展讯 ｜ 新氧艺O2art 798新空间开幕展「旷野之途 2022 Into the Wilderness」
新氧艺O2art荣幸地宣布最新群展“旷野之途 2022”将于2022年9月9日开幕。展览呈现来自艺术家方贤晨、红妍、黄冰洁、黄一山、刘讴睿、李赢、彭斯、司博闻、王伟伟的作品，展期将持续至2022年10月5日，欢迎预约看展。
O2art is honored to announce that the latest group exhibition "Into the Wilderness" will be open on September 9th, 2022. The exhibition will last until October 5th, 2022, presenting works by artists Fang Xianchen, Hong Yan, Huang Bingjie, Huang Yishan, Liu Ourui, Li Ying, Peng Si, Si Bowen and Wang Weiwei. Welcome to make an appointment.
惠子曾对庄子说：“我有棵大树，人们都叫它‘樗’。它的树干却疙里疙瘩，不符合绳墨取直的要求，它的树枝弯弯扭扭，也不适应圆规和角尺取材的需要。虽然生长在道路旁，木匠连看也不看。”庄子说：“你有这么大一棵树，却担忧它没有什么用处，怎么不把它栽种在什么也没有生长的地方，栽种在无边无际的旷野里，悠然自得地徘徊于树旁，优游自在地躺卧于树下。”
这则寓言出自庄子《逍遥游》，两千多年前，人们种植，放牧，狩猎于旷野，自然自由之地，那时，环境还没有被污染和摧毁，人类也没有自我禁锢和奴役，而如今，造化天赋的自由，却在人类世里逼仄泯然。在现代文明诞生的一刻，工厂和机器诞生的一刻，人类，便日益远离了旷野，进而毁灭着旷野，走向自我异化和奴役的歧途。
人类用数百年的时间，狂飙的技术和工业拓殖，将亘古以来由旷野主导的世界，改造成了貌似可以由人来主导的世界。时至今日，人对自然秩序的破坏，也日益清晰地显现出可怕的恶果，气候逆转，病毒反噬，冰川消融，地表高温，旷野在燃烧。
一些观察者将如今人类的境况，称之为现代晚期，在现代绩效社会的急促进程里，是绝没有庄子笔下那棵疙里疙瘩丑樗树的生存空间的，工业文明只需要符合绳墨取直标准的生产物资。现代社会规训了人们应当成为怎样的样子，旷野中的自由人，蜕变成了现代产业链条上只会工作的机器，一种新型的人类，被彻底异化和工具化了的新物种。绩效社会的假象是，所有人自觉自愿地实施对自我的奴役，通过自我绩效的激励，过劳式地无限度地盘剥自我，毫无防备地陷入过度积极的泥淖，绩效的最大化，妨害了原始的自由，人对自我的暴力和戕害，蒙上了自由的幻觉。
现代晚期，病症终究渐次爆发，现代晚期的新型人类，在过载的信息和冗杂的刺激中，已然系统紊乱，抑郁焦虑，感知碎化，人们很难再拥有深刻、专注的注意力。再也无暇在无边无际的旷野，悠然自得地徘徊于树旁，优游自在地躺卧于树下。旷野是遐思冥想之地，从功绩中出离，从自我中出离，将自身沉浸于旷野之中，才能感知旷野的纷纭与芬芳。
现代社会是劳碌的社会，在这样的社会，曾经的自然人，被规训为劳作的动物，生产的工具，生命在现代变成了生产。永不消停的人，焦躁不安，过度繁忙的人，无休无止将自身困囚在不断加速的与幻觉自我疯狂竞争的漩涡和循环中，对自身施加暴力，以自我成就为名，无穷尽的自我剥削，最终，自由转化成了禁锢，自由和奴役融为一体，自由的奴役自我。
然而，自人类在旷野中诞生时起，就并非为劳役而生，劳役的人是不自由的人，同时，人类摧毁和戕害旷野的结果，必是旷野对人类无情的吞噬。旷野之途，人们古昔徜徉过的道路，或许也该是人类再次救赎自我，在返溯中再发现的道路。人要重新回到旷野，敬畏旷野，悠游于旷野。直到人融化于旷野，变成旷野，变成风，变成日光，变成草长莺飞，变成弥漫于空气中的芬芳。这样的时刻，一切都清晰起来，自然葳蕤，纤毫毕现，美显现了，爱显现了，神圣显现了。
戴卓群
2022.9.6
Huizi once spoke to Zhuangzi, "I have an enormous tree, which people say is an ailanthus. Its huge trunk is full of knots so that it cannot be measured with a straight rope, and its branches are so twisted that cannot be used to make a compass or angle square. Though it were growing by the roadside, no passing carpenter would even look at it." Zhuangzi replied: “Now you have this big tree but you are worried that it is of no use. Why don't you plant it in a place where nothing grows? Plant it in a boundless wilderness, wander around it freely, and lie down under it leisurely?"
This fable comes from Zhuangzi's "Free and Easy Wandering". More than two thousand years ago, people planted, herded and hunted in the wilderness, a place of nature and freedom. At that time, the environment was not polluted or destroyed, and human beings were not self-imposed or enslaved. However nowadays, the innate freedom is almost gone in the human world. With the birth of modern civilization and the establishment of factories and machines, humans are starting to get away from the wilderness, and then keep destroying the wilderness, heading for the wrong path of self-alienation and slavishness.
Over hundreds of years, through rapid development of technology and industrial expansion, human beings have transformed a world that was once dominated by the wilderness into one that seems to be dominated by mankind. Today, the destruction of natural order by human beings has revealed its terrible consequences more and more clearly -- climate change, virus outbreak, glacier melting, higher temperature on the earth’s surface, the wilderness burning.
Some observers would describe today's human condition as late modernity. In the fast progress of modern society, there is absolutely no room for Zhuangzi’s knotty and twisted tree to grow; industrial civilization only needs productive materials standardized by the straight rope. Modern society dictates how people should behave. The free man in the wilderness has been transformed into a working machine on the modern industrial chain, a new type of human being, a new species completely alienated and instrumented. The false image provided by the achievement-oriented society is that all people consciously and voluntarily carry out self-slavery, overexert themselves without limit through the incentive of self-performance, and fall into the mire of excessive positivity without precaution. The maximization of one’s performance impairs the innate freedom, and the violence and mutilation of one to oneself are under the illusion of freedom.
In late modernity, disease eventually breaks out. New human beings in the late modernity are depressed, stressed, with disordered system and fragmental deception. They hardly have any deeper and focused concentration in the overload of information and redundant stimulation. There is no time for them to wander around freely in the boundless wilderness, or lie down leisurely under the tree. The wilderness is a place of meditation and freethinking; we can only perceive the diversity and fragrance of it by separating us from our performances and achievements, releasing ourselves and immersing into the wilderness.
Modern society is a toiling society. In such society, the previous ‘people of the nature’ are regulated to working animals and tools of production; they are only living to produce. The restless, the stressed and the overworked are continuously trapping themselves in a circulation of raving competition with a perfect self. In the name of self-achievement, the overdone self-control and endless self-exploit will eventually turns freedom into restraint, and as they integrated, one ‘freely’ enslaved oneself.
However, since human beings were born in the wilderness, they were not born for toil; toiling people are not liberated people. Meanwhile, human beings’ destruction to the wilderness would lead to the wilderness’s merciless devour of human beings. The path into the wilderness -- that humans in the past used to take -- may also be the path that people should rediscover in the journey back to redeem themselves. Let humans return to the wilderness, revere the wilderness, wander in the wilderness, until they are completely immersed into the wilderness, and become the wilderness, the wind, the sunlight, the grass and trees, the aroma in the air. At such moments, all becomes clear. The luxuriant nature reveals all it has; beauty revealed, love revealed, holiness revealed.
Dai Zhuoqun
2022.9.6
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