Amanda Williams: Why I turned Chicago's abandoned homes into art
阿曼达·威廉姆斯: 我将芝加哥废弃房屋艺术化的原因
Amanda Williams blurs the distinction between art and architecture through works that employ color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place and value in cities. Full bio
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with elusive-sounding names,
I am black, thank you --
我是黑人,是的——
在一个种族分化严重的城市长大,
in a segregated city as I have,
肤色和种族是不可分割的。
that color and race can never be separate.
reminding you of your color.
is a socially constructed phenomenon,
人们常常忽视了这一点。
in our everyday existence.
culturally coded beauty.
颜色鲜艳的招牌,
with brightly painted storefronts
街角商铺,美容店,
and beauty supply houses,
掌握了一些基本原理,
learned the foundational principles
这是我后来才发现的。
come to know is called color theory.
by this term in college --
让我受到惊吓的名字——
他们的论文,
with their treatises
以及相关的原理。
color palettes and associated principles.
to the art and science
compositions and spaces.
about the color red,
一个关于红色的理论,
color of a cola can is red,
都认为它是红色的。
all of us can agree that it's red
of people in this room.
接触基础的颜色——
taught since kindergarten is primary --
相对主观而不是相对客观的。
as a relational context.
to determine which neighborhoods
federal housing loans.
was its own kind of color palette,
所使用的配色十分独特,
than all of those color palettes
in college combined.
who lived in neighborhoods like mine.
were literally coloring in these maps
in the foreclosure crisis.
symbolized by these Xs
on the fronts of vacated houses
color palettes were determining
my own color palette
who live where I do
that color had been defined for us.
have to search far for
emerges from this reality?
(美籍非裔,因警察暴力去世)
(美籍非裔,被警方枪杀)
understanding of color
understanding of color.
was a two-year artistic project
长达两年的艺术项目。
调色板,用我独特的方式
to my own neighborhoods
79th Street right now
“比青色更绿一点的颜色叫什么”,
of the slightly greener shade of cyan,
“超亮(护发素品牌)是什么颜色的?”
is Ultra Sheen?" --
grandmother's bathroom ensue.
when you have Ultra Sheen?
谁会需要青绿色?
that were similar to mine
产品本身更容易引起共鸣。
more than the product itself.
"Harold's Chicken Shack."
你应该知道“哈罗的鸡肉小吃”。
(以上为讲者对这些建筑的命名)
被拆除的房子上了色,
充满非议的地区——恩格尔伍德。
as I could fit in my trunk,
都涂上同一种颜色。
in monochromatic fashion.
in a way that I hadn't before.
to the biggest canvas I could imagine ...
familiar streets that I'd grown up on,
with the city's data portal
tagged for demolition --
what it meant to just let color rule,
different pictures about the South Side.
to their fully lined counterparts.
形成了鲜明的对比。
like Monopoly pieces
of that paint or until someone complained.
this image one day.
一个司机问我。
美国著名音乐家)要来了。”
when he drove past
在一夜之间神奇地改变了颜色,
mysteriously change colors overnight,
a Crown Royal bag involved,
was almost all but erased,
意想不到的地方,
could pop up in unexpected places
不再有价值的区域,
that the music industry and society
已经成为皇室的代名词。
had become synonymous with royalty.
已经恢复了价值。
had regained its value.
despite being strangers
但是我们互相交换了故事,
一点关系都没有时,
absolutely nothing to do with Prince,
full ownership of this project
也持有这个态度。
transformed the neighborhood
这个项目改变了社区,
that we like to rely on:
没有人酗酒——
reduced crime, no alcoholism --
catalyzed new conversations
visible the uncomfortable questions
令人不适的问题,
have to ask themselves
of myself and my neighborhood counterparts
集体组织的方式。
to collective agency needs to be.
that didn't wait for permission
不需要得到许可,
and paint crew members said it best
曾经说过一句很在理的话,
change the neighborhood,
what's possible for their neighborhood,"
"Why are you painting that house
“为什么你要给这些房子上色呢?
to come and tear it down?"
为了更好地理解
understand color as both a medium
和我定义社会的方式的颜色。
that I am identified in society.
of making the world better,
这两种我理解的方式,
both of these ways that I'm understood,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amanda Williams - Visual artistAmanda Williams blurs the distinction between art and architecture through works that employ color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place and value in cities.
Why you should listen
The landscapes in which Amanda Williams operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshapen most inner cities. Her installations, paintings, video and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar -- and raise questions about the state of urban space in America in the process.
Williams has exhibited widely, including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, a solo exhibition at the MCA Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She is a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grantee, an Efroymson Family Arts Fellow, a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a member of the multidisciplinary Museum Design team for the Obama Presidential Center. She is this year's Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago and has previously served as a visiting assistant professor of architecture at Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works on Chicago's south side.
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