亲密的紊乱

INHABITING UNCERTAINTY

以色列籍艺术家朱迪丝·马格里斯在从中东到美国的穿梭旅行中不断讨论住房、图书和地图对于我们人生的意义。事实上她用了她的大半生在世上流浪,从这个乡村到那个城市,从这个大陆到另外一个大陆。但她创作的主题却一直围绕着家乡的想象展开。她试图找到长距离和随机性这一对由空间和时间的张力所留下的痕迹怎样才能沉积出"家乡"结晶物?下面的谈话是她和她将要去的另一个大陆上的艺术家就同一个问题的讨论。她将要去的城市在中国叫做"Shenzhen"。

In this revealing essay, artist Judith Margolis discusses houses, books and maps. Her discussion begins with the memory of moving from a large brick apartment building in New York City to a single-family house in suburban New Jersey. In the backyard of the new family house, six-year old Margolis discovered a playhouse -- but it didn't only shelter children from adult society; it was also a haven for wasps, beetles, and spiders! After she and several young friends destroyed its glass windows, her father did not repair the playhouse and Margolis did not return to it. Instead, she applied for a library card and began to find shelter in books and art. Nevertheless, that iconic house continues to inform her artistic practice precisely because she continues to wander. Although based in Israel, Margolis travels extensively, and often spends five months of each year elsewhere. In 2013, Margolis will be visiting Shenzhen to work in collaboration with Ethnographic Anthropologist Mary Ann O’Donnell on LIFT BLADE PLOW: Intimate Disclocations, a mixed media, extended long-distance performance documenting the eternal tension between random chance and destiny.