【OCAT上海馆｜作品介绍】哈利•胡迪尼（我已经无处可逃）& 三条腿 by 约翰·伍德与保罗·哈里森
哈利?胡迪尼（我已经无处可逃）（1994）
Harry Houdini (There's no Escape that I can See)
单屏彩色有声影像，1分37秒
Single-channel video installation, sound, color, 1'37''
Courtesy the artists
在《哈利?胡迪尼（我已经无处可逃）》中，约翰·伍德扮演著名的魔术师哈利?胡迪尼，把自己锁在一个状似屏幕的水槽箱里。艺术家迫于求生，努力地转动“屏幕”来保障自己的头部在水面之上，以此获得更多的氧气，并尝试着逃离这个狭小的空间。《三条腿》里，约翰·伍德与保罗·哈里森模拟Gameboy电子游戏机《坦克大战》中的场景，将彼此的左右腿捆绑在一起作为坦克射击的目标。两件影像作品带有一种近似于荒谬而又独特的幽默感，而艺术家构建了一个特殊的环境，并将自己置身于其中，探索人在不同状态下产生的恐惧和求生的心理状态。
三条腿（1997）
Three-Legged
单屏彩色有声影像，3分46秒
Single-channel video installation, sound, color, 3'46''
Courtesy the artists
In Harry Houdini (There's no Escape that I can See), a man trapped in the screen tries to escape while struggling to keep his head above water. The division line between the spaces filled with air (where the man can breathe and thus survive) and water (where the man would drown) reinforces the apparent separation between opposing worlds here unified by the screen. In Three-Legged, two figures tied together by one leg attempt to dodge tennis balls fired by a roving canon machine. Mixing play, humor, and violence, both videos play in loop with no outcomes of the protagonists’ survival attempts. Together, they focus on the process of escaping dreadful situations.
关于艺术家/About Artist
约翰·伍德1969年出生于香港。保罗·哈里森1966年出生于英国伍尔弗汉普顿。俩人在英国巴斯高等教育学院学习。他们曾参与多个国际艺术机构展览，包括英国布里斯托尔美术馆（2015）; 瑞士卢塞恩艺术博物馆（2015）; 布鲁塞尔博格西安基金会（2014）
约翰·伍德与保罗·哈里森的合作始于1993年，他们创作的作品大多是单屏影像或是影像装置，作品往往带着悲剧，喜剧或是有讽刺和幽默感。他们的作品时常挑战人所能承受的生理极限或是人对某种行为的试验，时常与他们所创造出的特定环境息息相关。艺术家们看似荒诞的行为，有时失败或成功的各种尝试揭露了我们所生活的系统化环境的荒诞性。
John Wood & Paul Harrison were born in 1969 in Hong Kong and 1966 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom and both studied at Bath College of Higher Education, United Kingdom. Selected solo and group exhibitions have been held at Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom (2015); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2015); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2015); and Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium (2014).
John Wood & Paul Harrison have been making collaborative work since 1993, producing single screen and installation-based video works. Their artistic practice spans the use of the frame, minimal aesthetics, associations of everyday objects and low-tech visual tricks, the making of micro-trivial actions – whose results are invariably between obvious failure and random success. These nonsensical experiments reflect on the absurdity of the systematized environments we live in.
卡蒂斯特艺术基金会（巴黎/旧金山）
KADIST (Paris/San Francisco)
吴作人国际美术基金会
Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts (WIFA)
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