柳州钢铁艺术节——艺术家雕塑装置作品创作现场 / 四六文摘

伊琳娜是出生于黑山共和国，祖上是白俄罗斯人。Irina Ideas出生于黑山，是一位多学科的艺术家，古典钢琴家

曾经的柳州空气压缩机总厂正在经由形式多样、逐步丰满的艺术印象而打造成一座文创主题园区。这是一个故事，一个与世界各地艺术家尽情分享的时光印象。由于今年新冠大流行，我的个人旅行受到限制，然而使用网络技术，通过视频通话和远程观摩，我依然能感受到科技正在逐渐成为艺术呈现的一部分。

每个人都在影响最初曾影响过他们思想的科技，在愿景和现实的两者之间，作为自我意识的存在，提出了一个永恒的问题：哪一个更神奇或更真实，是现实还是想象？今天，我进入了一个奇妙的世界，不仅仅是我们在电影中看到或在书本中读到的任何奇幻，而是艺术奇幻，一种感动心灵、重塑历史的变革力量。

看到柳空的转型，人们就通常联想到蒸汽朋克，现代媒介与传统手工艺术形式的混合，学者雷切尔·鲍瑟和布赖恩·克罗克索尔的一句名言以最崇高的致意提到：蒸汽朋克中的金属物件的拼接修补和相关技术邀请我们卷起袖子，开始重新塑造我们的当代世界。柳空正在制作的艺术品在很多方面都与上述说法关联，但范围更远，更广。复古主义以平等的关联出现，从过去看未来，从未来看过去，重新激活了不合时宜的元素，我们的生活在不断变化中汇合，潮流和力量的挑战。在园区进行的作品将带你进入20世纪中叶的一次具象的旅程。所选设计的叙述传达了我们集体意识原初的故事，思维原型通过大型雕塑再次出现。作品中的许多具有象征语言，即使匆匆一瞥，人们都能够认出那些马，昆虫，鸽子，翅膀，富有想象力的生物总是深深唤起神话般的想象，即使在世界各地人们用不同名称通过语言来定义他们。这些生物从工厂的碎片走来，那些古老的的圆形和方形的构成，最后那些迷一般的相互作用的方形匣子通过外部设计而凯旋矗立，而那些圆形结构是那个时代的所有机器的引擎，将我们引向一种神秘。

观察一种创新如何成为力量、需求并且引领传宇宙世信息进行社会变革的过程是令人着迷的，就像孩子一样的纯真，超越物质，进入精神凝聚在一起、充满想象力，充满创意的领域。正在制作中的艺术作品集合了这些特征，从观察过去的机器，导入生命活力延伸到到未来，因为机器深深植根于各种形成的根部，具有遗传学从一个区块到另一个区块的构建方式的象征意义，总是嵌入过去的材料，并转化为未来。有些作品具有非常大的规模，甚至高达9米的高度，向世界发出了他们的声音。庄严的孤独，升起的翅膀，让人想起每隔一段时期发生的变新。而其他一些作品传达某种非常微妙的信息，神话的记忆，神奇的仙境，童年时我们如此热爱的奇妙的生物。人们不禁要问，在半个多世纪前，当这些工厂的物品有完全不同的目的，更接近物质世界，工人们是否真有超越现实的梦想，而且这些梦想的一部分正在成形？我不得不说，他们可能真的有这些梦想，只要能让机器讲述生命循环的故事，就像地球绕着太阳往复地运转。这是一种荣耀给予这些碎片新的生命，这些碎片在心中都触及了艺术家们，他们用时间去关怀，维护和提升。现在21世纪，通过国际艺术家群体和当地人民的眼睛，机器被赋予了更加微妙的意义。人们团结合一地工作，共同尝试新的事业，将人们生活提升到另一个层面。

我真的希望这个项目能取得巨大成功，因为它已经成为发现自我、强力转型的最佳版本，在新冠疫情之后，世界上更多的人能够见证艺术的力量、柳空文创园的真心付出和速度。

伊琳娜 2020.9.14

Liuzhou former Air Compressor General Factory transforming into the artistic theme park with diverse array of disciplines, impression of the artworks in progress.

Using technology to see and be remotely present via video call at the place where technology excelled into becaming art

This is a story, an impression of a moment shared with the artists at the other part of the world (due to my restrictions to travel from C19 pandemic). Everyone is shaping the technology which initially shaped their ideas, an eternal life between the vision and reality and as self aware beings, an eternal question is posed: which one is more fantastical or more real, reality or imagination? Today I entered into the world of magic, not just any magic that we see in the movies or read about in the fairy tales but artistic magic, a power of transformation that touched the hearts and reshaped the history.

Immediatly upon seeing the place of transformation at Liuzhou, one goes through the association to the Steampunk, the mixing of the modern media with the traditional handmade art forms and a famous saying by the scholars Rachel Bowser and Brian Croxall comes to mind in the most noble intention: "the tinkering and tinker-able technologies within steampunk invite us to roll up our sleeves and get to work re-shaping our contemporary world". The arrangement of the artworks being made in Liuzhou in many respect have some joining points with the above statement, however they extend much further and broader. Retrofuturism comes to mind in equal associations, "the future as seen from the past and the past as seen from the future" reanimating the anachronistic elements, we live in the flux of constant changes, trends and power battles, the work in progress at the site is a specific journey into the times of the mid 20th century. The narrative of the selected designs are communicating the story of our collective and primordial past, with archetypes emerging through large scale sculptures. Many of them featuring figurative language where one can recognize the glimpse of a horse, a grasshopper, doves, wings, imaginative creatures always powerfully evoking mythological imaginatorium, universal across the world, even though having different names through languages that define them. These creatures are emerging from the factory pieces, the archaic circle and the box, the interplay of the hide and seek with the box finally triumphant in terms of the external design and the circles being the engine of all the machines of those times which leads us to the mystical.

It is fascinating to observe the creativity that comes into power, demands and commands the transformation that is carrying the universal message, with child like innocence to rise above the material and into the imaginative, meaningful domain where humanity unites. The collection of artworks that are in the process of making represent just these messages from observing the past machines to inhaling life to the future as the machines stand ingrained deeply in the roots of every form. This has the symbolics to the way genetics builds upon from one block to another, always embedding the material from the past and transforming and adopting towards the future. Some of the pieces are featuring a very large scale even up to 9 meters in heights sending a statement to the world of the solemn solitude of the one that leads, surrounded by the wings of change, every so often as the time changes, while some other pieces communicate a very delicate message, reminiscing of the mythological, magical fairyland, the creatures that we all so loved as children. One couldn't help but wonder at those times more than half a century ago, when these factory pieces had entirely different purpose, much closer to material world, did the workers actually had some dreams of the fantastical reality beyond and maybe part of those dreams are now taking shapes. I have to say that I suspect that they probably had those dreams and only if the machines could tekk the stories and drama of life that revoled as the Earth went around the Sun over and over, it is such an honor to give new life to these pieces having in mind all the hands and minds that touched upon them and spent hours of care, persistence and upliftment. They worked as one once, and now again in the 21st century machines are given a much more etherial meaning through the eyes of the international group of artists and local people, working together as one and for one cause which is uplifting the humanity to another level of humanness.

I truly hope that this project will have a great success as it is already on a good way of becoming the best version of the self, powerful transformation and that after the C19 is behind us, more people in the world can witness the power of art and the speed and genuine intentions with which Liuzhou art park is nurturing it.

（Irina Ideas 2020.9.14）

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