现场｜李怒个人项目《另一个，同一个》
视频：李怒个人项目《另一个，同一个》现场
Video recording: Li Nu's project El otro, el mismo
李怒个人项目｜《另一个，同一个》
策展人：廖廖
开幕：2019.05.11 下午4点
展期：2019.05.11—2019.05.26
预约观展(微信)：foxsoda
地址：北京市朝阳区艺术黑桥中心幼儿园M'Studio
李怒个人项目《另一个，同一个》
文／廖廖
“实验写作与当代艺术”是米诺主持的“M空间”在今年的系列展览。作为中国“实验小说”的启蒙大师之一的博尔赫斯，用他的作品意象来阐释“实验写作与当代艺术”的某种关系或某种共通的可能，显然是恰当的。但我作为策展人与艺术家李怒要通过作品探索的不是博尔赫斯在中国赫赫有名的那一篇《小径分岔的花园》的时间迷宫。借博尔赫斯《另一个，同一个》诗集的名字做的这个同名展览，指向博尔赫斯所沉迷的另一种意象：镜子（或者说副本）。
在米诺的“M空间”里，李怒塑造了穿着统一服装与戴着同样假发的人群，并以相同的身份（每个人都在模仿米诺）在房间里进行日常行为，仿佛是无数的镜像在彼此重叠映照。
我们分不清谁是真实的“米诺”，谁是模仿者，即博尔赫斯所说的：“镜像即事物本身，模仿的对象是它自身。”也可以说，米诺是自己在模仿自己，即“复制自己，模仿自身，永无止境。”如果说最初的艺术的本质就是对事物的模仿与反映，那么在这里，当我们分不清谁在模仿谁，没有最初的母本，也没有副本的时候，所有的思想与举动都互相映照的关系，没有先后顺序，时间都是重叠与混乱的，即“模仿不再是决定艺术的唯一因素，记忆与想象决定艺术”。
李怒作品里那一群“相同的人”指向的不仅仅是博尔赫斯的镜子与副本，如果说博尔赫斯更多的是一种语言的游戏、一种文本的智力竞赛，那么鲍德里亚在《拟像与仿真》对模仿这个概念的延伸，则涉及到了更现实的层面。
鲍德里亚在《拟像与仿真》中提到了博尔赫斯，拓展了博尔赫斯的“副本”理论，他认为拟像在先，真实与模型之间的差异消失，模型生成真实，超真实出现了。我们进入了“仿真时代”，特点就是真实的符号代替了真实本身。就像作品中的模仿者可能成为了原版本身。在超真实的世界里，没有真与假，没有对与错，没有善与恶，一切对的都是错的，一切错的都是对的。虚拟的真实与真实虚拟，这是今天的拟像社会。物与其象征的符号一起构建了这个世界，营造出这个消费社会、符号社会。
如果说写作与文本虚构了一个世界，就像艺术虚构出一个世界一样，接下来的虚拟世界由VR来创造。已经成为历史的博尔赫斯更像哲学的思考，拟像社会是正在发生的现实情景，镜像世界则是未来将要发生的事情。（这个VR镜像世界还没有真正实现，目前还在苹果公司与通用电气等超级巨头的实验当中）人们正在打造一个1：1的虚拟镜像世界，现实世界里的物品全部都在虚拟镜像中呈现。这个VR镜像世界作为现实世界的副本，提供了无数的幻想与可能性，其创造力与生产力可以与工业革命或者互联网技术媲美，VR镜像世界即将创造无数的机会，同时也带来全新的问题——这是李怒作品中营造的“镜像空间”的现实意义。
回到实验写作与当代艺术的主题，李怒用当代艺术的视觉、触觉表现了我们之前在文字上想象的博尔赫斯的镜子与副本的思考、拟像社会和VR镜像世界，李怒作品的视觉形象的直观性，比抽象的文字更容易让人感受到概念的意义，但也不能说艺术家用“当代艺术”来阐释了“实验写作”，只能说通过李怒的作品，我们看到了“当代艺术”与“实验写作”两者的语言的重叠、意境的互换有着许多的可能性。
除了具体的文本之外，李怒的作品也在另一个角度探索“实验写作与当代艺术”的背景的“同一性”。在二战之后诞生的后现代主义小说（实验写作）其实与当时的战后艺术都是居于同一时代背景，战后的雕塑、绘画、观念艺术、电影、音乐、戏剧等广义的艺术形式都发生了深刻的变化，与实验小说一样，都走向解构、去权威、去宏大叙事、碎片化、去中心、反传统经典的“后现代主义”的特征——而李怒作品中制造的“统一的面貌”正是针对此种处于同一个文化氛围之下的艺术主题的“同一性”。
在“实验写作”的镜像与副本之外，李怒的作品还指向更多的现实方向，在集权主义的的操控下，多元化的身份往往被统一化，以便建立大一统的帝国集权文化与民众凝聚力。在全球化的语境下，不同种族、国家、文化身份的人的消费、趣向、生活形态甚至价值取向都正在越来越趋向统一，全球化的语境渴望建立一个“想象的共同体”······这些主题可能与“实验写作”并没有很直接的关系，但是作为一个能量爆棚的作品，其能量满溢之后指涉超越原主题也是应有之义。
Li Nu's project：El otro, el mismo
Curator: Liao Liao
Opening: (Saturday) 4pm, May 11st, 2019
Duration: May 11st - 26th, 2019
Reservation only (Wechat): foxsoda
Address: M'Studio,Heiqiao art center kindergarden,Chaoyang district,Beijing
Li Nu's project El otro, el mismo
text by Liao Liao
Experimental Writing and Contemporary Art is an exhibition serie curated by Mino in M'Studio this year. Since Jorge Luis Borges was one of the enlightened teachers of Chinese experimental novel, it’s obviously appropriate to use the imagery in his works to interpret the probability of a certain relationship or commonality between the experimental writing and contemporary art. However, instead of the time maze in The Garden of Forking Paths which was famous in China, what I, a curator and an artist, Li Nu, borrowes the name of Borges' poems "El otro, el mismo" as the same name of this project, intend to explore through the work is an other image that Borges indulgesin: the mirror (or copy).
In M'Studio, Li Nu set a group of same wigged and same clothed people, carrying out daily activities in the same identity (everyone is imitating Mino) as if countless mirror images superimposing and reflecting themselves.
We cannot distinguish the real "Mino" fromimitator, just like Borges put it: “The image is the object and the object is imitating itself.” It can be also said, Mino is imitating herself, that is,“copy oneself, imitate oneself, without an end”. If the original essence of artis imitation and reflection to the object itself, all of the thoughts and actions are presented a reflection relationship in no particular order when we cannot find the imitation, the original female parent as well as the copy one.Time is overlapped and chaotic, namely “Imitation is no longer the only factor of art, it is also determined by memory and imagination”.
The same people in Li Nu's works refer to more than themirror and copy of Borges. If Borges was more of a game of language and puzzle of text, Baudrillard extended the concept of imitation in his Simulacra and Simulation to a reality level.
Baudrillard mentioned Borges in Simulacra and Simulationand expanded his copy theory. He believed that the simulacra came first, the difference between reality and model disappeared, model generated reality and gave birth to the hyper-reality. We have entered the Age of Simulation, characterized by real symbol replacing the reality itself. Just as the imitatorin the work may become the original edition itself, in the hyper-real world, there is no truth or fake, no right or wrong, no good or evil, everything right is wrong, everything wrong is right. Virtual reality and real virtualization, this is today's simulacra society. Objects and their symbolic symbols construct the world together, building a consumer society, symbol society.
If writing and text make up a world, just as the art does, the virtual world will be created by VR. Borges, who has become a history, thought more philosophical while the simulacra society is the reality of what is happening where as the mirror world is what will happen in the future. (The VR mirror world has yet to be realized, still being experimented with by super-giants such as Apple and General Electric) People are making a 1:1 virtual mirror world, in which everything in the real world can be represented. The VR mirror worlds as a copy of the real world, provides countless fantasy and possibility, its creativity and productivity can be comparable to the industrial revolution or the internet technology, VR mirrorworld will create a myriad of opportunities, but also brings new problems——this is the realistic meaning of mirror space created in Li Nu's work.
Back to the topic of experimental writing and contemporary art, Li Nu uses the vision and touch of contemporary art to express the reflection on Borges' mirror and copy, simulacra society and the VR mirror world that we previously imagined in words. The visual image of Li Nu's works is easier to make us feel the meaning of the concept rather than abstract words, but it cannot be said that artists interpret experimental writing with contemporary art, but only through Li Nu's works, we could find the language overlap with contemporary art and experimental writing, and there are many possibilities for the exchange of artistic conception.
李怒个人项目《另一个，同一个》现场图片
Photographs: Li Nu's project El otro, el mismo
Besides the specific text, Li Nu also explore the identity in the background of experimental writing and contemporary art from another perspective. Born after the World War II, the post-modern fiction (experimental writing) actually has the same historical background with the post-war art. The post-war sculpture, painting, conceptual art, movies, music, drama and other generalized form of art have profoundly changed, same as the experimental fiction, went to the characteristics of deconstructed, de-authority, de-grand-narrative, fragmentized, de-centered, anti-traditional of the post-modernism - and Li Nu works in the manufacturing of the appearanceof unified it is with this in the same cultural atmosphere under the theme of identity of art.
In addition to the mirror image and copy of experimental writing, Li Nu's works have more realistic significance as well. Under the centralism control, pluralist identity is often unified in order to establish agreat imperial unity culture and the group cohesiveness. In the context of globalization, people’s consumption, interest, life form, even valueorientation in different races, countries, and cultural identities are becoming more and more unified, aspiring to create an imaginary community. These themes may not be directly related to experimental writing, but as a work full of energy, it’s also proper to refer beyond its original subject after the energy overflows.
演出者名单（排名按中文姓氏字母）
List of performers (Ranking by Chinese surname)
崔灿，古尼卡，金晶，蓝寻，刘曼嘉，刘林娴，米诺，娜娜，张娟，张同
Nessa Cui, Nicole Gu, Echo, Margret Lan, Mango, Linxian Liu, Mino, Na Na, Juan Zhang, Tong Zhang
摄影：阿郎｜Photo by A Lang
摄像：李怒｜Video recording by Li Nu
廖廖：策展人、艺术评论人、文化专栏作家。
Liao Liao: curator, art critic, culture columnist.
李怒：艺术家，工作和生活于北京。
Li Nu: artist, works and lives in Beijing.
M'room
“M的房间” 非盈利艺术项目，由米诺于2017年发起。项目不定期邀请艺术家进入她的个人空间Mstudio进行艺术创作，就一些艺术领域的命题进行实验性探讨。
M'room is a non-profit art project initiated by Mino in 2017. From time to time, artists are invited to her private space Mstudio for artistic creation, and some related propositions in the field of art are explored experimentally.
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