Barbara Campbell

close, close, single channel responsive video projection, audio, 5’:00”, 2014 Camera and edit, Gary Warner Responsive programming, John Tonkin

Barbara Campbell (b.1961 Australia) works between multiple concepts of spatiality—mediated, architectural and geographic—to create singular experiences for the viewer/participant. She has been following the journey of migratory shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian fyway, the fight path that links the birds in Australia and New Zealand to their breeding grounds in Siberia and the Arctic through the all-important feeding and resting sites on the Korean Peninsular and China’s east coast; a path that uncannily tracks the very trajectory of this exhibition. In her responsive video installation close, close Campbell creates a space to observe and perform within. Multiple horizons, seen and implied, are synthesized within the work.

《近，近》，单屏互动录像，5分钟，2014

拍摄和编辑：加里·华纳 互动编程：约翰·唐金

芭芭拉·坎贝尔（生于1961年，澳大利亚）的作品介于媒介、建筑和地理等空间的多重概念之间， 为观众/参与者制造新奇的经验。艺术家一直跟随着在东亚和大洋洲一带迁徙的水鸟的踪迹，飞行路 径包括从澳大利亚、新西兰到西伯利亚、北极圈繁殖地，途径重要的觅食栖息地朝鲜半岛和中国东 部沿海地区——这条线路和本次展览的巡回路线惊人的一致。在互动录像装置《近，近》中坎贝尔 创建了一个空间来进行观察和表演。多种地平线，看到的与暗示的在作品中合成为一。

Above & below: installation view of close, close at National Art School Gallery. 《近，近》在澳洲国家艺术学院美术馆的装置现场。