拉尔夫-莱蒙 艺术家

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Ralph Lemon
Artist | Class of 2020
Generating interdisciplinary modes of artistic expression for stories, emotions, memories, and identities that traditional media do not accommodate.

Portrait of Ralph Lemon

Title
Artist
Affiliation
Cross Performance, Inc.
Location
New York, New York
Age
68 at time of award
Area of Focus
Performance Art, Choreography and Dance
Published October 6, 2020
About Ralph's Work

Ralph Lemon is an artist generating interdisciplinary modes of artistic expression as he strives to communicate stories, emotions, memories, and identities that do not conform to standard categories of representation. He incorporates sensibilities and approaches gleaned from endeavors beyond the arts, such as ethnographic and historical research, into a diverse and complex body of work that includes choreography, books, paintings, and experimental stage and lecture performances.

In 1995, Lemon disbanded his critically acclaimed touring dance company to pursue a more expansive form of art making, which culminated in the Geography Trilogy (1996–2004).He created Geography Trilogy over the course of a nine-year span on three continents, undertaking intensive research in the form of cultural immersion in communities in Africa, Asia, and the American South. Dancers and musicians from these communities performed the resulting works, which explore the intersection of art, race, spirituality, and self-discovery through movement, music, language, and visual installations. The trilogy amounts to an epic meditation on the possibility of human connection across cultures, even as it confounds and disassembles notions of fixed identities. More recently, in a work called Scaffold Room (2014), Lemon merges text, visual art, and music with live and video performance into what he calls a “performance-lecture-musical.” The performance occurs within and around a modestly scaled, mobile, self-contained stage-like structure created for the piece, blurring the categories of installation and performance. The performers (some of whom are present only via video) inhabit the personae of various archetypal Black female figures drawn from history and popular culture, furthering Lemon’s investigation of how race and gender intersect with performance.

Lemon is currently developing a new work, Saturnalia, which will include excerpts from previous works and conversations with collaborators about grief, violence, and power structures in contemporary culture. A restless artist perpetually reinventing both himself and inherited artistic forms, Lemon is a touchstone for a new generation of artists and is establishing spaces for audiences to explore and express the human experience in all its dimensions.

BIOGRAPHY
Ralph Lemon received a BA (1975) from the University of Minnesota. His additional works include Four Walls (2012), How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? (2010), and (the efflorescence of) Walter (2007). He has held fellowships and residencies at Yale University, Stanford University, Brown University, Temple University, Princeton University, the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois, and the Museum of Modern Art.



拉尔夫-莱蒙
艺术家 | 2020级
为传统媒体无法容纳的故事、情感、记忆和身份产生跨学科的艺术表达模式。

拉尔夫-莱蒙的画像

标题
艺术家
所属机构
Cross Performance, Inc.
地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为68岁
重点领域
行为艺术、编舞和舞蹈
发表于2020年10月6日
关于拉尔夫的作品

拉尔夫-莱蒙是一位产生跨学科艺术表达模式的艺术家，他努力传达不符合标准表现类别的故事、情感、记忆和身份。他将从艺术以外的努力中收集到的情感和方法，如人种学和历史研究，融入到一个多样化和复杂的作品中，包括舞蹈编排、书籍、绘画和实验性的舞台和演讲表演。

1995年，莱蒙解散了他广受好评的巡回舞蹈团，以追求更广泛的艺术创作形式，这在《地理三部曲》（1996-2004）中达到了顶峰。他在三大洲的九年时间里创作了《地理三部曲》，在非洲、亚洲和美国南部的社区进行了密集的文化浸泡研究。来自这些社区的舞者和音乐家表演了由此产生的作品，这些作品通过运动、音乐、语言和视觉装置探索了艺术、种族、精神和自我发现的交叉点。这三部曲相当于对人类跨文化联系的可能性进行了史诗般的沉思，即使它混淆和分解了固定身份的概念。最近，在一个名为 "脚手架房间"（2014）的作品中，莱蒙将文字、视觉艺术和音乐与现场和视频表演融合在一起，成为他所说的 "表演-讲座-音乐"。表演发生在一个规模不大的、可移动的、自成一体的类似于舞台的结构内和周围，为该作品而创造，模糊了装置和表演的类别。表演者（其中一些人只通过视频出现）以历史和流行文化中各种典型的黑人女性形象出现，进一步推动了莱蒙对种族和性别如何与表演相交的研究。

莱蒙目前正在开发一个新的作品《Saturnalia》，它将包括以前作品的摘录以及与合作者关于悲伤、暴力和当代文化中的权力结构的对话。莱蒙是一位不安分的艺术家，一直在重塑自己和继承的艺术形式，他是新一代艺术家的试金石，正在为观众建立空间来探索和表达人类经验的所有层面。

个人简历
拉尔夫-莱蒙获得了明尼苏达大学的学士学位（1975）。他的其他作品包括《四面墙》（2012年）、《你怎么能整天呆在房子里而不去任何地方？(2010)，以及《沃尔特的流变》(2007)。他曾在耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学、布朗大学、天普大学、普林斯顿大学、伊利诺伊大学Krannert中心和现代艺术博物馆获得奖学金和实习机会。