Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe
Emily Parsons-Lord: Artă din aerul pe care îl respirăm
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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fie la spațiu gol
chemistry teacher with really long socks
de chimie, cu șosete foarte lungi,
connected to other bubbles,
la alte bule,
and collide in a kind of frantic soup.
într-un fel de supă haotică.
about the air that much at all.
să nu ne prea gândim la aer.
sensory intrusion upon it,
senzorială neplăcută,
or something visible like smoke or mist.
cum ar fi fumul sau ceaţa.
gases that envelop the Earth,
care învăluie Pământul,
gravitational pull.
the invisibility of the air.
understanding of its materiality
de a-i înţelege materialitatea
through gas exchange,
modifică aerul prin schimbul de gaze,
right now together take
in carbon dioxide.
cu dioxid de carbon.
17 breaths per minute
într-o respiraţie, 17 respiraţii pe minut
45 million liters of air,
45 de milioane de litri de aer,
cu dioxid de carbon,
Olympic-sized swimming pools.
as small as our breathing
and maybe it doesn't matter.
and tactile and haptic.
of the aesthetic, how things look,
a esteticii, cum arată lucrurile,
like how it feels on your skin
ca senzaţia pe care v-o provoacă
as it passes through it.
când trec prin el.
but most importantly,
dar cel mai important,
to different kinds of air.
le asociem cu diferite tipuri de aer.
of Air: A Plant's Diary,"
Jurnalul Unei Plante"
from different eras in Earth's evolution,
ale evoluției Pământului
to come in and breathe them with me.
so drastically different.
will look for traces
that information and aggregate it,
pretty much form a recipe
and take that recipe
in moments of time
of life changing the air,
how life will evolve,
evoluția vieții
million years ago.
as the time of the giants.
in the history of life,
that trees are made of.
din care sunt făcuți copacii.
their own trunks at this time,
trunchiurile atunci,
bigger and bigger,
oxygen, releasing oxygen,
eliberând oxigen,
are about twice as high
massive insects --
with a wingspan of about 65 centimeters.
cu deschiderea aripilor de cam 65 cm.
and really fresh.
e foarte curat și proaspăt.
a really subtle kind of boost of energy.
un impuls energetic subtil.
geologically speaking,
in Earth's history,
din istoria Terrei,
the dinosaurs died out.
at this time die out,
dramatic spike in carbon dioxide,
a nivelului dioxidului de carbon,
eruption of volcanoes
to below half of what they are today,
au scăzut sub jumătatea celor de azi,
support human life,
like soda water.
quite pleasant.
about air of the past,
despre aer la trecut,
about the air of the future.
sa ne gândim la aerul viitorului.
might be the future air,
că ar putea fi în viitor,
anywhere in nature,
industrial settings.
foarte stabilă,
once it's released,
odată ce e eliminat,
before it's broken down.
înainte să fie descompusă.
some very sensual qualities.
are niște calități senzoriale.
than the air we're used to breathing.
pe care suntem obișnuiți să îl respirăm.
that when you breathe it in,
are kind of literally heavy as well,
and drop to the floor
quite a lot like a liquid.
with an ethical dimension as well.
greenhouse gas
that of carbon dioxide,
mai mare ca al dioxidului de carbon,
a 12 până la 16 generații.
of 12 to 16 generations.
is really central to my work.
e principală în munca mea.
another quite surprising quality.
destul de surprinzătoare.
quite dramatically.
It's still there a bit.
oh! Încă e acolo un pic.
giant insects and erupting volcanoes
și vulcani care erup
and polar bears adrift on icebergs.
și urși polari plutind pe aisberguri.
and column graphs
talking to scientists wearing cardigans.
oamenilor de știință purtând geci.
thinking about climate change
să ne gândim la schimbările climatice
that we experience the air.
la care percepem aerul.
at the scale of the molecule,
sunt simultan la nivelul moleculei,
self-portrait of humanity.
colectiv al umanității,
I've learned from looking at air,
it's changing, it persists.
that we'd recognize,
part of that change,
vitală a acelei schimbări,
that we can feel the discussion.
a very vibrant trace in the air.
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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