• THE 'STAR'

    "星"

  • If there are a large amount of entrances in a city, the year 2020 would undoubtedly be a very unique one. In this year, we had to divested ourselves from not only the pleasant life around residential communities， convenience stores and shopping malls, but also the more concentrated resources, convenience and sense of security brought about by high-density population.It also made the mobility that we are accustomed to stop abruptly. The boundaries between cities（Even the boundaries between districts, between streets and between neighborhoods）appeared suddenly. We no longer check the part of the destination route only, but also began to care about whether the route is available or not,where the boundaries are, or how to avoid those high-risk area effectively.That means we began to check the map macroscopically.

    Stars, as a project, is about one of the interfaces on the map—— the stars, symbols of government agencies, distributed in the city network and intertwined into a function allocation network. During COOVID-19, they turned into looming.

    We accomplished this very tiny project with AnyOne workshop. We met Yang Ping and Yu Mo of AnyOne in the Inter-World-View project initiated by the Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thoughts (ICAST) in 2019. In this large-text discussion activity,they were acting as a pair of listening ears most of the time. But when they and their partner Passepartout Duo, another music artist couple from the United States and Italy, sat in the corner, picked up a variety of strange instruments and began to play their music, I was immediately moved by this kind of silent and beyond language.We left each other’s contact details after this event, thinking about doing something along someday.

    Through sending Wechat voice message occasionally, we exchanged ideas intermittently in 2020. Except the work calls, we still inquired after the situation of COOVID-19 in the city in which we lived. Beijing, AnyOne’s work place,and Daqing, Heilongjiang (Yanping’s hometown) were in lockdown by turns. Passepartout Duo—— the couple who had been doing sound design were completely trapped in Shanghai, had to stop all the floating scheme.

    The news about COOVID-19 from different cities were heard during this whole period. Cities and cities had to close the border. Otherwise COOVID-19 had gradually become a standard for measuring the health conditions, systems, culture, and traditions of cities. Also during this period, our curiosity was aroused by stargazing. Through the organization and distribution of these stars, can we see how administrative functions, systems and politics permeate the city?Or how are the units in different cities organized? And is it effective or not?

    We selected ten cities, they are more representative types of cities, and on the other hand, they are also with different response strategies and effects to COOVID-19. We intercepted the highest resident population density from these ten cities, randomly sampled them with a 12km*12km square and captured the arrangement and organization of stars at a scale of 200:1. AnyOne continued to use “One Meter Per Minute”, the previous work of AnyOne and Passepartout Duo’s. Through the punched holes, the map turned into ten long sound tracks, and a small paper music box reads them and made sounds.

    In the end, these “stars”, these moles on the skin of these cities, finally got rid of their images related to the office building， efficiency, jurisdiction and frivolous civil servants in reality and in the three-dimensional world， became a series of fleeting inorganic sound,revealed subtle and wonderful differences.
    如果理解城市有很多不同的入口，2020年无疑是其中挺特别的一个，它让我们从围绕住宅小区、便利店、购物中心展开的愉悦生活；从高密度人口带来的更集中的资源、便捷性、安全感中暂时且突然抽身出来，也让我们习以为常的流动性戛然而止，城市和城市之间的边界（疫情最严重的时候甚至是区和区之间、街道和街道之间、小区和小区之间的边界）忽然显露。在一张地图上，我们不再仅仅查看目的地路线的局部，也开始关心路线是否可行？界限在哪里？或者如何规避那些“风险”区域，我们开始宏观地摊开地图。

    《星》这个项目正是关于地图上的其中一个界面——那些作为⾏政机构符号的星，它们分布在城市网络中，交织成一张机能调配网，在疫情时期，它们若隐若现。

    我们和AnyOne workshop一块完成了这个小小的项目。2019年时我们在中国美院·当代艺术与社会思想研究所（ICAST）发起的“Inter-World-View”项目中认识了AnyOne的洋平和禹墨夫妇俩，在这个大量文本讨论的活动中，他俩多数时候是安静耐心的聆听者，但当他们和他们的搭档Passepartout Duo——来自美国和意大利的另一对音乐艺术家夫妇坐在角落拿起各种各样奇怪的乐器开始演奏时，我立即被这种沉默的、超越文本的语言打动了。我们在这个活动后互留了联系方式，想着什么时候一定要一起做点什么。

    靠着不定期的微信语音，我们在2020年断断续续交流着想法，在每次工作通话之余，我们会询问各自当前所在城市的疫情状况，AnyOne的工作地北京和洋平的老家黑龙江大庆轮番经历了封城封路，Passepartout Duo——那对一直在通过旅行进行声音创作的夫妇则被完全地困在了上海，搁浅了所有流动的计划。

    在这个过程里，不断有来自不同城市的关于疫情的新消息，不断有新城市沦陷，疫情也逐渐变成一种衡量不同城市卫生条件、制度、文化、社会传统的标准。也是在这个过程中，我们开始好奇透过观看一座城市的星图，透过这些星星的组织、分布，是否可以窥视行政功能、制度、政治如何渗透在城市里？不同城市的单元是如何组织的？又是否有效？

    我们挑选了十个城市，它们一方面是比较有代表性的城市类型，一方面也是疫情中有着不同应对策略和效果差异的城市。我们分别从这十个城市中截取了常住人口密度最高的区域，以12km*12km的正方形随机取样，根据200：1的比例尺捕获星的排布。沿用了AnyOne和Passepartout Duo先前作品《每分钟一米》的形式，通过对这些“星”的打孔将它们所在的地图变成十个长条音轨，由一个小小的纸质音乐盒阅读它们并发出声响。

    最终，这些“星”，这些城市肌肤上的痣，摆脱了它们在现实中、在立体世界里那些跟机关大楼、效能、管辖权限、乏味公务员有关的形象，变成一串转瞬即逝的无机声音，透露细微且奇妙的差异。
  • ✪ Haidian District, Beijing, China
    中国北京海淀区
  • ✪ Kowloon City District, Hong Kong, China
    中国香港九龙区
  • ✪ Regional Capital of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    巴西里约热内卢首府区
  • ✪ Southern Administrative Okrug (Южный административный округ, Yuzhny administrativny okrug)Moscow, Russia
    俄罗斯莫斯科南部行政区尤日尼
  • ✪ Saint-Lambert（XV）, Paris, France
    法国巴黎圣兰伯特区(15区)
  • ✪ Manhattan, New York City, United States
    美国纽约市曼哈顿区
  • ✪ Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan
    日本东京市中野区
  • ✪ Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
    瑞典斯德哥尔摩市胡丁厄
  • ✪ East Region of Singapore
    新加坡新加坡市东海岸
  • ✪ District 15, Tehran, Iran
    伊朗德黑兰D-15

  • AnyOne & Passepartout Duo 艺术创作部分

  • 合作艺术家

  • AnyOne is an interdisciplinary creative studio founded by Zhang Zeyangping and Wu Yumo. The team consists of contemporary artists, architects, photographers, and musicians. There is no classification definition for the art and design works of AnyOne Studio. The global travel encampment provides heir creation possibilities of cross-field. Start with daily life and actions, their creations focus on rethinking the methods of how people’s daily life connected to the natural environment. Their recent practice and research directions are “Nomads” and “Mobile Studios”.

    Zhang Zeyangping & Wu Yumo is a group that conducts locality and cross-media artistic creation. They regard image and space as a universal language, and they talk to specific environments and events. They have travelled all over the world for years. Affected by the changing geographical location, through interdisciplinary collaboration, spatial installations, images, landscape sculptures and etc. possibilities of multiple artistic creations emerged at the intersection of different cultures and regions. During the residency, they collected local video and sound materials, as well as spatial materials, and presented them through the artworks. They reflected on their current living conditions while creating. And hoped to redefine their own life through their walk-around and dialogues. As a sample, they construct the space they think is "real".
    AnyOne是一个跨学科创意工作室，由张泽洋平和吴禹墨创立，团队由当代艺术家、建筑师、摄影师、音乐人组成。
    AnyOne工作室的艺术与设计作品没有归类定义，环球旅行驻地为他们的创作提供了跨领域的可能。以真实的生活与行动作为起点。他们的创作关注于重新考虑人们的日常生活与自然环境的连接方式，“游牧者”与“移动工作室”是他们最近的实践与研究的方向。

    张泽洋平 & 吴禹墨 是一个进行在地性和跨媒介艺术创作的小组，将影像与空间视为一种通用语言，与具体的环境和事件对话。他们在世界各地持续了多年的旅行，他们受到不断变化的地理位置的影响，并通过跨学科协作、空间装置、影像、景观雕塑等形式，在不同文化和地域的交汇处生发多重艺术创作的可能。

    驻地创作的期间，他们收集当地的影像与声音素材，以及空间素材，通过作品呈现出来，在创作的同时反思了自我当下的生活状态，并且希望通过自己的游走与对话，重新定义他们自己的生活。作为一个样本，去构建他们认为“真实”的空间。
  • (Thanks To) AnyOne

    (Author) Wang Qi
    (Intern Architect) Wu Shijie / Yang Hongxin
    (Concept By) Kaki Cai
    (感谢) AnyOne

    (撰文) 王琦 Wang Qi
    (建筑实习生) 吴诗婕 / 杨鸿鑫
    (概念) 蔡佳琦