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Tarek Atoui: Inner Garden
塔里克·阿图伊：内在的花园，镜花园现场，2025年3月开始。
5分43秒，2025。 影片©观心亭，2025。由观心亭惠允。
Tarek Atoui: Inner Garden, installation view at Space 2, Mirrored Gardens, started from March 2025.
5 min 43 sec. ©The Pavilion, 2025. Courtesy of The Pavilion.
《内在的花园（Inner Garden）》是塔里克·阿图伊新创作的声音作品，从今年3月开始，《内在的花园》将镜花园的空间2转换成一个新的声音空间，邀请大家前来驻足聆听
《内在的花园（Inner Garden）》的作曲灵感和乐器构成，来自阿图伊的两个持续进行的研究项目：《地面（The Ground）》（2015至今）和《收获者（The Harvesters）》（2021至今），以下是关于这两个长期研究项目的背景和过程介绍：
地面七重奏
《地面七重奏（The Ground Septet）》的构思起始于2023年，是塔里克·阿图伊于2011年发起的持续性项目“地面”的最新发展。从2011年开始，塔里克·阿图伊对珠三角地区建筑、农业实践和传统音乐进行了长达五年的观察和研究，这些知识激发了他在节奏、即兴与空间方面的创作思路，并进一步结合他作为乐器制作人和音乐家的实验探索，发展出可供观众参观和聆听的声音作品、工作坊和演出活动。
在“地面”项目中，塔里克·阿图伊在早期研究的基础上，与乐器、陶瓷制作家以及音乐家展开合作，共同创作新型乐器。这些乐器首次亮相于伦敦泰特现代美术馆的《反转收藏（The Reverse Collection）》（2016），以及香港 Para/Site 的《土与石，灵与歌（Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs）》（2017）。实验的过程先后在广州镜花园的《地面》（2017）、新加坡南洋理工大学当代艺术中心的《地面：从陆地到海洋》（2018）的展览项目中得到逐步呈现和完善，并在第58届威尼斯双年展《愿你活在一个有趣的时代》（2019）中进行了完整的展出。
《地面七重奏（The Ground Septet）》通过专为“地面（The Ground）”项目所构造的七种乐器——“连通池（The Connected Ponds）”、“双重波动（The Duofluctus）”、“旋转（The Spin）”、“旋转收集者（The Spin Collector）”、“旋转声音库（The Spin Library）”、“三重弦（The Trichord）”和“木蜂（The Wooden Drone）”——探索旋转与振动的原理，以及水的循环。这些乐器按特定顺序排列，并由电脑程序驱动，在生成乐谱的同时，也构建出一个供人聆听的空间。
收获者
《收获者（The Harvesters）》是塔里克·阿图伊在东亚开展的最新的、仍在发展中的研究项目。该项目以传统的笙为研究起点——这是一种在东亚和东南亚广泛使用的簧管类吹奏乐器，从越南到日本均有分布。对阿图伊来说，笙象征着思想在不同文化与材质之间的流动。自2021年开始这一研究以来，阿图伊收集了一系列的笙，有来自越南、泰国的以干葫芦制成的简易版本，也有来自中国、韩国与日本的以木材或金属制成的精致版本，构成了一个多样的笙的收藏。
在《收获者》中，演奏笙所需的气流通过竹管传送，竹子是一种遍布世界文化的常见材料，常与吹奏乐器相关联。在这一系列乐器中，竹子成为连接不同文化的纽带。
塔里克·阿图伊最初在清莱泰国双年展（2023）的情景中开始构思《收获者》，基于他自2021年起对泰国的灌溉系统与传统吹奏乐器进行的研究，他将《收获者》作为一部声音作品，以及一个聆听与表演的空间。
这个项目于2024年在广州镜花园一带得到进一步发展，阿图伊与一位竹艺师傅合作，制作了多种竹结构，对笙的研究也扩展至包括来自中国、韩国和日本的乐器，从而发展出一系列的悬挂结构。
这些悬挂结构由一根完整的竹管制成，可悬吊于空中或挂靠墙面。每个结构包含一支音调固定的笙，通过由电脑程序控制的简易吹气装置进行演奏。在镜花园的《内在的花园》中，目前包括四个这样的悬挂结构，每个都配有来自不同文化背景的笙，于阿图伊创作的声音作品中共同演奏。
“收获者”项目仍在持续发展中，塔里克·阿图伊正与乐器制作师和音乐家一起，继续深入研究东亚和东南亚地区各种笙的传统，同时也与竹艺师傅合作，探索新的结构形式。
艺术家简介
塔里克·阿图伊是一位音乐家、作曲家和声音艺术家。他在全球范围内发起跨学科的介入式项目、音乐会、表演及工作坊。他的项目以对音乐和演奏的历史进行广博的研究为基础，同时探索新的作曲方式。阿图伊专注于声音、振动、乐器与身体之间的关系研究，起始于他对聋人文化如何感知声音的探讨。他挑战、拓展并改变人们对于声音既定的、常规的体验方式，同时对于乐器的概念和表演这一行为本身进行长久的反思，形成一个开放且具生长性的作曲过程。
《内在的花园（Inner Garden）》首次亮相于日本冈山县森林艺术节（2024）。
“地面（The Ground）”和“收获者（The Harvesters）”是在过往的十多年中，塔里克·阿图伊发起的一系列长期的声音研究和创作项目的一部分，这些项目包括： “在内（Within）”（2013至今）、 “反转收藏（The Reverse Collection）”（2014-2021）、“雨（The Rain）”(2019至今)、“水的见证 （Water’ Witness）”（2020至今）和“耳语（The Whisperers）”（2021至今）。
Tarek Atoui: Inner Garden
Inner Garden is a new sound composition created by Tarek Atoui that brings together instruments from two of his ongoing, long-term research projects: The Ground (2015-ongoing) and The Harvesters (2021-ongoing).
The Ground Septet
The Ground Septet explores principles of rotation and vibration, as well as the circulation of water, through seven instruments specifically created for The Ground: The Connected Ponds, The Duofluctus, The Spin, The Spin Collector, The Spin Library, The Trichord and The Wooden Drone. These instruments, arranged in a specific order and set in motion by a computer program create at the same time the composition and a listening space.
Conceived in 2023, The Ground Septet is a recent development of The Ground, an ongoing project initiated by Tarek Atoui in 2011, that started with five years of research on practices of architecture, traditional music and agriculture in the Pearl River Delta in China. This knowledge inspired ideas on how to work with rhythm, improvisation and space, and was later combined with the experimentations of instrument-makers and musicians in the form of sound compositions that the audience can visit and listen to, as well as workshops and performances.
For The Ground Tarek Atoui built on the initial research to develop collaborations with instrument and ceramic makers, and musicians, for the realization of new instruments that were first presented in the exhibitions The Reverse Collection at Tate Modern in London in 2016, and Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs at Para/Site in Hong Kong in 2017. A further phase of experimentation and performances followed at Mirrored Gardens in Guangzhou in 2017, and in the context of the exhibition The Ground: From the Land to the Sea, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2018. The composition The Ground was finalized in 2019 and presented as part of May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale. It has since been presented in the exhibitions Cycles in 11 at the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2020, and in Ouvertures at the Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce in Paris in 2021.
The Harvesters – Hanging Structures 1 to 4
The Harvesters is the most recent and still-developing research project undertaken by Tarek Atoui in East Asia. It takes for point of departure the traditional sheng, a wind instrument also known as mouth organ and found across East Asia from Vietnam to Japan. For Tarek Atoui, the sheng came to symbolise the circulation of ideas through different cultures and materials. Since starting his research in 2021, Atoui has assembled a collection of shengs ranging from simple versions made with dried gourd in Vietnam or Thailand, to more elaborate ones made of wood or metal from China, South Korea and Japan.
In The Harvesters the wind used to play the shengs is carried through bamboo pipes, a material common to many cultures around the world where it is associated with wind instruments. In this series of instruments, bamboo becomes the link between different cultures.
Tarek Atoui first conceived The Harvesters in the context of the Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai in 2023 as a composition, and listening and performance space based on research initiated in 2021 on irrigation systems and traditional wind instruments from Thailand.
The project further developed in 2024 around the area of Mirrored Gardens in Guangzhou where Tarek Atoui worked with a bamboo master on various bamboo structures, and expended his research on shengs to include instruments from China, South Korea and Japan, which lead to the development of a series of hanging structures.
The hanging structures are made of a single bamboo pipe that can be suspended in the air or hung against a wall. Each structure carries a sheng set at a specific tone and played with a simple blowing motor controlled by a computer program. In the context of Inner Garden at Mirrored Gardens, four of these hanging structures have been realized, each carrying a sheng from different cultures that are played together in a composition created by Atoui.
The project is still developing with further research being carried out with instrument-makers and musicians on the various traditions of shengs in East Asia, and with the bamboo master to experiment on new structures.
Artist’s Biography
Tarek Atoui is a musician, composer and sound artist. He initiates multidisciplinary interventions, concerts, performances and workshops around the world. His projects are grounded in extensive research into the history of music and instrumentation, while also exploring new methods of composition. Over the past years, Atoui has researched the relationships between sound, vibrations, instruments and the body, starting with how sound is perceived in Deaf culture. He challenges, expands and revises our established and conventional ways of experiencing sound, while developing a permanent reflection on the concept of the instrument and the act of performance itself as a complex, open and dynamic process.
Inner Garden was first presented at The Forest Festival, Okayama, Japan, in 2024.
The Ground and The Harvesters are part of a series of long-term research projects undertaken by Tarek Atoui over the past decade: WITHIN (2013-ongoing), The Reverse Collection (2014-2021), The Rain (2019-ongoing), Waters’ Witness (2020-ongoing) and The Whisperers (2021-ongoing).
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塔里克·阿图伊：内在的花园
时间
2025 年 3 月 23 日 – 7 月 20 日
展览地点
镜花园，空间2
地址
广州市番禺区化龙农业大观园内
日常开放时间
周三至周日，13点至17点（周一，周二闭馆）
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Vitamin Creative Space
Tarek Atoui: Inner Garden
Dates
March 23 – July 20 , 2025
Venue
Mirrored Gardens, Space 2
Address
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Daily Opening Hours
Wednesday to Sunday, 1 to 5pm (closed on Monday and Tuesday)
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