Liz Magor Art 21訪談

隊員： princess piggy 5月 16, 2021

Liz Magor Art 21訪談

又是我最愛的Liz Magor單元（歡呼！！！

影片及文章截自 Art21 Season8

影片節錄

04:25

I’m seeking that place where my brain stop spinning around and stops wanting thing that I don’t have so that I can follow this very faint thread that I’m laying down as to what each sculpture is supposed to be. The objects come first, and objects flow through systems. We use them, we waste them, we wear them out, and then it comes out the other end. They call it the waste stream.

04:56

I’m not an animist, but I do feel the objects that have been in the world for a while, they’ve got all this stuff in them that comes out.

Gloves are interesting because they’ve quite complicated copies of the anatomy. They’re very easy to fetishize, and I’m not the only person who fetishized a glove.

Casting is like photography in that you have the real, the actual. Then you make an impression of it, which you call a negative. Then you pour into that negative some system of making positive, and then you have a copy of a real.

animist: a person who believes all natural things, such as plants, animals, rocks, and thunder, have spirits and can influence human events.

anatomy: the scientific study of the body and how its parts are arranged.

fetishize: to consider something or someone important, interesting, or attractive to an unreasonable degree.

06:37

Making a mold, doing all this process to that thing that I picked up, in all the slowness of it is how I kind of get to know it. So, in fact, the slowness of this process serves the slowness of my intellectual awareness.

intellectual: relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas.

awareness: knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at the present time based on information or experience

07:14

Demolding is like opening a present. You know the image you’re going to get, But it’s always a surprise. My main talent is my ability to pay attention. There are many things in the world that live in this zone, this nonzone, this not-needed zone, and so I pay attention to these things, and through that effort, I’ll change their status, I’ll bring a resurrect them from the dead and bring them up into this quite a high-status activity that I’m involved in of turning them into a sculpture.

There’s a big process of me making it. I want a big process of looking, too. I’m not sending a message. I’m creating an experience for looking.

nonzone: Not of or pertaining to a zone.

resurrect: to bring someone back to life.

08:45

Objects when they’re in their heyday, they arrive in our life with a bit of celebration. If you’re in a really pretentious store, they make a bit sort of theatrical event of wrapping up your purchase. They fold it, then they wrap it and they put a sticker with their logo on it, and then they carefully lift that as thong it’s a little premature baby, and they put it into the box. Inside that box is some sweater that’s been mass-produced, but this gift, this offering is… they mimic a personal transaction between two people who care about each other.

heyday: the most successful or popular period of someone or something.

pretentious: trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art and literature.

theatrical: belonging or relating to the theatre, or to the performance or writing of plays, opera, etc.

mimic: to copy the way in which a particular person usually speaks and moves, usually in order to make people laugh.

transaction: an occasion when someone buys or sells something, or when money is exchanged or the activity of buying or selling something.

本次影片出現的五件作品

1.LightShed (2005)