Bitauto News On October 29, Polestar announced that it would cooperate with the X Art Museum to launch the Polestar art car, which will be based on the Polestar 1 two-door GT sports car. This original, ongoing project aims to inspire exciting creative innovations that transform the way people interact with and perceive automotive art and design. The project has officially entered the preparatory stage and is expected to be delivered and displayed to the public in the second half of 2022.
Polestar 1
In the Polestar Art Car project, X Art Museum will invite outstanding artists to make creative proposals. This selection aims to find young and emerging artists to inspire the exploration of more innovative and sustainable possibilities in the future automotive industry through an artistic perspective. Artists will use Polestar 1 as a prototype to create future designs.
The Polestar Art Car is the nexus between design evolution and sustainable innovation. Its name comes from the Polestar 1 - a design-led high-performance GT coupe (Grand Tourer). car), using the design principle of cutting out the complex and simplifying it to illustrate the concept of breaking the boundaries of creativity.
Nathan Forshaw, President of Polestar China and Asia Pacific: "X Museum has always been committed to discovering and supporting emerging artists from all over the world. The brand pursuit of exploring new possibilities coincides with this."
Huang Xufu, founder and director of X Art Museum, said: "Bringing innovative artistic practices to the public is one of the goals that X Art Museum advocates. I look forward to this cooperation being able to incubate a new concept of art car that subverts people’s perceptions and expectations. We are also very grateful to Polestar for choosing to cooperate with a local art museum in China for such a pioneering project.”
The intertwined relationship between art and technology is an issue that X Art Museum has always paid close attention to. In March 2020, X Virtual Art Museum was officially launched. Designed and "built" by artist and architect Qiang Jiadong, the X Virtual Art Museum continues to generate new virtual spaces as exhibitions change. Unlike most online exhibitions that display virtual works of art, the An extension of the physical museum space and art projects.
The non-equivalent relationship between X Virtual Art Museum and X Art Museum is intended to emphasize the differences between the two and explore how to produce art in two completely different contexts, the virtual environment and the physical environment. Such a non-equivalent relationship highlights the uniqueness and irreplaceability of the two: the spatial scale of the physical museum and the artworks in it are the most direct mobilization of the five senses of the viewer; while the X virtual museum has A game-like treasure hunting experience, displaying the works in a way that cannot be achieved in a physical space and adding easter eggs at the same time. Many of the "parts" appearing in the X virtual museum are actually extracted from the architectural structure of the physical museum.
X Virtual Art Museum
In the previous X Art Museum Triennial Exhibition "Terminal gt;_How Do We Begin?" The winning artist Liu Xin's work "Living Distance" is an autonomous mechanical life form called EBIFA (Everything Beautiful is Far Away "Everything Beautiful is Far Away"), which carries one of the artist's wisdom teeth. EBIFA arrives in space on a Blue Origin rocket, completes a performance in weightless space, then re-enters the atmosphere and returns to the surface.
After EBIFA’s outer space performance, the artist merged Teeth’s journey with her performance on the surface and presented it in a dual-channel video installation. In the video, documentary footage of rocket launches is mixed with images of the artist performing underwater and in the Texas desert, creating another space between space missions and dream rituals.
In the VR experience, the audience plays the role of teeth and experiences the journey personally.
The wisdom tooth born in the darkness is destined to leave, but when it enters another darkness: infinite outer space, its fate takes an unexpected turn.
Liu Xin, "Detachment", 2019?
Polestar has always been committed to supporting and empowering emerging artists to create, allowing consumers to experience and understand art in a new way. Since 2020, Polestar has launched the annual Polestar Global Design Competition and established a vibrant online design community through Instagram (@PolestarDesignCommunity), providing a platform for designers around the world to share inspiration, showcase their works, A sustainable open platform to discuss design concepts and interact directly with brands.
Conrad Choleka, "Polestar MMXL", 2020 Polestar Global Design Competition
Arthur Martins, ""Spanning" Electric Yacht", 2020 Polestar Star Global Design Competition
In collaboration with renowned robotics engineer and musician Moritz Simon Geist, Polestar has created an unprecedented music category. Designing, assembling robots and composing music from unexpected sources has become Moritz's personal signature, and this time, his muse is Polestar 2.
Moritz first made a batch of robots using Polestar 2 parts. Each robot is able to extract sound samples using various elements within the assembly. These samples are either mechanical noise or the changing electromagnetic fields in the system. Moritz then gave rhythm to the collected sound elements, arranged them, and played the car like an instrument.
Moritz Simon Guest, "From Sound Waves to Music", 2021
In October this year, Polestar launched a new project called " "We Harvest Wind" is a new interactive installation that inspires people to think through art about the biggest challenges of our time - climate crisis, pollution and renewable energy conversion. ?
"Walking in the Wind" art installation,
Artist Thijs Biersteker and Polestar Sustainability Officer Fredrika Klarén
This cooperation with the Polestar Art Car is a new beginning for the integration of art and technology. Polestar will work with the X Art Museum to provide a diversified platform to encourage talented artists from the perspectives of art, technology, and innovation. Breaking down boundaries and reshaping our society.