RTSM｜The Island: 刘进安 & comma
The Island | 孤岛
Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Three
2020艺讯网线上展览
2020艺讯网英文版最新线上展览项目“Reflecting the Sharing Moment”（缩写为RTSM）正式开启，第三期“孤岛”已上线！我们邀请了来自世界各地的艺术家，带来他们在2020的思考和创作。第四期将于12月末上线，敬请期待！
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As the third phase of "Reflecting the Sharing Moment", "The Island" has invited 15 artists/groups to create an ongoing discussion on the impact of the pandemic/post-pandemic era on individuals, lives, relationships, and society in different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
In this section, we would like to introduce artists
LIU Jin'an and comma, as well as their artistic reflections to the year 2020.
LIU Jin'an｜刘进安
"Deviating from the 'normal' thinking trajectory and making things achieve their goals in an abnormal result, this is 'genetically modified thinking'."
Liu Jin'an
Born in 1957 and graduated from Hebei Normal University.
He is the Professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, member of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, member of the Ethics Construction Committee of the China Artists Association, and planning committee member of the Beijing International Biennale. He is one of winners who were awarded the title of Third National Young and Middle-aged Literary and Artistic Worker with both Professional Excellence and Moral Integrity. He also works as distinguished professor of School of Chinese Painting at Central Academy of Fine Arts, researcher of China National Academy of Painting.
Selected Exhibitions:
2020 In Thinking—the Intellectual History of Methodologies of Chinese Contemporary Art, Guangdong Museum of Art
2019 Ink and Things: The Second Biennial Exhibition of Wuhan Ink Art, Wuhan Art Museum
2019 Collection of the First Hunan Chinese Painting, Hunan Art Museum
2019 The Duality of Nature: 2019 Xi'an Landscape Painting Invitational Exhibition, Xi'an Cui Zhenkuan Art Museum
2019 The 10th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen
2018 New Ink Art in China 1978-2018, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
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Man and Woman, Ink on Paper, 240cm×200cm, 2020
10th of March, 2020
The expression “genetically modified thinking” is about whether I think long-term consumption of genetically modified foods will constitute genetically modified consciousness, thereby changing life and habits in language and behavior. A British study stated that common genes in genetically modified crops have appeared in Chinese people. The conclusion is that this gene may cause long-term harm to the carrier’s health and is then inherited.
Of course, I am not only referring to these, but the “behavioral reality” of the current abnormal thinking. It is more appropriate to use the consequences of “genetically modified thinking” as the metaphor.
If genetically modified food is life-threatening, we can choose not to eat it or not to import it. What I am afraid of is that there is nothing I can do if I know that genetically modified food has caused harm. If we allow life to be right there and trampled over by genetically modified crops, isn't this the evil result of genetically modified thinking? In fact, things like this are contrary to common sense and are very prominent and usual in many fields.
Deviating from the “normal” thinking trajectory and making things achieve their goals in an abnormal result, this is “genetically modified thinking”.
Manuscripts
5th of July, 2020
A man and a bird were exposed on the calm water. The man stood up from the water in a suit, with the dripping water that permeated from the clothes. The bird fluttered and flew up above the water...
At the long table, the daughter said: “I have something to say, I want you to know that I am a lesbian.” Mother smiled and said: "You don’t look like that”, while the father looked strange. The daughter hesitated for a moment and left angrily.
The wife said to her husband: “I have something to say as well. I am having an affair.” After hearing this, the husband laughed, and the wife went on to say: “The affair is with your boss.” The husband laughed even harder, “Who can't you find? Electrician, milkman, etc., he is just a joke.” The wife said: “He has three testicles.” The husband hesitated: “Are you sure it's not a cyst or something else?” The wife stood up and walked to her husband, picked up the wine bottle and left angrily too.
Manuscripts
The teacher was teaching a class of students, and a big bird outside hit the glass window and fell to the ground. Everyone looked outside, some students asked the teacher, “Are you not going to deal with it?” At this point, a girl’s phone rang, and the girl hurriedly took the phone to turn off the ringtone. The teacher said to her, “You don't need to turn it off, just answer it, just stand up to answer the phone.” The girl stood up to answer and said: "I am in a class and will call you later."
The teacher paced back and forth on the podium.
These are a few of the movie clips I watched today.
comma
"The first lockdown had put our frenetic activities on hold and significantly slowed down the traffic and construction work allowing us to reconnect with the earth..."
comma (Clémence Choquet, Mickaël Gamio)
We are a French artist duo that studied at the Hear of Strasbourg (France) and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (Austria), we have participated in artist residency programs in Japan, France and Portugal. We have recently started an intercultural cycle of residencies and expositions between France, Japan, Brazil and Corea.
In context, our works refer to reality by confrontation, by contact–contiguity and continuity–and relation; they result from collisions and the apprehension of a place from its physical, geological, historical and cultural features, in the permeability from one field to another, from one culture to the other. We mainly produce site-responsive installations, recalling the silent stirring of the past or creating light interferences so raising the places’ ambiguities. We are equally interested in scientific concepts, technologies that derive from them and popular imagery; by monuments which make History and the sound of the present time which defies immediate understanding.
Our recent research focuses on the ground: the seism’s that shake our architectural and social constructions, the imaginary related to a place (geomythology, risk culture in folktales and pictures…), thresholds and in a metaphorical way the minimum, the base of our material and psychic structures.
It brings out different timescales to accommodate us: from the geological time to those–optimized and sustained–of the production pace, including compulsive clicking, the way we experience it (when waiting, or bored), and revivals of cultural forms.
Along with a site specific production (installations, sculptures), we produce videos and publish texts and photographs.
Artist Page: http://www.cc-comma-mg.com
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"Bombyx mori"
Bombyx mori
The light reflected by the silk in Bombyx mori replaces the extinguished light of the burned out neon light: the thread envelops the neon tube like a shroud and 'repairs' it at the same time by giving it back a little glow.
The production of the yarn by the silkworm–to form a cocoon, in its process of metamorphosis –becomes auto-mummifcation, the chrysalis being smothered with hot air to keep the thread intact. The butterfly, that will not come out, will never adjust artificial light.
As the production of silk thread by the larva is a patient task to form a cocoon that will allow it to molt, we spend a part of our lock down in winding the thread on neon tubes, a long and thorough manual task, to envelop a defective object that a priori could not have a second life–between reparation and burial.
The neon tube, a modern light form that allows labor at any time of the day or night–obsolete already and soon replaced by the light of the even more harsh and cold light of the LED, causing photo-pollution that threatens many species with extinction–is here covered by a faint light from an age-old tradition already based on animal exploitation and a context of world trade, symbol of seduction and luxury from China to Ancient Rome.
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While the first lock down had put our frenetic activities on hold and significantly slowed down the traffic and construction work allowing us to reconnect with the earth (hearing birds singing)–until its depth, seismometers giving a better monitoring of seismic moves with less interference noise–, inhabitants of the North part of our city of Strasbourg are suffering quakes due to geothermal drilling in a region placed on a seismic fault that makes the houses vibrate during the second quarantine that strongly shakes our social, technical and symbolic base.
"Hold on"
Video for a standby (idle) screen conceived in the suspended time of the lock down. An isolated covid 19’s virion bounces from one edge to the other of the screen as we go around in circle in a confined space that, for a while, constituted our whole universe. As permeable to emotions as we are to the virus, the image follows our reading of information, rumours and controversies about the pandemic.
"Score for three smartphones"
Three smartphones – sign of presence of their owner and their germs that cover the phones, or metaphor of their long-distance relationship – are passing a covid 19’s virion from one to the other.
Allegory of the individual infectiousness or of the subject coronavirus at the center of the conversations, the installation depicts our permeability to virus as well as to emotions. The score has to be performed precisely, yet, in French, we use the term 'interpréter' as we would do from a personal and cultural perspective with information.
Image, Video and Text Courtesy of the Artists.
Edited by Sue and Emily/CAFA ART INFO
About the Exhibition
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The Island
Reflecting the Sharing Moment | Section Three
2020艺讯网线上展览 | 第三回
Launch Date: 2020.11.28
Participating Artists
(in alphabetical order of surnames):
CHEN Xi, comma, DUAN Jianwei, JIANG Zhi, LIU Jin'an, LUO Min, LYU Yue (Aluna), MA Liang, Dalila PASOTTI, QIANG Yong, Hideho TANAKA, Johan WAHLSTROM, WANG Chuan, YE Pei, You Open a Box
Curator: Emily ZHOU
Visual Design: Yizhi ZHANG
Organizer: CAFA ART INFO
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