To Talk or not about Art？／谈还是不谈？

Tonight for the opening of Rave Forum at Li Space in Caochangdi Ma Yongfeng asked me to participate to his artwork. During 2 hours we sat around sa table without saying a word experiencing what is to feel boring while in the other room of the gallery more than 20 artists was talking about Chinese contemporary art, its meaning and its future. In the same time Wu Yuren’s work was taking shape under our eyes: “The art here stinks.”

今晚于草场地荔空间正在举行“谈话就是运动”。为了此次活动，马永峰请我参加他的作品，六个人两个小时的时间内坐在一起，不谈话，同时在戈壁二十多个艺术家正在讨论CCA中国当代艺术的意义和未来。无谈就是无谈。。。

同时在展厅里我们能看到吴玉仁在布他的作品的过程：“这里的艺术很臭”。

Does Chinese Performance art is dying?/ 是否中国行为艺术在失去的过程当中？

I was quite exciting to go to see what was going for the second edition of the art performance festival in Caochangdi... dreaming about Zhang Huan, Zhu Ming and the East village performances... but at the end I was quite disappointed... hopefully at end up to Caochangdi workstation/ living dance studio to see the second part of the May festival. There young choreographers' were showing their new works, some of the outdoors performances were pretty interested...  

A Talk with Ma Yongfeng in Wangjing Park/ 于北京望京公园与马永峰的访谈

2009年5月4日与北京望京公园躺在草地上与马永峰谈关于艺术及生活。

“不要创造，只要去发现！

创造也是一种欲望，我把欲望放在最地下，我能吃饱就可以了。”

 

May 4th lying on the grass in Wangjing Park I talk with Ma about art and life. 

Ma Said "Don't create, just discover!

Creating it's also a kind of desire, I minimize all my desires as much as I can, indeed I just need to eat that's all. "

To whom it may concern/一本书不如万路

I realize that some people are coming to China looking for validations of what they heard about the country, its culture and its civilization. (Don’t need to talk here about people who said that they done China after visiting Shanghai and Beijing) From my own point of view, traveling should be a profound human experience. If you are coming to China to find what you rode about it in books and media, then there is no point to come. China is an amazing country for human experiences; just make your own Chinese experience, feel it, live it with a free mind. Just open your eyes and your heart and live it as it is.

我发现有人到另外一个国家就是来确认他们对这个国家、文化和民族的偏见。对我来讲旅行应该是一个非常深刻的有人性的经验。如果到另外一个国家是来证明在书上看过或者通过媒体听过的事实，那就没有必要去接触另外一个文化。应该心灵空白地来经验对方的文化、感受它，体验它；包容地来体验这个现实。

A surrealistic impression at ArtBeijing/ 超现实的感觉在北京艺术博览会

Liang Shuo’s work displayed during ArtBeijing was totally surrealistic in the middle of the fair. I felt that the work was so close to a certain Chinese reality that it looked so fake, especially in this kind of environment ! It was like a bomb put in the middle of ArtBeijing… Liang Shuo “Are you an art terrorist?”

 在北京艺术博览会里面，梁硕的作品看起来特别超现实的。我感觉这个作品那么靠近现实得让你感觉是假的一样，特别是在这样的环境里来对比。感觉象一个炸弹放在北京艺术里面。梁硕你是不是一位艺术恐怖分子？

中国当代艺术只剩下最后一个问题：灵魂 文／朱其

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大家都会做很像当代艺术的“当代艺术 文／朱其

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