⋄Crystalline Layer
Music Film, Photography, Performance, Sculpture, Publication, Installation.
Marble, basalt and other stones, shell, metal wire, body, sound, voice, fabric, wool yarn, paper, cardboard, aluminum, hand-polished and handcrafted.
音乐影像、摄影、表演、雕塑、出版物、装置。大理石、玄武岩及其他石材、贝壳、金属丝、身体、声音、嗓音、织物、羊毛线、纸张、纸板、铝，经手工打磨与手工制作。
Marble, basalt and other stones, shell, metal wire, body, sound, voice, fabric, wool yarn, paper, cardboard, aluminum, hand-polished and handcrafted.
音乐影像、摄影、表演、雕塑、出版物、装置。大理石、玄武岩及其他石材、贝壳、金属丝、身体、声音、嗓音、织物、羊毛线、纸张、纸板、铝，经手工打磨与手工制作。
Borrowing the imaginative resonance of a geological term, the project unfolds through field observation, material experimentation, and ritual space. From multisensory narratives developed through moving image, sound, and installation, to material ecologies woven from ceramics, metal, and minerals, it extends an invitation to wander and dwell together with other forms of life. Over the past five years, I have moved across the Eurasian plate, tracing the rising and subsiding of rock strata, as well as the gazes, listening, touches, and depictions among forms of life. Birds lead me to learn the language of water and to grow familiar with the words of mountains. Thus, guided by journeys and encounters that follow evolutionary facts, as well as by dreams and reveries arising within the flow of the spirit, the stirrings and resonances produced by these precious meetings and conjunctures gradually condensed into the original impulse from which the project was born.
Living alongside species that survived the fifth mass extinction, can we respond in ways beyond critique or sorrow when confronted with the potential continuation of catastrophe and extinction? Could we imagine a new perspective—one that would allow us to set aside the notion that the world ought inevitably to be like this? Once we ourselves have become part of the geological strata, what traces will we leave behind? When future beings peer back into the past, will they be able to discern the tender entanglements that once existed between species?
借用一种对地质学词语的想象，该项目通过田野观察、材料实验与仪式空间，从影像、声音、装置等媒介展开的多感官叙事，到以陶瓷、金属、矿石等交织生成的物质生态景观间，发出与生命一同徜徉栖息的邀请。在过去的五年里，我穿梭在亚欧板块间，追溯着岩层的升起与凹陷，以及⽣命间的凝视、倾听、触碰与描绘。飞鸟引领着我，通晓⽔的语⾔，熟悉⼭的话语。于是，依照着演化事实的旅行和触碰，以及精神流动中的梦境和遐想，意图回应在这些珍贵的相遇和契机之下产生的触动与共振，凝聚成了项目诞生的初衷。
和从第五次大灭绝中幸存下来的生命在这里共同生活的我们，在面临可能继续到来的灾变和消亡时，我们能有批判和悲哀之外的回应吗？我们是否可以设想一种新的视角？而对这一视角的设想，能否撇开世界本该如此的想法？当归于地质层之后，我们将留下怎样的痕迹？当后世的生命窥探往昔时，能否看到曾经的物种间存有着温柔的缠绵？
Installation
- Signal Through Strata (CH)
Ears to the Ground (NL)
Latent Energies (IS)
The Shape of Slowness (IS)
Troubled Waters (NL)
飞鸟在空间中环绕，创造出一种流动性，并最终汇聚到影像之中。它们使得空间和时间从此时此刻延展到了视频之中交错的更为长远的时空之间，并来到我们身边。
All Those Convergences That Rise and Settle
那一切浮起又沉降的交汇⋄
2025 - ongoing
2025 - ongoing
“自我无法知晓的岁月，冰砾第一次离开了古老的冰川，怀抱着过去的大气、泥土，和曾被记住的声音。”
Music Film Excerpt
音乐影像片段2’56’’
不同环境间的即兴表演。由艺术家本人拍摄
The footage was filmed between 2022 and 2026 across the Eurasian continent and the North Atlantic region: from Mount Wutai in China, the Cretaceous limestone plateau in the Netherlands, Untersberg in Austria, and the Swiss Alps, to Iceland’s volcanic landscapes and Norway’s Scandinavian Mountains; from the North Sea and the North Atlantic to the Norwegian Sea. It includes records of the artist’s improvised performances in different environments, field-based image collection, and microscopic documentation of crystal cultivation. The soundtrack is derived from the artist’s improvised singing and musical arrangement. The wearable sculptures are composed of naturally occurring minerals gathered and processed during her journeys, hand-polished and shaped metals, paper-based elements, and mineral pigments. The performance was first presented publicly in Salzburg, Austria, and was further developed during a residency in Iceland.
Life is so delicate, and yet it is indeed enduring. Within cycles of recurrence, the elements that once belonged to it scatter; those elements will be inherited—by rock strata, air, oceans, deserts… between myself and birds, between bodies and minerals, between clouds and mountains, between constellations and the Earth’s core.
《All Those Convergences That Rise and Settle｜那一切浮起又沉降的交汇》以跨越大陆的自然生态和超越国境的共鸣体验，描绘了对“地球母语”的理解。该项目在带给人们心灵和精神上的放松、关怀与启发，以及对生命和自然中的美的觉察和珍惜间，同时印证了一种慰藉与包容的视角。
影片素材拍摄于2022年至2026年，横跨亚欧大陆与北大西洋地区，从中国五台山、荷兰白垩质石灰岩高原、奥地利温特斯山、瑞士阿尔卑斯山脉，到冰岛火山地貌与挪威斯堪的纳维亚山脉；从北海、北大西洋、到挪威海。其中包含了艺术家在不同环境间即兴的表演记录，田野考察的影像采集，以及显微记录的晶体培养。配乐源自艺术家的即兴演唱和编曲。可穿戴雕塑由行走间收集并加工的天然矿石，手工打磨塑形的金属，以及木质纸本和矿物颜料共同构成。该演出首次公开于奥地利萨尔茨堡，随后在冰岛驻留其间得到进一步完善。
⽣命如此纤细，它确实是绵长的，在轮回中，曾属于它的元素四散，那些元素将被承继，岩层、空⽓、海洋、沙漠……在我和飞鸟之间，在躯体和矿石之间，在云层和山脉之间，在星宿和地核之间。
Microscopic documentation of crystal cultivation. Photos by: Iceylithe Bintong Wang
显微记录的晶体培养。由艺术家本人拍摄
Photography Collection
部分摄影
I wish to become, together with those flocks that have witnessed the birth of mountains, a part of the bridge of memory. Among the mountains built up by time, I chant the songs of life as it gathers through these crystals and continues to unfold.
我喜欢风雪之间飞过的鸟，极地之中盛放的花，在岩崖峭壁上攀附的草木。当风雪阻碍着多数生命前行的时候，飞鸟享受着这片无法预测的令人恐惧的气流，通过感受最细微的变动而获得脱离引力的行动。
我愿与那些见证了⼭脉诞⽣的鸟群一起，成为记忆桥梁的⼀环。在时间垒砌的群⼭中，吟咏⽣命经由这些晶体，汇聚并继续延展下去的歌谣。
Credits
Film
Director:
Cameraman:
Performer:
Wearable Sculpture:
Microscopic Culture:
Text:
Editor:
Iceylithe Bintong Wang
Photos
Photographer:
Iceylithe Bintong Wang
Music
Lyric:
Vocal:
Producer:
Iceylithe Bintong Wang
Installation
Sculpture & Painting:
Designed & Installed by:
Iceylithe Bintong Wang
Website
Creater:
Iceylithe Bintong Wang
Special Thanks
People who have provided me with help