【OCAT上海馆 | 作品介绍】小野洋子《天空电视》，1966-2020

星标为《天空电视》（1966-2020）在本次展览现场所处位置

The star refers to the location of SKY TV (1966-2020) in this exhibition.

《天空电视》（SKY TV，1966-2020）将安装在展览空间楼顶的摄影机拍摄的内容，用闭路电视进行一天24小时的实时播放。摄像机对准开阔的天空，并与放置在地下展厅地上的监视屏相连。这个看似简单的想法，掩盖了它在1966年被首次构思出来时取得的非凡成就，以及它在今天仍具有的持久意义。电视作为大众信息和娱乐的传送者，以及作为监视技术，被艺术家以和平的方式颠覆和重新利用，使之被赋予新的焦点和可能性。艺术家敏锐地觉察到录像具有超越空间的潜能，继而以极简主义的姿态来体现这种崇高性，实现了对录像媒介特性的利用。《天空电视》所捕捉的无限天空超出了我们理解的范畴，因为在监视屏实际表面和它所展现的天空背后，摄像机所瞄准的天空其实一直延续到我们的视野之外。这件观念录像作品除了引发我们对无限空间的想象，它同时也强调了天空即是一个最基本的共享空间。天空是小野洋子作为艺术家、诗人和音乐家在创作中反复处理的主题，在这件作品中，由监视屏所展现的天空的纵深，仅仅受限于我们的想象力。（文/金曼）

SKY TV (1966-2020) is a continuous twenty-four hours a day live CCTV feed from a camera positioned on the roof of the exhibition building. The camera pointed up to the open sky connects with a monitor placed on the floor in the subterranean gallery. This seemingly simple concept belies the extraordinary accomplishment the artwork made when it was first conceived in 1966 and the enduring relevance it has today. The idea of television as a conveyor of mass information-entertainment and as a surveillance technology is peacefully subverted and repurposed, enriching the medium with a new focus and possibilities. The exploitation of the medium specific qualities of video is accomplished through the artist’s astute understanding of video’s transgressive spatial potential in a minimalist gesture in order to manifest the sublime. SKY TV captures an incomprehensible quantity of sky because behind the flat actual surface of the monitor and the sky that represents, the sky the camera aims toward in fact continues beyond our vision. The speculative nature of infinite space is intrinsic in this conceptual video piece while also addressing the sky as a most elemental shared spatial phenomenon. The sky is a recurring theme in Yoko Ono’s works as an artist, poet and musician and in this piece, the depth of the sky represented in the monitor is only limited by our imagination. (Text / Kim Machan)

小野洋子，《天空电视》，1966-2020，闭路电视录像装置。“重新聚焦媒介：东亚录像艺术的兴起”展览现场，2020-2021，OCAT上海馆

Yoko Ono, SKY TV, 1966-2020, CCTV video installation. Installation view of Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of East Asia Video Art, 2020-2021, OCAT Shanghai

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小野洋子1933年生于日本东京，是一位跨学科的艺术家，在其六十多年的职业生涯中，她作为视觉艺术家、诗人、歌手、作曲家和反战活动家，在艺术和许多领域做出了重要贡献。小野洋子于1953年随家人移居纽约，后来又在伦敦、纽约和东京生活，成为推动了激浪派和观念艺术的国际发展的关键人物。她早期的作品，例如《可以站上去的画》（Painting to Be Stepped On，1960-61），以对观众的口头或书面指示为基础。这种指令性的方法也可以在她的行为表演作品《切片》（Cut Piece，1964）中找到。她与已故丈夫、披头士乐队的传奇人物约翰·列侬（John Lennon）合作的《床上和平运动》（Bed-In，1969），履行了她对世界和平的承诺。小野洋子的作品在世界各地被广泛展出，其中包括：她在惠特尼美国艺术博物馆举办的首次回顾展（1989）；在纽约市日本协会美术馆举办的“Yes小野洋子”（Yes Yoko Ono，2000），该展在世界各地巡回展出；以及近期在纽约现代艺术博物馆举办的小野洋子的早期作品回顾展（2015）。小野洋子在2009年威尼斯双年展上荣获终生成就奖——金狮奖。

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1933, Yoko Ono is a multidisciplinary artist making significant contributions over a sixty-year career as a visual artist, poet, singer, songwriter and peace activist.  She moved with her family to New York in 1953, later living in London, New York and Tokyo where she became a key figure in the international development of Fluxus and Conceptual art.  Her early works were based on verbal or written instructions to the audience, for example Painting to Be Stepped On (1960–61). Such instructional approach also could be found in her performance Cut Piece (1964).  In collaboration with her late husband, the Beatles legend John Lennon, Bed-In (1969) performed her commitment to world peace. Ono has exhibited widely across the world, including her first retrospective in Whitney Museum of American Art (1989), Yes Yoko Ono at the Japan Society Gallery in New York City (2000) which toured around the world, and a recent retrospective of her early art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (2015). She received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

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