对中国六位当代艺术家的访谈
Interviews With Six Contemporary Artists In China
Dual-Screen Image, 2021, 22’35’’, 17’14’’
"Interviews With Six Contemporary Artists In China" is a one-week experimental show, which is finally presented as a dual-screen video.
The front and back two screens are composed of fictitious images and live videos. In the fictitious images of Screen A, I have constructed six contemporary artists who do not really exist and one enthusiastic young student, Shiyu Li (curator). Shiyu Li tried to prove that the works of these "artists" without background and dissemination can also be recognized by the public. As a curator, she tried to make these "artists", or even small people like herself, enter the discourse circle of contemporary art through an exhibition in Jiuting town, Songjiang, Shanghai.
In the live video of Screen B, I used a flashback to record the entire process of the exhibition "Interviews With Six Contemporary Artists In China” in a guerilla way. The exhibition features with the interview from Screen A, featuring the work of the six fictional artists. I made exhibits of these artists with four friends; then I wrote the exhibition foreword, prepared materials, set up the exhibition, and prepared for the opening ceremony. Actors on site as artists/curators go to the exhibition to interact with the audience and some artists who came by, introduce their "works", I also appear in this exhibition as one of the fictional artists.It is like a theatrical experiment with art props, fake some random works that seems to be into the language of "contemporary art", create dialogues, exhibition; the audiences walk around, and the event happens impromptu.
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In this project, I used an absurdity and irony approach to questioned the barriers of the art industry by faking like someone is trying to get into it.
It is very difficult for creators to get a chance to enter the mainstream contemporary art context, and there’re rules in the traditional centralized evaluation system, it is a moth flutters about the light. Most of the time the quality of a work or an artist depends entirely on those who have the power to judge it. I continue to think about identity too. I use the blurring of the line between what is true and what is false as a methodology for institutional criticism.