开幕时间：2016年09月25日 16:00 – 18:30

展览日期：2016年09月25日 – 10月23日

展览地点：北京市朝阳区草场地艺术区 328-D (德萨项目空间)

展览赞助：珠海市魅族科技有限公司

Opening: 25st September, 4:00PM – 6:30PM

Duration: 25st September – 23st October, 2016

Location: 328-D, Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, 100015 Beijing (de Sarthe Project Space)

Sponsor: Zhuhai Meizu Telecom Equipment Co., Ltd.

语言是信息传递的工具，也是传递的障碍。江上越从语言的起源，探索人性，反馈社会。如果说因为语不通，有了圣经旧约中的巴别塔的半途而废，而语言的误听和曲解就会有更多的纷争和不幸。甚至这种不幸的结果又会被误听和曲解，进入一种难以解脱的循环。这次展示的作品，是由误听游戏的小视频群和世界纷争等等的大视频叠加，构成的综合影像作品。从语言的起源出发，在相互重叠的影像中，再考交流的意义。 

误听游戏的小视频群小屏幕是播放误听游戏的录像，用一组小视频挂在墙上。所谓误听游戏就是用对方不懂的语言进行交流，对方凭直觉从语音中判断语义，这就是误听。(例如：Yada，鸭蛋，要得等)。突然而随机的结果出乎意料，常常让人啼笑皆非。(而这种误听如果发生在现实生活中，说不定会酿成一场什么样的危机。)

世界纷争等等的大视频把世界纷争等等的影像投影在挂有小视频群的墙壁上，利用3组影像：1. 纷争，暗示纷争与语言沟通的关系;  2. 与纷争有关的名胜古迹，再考世人对遗迹的评价；3. 大海，以天地永恒的角度，再考纷争、变迁和误听。

Language is a means to transmit information, and also an obstacle of information transmitting. Egami Etsu is probing humanity through tracing the origin of language for the purpose of feedback to society. If the failure of Tower of Babel in the Old Testament is attributed to the communicative obstacle between different languages, the mishearing and misunderstanding may lead to more disputes and misfortune. This kind of misfortune may even be misheard and misunderstood again, and thus forms an unresolvable circle. 

Egami Etsu's work is a comprehensive one composed by a group of videos of mishearing games displayed on little screens and some videos of social disputes displayed on background walls. From the origin of language, she probes the meaning of communication through these overlapped videos. 

A Group of Videos of Mishearing Games displayed on little screens: The little screens hanging on the wall are displaying the videos of mishearing games. The so-called “Mishearing Games” is to communicate by using a language others do not understand, just interpret the meaning of the voice by intuition. This is “MISHEARING” (E.g. The pronunciation of the word “Yada” is similar to that of duck egg in Mandarin or that of “OK” in Sichuan Hua, a dialect of Sichuan Province, China.). Such kind of random results of mishearing is out of expect and always make an embarrassing effect. If this kind of mishearing happens in real world, it may cause a crisis or tragedy.

A Group of Videos of Social Disputes displayed on background walls：Project the image or video of global disputes to background walls on which the group of little video games are hanged. I choose 3 groups of such portfolios. 1) Disputes, indicating the relations between disputes and verbal communication. 2) Some places of historic interest and scenic beauty related to these disputes, and probing people’s opinion to these places. 3) Sea. Probing the disputes, changes and mishearing again from the angle of eternal of heaven and earth. 

关于江上越｜About Egami Etsu

江上越出生于日本，在日本长大的同时也在美国与欧洲有过成长经历，而后来到了中国。因不同的语言而遇到过许多交流上的障碍，“只可意会，不可言传”，因此逐渐加深了她对语言交流的兴趣。2016年毕业于中央美术学院造型学院油画系，其获奖的毕业作品也被中央美术学院美术馆列为馆藏。现读中央美术学院硕士研究生，师从刘小东，主要创作于生活于日本和北京。曾在美国波士顿美术学院和元典美术馆一起参与策划国际性的展览之外，并在美国、中国、韩国、日本等地举办过展览。日本艺术批评家千叶成夫谈到 “她用不同媒介和方式深入探讨现代社会中的交流和人的本质” ；中国策展人冯博一谈到 “江上越的创作，针对于 “交流” 的概念和意义，并通过绘画、影像、语言误听的游戏化方式，对应了时代的变化，文明的冲突，验证了语言交流所产生的障碍，甚至危机的现象，显示出一种多媒介的表达方式和叙事话语。” 通过参与性的创作调查，江上越的创作包括声音、影像、绘画不同媒介，对人类本能交流的真实性提出疑问。

Egami Etsu was born in Japan, not only grew up in Japan, but also she has a  growing experience in the United States, Europe, and now she is in China. Because of different languages and the experience of encountered many barriers to communication, like Chinese "only to be sensed, not to be explained," so it gradually deepened her interest in the language and communication. She graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts oil painting department in 2016, her graduation works won the award, collected by the CAFA Art Museum. She continues her study for master degree in CAFA tutor by artist Liu Xiao Dong. In addition, her works has been shown in US, China, South Korea, and Japan. As Japanese art critic Chiba Shigeo said “Egami Etsu uses different media and method to inquire the communication in modern society and human essence” ; Chinese curator Feng Bo Yi also said “Etsu's creation is about concept and significance of “Communication”, through the painting and video and the way of mis-hearing game, contrast to changes of the times, the clash of civilizations, which verified the language communication barriers, and even phenomenon of crisis, showing the multi media expression way and the narrative discourse". Through the create investigation of the participation, Etsu Egami’s work including different media like voice, video, and drawing, as she raise the question to the human instinct and the authenticity of communication.”