加哥公牛隊的主場United Center。在90年代我讀國中看著Paxon丟冷箭，Jordon吐舌頭Pippen投擦板的時候有沒有那麼一刻，我覺得我會真正踏進那個場館，看到開場前大螢幕裡在芝加哥城市中衝來衝去的那群牛。今年跨年，和一群人到了芝加哥，不小心買到了我仍然覺得是騙錢的站票，在大家的體諒下，一行五人站在曾經全世界籃球迷在同一刻關注的地方，看了一場Bulls vs Cavaliers（智民，奧斯丁，詩姍，小麥真的謝謝你們讓我漸漸遺忘笨死了造成的內疚）。
然而。最近對體育活動的熱誠某種程度的掉到了冰點，可能是因為忙碌，可能是因為美國人的太過誇示各種比賽的每一部份，可能是職業球員越來越一致化，我忽然看不到那些以往讓我驚嘆，不用知道這東西哪裡美好就可以單純感受到的部份，只覺得每場職業比賽都長得一樣。忽然不在乎Kobe得多少分有多討厭，不在乎Wade是不是被選為年度好看男人或是多愛摔跤，不在乎最近有什麼重要的球賽。
搞不好只是因為我老了。
