2014年5月31日星期六

PS1 Visit: Animatograph Odins Parsipark



Odins Parsipark is an installation artwork assembled in the 3rd floor of MOMA PS1. It contains pictures, objects, stage, literature, sounds and TV shows etc. Its size about 1.000x1.000x400 cm, also called multimedia installation.

  What struck me about this piece was not about its various use of objects, but the sentiment it creates with its surroundings and sounds.

  Firstly, walking in the door of Odins’ Parsipark faces the other door which cannot be opened. A wall in front of you with unorganized images, characters, lines and drawings. But the room is too dim to let me figure out what is on the wall. After giving up of trying to interpret, and turn to the other side of the wall, it contains a plain, flat, nothing but few lamps on the floor, lightening up the place. This was where my mind made a shape turn. From a complicated map of lives, history, etc. to purely nothing. As if it wants your mind to rest after a wind blow. And prepare for a thunderstorm. Of course, I did not know what was coming after.

  Turn to the last side of the room. There is a huge cage with a revolving stage inside. Some TV sets give the room a better brightness. Pictures hanging on the wall, and several military airplane cabin parts and stairs put together on the slowly revolving stage. It is madness, and chaos. If there was a time machine, this is the one you would not wish to take. Inside its cabin, contains sexual context and topics such as German history, Nazis, Hitler. And definitely the sense of irony.

  The artist, in my opinion, is trying to use a dark, negative tone of color and sound sending a message that our world has always been a filthy place. He also trying to say that people looked for brightness under lights, but ended up on a stage of cruelness infinitely. The spinning stage makes us wonder if we had ever gotten out of this circle before, or if we ever will. And it is a disturbing thought to have in mind.

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