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T.K.L | 怪猴实验室 The Monkey Lab

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T.K.L是一名独立漫画家，同时，她还是北京电子音乐俱乐部招待所的驻场DJ。

T.K.L. is an independent cartoonist and DJ at the Beijing electronic music club Zhao Dai.

毕业于中央美术学院版画系，但她似乎并没有收到太多学院派的束缚，多重的身份让她在视觉艺术和听觉艺术中找到了新的灵感突破。创作出“怪猴实验室”系列作品。

She graduated from the Printmaking Department of CAFA, but her activity is not limited to Academia. Her multifaceted interests bring her a great deal of inspiration in visual art. Thanks to this inspiration she created The Monkey Lab series.

“怪猴实验室” 实验的是一种基于漫画而展开的视觉语言的探索，在叙事以外给漫画语言以视觉变化。基本以四格漫画的形式展开，也有三格和独幅的。每个故事发生在一张纸内，但故事的背景往往设定在某个未知的时空当中。

The Monkey Lab is an exploration and a re-interpretation of visual language based on comics with the addition of a narrative character. It is presented as an installation with a four-panel cartoon, a three- panels cartoon and a single frame. Each story takes place on a piece of paper, but the story often happens in an unknown space and time frame.

画面类似无字漫画，又像是动画的分镜，对她而言，单页的绘画显然不足以满足她对于叙述性的要求，如果绘画本身不能动起来，多幅则成为叙事流畅的形式表达。

The images are similar to those that appear on cartoons without words and they also share similarities with animation. For T.K.l, a single page of painting is usually not enough to satisfy her narrative repertoire. Her works also are characterized by a combination of different images which create a narrative form of expression.

我喜欢画画，老想画新的，“怪猴实验室”可以满足我。
I like to paint, and I always want to create new paintings. The Monkey Lab makes me satisfied.

“怪猴”这个形象的出现并非偶然，在T.K.L看来，猴子的形象和人很像，同时又是一个动物形象，它能够更顺畅地在现实和创造的想象空间中来回穿梭。这个形象来源于生活，又能不被社会规则和现实生活所束缚。

The appearance of the monkey is not a coincidence. In T.K.L 's pictorial world, the monkey is not only a metaphor for human beings, but it also retains the specific characteristics of the animal. In terms of movement, it swings smoothly back and forth as if it was moving between reality and imagination. This character has a realistic representation that comes from life, but it enjoys a certain freedom as it cannot be constrained by social rules and by the structure of real life.

这个系列没有明确的计划，从2015年至今，已经创作出一百多张。未来也还会继续。T.K.L表示，未来想把故事画的更长篇一些，注入更多自己的想法。

There is no clear plan for the series, which is composed by more than 100 pieces and was started in 2015. It will continue. In the future, T.K.L. says that she would like to paint more and to integrate more ideas into the story.

T.K.L说, “怪猴实验室”这个漫画系列一直在继续，但中间也很慢的更新过一段时间，也不算瓶颈，会留一点空白和距离再去观看和继续创作，把一些新的思考和尝试加入到漫画里。现在也因为画得越来越多了，看之前画的，每一张就好像是一个格子，整个系列就是一个多格漫画，这样构成的是一个巨型的漫画，怪猴的旅行还在继续，创作和试验也还在继续。

T.K.L said, The Monkey Lab is an ongoing series, and it is updated throughout time. Sometimes the series is interrupted for a short period, so I leave to myself the time to watch and think, and then eventually I continue to develop the work adding new thoughts and experimentation. Now also because create more and more works, when I look at my artworks, each of them looks like a grid. The whole series is like a cartoon with a narrative: the story of the monkey's journey goes on, the creation and experimentation continue.

画面里奇特又脑洞大开的故事，很多灵感来源于音乐。DJ是她的第二身份，T.K.L酷爱电子音乐，音乐带给她更多的想象力，电子音乐的独特韵律和节奏感，直接的感官刺激，对她的用色和造型都有所影响。她也十分享受作为DJ的体验。

Many of the strange and imaginary stories in the pictures are inspired by music. As an artist and DJ, T.K.L. loves electronic music, which brings her more imagination. The unique rhythm of electronic music and its ability to stimulate the senses give her a great deal of inspiration. She incorporates in the paintings the rhythm of music. She also enjoyed being a DJ.

画漫画和做DJ互相影响，因为很多电子乐里面重复的节奏和抽象的空间结构，T.K.L都可以将它们用到漫画的形式语言里面，这种安排和逻辑上的严谨性都是相通的，还有有趣和实验精神一直会继续在 DJ set 里，也会把 DJ GROOVE 带到漫画里，实现漫画里的音乐节奏感，还有空间抽离感。

Comics and DJ influence each other. A lot of electronic music has a repetitive rhythm and abstract spatial structures that I can use in the formal language of comics. From a visual point of view there is a logical rigor; at the same time, the artwork is characterized by a fun and experimental tone, typical of the DJ set atmosphere.

做 DJ 的体验当然是很开心啦，能播放分享自己喜欢的音乐，但我对自己做 DJ 也有一些像画画上的要求，把它看成是一项艺术创作，收集很多声音和音乐，按照时间空间顺序来编排，会考虑特定的时间和地点来播放，让舞池里的人能感受到音乐里我想传达的感受，用抽象的声音和音乐创建一个场景，把舞池里的人吸引住。

The experience of DJ is quietly enjoyable: playing and sharing your favorite music. Besides, I have some requirements for myself as a DJ. It's like painting for me, DJ is also an artistic creation. It requires to collect a lot of sounds and music, to arrange them and to play them at a specific time and place, so that people on the dance floor can feel what I want to convey with the music. By using abstract sounds and music I create a scene, so that people enjoy the dance floor.

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