Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

"Isolation" is an Audio/Visual project based on urban ruins by Shanghai-based sound artist Xu Cheng and photographer Gregorio Samsaro. Using images and sounds from abandoned places in the city as structural material, the two artists will reconstruct and portray a virtual auditorial imaginary space, and finally presenting their works in a live audiovisual performance or an exhibition.
The "ruins" as the "art museum", a space with very special quality, a gray zone between public and non-public space, and the final physical of passed times and human behavior into a physical place to be experienced. The excavation of these spaces and the collection of audio and visual materials make the "Isolation" project a contemporary "archaeological record" for both artist.
The project is not intended to restore an original urban audiovisual soundscape, but rather to reconstruct a virtual experience with the senses and memories by breaking down this double isolation in a state of ambiguity. This experience comes from their respective urban experiences, but floats aimlessly outside the current urban life.

“滞域/Isolation”是上海的声音艺术家徐程与摄影家格里高尔·萨姆纱罗（GregorioSamsaro）基于城市废墟而进行的声音/影像创作计划。两位艺术家以城市中荒废的人类场所中的影像与声音为结构素材，重构、描绘出一个虚拟的试听想象空间，最终以现场视听表演或展览的方式呈现其作品。
“废墟”即是“美术馆”，它是一种具有非常特殊性质的空间，其介乎与公共空间与非公共空间的灰色地带，并将旧的行为和时代最终物化为一个可体验的物理场所。对这些空间的发掘、声音/影像资料收集让“滞域”计划成为了两位艺术家的当代“考古纪录”。
本计划无意还原一个本来的城市视听声景，而是在含混状态下通过对这二重隔离的打破，用感官、记忆重构出一个虚拟的体验。这体验来自他们各自城市生活经验，而又无目的地漂浮在当下都市生活之外。

Xu Cheng
Sound artist based in Shanghai and a practitioner and organizer of sound activities, winner of Ars Electronica 2012. He dabbles in experimental music, improvisation, electronic music and so forth. Apart from the music ontology, Xu is also interested in the interaction between sound and social spaces and its behaviors and manifestations. Xu works with varied forms of sound art: installations, experimental music, performances and theatre.

Gregorio Samsaro
Photographer of dereliction, with a focus on eschatological sociology of urban ruination, architectural geography of kali yuga, and the microhistorical documentation and haphazard visual narration of forgotten human travail and inhuman decay.