The countryside of 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., although it has been washed away by the years, Babaylan is still standing on the vast land of the motherland. “Homesickness” has become the “memory” that people are looking for now. How to intervene in rural cultural construction in the form of popular expressions of contemporary art, re-energize people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence 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 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 the Earth, Poetry and the 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. Faced with the place where our ancestors lived for generations, how can we use our mastered artistic talents 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, and let the environment create an artistic atmosphere, and highlight art, striving to integrate art and the environment, while the nourishment of art is silent, and put all our artistic conceptions and energy storage 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” isThe author sprouted from a local bamboo forest that reminds the “Seven Sages of the 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 are different. Therefore, our work “Source Bamboo in the 5G era” was born: For the 5G era, everyone is the “Seven Sages”, but they are different. Everyone has their own side. Although things are connected, connected, and connected, how should everyone’s heart be connected?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the most important thing for the people” series, which is based on the spiritual power given by daily life scenes and objects in rural areas. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan scenery is used to create with local idle resources as the basic medium. We are almost unfamiliar with these stoves that use wood to make fire, hand-cranked rice trucks, water wheels, and hand-pushed stone mills in the countryside, but decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. Land gods, door gods, etc. in rural customs and habits have almost disappeared in modern urban life…… Rural life has established a “familiar stranger” for modern people!
After the inspiration of teachers and the background of the Komiks products and the local customs and customs of these daily necessities, our hearts have been baptized first.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
“Gate God”
“Good Days”, one of the series “Good Days”, is to use villagers’ houses as space. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks, a device based on the Kitchen God culture, 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 group of ancient and modern regular poems that chant water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy and the old water wheels, which can be read, appreciated, and can also be imagined, especially on the wall, written in Dong Qichang’s style. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s works complement each other with a water wheel on the ground. The leisurely and leisurely life of people in the farming era seems to be right in front of them.
Cinema “Shuilong Yin”
“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 enlargement of the print and physical objects in the exhibition hall. The display outside the “tea hall” is indeed a test of people. After examining the field environment, we follow the trend and flexibly combine it, allowing a large array of multi-person works and a small group of personal works.The square array plays the advantages of different visual displays, echoing the size and seeing each other in a way that is “verified to the present”. I hope that people’s back and forth between different groups can create another touch.
“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 writers strive to explore.
The “Red Brick IntroducedBabaylan“
The “Green Mountains and Green Waters 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 use online buzzwords to prove unity with humor and ridicule, deep thought and joke, funny and “solemn”, from the must-have words for online communication to become href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s current catchphrase, “alternative” enriches the lives of people in contemporary society, which is the contradiction between tradition and innovation, restraint and ostentatiousness. Because of the problems of such trendy online languages with standardized characters, game-style language, grammatical errors, vulgarity, etc., 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 compiled externally, and includes Internet buzzwords in “non-canon” way. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. It is popular now, or it was once popular with Cinema, and it is constantly obscured or appears and disappears, or it is Komiks cross-over; the second is “open”. All the “popular” memories in the “Modern Chinese Dacihai” are written outside the compilation of “Modern Chinese Dictionary”, each word is a big event, or a small story, or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Open the Folded Book”, Cinema, I hope to repair the memory and forget the Komiks, and to mourn or pay tribute to the memory.
“Open the Folded Book”Babaylan
We hope to transform our full affection for the countryside and the earth through the daily things in the countryside, and transform wisdom into works one by one to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting, and carry ancient oriental culture through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, which is also a unique presentation, either behavior, concept, installation, or just an exploration. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema.
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 without hair will be attached?”, it may appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic nature of the works. How to expand the exhibition site is a topic worth studying in the art site. Through this practice, we also believe that in addition to interior layout, the display of art works is also feasible to expand the exhibition site outdoors.
There is “Topology” in geometry, which talks about the oneThe spatial transformation in a fixed space is, for our work display space, as the position of the work changes, a new display space is born again, which I call the “expanding ground topology” method. 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 can fully revitalize idle spaces and old objects, and can be opened as part of rural museums 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, to the fields to awaken people’s memories and contribute to rural revitalization together.
Source | Jinyang.com Editor | Wang Qitong