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In Brief No.003
talking points for contemporary art in China
presented by the dslcollection and RedBox Review
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16 March 2010
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在中国当代艺术现状下如何界定（或重新界定）“艺术家”?
How to (re)frame the "artist" in Chinese contemporary?
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by Samantha Culp, Redbox Review Editor
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MadeIn, "Love in fact results from an excess of dopamine in the brain" 2009 (currently on exhibition at ShanghART Beijing)
正如姚嘉善2008年的获奖文章“生产模式”中深入探讨的一样，对于中国艺术家借助自身以外劳动力来完成艺术品的制作已经成为了一个标准做法。事实上，她认为这种能力已经成为了正如我们所知道的形成中国当代艺术史诗规模的前提条件。这种趋势奠定了艺术家作为艺术作品最终著作权的新观念基础，虽然与此同时狂躁的艺术市场以及强大的艺术收藏家为艺术家定义价值并由此改变了策展观念。或许，像站台中国的“丛林”艺术项目和没顶公司在进行的一些实验，指出了一个新的发展方向，艺术家和策展人面对这种状况直接提供理论和实践的回应，这些都标志着中国当代艺术进程进入新的发展阶段。
Currently up in Beijing are two new exhibitions that seem to reflect new strategies in conceiving of “Chinese contemporary” art as a whole, and the role of individual artists within it. At Platform China is “Jungle,” an exhibition curated with an experimental, open structure, which aims to be an evolving survey of contemporary trends in Chinese art. At ShanghART Beijing is “Spread,” a more traditional mini-retrospective of MadeIn, the art “company” founded by acclaimed conceptualist Xu Zhen in 2009. Also connected are recent attempts to present either a “comprehensive view” of the art scene (such as the proliferation of database initiatives), or select visions of a contemporary canon (such as UCCA's “Breaking Forecast” exhibition this past winter). As explored in depth in Pauline J. Yao's award-winning 2008 essay “In Production Mode,” it's standard practice for Chinese artists to use outside labor in the fabrication of art pieces – in fact, she argues, this ability has been a precondition for the epic scale of “Chinese contemporary art” as we know it. This tendency lays the groundwork for new notions of the artist as ultimate author of their works – while the rabid art market and the power of art collectors to assign value to artists has reshaped concepts of curation.
Perhaps projects like Platform's “Jungle,” and MadeIn's ongoing experiments, point a new direction in which artists and curators are directly offering responses, both theoretical and practical, to these conditions – and marking a new phase in contemporary Chinese art in the process.
(Read the full essay on RedBox Review here)
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