LIFE ON LINE is a multimedia project and exhibition, created by China-born, New York resident Le Xi (surname pronounced shee.). life on line consists of several videos, drawing on yards of black plastic sheeting, and there is also sculpture and ceramics. The video pieces frequently have an accompanying soundtrack created by the artist. The sounds come from indoor and outdoor everyday life, his own sounds, as well as sampling of sounds gleaned from the internet, all transformed into reduplicated looped motifs. Sources of these sounds include the crinkling of plastic wrap, blowing into a microphone and the ambient sound in subway stations. The artist, Le Xi (also Lee Xi), grew up in China and now resides in New York.
Le Xi's life on line encourages the viewer's divergent thinking as the viewer interacts with the art according to the viewer's perceptions and conceptions. life on line could be associated in many ways according to the viewer's experience. It could be life as it is lived online with all the time spent online these days. It could be life on the line- sort of like life on the edge.' It could be life 'through' line, the linear depiction of life. It could be life 'of' the line and lines shown in the art itself, as if the line has 'a life of its own.' In describing life on line, Le Xi thinks of this work as the interaction of 'plus' and 'minus' - positive and negative markings, positive and negative space, on and off, the 1 and 0 of binary systems. "It is a simplification of a wide array of choices presented to us in life from moment to moment, from decision to decision, focusing on plus and minus."
'life on line', which began its installation in New York in Chelsea early in 2009, has traveled to the C.X. Silver Gallery in Brattleboro, Vermont, in May 2009, during the Spring, continues its video presentation throughout the summer, and returns to New York for further exhibitions and installations. For further information, contact Adam Silver, C.X. Silver Gallery cxsilvergallery [at] myfairpoint [dot] net; (802) 257-7898, ext. 2.
Crouch begins with a single figure doing repetitive knee bends, moving in between standing and crouching positions in a rhythm that oscillates in a faster, then slower, pace. A close up of the figure in motion resolves into a single dog trotting in place, tail up and wagging. The scene switches to the person again in the crouching rhythm only this time cloned into a series of persons crouching in a wave rhythm in the foreground, another row of these crouching clones receding into the background. This grouping of two rows, one near and the other farther, multiplies into a pulsing set of four, and then nine and then sixteen. Finally the pulsing movement resolves itself into white and fades into dark. Le has created a soundtrack to go with these images that combines electronic sounds with electronically manipulated sounds from daily life. The sound loop features a beat that some may even find danceable overlaid with various beeps, others sounds some which almost growl, and a voice in the background counting down 3-2-1.
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'Haring and Fish' - video by Le Xiby cxsilvergallery363 views
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