“苏色生活馆”是苏州博物馆西馆的一个创新型的探索与尝试。

基于苏州网师园的八角布局，我们创造了这个数字叙事场域的基础零件：外廊、内庭、洞天。这些零件组成了展厅空间，同时也搭建了中国文化的朴素时间观——变化：日夜更替、季节变换、万物生长。三个载体分别演绎一天、一季、一年。

展厅用创新中国叙事的基础媒介演绎不同节气里的苏州生活美学，同时每期展览也会邀请不同领域的艺术家和非遗传承人一起加入到创作和表演当中，构建成视觉和叙事一体的试验性剧场。

2021秋分，我们举办了苏色生活馆开馆首秀 ——“万变”。

During the autumn equinox, we held the first show of the opening of theSuzhou Museum West Building - "Time Lingers in The Cave ". 

2022立春 ，立春来临预示着冬天将要过去，迎来穿暖花开万物复苏的时节。我们策划了苏色生活馆第二个特展。此次展览主题呼应立春节气命名为——“立春·发生”。 

“Time is an illusion”

-Albert Einstein.

最初的地球并不适宜生命活动，而经过了无限漫长的岁月和极其复杂的化学进化，在无数个机缘巧合的堆叠之下，最初的有机体——第一个“生命”诞生了。而后持续做功，与其他的无机体相互作用、共生演变，逐渐地，地球上出现了智慧生命、建筑、文明，最终让地球变得稳定且循环。

The original earth was not suitable for life activities. After infinitely long years and extremely complex chemical evolution, the original organism – the first "life" was born in coincidence. Then continue to do work, interact with other inorganic bodies, and evolve symbiotically. Gradually, intelligent life, architecture, and civilization appeared on the earth.  Finally, the earth became stable and cyclical.

虽然地球对宇宙而言微不足道，但生命的诞生成为了逆转时间之矢的钥匙——宇宙第一法则暂时失效了。经过时间的洗礼，一些生命陨落了，但也伴随着更多新生命的诞生。如此循环往复，逐渐形成生命的循环。

Although the earth is insignificant to the universe, the birth of life has become the key to reversing the arrow of time - the first law of the universe is temporarily invalid. As time goes by, some lives have fallen, but more new ones have been born. This cycle repeats, gradually forming the cycle of life.

如果我们把视角从宇宙挪开，回到这个包含我们所有喜怒哀乐的文明世界里，把目光落在苏州, 独特的气候变化让这个城市在人类文明和自然肌理之间共生，在建筑和植物之间共生。让我们选择一个特殊的时间奇点—“立春“，登上江南城邦的屋顶，感知第一朵，第二朵，第三朵，乃至万千朵桃花开放的画面。一朵朵小小的桃花里面，有着一套完整的生命密码：受孕、播种、生长。让我们感知这份生命的努力，这个熵减的奇迹，以及文明和自然。在季节的呼吸下，周而复始，共同“发生”。

If we move our perspective from the universe and return to this civilized world that contains all our joys and sorrows, and set our eyes on Suzhou, the unique climate change allows the city to live in the symbiosis between human civilization and the natural fabric, as well as architecture and plants. Let us choose a special time - "The beginning of spring", climb the roof of the city-state in the south of the Yangtze River, and perceive the image of the first, second, third, and even thousands of peach blossoms blooming. Inside every little peach blossom, there is a complete set of life codes: conception, sowing, and growth. Let us perceive the effort of life, the miracle of entropy reduction, along with civilization and nature. Under the breath of the seasons, “Emergence” together over and over again.

“发生”是一个汉语词汇，意思是原来不存在的事情出现了。地球上的生命也许只是一个BUG，打破了宇宙第一法则。自然界中的细菌、动物和植物与人类文明中的建筑共同演绎了这个“熵减”的过程。

"Fa Sheng" is a Chinese word that means something that didn't exist before appeared. Life on Earth may be a bug, breaking the first law of the universe.  Bacteria, animals and plants in nature as well as architecture in human civilization jointly deduce this process of "entropy reduction".ts in nature as well as architecture in human civilization jointly deduce this process of "entropy reduction".

“立春·发生”是中国的数字艺术团队InsPUMP直觉泵德国空间叙事团队VAVE Studio 共同创作的一个艺术作品，结合虚拟视觉和诗意编程，把立春时节苏州桃花盛开的自然现象高度抽象和浓缩，释义“熵减”现象，用生命对抗时间之矢。

“Emergence” is a project created by the German space experience design team VAVE Studio and the Chinese digital art team InsPUMP. In an unnatural space, the natural phenomenon of peach blossoms blooming during the beginning of spring is highly abstracted and concentrated by the virtual vision and poetic programming, interpreting the phenomenon of "entropy reduction", and fighting the arrow of time with life.

由于风的不确定性，我们围绕花瓣的尺寸、材质、厚度，固定花瓣的轴承的尺寸、材质、重量，风机的风量、透风率，做了成百上千次测试，最终实现了最初设想中花瓣的诗意编舞。

Due to the uncertainty of the wind, we have done hundreds of tests about the size, material and thickness of the petals, the size, material and weight of the bearings that fix the petals, the air volume and ventilation rate of the blower. Finally, the poetic choreography of the petals originally envisioned was achived.

我们在水池中用上万片瓦片搭建了一片传统的苏州屋顶，中间镶嵌了一个圆形舞台。桃花花瓣悬在舞台四周，我们通过编程软件联动数十台鼓风机，并设定不同的风量参数，使花瓣随着音乐上下飘动，时而微颤，时而激舞。

We built some traditional Suzhou roofs with tens of thousands of tiles in the pool, with a circular stage inlaid in the middle. The petals of the peach blossoms were hung around the stage. We triggered dozens of blowers through programming software and set different air volume parameters to make the petals float up and down with the music, sometimes trembling, sometimes dancing.

2022年1月26日“立春·发生”在苏色生活馆开展，现场邀请到了非遗传承大师、吴门琴社社长吴明涛老师为观众带来《梅花三弄》和《白雪》两首经典古琴曲，在漫天飞舞的花瓣中，江南情韵借着琴声娓娓道来。 

On January 26, 2022, "EMERGENCE" was held in the Secret of Colors and Solar Terms. Intangible Cultural Heritage inheritors and the president of Wu Men Qin She – Mingtao Wu  was invited to bring the two classics Guqin music, "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" and "White Snow" to the audience. In the petals flying all over the sky, river south sentiment is narrated by the sound of the Guqin.