胡泉纯-创作理念
胡泉纯
Hu Quanchun
创作理念 Artwork Concept
作品《封存》是与城市升级改造有关的艺术创作。创作地点位于湖南常德沅水右岸的棚户区。正在拆迁的棚户区将会被一座现代化新城覆盖，怎样保存旧城的记忆并为未来新城注入原点记忆，是该系列作品创作的基本出发点。由于拆迁，棚户区到处都是拆迁遗留下来的建筑废墟，但每家每户的建筑废料的表情各不相同，因在自建房屋时，每户人家各自的喜好、品味及当时的经济状态各不相同，因而所采用的建筑材料和装饰手法各不相同。这些建筑废料多少都带有各家各户曾经生活状态的独特印记。《封存》计划希望能将这些“微表情”封存凝固。
在创作过程中，首先在建筑废墟中采集能代表住户特点的建筑与装饰材料，并查明房屋所在的街巷和户主姓名，确定其GPS定位点。然后，用水泥将建筑废料封存成一定尺寸的立方体，使其完全干透硬化。最后，再对立方体进行切割，使内部的各种材料显现出来，并将住户的信息雕刻在封存体上。这样，每个封存体与原来的街区空间定位产生了对应关系，并被安置在新城的公共空间之中。《封存》是一项持续开展的艺术计划，直到整片棚户区全部拆迁完毕为止。这也是一项带有互动性和个性化定制的计划，可以依据居民各自独特的要求实施封存，封存住那些他们认为最为珍贵的物件。多少年后，当曾经的房屋主人再次触碰到这堆封存体时，可以从依稀可辨的独特的建筑物料中追忆起曾经的老屋、家园、旧事。这些带有独特印记的封存体构成了城市的记忆核，讲述着这座城市的前世今生。
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The work "Sequestration" is an artistic creation related to urban upgrading and renovation. The creation site is in a shantytown on the right bank of Yuanshui in Changde, Hunan Province. A modern new city will cover the demolished shantytown. The memory preservation of the old town and integrating the original new memories into the future city is the essential starting point for creating this series of works. Due to the demolition, the shantytown is full of building ruins leftover from the destruction. These architectural scraps bear the unique mark of each family's former living conditions. However, the expression of the building scraps varies from family to family, as each family had different preferences, tastes, and economic status when they built their own houses and therefore used different building materials and decorative techniques. The Sequestration Project hopes to seal and freeze these "micro-expressions".
The creation process starts with collecting the architectural and decorative materials from the building ruins that represent the characteristics of the occupants. The street information, the name of the household, and the GPS location points are identified and retained. At that point, the construction waste is sealed with cement into cubes of a specific size and allowed to dry and harden completely. Finally, the cubes are cut to reveal the various materials inside, and the occupants' information is engraved on the sealed bodies. In such a way, each sequester creates a correspondence with the original spatial positioning of the neighborhood. The whole work is exhibited in the public space of the new city. Sequestration is an ongoing artistic project until the entire shantytown will be demolished. It is also an interactive and personalized program that allows the residents to sequestrate the most precious objects according to their unique requirements. Years later, when the former owners of the houses touch this pile of sealed bodies again, they can recall the old houses, homes, and old stories from the vaguely recognizable unique building materials. These seals with unique marks constitute the memory nucleus of the city, telling the past and present life of the town.