石青 －《没有什么不被改变》
2011年12月1日至2012年2月1日
箭厂空间荣幸地推出上海艺术家石青的新作《没有什么不被改变》。该艺术项目将持续两个月，在箭厂胡同中的不同地点展开。胡同的物理空间被作为散播的媒介，而散播的对象并非某种观念或信息，而是实实在在的生活材料。石青设计并制作了四组八个不同的路障，就像战场上或城市道路封锁中常见的那种临时关卡或栅栏一样。每个路障都带有抽象的印记并做工精良，尺度上恰好能和胡同中的路口完美地结合起来。但在展览期间，这些路障并不会真正被组装起来，同时在箭厂空间中也不会有关于本次艺术项目的任何信息。展览仅仅是将预制成型并上漆的木材一堆堆地置于箭厂胡同各处公共空间中，并且任由这些木材用作他用。
《没有什么不被改变》对于动荡和骚乱的隐喻是明确的，但经过仔细的淡化处理，让位于作品一种更加显而易见的慷慨姿态。这些路障的部件就那么散放在胡同里，和一堆堆木料没有区别，失去了原本和权威与权力的联系，而作为最基本的生活材料融入社区中。通过让充满政治含义的原材料逐渐消散，这件作品构成了一种转化的过程，尽管附近的居民也许不会注意其中的微妙性。
石青，1969年生于中国内蒙古。他的艺术创作跨越影像、装置和行为。作为2000年之后活跃于北京的后感性艺术家群体的一员，石青对各种艺术媒介和创作方式展开了广泛的实验。他因结合了表演、行为和电影的作品而广为人知，同时，通过将社会政治权力体系和平凡的日常行为举动结合起来，他采用的叙事策略也别具一格。石青曾参加过国内外一系列双年或三年展，其中包括：第四届釜山双年展（2004年），第二届广州三年展（2005年）和美国圣达菲双年展（2008年）。 |
Shi Qing - Nothing Lasts Forever
December 1, 2011 to Feb 1, 2012
Arrow Factory is pleased to announce Nothing Lasts Forever, a new project by Shanghai-based artist Shi Qing that takes place in various locations throughout Jianchang Hutong over the next two months. Nothing Lasts Forever uses the physical site of Jianchang Hutong as a space for dissemination—not of ideas or information—but of raw materials. For this work Shi Qing has designed and built eight different types of road blockades reminiscent of makeshift barriers often found on battlefields or in besieged urban areas. Each is customized with different abstract markings and carefully constructed to fit across specific entry and exit points in the hutong. However these blockades will not be reassembled as full structures at any point in Jianchang Hutong nor will there be any visual reference to the blockades at Arrow Factory. Instead, stacks of the pre-cut and pre-painted lumber will be left outdoors at various public locations in Jianchang Hutong and made available for re-purposing.
Nothing Lasts Forever ‘s associations with notions of turmoil and unrest are far from inadvertent, and yet they are carefully effaced in the presence of a more dominant gesture: generosity. As these disassembled roadblocks appear unannounced on the street in the form of haphazard stacks of mixed lumber, they lose their connection to authority and power and freely dissolve into the neighboring community as basic usable materials. In Nothing Lasts Forever the slow dissolution of such loaded items enacts a process of transformation, even if questionably registered by the surrounding locale.
Shi Qing (b.1969, Inner Mongolia) is an artist whose practice spans video, installation and performance art. A member of the Post-Sense Sensibility group of artists active in Beijing in the early 2000s, Shi has experimented with a variety of materials and artistic approaches. He is known for his works that combine theater, performance and film, and his employment of narrative strategies that intertwine complex social and political systems of power and authority with mundane actions or behaviors. Shi has participated widely in numerous exhibitions China and globally biennials and triennials, among them the 4th Busan Biennial (2004), The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial (2005), and Site Santa Fe (2008). |
