Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe
에밀리 파슨스 로드(Emily Parsons-Lord): 우리가 마시는 공기로 만든 예술
Emily Parsons-Lord makes cross-disciplinary contemporary art that is informed by research and critical dialogue with materials and climate science. Full bio
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공기를 그려 보시라고하면
나무를 생각합니다.
chemistry teacher with really long socks
선생님을 떠올랐어요.
connected to other bubbles,
연결해 그렸어요.
and collide in a kind of frantic soup.
부딪히는지 설명해주셨어요.
about the air that much at all.
그리 많이 생각해보진 않습니다.
공기의 존재를 느끼냐면
sensory intrusion upon it,
받게 될 때입니다.
or something visible like smoke or mist.
눈에 보이는 것 처럼 말이죠.
중요하고 밀접한 관계가 있습니다.
gases that envelop the Earth,
지구를 감싸고 있는
gravitational pull.
the invisibility of the air.
우리가 호흡을 하면서
understanding of its materiality
본능적으로 이해하는가입니다.
through gas exchange,
공기를 바꿉니다.
right now together take
한 번의 깊은 숨을
in carbon dioxide.
17 breaths per minute
분당 17번 숨을 쉰다고 하면
45 million liters of air,
공기가 나오는 거예요.
Olympic-sized swimming pools.
수영장의 약 18개와 맞먹죠.
as small as our breathing
and maybe it doesn't matter.
and tactile and haptic.
of the aesthetic, how things look,
사물의 외관을 넘어서서
like how it feels on your skin
as it passes through it.
표현하고자 했습니다.
but most importantly,
무엇보다 중요한건
to different kinds of air.
덧붙인다는 거예요.
of Air: A Plant's Diary,"
식물의 일기"입니다.
from different eras in Earth's evolution,
여러 시대의 공기를 다시 만들어
to come in and breathe them with me.
마셔보는 거예요.
so drastically different.
will look for traces
과정 같은 것들 말이에요.
that information and aggregate it,
자료를 찾아 종합할 겁니다.
pretty much form a recipe
만드는 일종의 요리법을
and take that recipe
그 요리법을 받아서
공기를 재창조하는 거죠.
in moments of time
of life changing the air,
사례가 존재하는 시대와 더불어
how life will evolve,
영향을 끼친 공기입니다.
million years ago.
3억 5천만년 전의 공기인데
as the time of the giants.
in the history of life,
that trees are made of.
딱딱한 물질이에요.
their own trunks at this time,
줄기를 키워나갔어요.
bigger and bigger,
oxygen, releasing oxygen,
내뿜으면서 말이에요.
are about twice as high
massive insects --
엄청 커지기 시작했어요.
with a wingspan of about 65 centimeters.
되는 잠자리들이 등장했죠.
and really fresh.
깨끗하고 신선하단 걸 알수 있어요.
a really subtle kind of boost of energy.
강장제같은 역할을 합니다.
geologically speaking,
정말 순식간에 지나간 시기에요.
in Earth's history,
대규모의 멸종 사건이에요.
the dinosaurs died out.
훨씬 더 거대합니다.
at this time die out,
이 시기에 멸종했어요.
dramatic spike in carbon dioxide,
급격하게 증가합니다.
eruption of volcanoes
온실 효과 때문이라고 합니다.
to below half of what they are today,
절반에 못미칩니다.
support human life,
살기 힘들었을 것입니다.
이상하게 편안합니다.
like soda water.
quite pleasant.
느낌이 꽤 좋아요.
about air of the past,
about the air of the future.
대해서도 생각하게 됩니다.
might be the future air,
직접 만들어보는 겁니다.
공기를 발견했어요.
anywhere in nature,
industrial settings.
분자로 되어있어요.
once it's released,
자연스럽게 공기의 일부가 되기 때문이에요.
before it's broken down.
이후 300년에서 400년 동안 말입니다.
걸쳐서 존재하는 거죠.
some very sensual qualities.
물리적 특징이 있어요.
than the air we're used to breathing.
8배 가량 무겁습니다.
that when you breathe it in,
are kind of literally heavy as well,
정말 무겁기 때문에
and drop to the floor
바닥으로 떨어집니다.
quite a lot like a liquid.
with an ethical dimension as well.
차원과도 연관이 있습니다.
greenhouse gas
가장 강한 온실가스입니다.
that of carbon dioxide,
24,000배나 됩니다.
of 12 to 16 generations.
16세대에 이르죠
is really central to my work.
제 작업의 핵심입니다.
another quite surprising quality.
다른 놀라운 특징도 있습니다.
quite dramatically.
It's still there a bit.
목소리가 아직도 이러네.
giant insects and erupting volcanoes
and polar bears adrift on icebergs.
북극곰 같은 것일 겁니다.
and column graphs
talking to scientists wearing cardigans.
떠드는 정치인들을 떠올립니다.
thinking about climate change
본능적인 차원과 똑같이
that we experience the air.
시기인 것 같습니다.
at the scale of the molecule,
범위에 들어가 있습니다.
쉽게 간과해버립니다.
self-portrait of humanity.
초래한 결과입니다
산업적 차원에서
반영한 것이기 때문입니다.
I've learned from looking at air,
배운 것이 있다면
it's changing, it persists.
존재한다는 거예요.
that we'd recognize,
부양하지 않을지도 모르지만
part of that change,
영향을 끼치는 것이 인간이라면
that we can feel the discussion.
중요하다 생각합니다.
a very vibrant trace in the air.
흔적을 남기기 때문에 말입니다.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emily Parsons-Lord - ArtistEmily Parsons-Lord makes cross-disciplinary contemporary art that is informed by research and critical dialogue with materials and climate science.
Why you should listen
Through investigation into air and light, both conceptually, and culturally, Emily Parsons-Lord interrogates the materiality of invisibility, magic and the stories we tell about reality, the universe and our place in time and space. Tragi-humour, scale and invisibility are often used as access points her conceptual art practice.
Based in Sydney, Australia, Parsons-Lord's recent work includes recreating the air from past eras in Earth's evolution, recreating starlight in colored smoke, created multi-channel video and experimenting with pheromones, aerogel and chemistry. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and participated in the Bristol Biennial – In Other Worlds, 2016, Primavera 2016 (Australia's flagship emerging art exhibition), Firstdraft Sydney and Vitalstatistix, Adelaide.
Parsons-Lord completed a bachelor of digital media (First Class Honours) 2008 at UNSW Art & Design, and a masters of peace and conflict studies from University of Sydney, 2010. She has been a researcher in residence at SymbioticA, at the Univeristy of Western Australia, and has had solo exhibitions at (forthcoming) Wellington St Projects 2017, Firstdraft in 2015, Gallery Eight in 2013 and the TAP Gallery in 2007, among many others.
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