Endless River

From the perspective of sound, humankind's exploitation of natural resources in the wake of industrialization is clearly evident. The symbiotic understanding that life presents along with the environment it is found in tends to fade away in crowded urban areas. Through his practice, Xingyu Li attempts to evoke the wonder of all things in the midst of accelerated urban development. In Endless River, Li breaks up different frequency bands of sounds from the rainforest, and distributes them vertically in the tank, giving each sound a relatively free space to “sound."

Jansword Zhu, in an adjacent spatial installation, uses four specific genetic fragments—BMP2 (shared by humans and insects), FOXP2 (shared by humans and birds), NNAT (shared by humans and mammals), and TRNA (shared by humans and plants)—to explore the hidden biological kinships across species. These sequences, all found in the human body, form a silent network of ancestral resonance. The audience gathers within a luminous chamber to feel the “chromosomal bonfire” composed of silicon crystals and light, and to experience sound in a primal way—an echo of how early humans might have transmitted stories by firelight.

从声音维度来观察，人类在工业化之后对自然资源的占据是非常明显的。生命与其环境所呈现出的共生默契，往往容易消匿在人群密集的城市区。李星宇的创作试图在城市的加速发展中有意识地唤醒对于万物的惊奇。在《时间之河》中，李星宇将雨林中不同频段的声音解离出来，纵向分布在罐体空间内，给予每一种声音相对自由的空间“发声”。朱剑辰采用了分别共存于人-昆虫（BMP2）、人-鸟类（FOXP2）、人-哺乳动物（NNAT）和人-植物（TRNA）的四个特定基因片段，构成了毗邻相连的空间装置。观众可以聚集在一层空间，感受硅晶与光线组成的“染色体篝火”，体验穴居人类诉诸听觉传递故事的形式。