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, and other unique cultural styles, despite the continuous erosion of years, still stand 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 a form of expression that people like, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence of ancestors, so that the increasingly empty villages will be revitalized and revitalized, so that rural development will 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 Land. Poetry and Distant Land” 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, and try to explore the greatest advantages of local natural resources, so that art can adapt to 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 created by the author’s association with the “CinemaSeven 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 you find it in the contemporary worldTo the representative “Komiks 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 on Chinese painting. The title is “Source Bamboo in the 5G Era”. This title comes from a sentence in a poem called “Dreams of Flying 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” has emerged: For the 5G Era, everyone is the “Seven Sages”, but they are not the same. Everyone has a side of each person. Although things are connected, connected, and connected, how should everyone’s heart be connected?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the People” series, BabaylanBabaylan is based on rural days. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe spiritual power given by common life scenes and objects is a cultural background, and use local idle resources as the basic medium to create. We are almost unfamiliar with these fire stoves, hand-cranked rice trucks, pedaled water trucks, and hand-pushed stone mills in the countryside. However, decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. Rural customs The land gods, door gods, etc. that Babaylan are used to, are almost dying in modern urban life…. Rural life has established modern people’s “familiar strangers”!
After inspiring the teacher and looking up the historical background of those daily necessities, local customs and customs, the creative works have not yet been released, and our hearts of Komiks were first baptized.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
《Gate God》
The Good Days, one of the series “Tiger and Tiger”
The 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”
“KomiksShuilongyin” 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, read, appreciated, and imagined. Especially the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style on the wall complement each other with a bed of water wheels across the ground. In the era of farming, people are happy href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema Surely, the comfortable and leisurely life seemed to be right in front of you.
“Shuilong Yin”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. The display of traditional seal carving art is usually presented in the exhibition hall with a seal screen or enlarged prints and physical objects. The display outside the “Temple Babaylan Hall” is a test of the person. After inspecting the on-site environment, we followed the trend and flexibly combined, allowing the large square array of multi-person works and the small square array of Komiks‘s personal works to play the advantages of different visual displays, echoing the size and seeing each other’s heights, presenting them in a “verified current” way. I hope that people’s back and forth between different groups can produce 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 author has been exploring hard.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“Maybe it a bunch of “bad words”” tries to dialectically 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 current catchphrase, “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 such trendy online languages with word specifications, game-style languages, grammatical errors, vulgarity, etc., it determines the possibility of long-term life cycle, and it is even a flash in the pan, but it is also a very common society in today’s societyThe reproduction of everyone’s life is a reflection of certain phenomena, and some words are even rebellious, innovative, and bold in personality.
“Maybe a bunch of “bad words””
“Open the folded book”, a dictionary, “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, is compiled externally, and uses the “non-canon” method to include Internet buzzwords. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. What is popular now or once popular is constantly being blocked by Komiks, appearing and overlapping from time to time; the second is “open”. All the “popular” memories in the external compilation of “Modern Chinese Dacihai” are a big event, or a small story, or an unforgettable memory. Through the work “Open the Folded Book”, I hope to repair my memories, forget them, and even mournKomiks or pay tribute to me.
“Open the Folded Book”
We hope to transform our full affection for the countryside and the earth into the light of ideals through the daily things in the countryside, and transform our Cinema into works to infect and inspire people. We express our feelings to traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. 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, concept, installation, or just an exploration. Through this practice, we believe that for the display form of art works in the rural construction of art, if the traditional calligraphy and painting form is reset to a living space without villagers’ residence,Is it a bit of doubt that “whether the skin is left without hair?” may appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic quality of the work. How to expand the development site is a very worthy topic in the construction of art rural areas. Through this practice, we also believe that in addition to interior layout, it is also feasible to expand the exhibition area outdoors.
There is “Topology” in geometry, which talks about the spatial transformation in a certain space. For the space of our work display, 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.
On-local creation, fully “revitalizing” idle spaces and old objects, 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 listed in the “Expanding Topology” system 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