The countryside in China is a vast and vibrant fertile soil. Although it is not as orderly and prosperous as urban planning and construction, the unique natural scenery of the countryside, the unique cultural styles of the village, the unique village residential buildings, rural customs, etc., have been continuously washed away by the years, and are still standing on the vast land of the motherland. “Homesickness” has become the “memory” that people are looking for in today’s Babaylan. How to intervene in rural cultural construction in a form of popular expression that people like to hear, re-energize people’s love and attention to the countryside, the living place of ancestors, so that the increasingly empty villages can be revitalized and revitalized, so that rural development can be sustainable, and realize the activation and value-added rural idle resources, so that the majority of villagers can have a real sense of gain in economic benefits and cultural life, thereby empowering rural cultural construction. This is the question we are thinking about.
Recently, we went into the countryside to carry out artistic practice of rural cultural revitalization, planned the “Writing Land. Poetry and Distant” work report exhibition, and explored the creation and display path of rural cultural revitalization – “Art Rural Construction”.
In this “art rural construction” practice, we pay special attention to the “roots” of rural culture and the local artistic creation style, and hope to awaken villagers’ confidence in their local culture through expressing traditional rural culture. This is a challenge. For us studio students who use traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art, I think this is not only a challenge, but also a kind of nirvana. It is to cultivate our ability to understand, perceive and understand the countryside. Facing the places where our ancestors have lived for generations, how can we use the artistic talents we have mastered to create and realize our vision, and turn this fertile land into a beautiful spiritual home that is suitable for business and living. In order to avoid the simple graffiti phenomenon in local art creation that was done in the past, our activities adhere to the concept of symbiosis between people and themselves, adapt to local conditions, try to explore the greatest advantages of local natural resources, let art adapt to the environment, let the environment create an artistic atmosphere, light up art, and strive to integrate art and the environment. At the same time, the nourishment of art is silent, and all our artistic conceptions and energy storage are put into this practice to the greatest extent.
Our works are all interpreted by traditional calligraphy, painting and printing art.
The performance art of “Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era” was sprouted by the author’s association with the “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest” from a local bamboo forest. At that time, I thought, who is the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” now? Can contemporary times find the representative “Seven Sages”? Even if it is found, what does it mean? Is it necessary? What inspirational significance does the “Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest” have for the present? “Some things are just so coincidental. At that time, I happened to read an article by Mr. Wu Hongliang studying Chinese painting, titled “Source Bamboo in the 5G era”, which originated from a sentence in a poem “Dream of the Agile Words” in Xichuan. Although the three of us talk about “bamboo forest” and “Seven Sages”, the profiles are different and the meanings to express differently. Therefore, our work “Source Bamboo in the 5G era” was born: For the 5G era, everyone is Komiks “Seven Sages”, but they are different. Everyone has a side of each person. Although things are connected, connected and connected, how should everyone’s heart be connected? Komiks
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the most important thing in the people” series, which uses the spiritual power given by the scenes and objects of rural daily life as a cultural background, and uses local idle resources as the basic media to create. We are urbanized, and we are using these stoves and hands that use wood to make fire in rural daily life. The rice carts that are shaking, the water trucks that are pedaled, and the stone mills that are pushed by hand are almost unfamiliar, but decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. The land gods, door gods, etc. of rural customs and habits are almost dying in modern urban life……… Rural life established the modern people’s “Komiks‘s familiar strangers”!
After the inspiration of the teacher and the background of the daily necessities of Cinema, as well as the local customs and folk customs, the creations have not yet been released, and our hearts have been baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
《Gate God》
The Good Days, one of the series “Tiger and Tigers”
Good Days”, is an installation that uses villagers’ houses as space and uses the Kitchen God culture as the source. It hopes to arouse people’s association with farming civilization for thousands of years, alert people to the issue of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and then perceive the hard-wonderful days today, and trigger praise for a happy life.
“Good Days”
“Water Dragon Sound” is a set of ancient and modern regular poems that chant water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy and the old water wheels, so that they can be regarded, readable, appreciated, and imagined. Especially the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style on the wall complement the water wheels on the ground. The leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of them.
“Shuilongyin”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. The display of traditional seal carving art is usually made by using a seal screen or enlarging the print and physical objects in the exhibition hall. The display outside the “tea hall” is a testament to people. After examining the field environment, we follow the trend and flexibly combine it. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema, allowing the large square array of multi-person works and the small square array of personal works to give full play to the advantages of different visual display, echoing the size and seeing each other’s heights, presenting it in a “verification of the present” way Cinema, I hope that people can have another touch when traveling between different groups.
“Certification of the World”
“Red Brick Introduction”, whether the extension of traditional calligraphy can be connected with contemporary art is one of the topics that the author has worked hard to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
Komiks“Green Mountains and Green Waters in Ancient and Modern Times” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“Maybe it a bunch of “bad words””, trying to unify Internet buzzwords with humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “solemn”. From the must-have words for online communication to becoming the catchphrase of the present, “alternative” has enriched the lives of people in contemporary society. This is the contradiction between tradition and innovation, restraint and ostentatiousness. Because of the problems of using word standards, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity and other trendy online languages, it determines the possibility of long-term nature of its life cycle, and it is even a flash in the pan. However, it is a replica of every day in the current society, and it is a reflection of certain phenomena, and some words are even rebellious, innovative, and exaggerated.
“Maybe a bunch of “bad words””
“Open the folded book”, a dictionary – “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, is edited by Babaylan, which uses the “non-canon” method to include Internet buzzwords. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. It is popular now or once, and with the passage and change of time and space, it is constantly obscured or appears and overlaps, or overlaps; the other is “open”. “Modern Chinese<a All the "popular" memories in the external editing of Cinema's Dacihai" are each word a big event, or Komiks is a Cinema a short story or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Open the Folded Book”, I hope to repair memories, forget them, and mourn or pay tribute to them.
“Opening the Folded Book”
We hope to transform our deep affection for the countryside and our fullness of the earth through the daily things in the countryside, and transform wisdom into works to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, we carry ancient oriental culture with a new medium, which is also a unique presentation, either behavior or concept, href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema is either an installation or just an exploration.
Through this practice, we believe that if the traditional calligraphy and painting form is reset to a living space without villagers, is it a bit of a doubt that “whether the skin is gone and the hair will be attached?”, it may also affect the appreciation of the artistic nature of the work. CinemaHow to expand the exhibition area is a topic worth studying in the art township construction. Through this practice, we also believe that the display of art works is in addition toOutside the interior layout, it is also feasible to expand the expansion area to the outdoors.
GeometryKomiks contains Topology, which talks about spatial transformation in a certain space. For our work display space, as the position of the work changes, a new display space is born again. The author calls it the “topology of the ground”. In Yijian Village, using a form of displaying works that touches the rural atmosphere is a good way to get close to the masses. Local creation, fully “revitalizing” idle spaces and old objects, can be opened as part of the rural museum, and become a medium for displaying local farming culture, traditional folk customs, and village appearance. Some of the artworks in the “Expanding Land Topology” series can be displayed for a long time, while others can only be short-term due to environmental relations, and they all have their own characteristics. Even in a moment, the auspicious light will also promote people’s love and yearning for a better life. If they can be integrated with culture and tourism, it will surely bring popularity and business opportunities.
“Let the city leave memories and let people remember their homesickness.” Through art building, we move writing to the wilderness, to the countryside, and to the fields to awaken people’s memories and contribute to the revitalization of the village.
Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang Qitong