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Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time


Everything Begins to Melt Here 
  1. Tega Brain
  2. Chen Xin
    & Zhang Wenxin
  3. Chen Zhe
  4. Fragmentin
  5. He Zike
  6. Ayoung Kim
  7. Johannes Langkamp
  8. Zoe Li
  9. Long Pan
  10. Anastasia Mityukova
  11. Christoph Oeschger
  12. Jaehun Park
  13. Susan Schuppli
  14. Shi Zheng
  15. Jakob Kudsk Steensen
  16. Pocono Zhao Yu

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  1. To Melt
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©2022 Iris Long
Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time


Everything Begins to Melt Here 
  1. Tega Brain
  2. Chen Xin
    & Zhang Wenxin
  3. Chen Zhe
  4. Fragment.in
  5. He Zike
  6. Ayoung Kim
  7. Johannes Langkamp
  8. Zoe Li
  9. Long Pan
  10. Anastasia Mityukova
  11. Christoph Oeschger
  12. Jaehun Park
  13. Susan Schuppli
  14. Shi Zheng
  15. Jakob Kudsk Steensen
  16. Pocono Zhao Yu
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©2022 Iris Long

Melting in time
熔于时间





SHI Zheng,Melting in time,2022,video installation,dimension variable,image courtesy of the artist 施政，熔于时间，2022年，影像装置，尺寸可变，图片版权归属艺术家

On the screen, an iceberg slowly breaks apart, disappearing in the sea. Inspired by a video of the collapse of a massive iceberg in a Greenland ford, Shi Zheng uses computer-generated image technology to reimagine the entire process in this video work. In the artist's view, the collapse of an ice shelf is not a natural event, but a confrontation between human time, geological time, and technological time against the backdrop of climate change. Through digital manipulation, nature can be simulated and reproduced hyper realistically, which also is in itself a metaphor for how human behavior has impacted and transformed the environments in which we live. The artist questions the relationship between humans and their surroundings: how did the primordial, stable structures of nature move incrementally towards more frequent and violent changes? How did nature gradually become unmoored?

屏幕中，一座冰山缓缓崩塌，最终落入海洋。受到一段记录格陵兰峡湾巨大冰山坍塌的视频启发，施政采用计算机生成图像技术，在这件影像作品中重现了冰山轰然消融的全过程。在艺术家看来，冰架坍塌的自然现象并非“自然”发生，而可以看作是气候变暖的趋势下人类时间、地质时间与技术时间的对抗。通过数字手段的操纵，自然可以被高度逼真地模拟、重演，从中浮现出一种更为隐秘的操控：人类行为对自身生存环境的影响与改变。艺术家旨在对人类与其所处环境的关系提出质疑：自然原本安如磐石的结构是如何一步步走向了如今失控、变动不居的局面？