雎安奇 作品 JU ANQI‘s work
大字：VOL.1 BIG CHARACTERS: VOL.1
双屏录像 / 2-channels video
17分钟 / 17mins
2015

*乌拉尔工业双年展 Ural Industrial Biennale

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从谷歌地图中位于新疆东部一处无人区的距离地面十公里的空中可以俯瞰到有三十个巨大的中国字和一个感叹号盘桓在荒凉的戈壁上，每个字有一个足球场大。这些大字是一些文革的口号，由碎石堆砌而成，在1968年这里修建了一个秘密的军用机场，这些大字就是这个机场的航标。摄影机在这些大字中穿行，在碎石堆积而成的乌托邦的幻觉里浮现出1968年世界各地的革命浪潮，一些浪潮在开始，一些浪潮被熄灭……

Using Google Maps, one can look down from ten miles above upon a no-man’s land in eastern Xinjiang and see thirty enormous Chinese characters and an exclamation point twisting their way through the desolate Gobi Desert. Each character is the size of a football field and they form slogans from the Cultural Revolution, built with crushed stone. A secret military airport was built in just this spot in 1968, and these big characters served as its navigational markings. The camera makes its way through the characters, and there in the Utopian hallucination of the piled stones, the tidal wave of revolution that swept across the world in 1968 appears. Some waves were just beginning, while others were being extinguished….

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大字是雎安奇对神秘军事基地的关注，是对航空航天研究，以及处于日常生活之外的由国家主导的技术革新的兴趣。雎安奇将这些大字作为被拍摄的主体，并通过这些大字的尺度、地理关系，来表达一个历史时刻的盲区，以及并行于个人成长故事的另外一个故事。——李振华