联合构筑

文/杜曦云

对个体生命价值的确认，和对这个基础上其他权利的不断确认，让“自由”的边界不断延展，创造力因此源源不断，积极刷新着认知，经验的世界也相应的加速生长着。对身在这个流动变幻现场中的很多人来说，巨量陌生信息中裹挟的新的可能性，以应接不暇的意外，反哺着陈旧的想象力。

但另一方面，人性中长期胶着的内核似乎并未因此而纠错式开放，反而更为粘稠和固化，自负地和事实博弈着，希望敞开的视野中能验证自己的预判……这两种状态形成的张力，驱动着各种有趣的微妙细节，每个人都各自应对并难舍难分。

全球化带来的物质丰裕、文化多元、科技进步等，让可选项无休止的增多，共同体越来越细分，生活方式在裂变中拉开差异。但近几年来的剧烈震荡，也让人与人之间更加休戚与共，不管是主动还是被动。

“当代”总是临时的，在不确定性陡增的“当代”，人们对确定性的渴望也在陡增。在很多人认同的叙事里，大数据、云计算、人工智能、生物科技等合成着全新的环境，智人正在成为拥有“半神”般能力的生命体，由“制造者”转为“创造者”，专注于创造性的构筑更宜人的生存空间。人是充满局限的生物，这种叙事越是成为主流，越要警惕它让人再次陷入“理性的自负”中。但它描述的前景，以意料之中和意料之外的方式，目前正在部分的成为事实，融入到普通人的日常生活中。

“艺术”也是临时的，它总是在各种需求中被灌注着不同的内涵。资本全球流通、消费主义文化四通八达、异样奇观层层叠叠，此时的艺术在热烈拥抱中孤独落寞，随时流失变形却难以挽留。“当代”和“艺术”，都在迅速面目全非着，转眼之间，又是 “当代艺术”新的一幕——“当代艺术”的魅力，也正在于此。

直觉经验、知识储备、预设前提，以及由此而生的认知、趣味、方法、技能等，随时随地孵化着丰富的差异。很多看似绝对的差异，转换视角后，会发现都兼容在同一维度中，在已知和未知、可知和不可知里互相效力。“当代艺术”本来就没有边界，和处境的复杂互动是它的动力和结果。个体既是独一无二的，又和其他个体息息相关。独立行走和共享资源，从来都是并行不悖的，在地缘政治硬伤累累的当下，共享、联合尤其重要：前提、信息、知识、技能、创意、社群等，在开放的意识中自由生长、灵活联合，自觉和不自觉间构筑着新的复合现场……

本次展览邀请的艺术家们，在多年来的实践中，各自和“当代”发生着密切的关系：对全新的可能性充满好奇，在全球视野中不断刷新知识储备，在未知中实验新的材料、形式和美学，随机应变的孵化着令人耳目一新的作品，创造力在这些过程中源源不断。虽然他们彼此之间有明显的差异，甚至他们的各个作品间也有明显的差异，但从作品中来感知，他们的预设前提有不少可重合之处，在对全新未来的积极想象中持续推进着自己的工作。

在当下的新语境中，相对于全球风行的“联合办公”模式，这些艺术家如同以视觉为重要载体的创意者，各自不断敞开着独特异样的视界并彼此交叠，有意无意中联合构筑着新的奇观，以此来渐变着日常生活的陈腐区域。这种联合构筑的能力和状态，在共识减少、阻隔增多、更加呼唤共享和联合的氛围中，凸显多重意义。而且，“联合构筑”作为动力，本来就内在于当代艺术之中，驱动着当代艺术人在解构成见的同时，各自建构更有活力的话语，并自由联合成多维生长的构筑物。

2020年5月10日



Co-constructing

by Du Xiyun

The affirmation of the value of individual life, and the constant affirmation of other rights on this basis, allows the boundary of "freedom" to expand, and creativity thus continuously flows, actively refreshing the cognition, and the world of experience grows accordingly. For many people in this fluid scene, new possibilities wrapped up in huge amounts of unfamiliar information feed back old imaginations with overwhelming surprises.

On the other hand, the long-held kernel of human nature does not seem to open up in a corrective way, but is instead more sticky and solid, conceitedly playing with facts, hoping to validate its own preconceptions in an open field of vision... The tension between these two states is driven by a variety of interesting subtleties, each of us coping with our own and inseparable.

The material abundance, cultural pluralism and technological advances brought about by globalization have led to an endless increase in the number of options, an increasing fragmentation of the community, and a fission in lifestyles to enlarge differences. But the dramatic shocks of recent years have also led to a greater union between people, no matter active or passive.

The "contemporary" is always temporary, and in the "contemporary", where uncertainty is steeply increasing, so is people's desire for certainty. In the narrative that many people agree with, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and so on synthesize a new environment, Homo sapiens is becoming a "demigod-like" life form, from "maker" to "creator", focusing on constructing a more pleasant living space creatively. Human being is a creature full of limitations. The more this narrative becomes mainstream, the more one has to be wary of the "rational conceit" that it renders people. But the outlook it describes, in both expected and unexpected ways, is currently becoming partly true, integrating into the everyday lives of ordinary people.

"Art" is also temporary; it is always infused with different connotations in a variety of needs. With the global circulation of capital, flourishing consumerist culture, and kaleidoscope of spectacles, art at this time is lonely within the warm embrace, easily lost and deformed at any time but difficult to retain. Both "contemporary" and "art" are rapidly changing their faces, and before long, there is a new scene of "contemporary art" - and the charm of "contemporary art" also lies in here.

Intuitive experience, reserves of knowledge, presuppositions, and the resulting perceptions, interests, methods, skills, etc., incubate a wealth of difference at all times. Many seemingly absolute differences, after switching perspectives, you will find that they are compatible in the same dimension, validating each other in the known and unknown, the knowable and the unknowable. "Contemporary art" has no boundaries in the first place, and the complex interaction with the situation is its driving force and result. The individual is at once unique and relevant to other individuals. Walking independently and sharing resources have never been in contradiction with each other. In a time of geopolitical hardness, sharing and association are especially important: premises, information, knowledge, skills, creativity, community, etc., grow freely and flexibly in an open consciousness, and consciously and unconsciously construct new composite scenes...

The artists invited to this exhibition have, over the years of their practice, developed a close relationship with the "contemporary": curious about new possibilities, constantly refreshing their reserves of knowledge in a global vision, experimenting with new materials, forms and aesthetics in the unknown, and incubating refreshing works in an improvised way, with creativity flowing all the time in the process. Although they differ markedly from each other, and even from their individual works, there are quite a few overlaps in their presuppositions perceiving from their works, that continue to advance their work in an active imagining of a brand new future.

Under the current new context, compared to the globally popular "co-working" model, these artists, like creators with vision as an important medium, are constantly opening up unique and different horizons and overlapping each other, consciously and unconsciously co-constructing new spectacles, thus gradually changing the stereotypical parts of daily life. This capacity and state of co-constructing highlights multiple meanings in an atmosphere of less consensus, more barriers and more calls for sharing and union. Moreover, "co-constructing" as a driving force is inherent in contemporary art, driving contemporary artists to construct more dynamic discourses while deconstructing preconceived ideas, and to freely unite into multi-dimensionally growing constructs.

May 10, 2020