伍德和哈里逊

约翰.伍德(1969年出生于香港)和保罗.哈里逊(1966年出生于英国伍尔弗汉普顿)二人就读于巴斯高等教育学院,自1993年起即携手创作。

伍德与里逊的作品,是简约的录像表演,主题涉及悲剧、喜剧和讽刺之事,探索人体在周遭环境里的实质局限、比例和行动,而这些环境通常都是由他们俩建构而成的。

《三维水桶》(2001)、《桌子和椅子》(2001)和《洒水壶》(2001),是伍德与哈里逊的大型装置作品《26(绘画和落下的对象)》的其中一部份,于2002年在伦敦奇森海尔画廊首次展出。这装置总共包括26个电视屏幕,每个屏幕不断循环播放一段不足三分钟、内容相似的短片。短片都是从一个固定角度拍摄,将现场营造成一个方正、平面而不动的空间。正如作品标题所示,内容探索表演者在制造标记和受地心吸力主宰的情况下,会作出怎样的反应和行动。录像的主角,都是艺术家俩本人,有时是单人演出,有时是二人合作演出。在这些短片里,我们可以看到艺术家不单探索人在最简单环境里的微细而荒谬举动,还有那些虚拟复杂的力学原理,这都是具体存在而饶富趣味的。

伍德与哈里逊的作品曾在国际间广泛展出。最近的展出包括「话语,更多话语」(伊康画廊,伯明翰;并巡回到当代艺术博物馆,罗斯舒亚,法国;艺术博物馆;特利梭利奥画室,罗马和拿波里,2009);「MAM计划005」(森艺术博物馆,东京,日本,2007);「现在艺术︰灯箱艺术展」(泰特英国美术馆,伦敦,2004);「作品精选」(现代艺术博物馆,皇后区,纽约,2004)。联展方面包括「影像的动态」(庞比度中心现代艺术馆,巴黎,2006);「26(绘画和落下的物件)」(匹兹堡卡内基美术馆,2005);英国艺术展V(2000)。

Wood and Harrison

John Wood (born in 1969 in Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (born in 1966 in Wolverhampton, England) both studied at the Bath College of Higher Education. They have been working together since 1993.

Wood and Harrison create video works of minimalist performances, touching on themes of tragedy, comedy and irony. They are experiments in the physical limitations, scale and movement of the human body in relation to the surrounding environment, which has usually been constructed by the artists.

3D Bucket (2001), Table and Chairs (2001) and Watering Cans (2001) are part of a larger installation of Wood & Harrison’s entitled Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things) first shown at the Chisenhale Gallery, London in 2002. This comprised of twenty six television screen installation of similar short works, all under three minutes, which are looped continuously. The action is always shot from a fixed position, rendering the space in which action can take place square, flat and un-moving and, as the title suggests, explores situations and actions in which mark-making and gravity play a large part. Each shows the artists, sometimes one, sometimes both, as the only protagonists. In these short films, we see an indication of the artists’ desire to explore not only small, absurd gestures in the most pared down possible environment, but also the deceptively complex mechanics of movement which are at once existential and comedic.

Wood and Harrison have exhibited their work extensively internationally. Recent exhibitions include Some Words, Some More Words, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham travelling to Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart and Kunstmuseum, ThunStudio Trisorio, Rome and Naples, 2009; MAM Project 005, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2007; Art Now, Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, Selected Works, MOMA, Queens, New York, 2004. Group shows include Le Mouvement des Images, Musee d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2006; Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things), Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, 2005; the British Art Show 5, 2000.