Shanghai Biennale / Sydney Pavilion 上海东张西望双年展/悉尼馆 全套宣传物料

The Floating Eye is the curatorial concept for the Sydney Pavilion in the Shanghai Bienale, the largest international art event in mainland China, expected to attract over 8 million visitors. Curated by 4A’s Director, Aaron Seeto, concept presents new and existing works from six contemporary Australian artists, Brook Andrew, Shaun Gladwell, Raquel Ormella, Khaled Sabsabi, Shen Shaomin and Bababa International.
In a location like Sydney, Australia’s oldest settler city, with its Aboriginal history, colonisation, waves of mass migration, shifting economic bases and trade, awareness of the natural environment, natural disasters there is no single narrative and straightforward representative space of its history. Sydney’s geography between Asia and the West results in the constant overlaying of different historical and cultural contexts. In presenting the personal accounts generated by individual artists, to mark out the engagements and the discontinuities they experience as they try to negotiate ideas of locality and culture in globalised context, all of the artists in The Floating Eye articulates a specific history of Australia; a feeling of being connected and disconnected simultaneously.
The exhibition encourages an observation of a city’s shifting references and influences, how the overlay of time and history and our emotions and sensations of a place, give meaning and form to our shared spaces. As such the contemporary artists in The Floating Eye hold strong connections with Sydney and offer varied perspectives of the city’s transforming reality observed though its demographics, environment, history, politics, geography and society.
Together the artists in The Floating Eye presents a framework to illustrate how Sydney, and Australia, considers itself within the region and highlights the layering of histories and diverse social and cultural experiences, which speak to the experience of individuals living in global cities such as Sydney.
How do we discuss the attributes and feelings of a certain place? How do we share those sentiments and effects in a visually meaningful way? In creating a symbols based solution for the Floating Eye, we are really playing with language. A short hand way of describing the key concepts of the exhibition, articulating something that might be difficult to do in words. We are illustrating the interdependence of these key words to a surrounding attitude or culture, and its effect. The symbols are meaningless and meaningful at the same time, it is an interdependence of meaning and pure observation. They become abstractions of the city. Combined, the symbols create an equation:Thing + State effect/ transformed state/ an emotion, a state of being with the result intertwined by an eye – a graphical interpretation of the lens of the viewer.

浮动的眼睛是上海bienale悉尼馆的策展理念，在中国大陆最大的国际艺术盛会，预计将吸引超过8000000游客。4A的导演，亚伦还是策划，概念提出了新的和现有的工作从六澳大利亚当代艺术家，安得烈，肖恩Gladwell ormella，拉奎尔，哈立德sabsabi，沈少民和在国际。

在一个位置，像悉尼，澳大利亚最古老的移民城市，其原住民史，殖民，大规模移民浪潮，经济和贸易转移基地，自然环境的意识，自然灾害，没有一个单一的叙事与历史的代表性的空间。悉尼的地理亚洲在恒定覆盖不同的历史文化语境中西方之间的结果。在呈现艺术家的个人所产生的个人账户，以标记出的接触不连续他们的经验作为他们试图通过谈判在全球化语境和文化观念的地方，所有的艺术家在浮动的眼睛使澳大利亚的特定的历史；一个连接和断开的同时感觉。

展览鼓励城市转移的参考和影响的观察，有覆盖的时间和历史，我们的情绪和一个地方的感觉，让我们共享空间的形式和意义。这样的当代艺术家在浮动眼睛持有强烈的与悉尼的联系和提供的城市改造现实观察，虽然其人口，环境，政治，历史，地理和社会不同的观点。

在浮动眼睛的艺术家提供了一个框架来说明如何，悉尼，和澳大利亚，认为自己的区域内和集锦分层的历史和不同的社会和文化体验，这跟生活在如悉尼全球城市的个人经验。

我们讨论的属性和某个地方的感觉吗？我们如何在视觉上有意义的方式分享这些情感和影响？在创建基于符号浮眼液，我们真的是在语言。描述了展览的关键概念的一种简称，表达的东西可能是很难做到的话。我们说明了周围的态度或文化的这些关键词之间的相互依存关系，及其影响。该符号同时是毫无意义的，有意义的，它是一个相互依存的意义和纯粹的观察。他们成为城市的抽象。组合的符号，创造一个方程：事+状态的影响/转换/情感状态，一种是以结果交织在一起的，眼睛状态–的观众的镜头，一个图形化的解释。