听 · 见 · 韵
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm
PhD Graduate Exhibition
听 · 见 · 韵
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm
From 听 · 见 · 韵 I to 听 · 见 · 韵 IV
听 · 见 · 韵 Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm PhD Graduate Exhibition includes the sound-visual, multimedia, multi-sensorial installations, as well as interactive works in the series of the artistic research project Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm that were developed in the past four years.
PhD Graduate Exhibition
Document Videos
听 · 见 · 韵 Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm PhD Graduate exhibition was exhibited in BCA Gallery in Clare, Ireland.
Works exhibited:
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm II: Bring in the Wine. Video, 20 min. 30 sec.
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm II: Bring in the Wine. Hand Scroll, 33cm X 1200cm.
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm II: Bring in the Wine. Sound, 20 min. 30 sec.
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm III: Hear the Rhythm. Sound,
Song of the Great Wind, 45 sec.
Song of the Yi River, 46 sec.
Nian-Nu-Jiao, 2 min. 30 sec.
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm III: Paint the Rhythm. Painting scrolls, 100cm X 360cm, 75cm X 420cm.
Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm IV: Paint the Rhythm. Silk Paper,
Song of the Great Wind, 43cm X 311cm.
Ink Grapes, 43cm X 430cm.
PhD Graduate Exhibition
Document Photographs
听 · 见 · 韵 Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm is a series of multimedia installation works based on the rhythmic rules of traditional Chinese poetry. It also deals with the relationship between acoustics and imagery and particularly the idea of yijing (one of the essential aspects of Chinese lyric aesthetics) in contemporary integrated sonic-visual artistic practice.
In this exhibition, the sound works start with the repeated singing of poetry, and the calligraphic drawings with ink and brush are a kind of improvisational rhythmic drawings of the accumulation of painted sonic gestures, presenting the process of drawing the sound patterns while listening to the vocal performance. The visual gestures, the movement, the passion become the graphic transcription of the sound. They are all different, layered together, as they were in the vocal performance. The repetition within the paintings recounts the repetition of the listening experience. The sonic‑visual space becomes a complex atmosphere of vocal and visual expressions. Together, the sonic patterns are revealed in the visuals, and the rhythmic flows heard in the paintings. As the scholar Su Shi (苏轼, 1037-1101) once advocated, “poetry in painting and painting in poetry.”