今天去瑞典马尔默的We are sailing工作半天。
We are sailing的par和他的同事的确是富有创意的设计师和艺术家，厂房一样宽敞的办公室好像一个私人会馆，里面放着舒服的音乐，和铺着舒服的羊毛地毯，还有个小小的厨房可以煮咖啡和切水果。
par很好人，先带我们去一个艺术展馆晃荡了大半个小时。
在这个展馆，我意外地邂逅Johanna Billing的影像作品纪录短片。
Johanna Billing： You Don't Love Me Yet
原本是无聊地在空大的展厅漫无目的闲逛。走入一个放映厅，看到一个屏幕在放一群小孩在排练唱歌，我拿起耳机戴上，却被歌声震住了——稚嫩的童音，由录影中一个稚气未脱的男孩唱出，表情认真而专注，声音纯净、清澈、脆得有点疼。
Johanna Billing： Magical World
站着听了一遍，坐下来，再接着听了两遍，不由得爱上了Johanna Billing的作品。
"Why do you want to wake me from such a beautiful dream? ...
Can’t you see that I am sleeping? ...
We live in a Magical World.”
在网络搜索了半夜，在丹麦版的Myspace找到了这首歌，不是用户却下载不了；为了下载，特地申请注册，不知为什么密码总是没法通过。真遗憾。
可以到下面的链接去试听，打开的页面右边的music box，记住选择第一首：1.Magical World.
但是没有vedio配合，总是很大的缺憾。
Magical World, 2005
This work has a documentary flair and was realized in Zagreb. In a youth center a group of children rehearse the song “Magical World” produced by the band Rotary Connection in 1968. Rotary Connection was one of the first US bands in which both colored and white musicians played. Active during the social upheavals of the 1960s, in their songs of this period they mirrored the desire for change without being explicitly political. The children in Billing’s video were all born after the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s. They are thus part of a societal situation beset by economic and psychological difficulties as Croatia struggles to adapt to EU conditions of life. The film juxtaposes the historical context of the song and the real life of a very young generation in the midst of upheavals that are brought out by repeated views of the urban landscape and immediate vicinity of the youth center. Rehearsing the song in what for them is a foreign language, the children are seen to inhabit a complex intermediary zone socially, politically, and biographically. In this context the lines of the song make sense at different levels as well: “Why do you want to wake me from such a beautiful dream? ... Can’t you see that I am sleeping? ... We live in a Magical World.”
Johanna BillingThis 简介：
Johanna Billing
This Is How We Walk on the Moon
4.9-16.11 2008
Johanna Billing uses video to portray group interactions, individual identity and social structures, capturing situations of societal change. Her multilayered interpretations of places and circumstances oscillate between documentary and fiction, merging an interest in the real and the improvised with a precise and minimal cinematic language. Always staged, the looped video installations dwell on routines, rehearsals and rituals, presenting us with people in concentrated situations, where changes are taking place, are about to take place or could take place. Billing’s films often involve music, which in her hands becomes a medium of exchange, memory and reconstruction.
Billing will present film works, photographs and a documentation archive produced between 2001 and 2008.
Johanna Billing (b. 1973 Jönköping, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm.
Billing will present film works, photographs and a documentation archive produced between 2001 and 2008.
Johanna Billing (b. 1973 Jönköping, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm.
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Music is something will come up when you need it, anywhere, anytime.
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