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.
Drift starts with a single barren - almost branchless - tree buffeted about, bending way over. Particles drift swiftly across. The stream of particles swells to fill the video screen. All of sudden, the tree bends way over and does not come back. The particles - left over - hang briefly in the air, swell and circulate randomly, then resolve themselves into a revolving vortex that briefly forms geometric patterns and otherwise continues a dance all about the video screen. This dance resolves itself into the foliage of a tree. This tree is buffeted about, now and then, bending way over. This time the tree - with its foliage - has a shining trunk - shining like a bolt of lightning. Then, this tree multiplies into many rows of trees, these rows filling the video screen, and rotating in one overall motion. This rotating forest resolves itself into a single leaf which spins away into the center.
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