Unit 5
- XIXI QIAN
- Nov 1, 2020
- 6 min read
Updated: Dec 2, 2020
22 Oct
first one by one tutorial with Jo
In today's one-on-one chat with my tutor Jo Bruton, I picked up a printout I had done about drinking culture in London. I'm going to take this painting as a starting point. Because it's a work of my observations about life. This makes me very excited. I once saw a sentence in a book that art practitioners should live seriously if they want to do a good job in art. In addition, the expression form of this work is very traditional, and it is an acceptable work of art for the public. I am also proud of the painting technique.
Jo asked me to say a few key terms to prepare my new project, but I had no specific idea at that time.
And because I spent a lot of time with my sister over the course of those days, the topic that I talked to her about became the subject of the new work that I was thinking about. I told Jo that I wanted to make a work for my hometown to inherit the intangible cultural heritage of my hometown, but I also wanted to maintain critical thinking and make some adjustments.
29 Oct
The team's tutorial
I talked about my recent research and key terms
personal identity
affirmative Action
Feminism movement
humanism
Zen&Christianity （Religious culture has a great influence on art）
Resistance to the space
I've been doing some research on my own hometown recently. I found a very interesting problem. Wenzhou, the city Where I live, is a second-tier city with relatively developed economy, but its ideology is still relatively traditional. It doesn't feel right. Usually, the economic level of a city is directly proportional to the ideological dimension of people.
Wenzhou, my hometown, is a very diverse and interesting city. Wenzhounese are called Chinese Jews. Very good at doing business and having many firsts. In China, the first to have an individual business license; China's first small commodity wholesale market; The first specialized market in rural areas; China's first community-funded airport and so on.
The culture of Wenzhou is also very interesting, mainly covering Buddhism and Christianity. In addition, it is called The Chinese Jerusalem. With a population of just over 9m, Wenzhou is home to hundreds of churches, compared with a few dozen in a region of similar size.
I saw a traditional Dunhuang fresco, which showed some scenes of the society at that time. I think I'll do some work on my current social environment.
However, I felt that the topic was a bit too big, so I found some room for resistance specifically to address these issues.Because in a foreign country people rebel against one thing and can march directly. However, in China, it is very troublesome to march, and we need to submit a lot of materials to the government to apply for a march.So, I wanted to find out something about my city that people don't say. Or something I'm afraid to say.
Like my city, I've been seeing more and more adult stores lately, but they're empty. Because in China, people always use some very obscure words instead of sex.
In addition, the rap industry in China has been very popular in recent years. Many rappers have some tattoos, but on TV, rappers are often decorated with mosaics or plasters. Very funny.
When I finished my thought, one of my Polish classmates, Vladimir, said he thought it was because each state had different policies. From this, I got a reflection that the culture and politics of the East and the West are really so different. First of all, there was no state in China at this time. But, there is abroad. In addition, the yellow Emperor era of primitive Society in China had begun to "paint wild states". The han Dynasty also adopted the state system while implementing the parallel system of the county and state. When emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, abolish the state system. At this point, More than 800 years later, Chinese history returned to the rule of the early Qin. I think it is the historical factors that lead to the disunity of the development of economic thought in my city.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yongjia School of Wenzhou put forward the idea of "merit", emphasizing "to be put into practice by the world and combine justice with benefits". It advocates "putting the people first", "integrating agriculture and commerce" and "enriching the country and strengthening the army". Since then, the worship of business has become the main vein of Wenzhou's ideology and culture.
Nowadays, the ideas of Yongjia school have been deposited as cultural genes of Wenzhou. It is also the spiritual source of "Wenzhou model" and wenzhou people's "dare to be the first in the world".
Wenzhou is the cradle of mathematicians. Over the past 100 years, Wenzhou has cultivated more than 200 well-known mathematical scholars and professors, such as Su Buqing, Gu Chaohao and Jiang Lifu. Wenzhou people are said to be "smart", so it seems, carry the reckoning accurately, is the Wenzhou people inherent in the gene.
On the evening of October 31, I talked to my sister about what I wanted to do. She said that she believed that the reason for the imbalance of economic level and thought in our hometown was the backwardness of our city culture. Our hometown is not very good to carry forward and develop our own ideology and culture.
This is a mind map That I made for my research
5 Nov
I did some research and questionnaires this week, and the surveyors were all from my hometown. Some of them are hard-working businessmen of my parents' age. We are called the Jews of the world because more than half of us are in business. The other part is elderly people from my grandmother's generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution, and I learned a little bit about the historical background and asked them what they thought about our hometown, what they thought about city life, what they thought about rural construction. I shot two videos, in the form of a documentary. Some of them spoke Mandarin, and some of the old people spoke my native language. It is the oldest dialect in China and one of the most difficult dialects in the world.
In addition, I went to check some of our hometown's traditional crafts, and I hope to apply these techniques to my works reasonably. From this I think about a question, the difference between handicraft and artwork. The most intuitive difference is independence. Most of the works made by craftsmen are imitation of mature products, such as imitating a master, etc. Such works have no relative independence, so they are pure imitation of works. Then is the "material", the art is not too much attention to material, because material is to reflect the value of materials, rather than reflect the value of art, so too much attention to the application of material and embodiment, or with the quality of materials to talk about the good or bad works, this is not the right Angle to appreciate art.
I did some research from the industrial materials in my hometown. When I was born, my family made leather. Later, when I was in kindergarten, I developed electrical products. I grew up in an industrial environment. My relatives and friends also run factories, making relevant materials, accessories and equipment. So, my other idea was to use these industrial materials to make my work. This proves that I made it as a work of art and not as a work of art. Because, I did not buy any expensive materials to complete the work.
In addition, my other question is how to make my art and design more approachable, regardless of my educational background and cultural background. Since I was a child, I have learned painting, starting from the exam-oriented education in China, copying many master paintings. I know how to paint realistically. However, many contemporary works of art, abstract art from 50 years ago, are still not appreciated by many people. So, I was thinking about how I could express myself so that more people could understand my work. Thus, I fell in love with the form of animation. Because, in this social form, the development of the Internet video transmission is very easy, and people are more willing to watch a movie or video. So I did some research. I have seen some ukiyo-e animation works and I like them very much. I am not sure what kind of form I will finish the work, but I want to create a rebellious environment that not only breaks the tradition of the picture content, but also the form of the work is a self-innovation.
I also watched some videos from the Museum of Light and Shadow in Paris, and I really enjoyed the immersive experience. I was inspired by some of the work. I saw one of the animations with a lot of small indoor scenes, and I thought about opening a classical door or window to see a large scene of traffic, so as to have the metaphor of opening the world and not closing it.
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