Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe
エミリー・パーソンズ=ロード: 呼吸する空気で作るアート
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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空っぽの空間や
chemistry teacher with really long socks
高校の化学の先生が
connected to other bubbles,
それらが―
and collide in a kind of frantic soup.
衝突する様子を説明していたのを思い出します
about the air that much at all.
全く考えない傾向があります
sensory intrusion upon it,
感覚器が不快さを感じたり
or something visible like smoke or mist.
身近なものですが
gases that envelop the Earth,
引き付けられた
gravitational pull.
気体の集まりです
the invisibility of the air.
興味があります
understanding of its materiality
どう生得的に理解しているのかに
through gas exchange,
私たちがしているように
空気の組成を変えます
right now together take
吸って
in carbon dioxide.
100倍に濃縮されています
17 breaths per minute
1分に17回呼吸し
45 million liters of air,
二酸化炭素を
Olympic-sized swimming pools.
約18個分に相当します
as small as our breathing
小さくもあり 同時に
やや難しいのです
and maybe it doesn't matter.
重要でないのかもしれません
and tactile and haptic.
空気を作ろうとしています
of the aesthetic, how things look,
美的概念を広げようとしています
like how it feels on your skin
as it passes through it.
どう聞こえるのか
but most importantly,
探求していますが 一番大切なのは
to different kinds of air.
ストーリーがたくさんあることです
of Air: A Plant's Diary,"
名付けました
from different eras in Earth's evolution,
異なる時代の空気を再現し
to come in and breathe them with me.
呼吸するよう観客を誘います
so drastically different.
全然違うのです
will look for traces
地質学的データに残された
that information and aggregate it,
総合的な解釈により
pretty much form a recipe
and take that recipe
そのレシピを使い
空気を再現しています
in moments of time
of life changing the air,
時期についてですが
how life will evolve,
影響を与えうるのです
million years ago.
as the time of the giants.
知られています
in the history of life,
that trees are made of.
固い物質のことです
their own trunks at this time,
bigger and bigger,
oxygen, releasing oxygen,
are about twice as high
massive insects --
昆虫が巨大化し
with a wingspan of about 65 centimeters.
翼幅約65cmのとんぼがいます
and really fresh.
とても澄んで新鮮でした
ありませんが
a really subtle kind of boost of energy.
幾分押し上げます
大気の例があります
geologically speaking,
in Earth's history,
the dinosaurs died out.
at this time die out,
dramatic spike in carbon dioxide,
急激な上昇も起きていました
eruption of volcanoes
温室効果が暴走して生じたという考えに
to below half of what they are today,
今日の半分以下に低下し
support human life,
人間は生きていけないでしょう
妙に心地良いのです
like soda water.
quite pleasant.
とても心地よいのです
about air of the past,
思いを巡らすと
about the air of the future.
空気についても考えます
might be the future air,
創造するのではなく
発見しました
anywhere in nature,
どこにも存在しないもので
industrial settings.
once it's released,
300-400年の間 分解されることなく
before it's broken down.
some very sensual qualities.
感じることが出来る性質があります
than the air we're used to breathing.
約8倍重いのです
that when you breathe it in,
are kind of literally heavy as well,
文字通り重いので
and drop to the floor
quite a lot like a liquid.
with an ethical dimension as well.
道徳的な側面もあります
greenhouse gas
もっとも高レベルの―
that of carbon dioxide,
24,000倍で
of 12 to 16 generations.
is really central to my work.
私の作品の中心にあります
another quite surprising quality.
特性があります
quite dramatically.
It's still there a bit.
ちょっと残っていました
giant insects and erupting volcanoes
考えませんよね
and polar bears adrift on icebergs.
流氷に乗って漂う北極熊などです
and column graphs
円グラフや棒グラフ それに―
talking to scientists wearing cardigans.
際限なく話しかける政治家のことです
thinking about climate change
同じ直感的なレベルで
that we experience the air.
来ているのかもしれません
at the scale of the molecule,
分子、呼吸そして地球という
扱いにくいものである上に
身近なものです
いとも簡単に忘れさられます
self-portrait of humanity.
人類の集合的な自画像です
反映しているのです
I've learned from looking at air,
学んだことがあるとすれば
it's changing, it persists.
ずっと存在していることです
that we'd recognize,
育まないとしても
part of that change,
決定的な要因となっているのなら
that we can feel the discussion.
大切だと思います
a very vibrant trace in the air.
痕跡を残しているのです
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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