Independent curator and contemporary art localization process

 Localization process, independent curator and art
visit by: Evergreen behavior artists work, br> Q: What is art curator in the country when the rise?
A: Art curator in Chinese culture there is a real space in around 1995, some young critics began to organize or join in their art publicly claiming to be the exhibition curator or curators. Although this new role within the domestic circle of local art Show more active and increasingly to the public of the objective produces a large number of curatorial affairs and curator of the soon to be those who insist on features in the local community of artists in recognition of contemporary art. Meanwhile, the provisions of curatorial work and targeted of that, critics, art historians, artists, the role of guest curator of random behavior, still can not make up for the local art environment for the specific needs of curators. as to continuously enrich the connotation of the role of curator, constantly full, professional, expert has become practitioners of the arts curatorial practice in the constant consciousness of the exhibition, from the pursuit. to 1999, curator of Art Quannei Wai groups became the focus of attention. They took extraordinary vitality of a into the community to promote the work of contemporary art, contemporary art context and gradually took the words right platform. This phenomenon has led the organization behind the national art exhibitions and the operation of a quiet transformation. In 2000, curator unprecedentedly active involved in almost all major art exhibition that year and some notable art events. Some of the arts in particular, is an independent curator, creative, or even their personal investment, funding, and hands-on helped create. At the same time, in order to make the exhibition as the only independent curator career choice began to appear.
Q: The emergence of the domestic art curator exhibition whether the impact of institutional transformation?
A: The domestic art professionals attention, reduction in the proportion of social forces to support the arts have become increasingly important. active curators active in the social forces and often between artists, social and artistic behaviors desire to play the role of communication and mix, but also through conscious source of funding to the increasing scale of the work of social funds into artistic activities. to raise funds for the exhibition experience and ability to greatly enhance the reality in the exhibition curator position. In 2000, Chinese Art Exhibition system has undergone a major transformation, the so-called curators center system in the investment side, the artist's many exhibitions to choose a new institution-building came into being. planned economy era, the legacy of government-run institutions such as the Art and Exhibition Organizing Committee and Director , jury members and officers, the Secretary-General and other titles with economies in transition, emerging art of the early temporary chaired by the Artistic Director of all the posts include the role of curator to replace. Apart from the exhibition business, the exhibition organizers, the operation of almost all the powers and responsibilities of the curators who are highly concentrated. This year's contemporary art practice that many organizers of the exhibition is not only recognized but also accepted this curatorial model.
Q: Since it is a curator Center system, then the curator of art exhibitions in the center of exactly what kind of role play?
A: From the established theme of the exhibition, demonstration project and budget, the selection of artists to choose the size and form of exhibitions, exhibition design, exhibition mode exhibition from the foreword written text and academic topics is to host the exhibition seminars, book exhibitions from the editor, Op Guidance, documents released to the media, social advocacy, the allocation of funds from the exhibition to the artist responsible for the overall material cost of the audit and payment, borne by the curator and co-ordination. curatorial work of art development and the deepening of the localization process is also more demanding on the curators, the artist's artistic practice fresh and timely understanding of the richness of visual experience accumulation, a keen judge of art movements, in-depth grasp of the arts should be an essential quality curator. In addition, fund-raising, arts management and the capacity of theoretical thinking and writing in English, oral expression and communication skills are also become an international art exchange current environment in the natural requirements of the local curator. So no longer is art curator lakes hero of the bush, but a pragmatic, personal independence, always facing the challenge of breaking its own limits of knowledge persons. before blindly by the occasional guest curator of the way critics apparently have failed to meet the needs of the contemporary art environment, therefore, led to some real needs of the official art museum curators have planned or set up a professional post establishment, but also laid the existence of an independent curator environment.
2003 in the then Beijing Today Art Museum Pingod first independent exhibition space planned for this : Why did you choose an independent curator in this occupation?
A: a contemporary Chinese artists in the local community if the community select the means, but in the choice of a lonely road of cultural idealism, and indeed in the choice of an independent personality in the position of social habits of thinking, cultural values, codes of conduct and working methods. through the pursuit of an independent curator of the exhibition of public, academic of pragmatic efforts, a number of carefully planned the exhibition began to attract much attention, but also the local community in a more extensive radiation cultural significance. At present, interact with the academic exhibition curator roughly four categories: First, official departments and quasi-official institutions and organizations sponsored the exhibition; Second, galleries, art folk art institution or non-business, the company funded and organized the exhibition; three exhibitions artists self-financing; Fourth, to promote independent exhibition curator. These opportunities for curators to create a flexible space for a great experiment, curator of the ideas and aspirations have been enough to leap to the sea level local cultural forms. over the past century due to the lack of European and American Arts Foundation, art galleries and Gallery better as the main hardware system such as the external conditions and art security system, China's independent curator difficult to complete, uninterrupted just to honor through the curatorial care of their own culture and idealism. Thus, first three exhibitions to the curators provided curatorial practice compromise the concept of opportunities, social utilitarian purpose clearer. There is a tool for curators in the presence of form and procedural work, there is little room the personality . but as long as there is enough energy and curator initiative, the external constraints and curators will form the heart of the confrontation to compromise, will form a glacier slightly under life undercurrent. After all, the exhibition is very little chance, so regardless of the opportunity How, above all the importance of curators involved. adapt to the external environment and then dynamically change the environment, indigenous knowledge has always been those who deliver a consistent approach on their own values, conflict has also been experienced, there is wisdom inspire artistic consciousness and the special training base. as long as the curators have enough willpower and spirit of the stick, all kinds of exhibition practice, are in fact caused by factors of contemporary art and the intellectual values of various social forces, subtle infiltration and proliferation. < br> Question: Compromise, after all, is a helpless, self-realization is not the best mode of curators. independent curator should look for other ways to find more from the jobs, there was the possibility you?
A: Policy were self-financing development, the relative independence of the exhibition can be done to promote the pure, liberal and also to reflect a more contemporary art from the experiment. such as some forms of body for the exhibition against the exhibition of thinking or presentation, only opportunities to achieve in this exhibition. Here, art experimental avant-garde can keep more aloof and independent. In fact, contemporary art has to some extent, has been beyond the property out of a sense of direct consumption. In today's cultural reality of the consumer society , both avant-garde films, plays, concerts, or the implementation of the text in the books of paper products on the spirit of narrative, almost without exception, are first presented in public expectations for the products used, and then to spread through mass consumption. And Vision tend to oppose the commercialization of experimental art as a starting point, it can be relatively self-existence is, in itself, just the traditional media and online media to zoom to achieve the necessary intuitive visual communication or social and cultural acceptance. Many only have the concept of contemporary art, while always hard to get into commodities. This kind of consumer mentality and taste a certain degree of shielding and the diaphragm, the avant-garde of contemporary art in the property to become a relatively more independent spirit of the present. Independent curatorial emphasis is this spirit of freedom and leading role exists. Contemporary Art has introduced new ideas and visual form. curator through the different themes, form, mode of exhibition showcase and test the activity of these elements of art to realize the artist's imagination in space and time in the presentation and process. at the exhibition site vary in size directly to the audience, but the media is essential for the presence and induction. The media is often behind the audience indirectly the whole community. The result is independent of the exhibition and consumption under the guise of non-consumption of dual transmission, communication, social reality to exist in the indirect sense of cultural innovation audience further declared to constitute a directional impact on people thinking inertia, critical real power of the collective unconscious . No doubt, the independent curator of contemporary art by local society for the practice of the exhibition to a stage, a speech and expression of space. there is room for the emergence of independent curators that the art of the possibility of democracy, but also indicates that ecological diversity of contemporary art trend further. After all, I as an independent curator in the local social environment to survive, and it maintained a high state of operational work.
Q: Do you do the job curating there a long-term cultural goals or ideal?
A: Contemporary art exhibitions of contemporary art must confront the problem. curatorial I do is to find a cash value of their own space. specific to art, this space is the localization process of Chinese contemporary art. The process to be a variety of social forces in the local community effort, and may be very long. but still it is a chain in the contemporary Chinese cultural traditions continue to refresh the links themselves, strive to build a unique body of contemporary culture in the process. This body-building often has a certain originality and distinctive spirit of contemporary cultural property. my career the greatest excitement and value of life in this projection space. I work in the exhibition planning, emphasizing the localization process of contemporary art, cultural subjectivity Construction is not ambitious. in fact, that attitude and the pursuit of a culture, and strengthen some of the following mode of thinking in Europe and America-centrism and cultural criticism of speculative behavior, emphasizing the world's different cultures in contemporary international society, the differences value and multipolar shape. Conversely, the arts can enhance the localization process, reflecting the value of my existence, this upgrade is working with the fit with my spiritual pursuit.
2003 年 Today Art Museum apples linked to practical work?
A: I grew up on the ideal future society suffer and the perfect personality for education, so I have not been real interested in Utopia. I think that artists should not only be the face of everyone in the community cultural background of the individual questions, he should face a common problem as a person. the accumulation of human culture, the spirit of open space can be given to each individual to spiritual freedom. This freedom also gives us a spiritual responsibility. We should In response to this reality, some people have converted to sustenance or spiritual space. We care very eyes in addition to these practical interests, concerned about their emotional presence, whether there should be scrutiny of the human spirit and updating the world, there should be on the ultimate fate of human concern. my art utopian ideal should be to create the unique properties of contemporary art. In ideology, the basis of this property and clean up the art of optimizing the structure of the complex relationship between ecology. I planned the exhibition, mainly want one Exhibition planning to raise questions in my academic thinking and the cultural ideal. hard to press, a number of different European countries to achieve the mainstream culture, both Chinese culture and modern spirit of subjectivity and the art of cases and tend to create diverse contemporary art of China a favorable environment for development and test of the human spirit into the future another way out.
Q: Can you talk about the past two years planning the exhibition independence?
A: I separate theme exhibition are planned. the end of 1999 the concept of photography exhibition held in Shanghai, process issues. In 2000 the exhibition more frequently, which, cognitive awareness and expression in the conversion. six cities in the country held a series of continuous acts of art exhibition Contemporary Art from the social and cultural context in which to ask questions, pay attention to the art itself and the interaction between social issues. I noticed, and tap the potential of physical and emotional experience, the use of fresh resources for their own real life, it has become Many of the concerns creativity of local artists and cultural reality of the eruption point. they think about, directly touched the survival of social reality and individual experience itself, not only carries the spirit of traditional Chinese culture, and Chinese artists in the world, revealing the artistic trends in the wisdom of specific and the avant-garde attitude.
Q: Can you focus on the social transformation caused by a very very special institutional and cultural alienation, the abnormal form of survival we are now a reality. and we are accustomed to this reality and slowly. strangeness of the day but gradually, in fact, which implies Many special spiritual dimension. I think art should speak for the special nature of this, should be given a social and cultural impact and influence. Art can not just art history, according to the coordinates to measure their own value, it must be in the community which verify the existence of its own. In this way, contemporary art will have its vitality. exhibition, I highlighted the show is the artist in art and life in the present situation and the different response, revealing that they and society, with others , and art all the anomalies and the relationship between daily food for thought.
Q: Is there a good but ultimately you are not planning an exhibition on display?
A: There is a would like to sum up this exhibition of art and life the same problem. I noticed that there are some domestic works of art to implement a long time, such as Ding Yi's repeated ten years of labor, years of the streets in Beijing, or digging a book on a full page in the text on the whole, present, to reach some practical arts. but a good show all the preparations, the organizers have repeatedly postponed for some reason, nothing seems to have been in the state.
Q: It sounds, this is a deliberate strategy through your development plan. So, could you please start to talk about the concept of everyday attitudes and ideas put forward the concept?
A: daily attitude towards the artist in the art of everyday life attitude. the boundaries of art and life, so today fuzzy, so the lack of universal significance, it has become concerned about the local culture in many Chinese artists, the consensus reality. Infiltration of art and life, interaction and the same has increasingly become the artist's everyday attitude. I think the artist made of everyday attitudes interpretation of their different personalities. But I think that will be stripping the aura of art, the art of the professional to get rid of the myth is very important. a major contribution to modern art is also the right of the people viewing the art, the public, not just noble, Share artist and portrait clients into an art audience. Ever since Duchamp's readymade urinal to the Art Museum, completed work, also the art of creative power to the people. Boy in Sri Lanka to put forward the same tendency has become increasingly evident. First of all, some artists began to record their own spiritual and personal video records into their work done. and also expanding the scope of the artist, up to and including the family, family, neighbors and other people around their own resources and interpersonal their home, place of residence of environmental resources. Second, some artists use their own resources and the identity of the body do the work. artistic experience and intuitive direct further emphasized. Third, there are some artists for many years as one day to adhere to a certain act or art programs, art truly the day of. For them, art is no longer a living from the spirit of higher forms of life, art may be life itself. they can direct the scene of daily life move into the museum can also be a state of art as the original eco-living, a code of conduct embedded into daily life. Here, the arts experience itself is already a work of art, just announced the next work, records and interpretation. adhering to the daily attitude of artists, art has become an absolute way of life. everyday attitude is the same kind of art and life on the attitude, in which emergent art of real life activity. artists living in the local cultural resources. their accumulated experience and point to explain the possibility of localization process of art.
Q: This year did you do a distance from previous show ideas?
A: It is now the country I used to do shows and exhibitions, reflecting the fact, we consider the issue in light of experience, look around the real life survival experience, physical resources, round and round . our noses the experience of those close to our line of sight is blocked, blocking our Transcendence in daily life on the metaphysical thinking. I am planning a pursuit, with the next few years, even with the final fate of the human problems of these more distant association. I want is from their own experience of such a super, super reality of recent art from China. The exhibition is planned with the reality of pulling the main points open distance, about the liberation of the artist's imagination to a number of elegant touches and even ethereal fantasy.
2004 CCAA in Switzerland to attend the academic discussion during the final, left the first curator for the history of Harold. Xi Mann (deceased), collectors Schick, Gu Zhenqing, curator Hou, United States PS1 curator Allena. Hastens, Mrs. Sigg Investor
four curatorial ideas and specific needs of the community run
Q: I understand you planning 2000 go to site production and installation of their respective outdoor sculptures, installations and land art works, can you talk about the curator's role in this activity?
A: For me, the most in the face of this activity significant challenge is how contemporary art in society or may support the potential power of the water, into a true reality of the energy to promote development of the arts. In recent years, I often consider issues other than art itself, to consider operational art and the wider social. which attracted me is the Chinese contemporary art, local resources and complex components of the local economy and a large number of back-home audience. operating reality, curators and exhibition organizers, funders continue consultations, adjustments, and social forces contributed to the understanding of contemporary art values, identity and cooperation, rather than the display of contemporary art literally to opinions on the specific needs of the community together, all kinds of social constraints and existing values. This has quite difficult, but it is an open social space in the real art work. social forces in support of the arts patron of the arts is different from the one-way, the objective existence of social forces on the two-way flow and interaction with art. Curator of the key work is a sense of propriety in the interaction and initiative and actively seek the independence of the rules for Art. Only in this way, the support of social forces can effectively promote the formation of a new contemporary art, the anchor, the artist's concept of ecology in the art to the public aesthetic orientation to generate the necessary leading role.
Q: The event sponsor's investment objective is to build Taiwan's first Land Art Park Art is actually a direct result of the first phase of the park. I want to know why you want to accomplishing the activity of a contemporary art exhibition?
A: The origin of this exhibition the needs of society and curator of art policy exhibition concept of the collision. Lijiang River in Guilin tour organizer at the time Development Corporation to prepare the way to build the arts to transform the park to develop its tourist attractions in Lijiang River Long Island island. I, as curator intervention, places the gradual transformation of negotiation adjust the target company, a series of site investigation, demonstration and the company will become the curator of the factors that strengthen the communication. communication, corporate decision makers the values of contemporary art by the formation of identity shift, from the overall planning concept proposed into the main body to accept and support the implementation of practitioners of contemporary art's new object of artistic ideas. . Finally, enterprise planning and curators to respect the ideas, respect for creative artists to form the whole premise of the activities of the memorandum. My idea is to change the company's art park concept, the implementation to the Art Park, focused on traditional culture is reflected in its constantly updated on the basis of contemporary humanism. I consciously invited artists to create site-site installation works will start the process of accomplishing the project of a spectacular exhibition.
Q: Engineering start into a trade, in fact, this exhibition shows the work is not readily available, then the audience not only see the behavior of the works of artists do you?
A: Such a field produced by a group of artists or installation work consisting of the exhibition site different from the only existing work of art exhibitions to see the usual pattern, allowing the audience, the artists re-examine, reflect on the concept of the exhibition and the exhibition itself. exhibits a lack of complete exhibition is undoubtedly the Deconstruction of traditional exhibition. The Exhibition on the surface like a performance art event, artists making the scene makes the scene exhibits a more ornamental and exhibition participation, plasticity. the audience and the media can occur with artists exchange interactions. Some of the artist's program itself is random sex, although some intimate knowledge of the artist, but the final result is still unknown. This will open the exhibition the audience really excited to play a dynamic role of art audiences.
Q: how think of the a theme?
A: I have always been interested in Chinese traditional culture. traditional literati like rivers and mountains in the real cathartic experience of the two things I forgot to the highest level, they uphold the Miles road avoid to load the rich and diverse cultural factors. I put forward the cultural renewal and constantly. the world without a culture is completely new, completely divorced from traditional culture. The new wave of art must have a rich relationship between the origin and flaunt original works of contemporary artists certainly have a variety of cultural traditions . artistic innovation and to accommodate the traditional binary opposition is not, but work together. in order to reinterpret the concept of contemporary art, steeped years of traditional culture of Guilin landscape, to understand is a kind of explore their own, beyond their own challenges.
2008 年 Gu Zhenqing discussions with the Dutch Prime Minister Li Space Beijing Arts and Cultural Center of the International Art Exhibition br> Q: In the past art circles there is a saying idea was very popular. but in today's context of globalization, for promoting Chinese contemporary art nothing to benefit the independent, but has nothing to do with the localization process. I will not speak their advertised nationalism to one of its self to the so-called international, global motivation is concerned, it is a desire to communicate with European and American art of the mainstream cultural circle. In the context of the exchange is likely to unwittingly follow the European and American cultural center of the dominant tradition of Marxist thinking. Here, in fact, has evolved into a kind of nationalization of the East of the deliberate self-packaging, whether in Orientalism, or the post-colonial form of regionalism emerged, are European and American culture centered thinking inertia derivatives. today's international cultural exchange unequal situation, so we had to communicate solely for the purpose of creating the so-called can easily be shaped into a vision of exotic goods, a letter of the Orientalist style creation and expression. we re-learned and adapted to Orientalism is not the essence of traditional Chinese culture heritage, but the oriental civilization projected on a mirror in the European and American culture. orientalism in Europe and America people according to their own cultural habits of perception and representation of a shape other, a mode of thinking in Europe and America-centrism a necessary complement. So, apply the habits of the framework of the conventions of Orientalism Structure of talk about nationalization of Chinese manufacture, is completely diametrically opposite , select the candidate, the complex structure of domination and collusion. cultural resistance passion into such a structure once the stereotype, identity politics may be materialized as an adjunct or trademarks, as confirmed by European and American mainstream culture, a necessary ornament features an open, thereby losing implementation of a real opportunity for dialogue and confrontation of strength.
Q: artists in contemporary art, the process of how the localization of a relationship?
A: We all know the early nineties, the contemporary art in China is indeed the lack of opportunities in society and legitimacy. the artist's work to achieve results and demonstrate their own cultural ideas, developed countries would have to go to the art of European and American mainstream society standards, European and American culture centered in the radiation and selection, access to the exhibition in the developed countries, published , published a collection of opportunities. in Beijing, China's first generation of professional artists have been produced in the free collection. the artist once the art for a living, support themselves quickly rose to more important than the pursuit of things artistic. so popular the moment not only meet the embassy district, and copies of European and American galleries and cultural needs of the market, but also to meet the needs and Foundation International Art Exhibition, the museum curator and cultural strategy flavor. artists to the value of timely recognition and economic return, resulting in economic independence and maintain a continuing ability to work, followed by a basic field of social status and adhere to the spirit of self-confidence. their special historical conditions to which the particular art of recycling-oriented process has led to the objective of the Chinese contemporary art development trend. the lack of native culture was the subject of art, art exhibitions and difficult to go beyond the helplessness of fatal regret. in the late nineties, local social environment of contemporary art have been greatly improved than before, which is artists keep working, take the initiative to change the results of the external environment. artists involved in aspects of the social reality of the depth and breadth of a substantial increase in the international exchange of experience in possession and accumulation, based on the artist's native cultural consciousness evolved. in the late nineties Chinese contemporary art show local several more mature academic point: First, the depths of the artist to individual self, there is a problem faced daily artistic attitude; Second, in the familiar dramatic changes in the external environment on the social made the emotional background, fresh response, emphasizing imagination and intellectual light, sensitive to the new media, new technology skill to grasp; third, completely erase the geographical and national cultural identity, import international trend of post-modernism. In the face of local society, Chinese artists began to reflect a sense of reality; the face of international exchange situation, and they really have a sense of relief. they do not consider whether the more obscure features of individual artistic identity and away stressed that China Eastern background. but they broke out the art of wisdom and energy of contemporary art is to inject new vitality into the development. Thus, the increasing failure of creativity dilemma in international contemporary art, the work of local artists in China can not be ignored, they are the localization process of truly contemporary art practitioner. more and more curators realized that contemporary art should be made the first efforts on the local community, According to local community needs and introduce new artists to form the mental outlook of the exhibition and exhibition purposes. then the whole package to the international art exhibition to start sharing community, this initiative is a conscious choice and cultural dialogue on the basis of equality, is it possible localization a necessary part. indigenization have to face the international cultural exchange, interactive environment. adhere to the localization, the final analysis, publicity of a local cultural subjectivity adhere to the international doctrine, it is becoming multi-polar development trend in the international cultural an active factor.
Q: Does contemporary art, the localization process of the new system also means that the construction of an art?
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