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塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎

《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER》

位于美国科罗拉多的特柳赖德基金会（Telluride Foundation）和啊哈艺术学校（Ah Haa school）在2020年开启一项由塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎实现的大型公共委托艺术项目。这项名为《Together》（同舟共济）的计划以社区参与的形式展开，影响深远，与艺术家和当地居民的长期密切合作息息相关。其概念是将一条简单的讯息沿山坡斜面固定：WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER（我们都在同一条船上）。这一对凝聚力的呼吁，看似一种乌托邦式的挑衅，但对艺术家来说，是在呼唤大家行动。这个《Together》计划将包括慈善、社会参与、对话和雕塑等部分。

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎 / 《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER》，2020

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎五年前选择将“WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER”这句话在当地落地。在今天这个特殊时期，这句宽泛而抽象的话带上了新的意义，显而易见地指向了我们新的地域、国家和全球现实。

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎 / 《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER》，2020

在今年3月初，围绕着这个计划的讨论发生了转变，因为特朗普、每个企业、组织、机构和个人都在引用这句话。特柳赖德当地的社区甚至将这句话作为这个特殊时刻的标语。这个带有预言性的计划超出了艺术作品的范畴。它将作为历史的印记，并通过只有艺术才能够实现的方式，为社区正在努力发起的动员和推动的改变提供支持。

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎 / 《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER（Multi）》，2019 / 钴蓝、超级蓝、天空蓝、交通灯绿、绿色、浅金色霓虹灯，变压器 / 40.6 x 185.4 x 0.8cm

以文字形式呈现的霓虹灯雕塑《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER》也在呼唤大家伸出援手，并赞颂这一政治、社会、经济和文化大动员的时刻。这句带有普遍性色彩的话语以人为出发点，并表达了集体、凝聚力、正直以及身份相互之间紧密联结。这种表述方式明显具有斯特拉坎的文本风格，既是为推动社区和社会变革而作出的努力，也展现一种团结的姿态。

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎 / 《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER（Shades of Blue）》，2019 / 紫色、钴蓝、超级蓝、天空蓝、白色霓虹灯，变压器 / 40.6 x 185.4 x 0.8cm

“这个计划旨在将社区聚合在一起，并加强特柳赖德当地的叙事。我关注的是呈现居住、气候、食物、教育和移民等本地议题。计划的目的是让人们聚在一起，在地区层面研究和讨论上述问题。而区域性的探讨在我们今天的大环境中产生了更深刻的回响。在这民族主义高涨的时刻，抛开地方问题去解决全球事务，会显得尤为困难。”
——塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎 / 《WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER（Silkscreen）》，2020 / 颜料，moab纸 / 61 x 91.4cm

“斯特拉坎的雕塑远比其色彩和看似温和的人道主义讯息要更具有颠覆性。‘我来自巴哈马，在那里人们遇不到什么机会’，斯特拉坎告诉我。‘这会迫使你去思考不同的权力是怎么形成的。假如要说‘我们都在同一条船上’（we're in this together），实际上我也不确定，真的是这样吗？’”

——布瑞安妮 · 瓦尔什，与塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎的对话，《福布斯》杂志，2020年4月28日

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塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎

塔瓦雷斯 · 斯特拉坎1979年出生于巴哈马首都拿骚，目前在纽约和拿骚生活和创作。他2003年获得罗德岛设计学院玻璃艺术学士学位，2006年获得耶鲁大学雕塑艺术硕士学位。

斯特拉坎已举办多场个展，其中包括：“你属于这里”，新奥尔良Prospect 3三年展；“无法估量的白日梦”，里昂双年展；“极地日食”，第55届威尼斯双年展，巴哈马国家馆；“看见/未看见”，未向公众披露的展览地点，纽约；“正统的宽容：再也不归家也许不是一个坏主意”，麻省理工学院List视觉艺术中心等。斯特拉坎曾获得多个奖项，其中包括盖蒂研究所（Getty Research Institute）驻留艺术家（2019-2020），边界艺术奖（Frontier Art Prize，2018），艾伦生物科学研究所（Allen Institute）首届驻留艺术家（2018），洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆艺术+科技实验室艺术家奖金（2014），蒂芙尼基金会奖金（Tiffany Foundation Grant 2008），重要艺术驻留奖金（Grand Arts Residency Fellowship，2007）以及耶鲁大学爱丽丝 · B · 肯保尔奖金（Alice B. Kimball Fellowship，2006）等。

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WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER

Slated for 2020, the Telluride Foundation in partnership with Ah Haa school in Colorado will debut a newly commissioned monumental public art work by Tavares Strachan. Together, a far-reaching community engagement project, is informed by his long-term collaboration with local residents. The project is conceptually grounded in an obliquely simple message: WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. As a call for unity, the project gestures to a utopic provocation, but for the artist, it is a call to action. The Together project will incorporate philanthropy, social engagement, conversations, and sculpture.

Tavares chose the phrase WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER to ground this project five years ago. But at this particular moment in time, the universal abstracted text has taken on new significance as a truism for our new local, national and global realities.

In early March 2020, the discussion surrounding the Together project pivoted as President Trump and every company, organization, entity and individual invoked the phrase. The local Telluride community turned to this text as a banner for this particular social moment. This prophetic public proposition is more than a work of art. It will serve as a historical marker and as an umbrella for ongoing community work to mobilize and effect change in the way only art can do.

The text-based neon sculpture, WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER, is a call to arms: an anthem for our political, social, economic, cultural moment. This universalizing message is humanist and grounded in the idea that collectivity, unity, integrity, and identity are inextricably bound. This is a mode of address—typical of Strachan’s lexicon—that acts as an effort to mobilize community and societal change, and make a gesture of solidarity.

This project seeks to bring the community together and to add to the narrative of Telluride. I was interested in shedding light on local issues around housing, climate, food, education, and immigration. It is about coming together to research and address some of these questions at a local level that resonates more broadly in our current climate. In this moment of nationalism, it is particularly difficult to manage global issues without zooming in on local issues.

– Tavares Strachan

Strachan’s sculpture is far more subversive than its color and anodyne humanist message might suggest. “I’m from the Bahamas, where you don’t have a lot of access to opportunities,” Strachan told me. “It forces you to think about how different powers are shaped. If you have to say, ‘we’re in this together,’ then I don’t know, are we?”

– Brienne Walsh, In conversation with Tavares Strachan, Forbes, 28 April 2020.

About the artist

Strachan was born in 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas, and currently lives and works between New York City and Nassau. He received a BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2006.

Strachan’s work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions including You Belong Here, Prospect 3. Biennial, New Orleans; The Immeasurable Daydream, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon; Polar Eclipse, The Bahamas National Pavilion 55th Venice Biennale, Venice; Seen/Unseen, Undisclosed Exhibition, New York; Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home Again, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; among others. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including 2019-20 Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, 2018 Frontier Art Prize, and the Allen Institute’s inaugural artist-in-residence in 2018, 2014 LACMA Art + Technology Lab Artist Grant, 2008 Tiffany Foundation Grant, 2007 Grand Arts Residency Fellowship, and 2006 Alice B. Kimball Fellowship.

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