书写与边界—2022·第六届昆明美术双年展

主   办

Organizer

云南省文化和旅游厅

Yunnan Provincial Department

of Culture and Tourism

承   办

Co-Organizer

云南美术馆

Yunnan Art Museum

云南画院

Yunnan Academy of Art

时   间

2023/03/10-2023/05/07

WRITING AND BOUNDARY

主题阐释

ABOUT THE THEME

2022年第六届昆明美术双年展以“书写与边界”为主题，探索书法在当代不断衍生和扩展，以及发掘中国传统艺术在当代转化的可能性。

“书写与边界”的提出一方面将改变书法缺席各类国内外美术双年展的失语状态；另一方面通过对边界的探讨及反思，重申书法在当代文化艺术中的价值与意义。

“书写与边界”不再将书法视为历史遗产，而是将其纳入较为普遍的、具有生命力的书写现象之中。

从书写出发，指向冲击传统的批判精神与不断逾越边界的冲动，反思及改变传统书法展览中重复、模仿、固化等现象。在当下的文化系统中，书写将从理论和实践的纬度、于古今互通转化之间，展开一场试验性对话。书写在接受各种传统规训的同时也在释放与生成，因此当书法被纳入广义的书写之时，它将不再囿于原有的边界之内。

书写既是人类的日常痕迹，也是人类生命的创造。在漫长的书写历史中，无论是形成了经典的艺术形式，还是未被规训的原生样态，在书写观念之下，它们都将逾越边界、互通语义。虽然书法是中国传统书写中最为重要的存在，有着极为丰厚的遗存，但是进入当代，书法在面对社会生活及文化艺术语境时逐渐陷入失语的困境。与此同时，中国的现当代艺术在全球化的冲击与启示之下已经开始形成独立的探索道路及样态。

显然，关于当下书写的理解也已不再局限于单一的传统继承，而是走向更为复杂、深受技术与思想影响的新形态、新方法、新规则。

当数码科技重塑世界，网络成为当代社会沟通的重要媒介，转变了当代艺术的体验感，成为了展现自我、讨论时事的全球场域。而艺术所需要承载的内容不仅要面对战争、疫情、气候危机等问题，还要揭示人类世背后不断被挤压的心灵与身体在固化的时空结构中的矛盾现象。新的生活形态和技术环境，也迫使书写观念随之更新与拓展。面对异质文化对书写艺术的影响，或许其出发点、基础以及历史脉络将出现根本性分歧，跨文化交锋虽不可避免，但它有助于我们回溯传统，重新调整传统在当下生长的策略，进而深究书写的当代性。正如西方现代主义作为一场跨文化的艺术实践一样，在某种程度上消解了中国传统的书写形式，却给书写带来了重新生长的契机。

当传统实践形式已不足以表达当代精神生活的混杂性时，重新发掘传统艺术在当代转化的可能性，已成为我们不可回避的问题。

展览旨在通过书法管窥传统文化于当下所遇到的困境和机遇，以生长并建构中国主体文化的未来。而展览中关于边界的指涉有着双重含义：其一，基于书法走向书写观念的延展，艺术家将从事更具当代性的书写，甚至从书写观念中发掘并演生出其他艺术形式和思想方法；其二，学科之间的互动，将打开边界在修辞意义上的隐喻，找出范畴和分类的差异性。

因此，本届双年展不仅需要艺术家、艺术批评家与理论家的参与，还需要哲学家、历史学家，以及人类学家等不同学科背景的学者共同探讨如何打破学科“边界”，重审“书写与边界”这一主题。

展览将分为 “继承发展”“现代试验”“互通语际”“界外生长”四个纬度考察当前实践者对书写艺术的探索及创造。与此同时，学术论坛将从多个视角开展专题研讨，将目光聚焦于域内外各种书写艺术现象，深入其精神内核，探寻书写与未来艺术更多的可能性。

Themed as "Writing and Boundary", the 6th Kunming Art Biennale sets to explore continued derivation and expansion of calligraphy in the contemporary era and to explore possibilities in contemporary transition of traditional Chinese art. With the proposition of "Writing and Boundary", we will change the state of "aphasia" for calligraphy in all kinds of art biennales both in China and in other parts of the world, and reiterate the value and significance of calligraphy in contemporary arts via discussion and reflection on the boundary issue so as to further discover the possibilities in contemporary transitioning of conventional Chinese forms of art.

Under the overarching theme of "Writing and Boundary", calligraphy is no longer viewed as a cultural heritage, but incorporated into a generalized writing phenomenon with vitality.

From a perspective of writing, in direction of critical thinking that clashes with the traditions and impulse that transcends the boundary, we will be able to reflect upon ourselves and then overhaul the repetition, imitation and solidification in conventional calligraphy exhibition. In the contemporary culture system, an experimental dialogue emerging from knowledge and practice will roll out on calligraphy to realize interconnected transformation between ancient and modern times.

In its acceptance of conventions, calligraphy is also unleashing and creating things. When incorporated into a more generalized concept of writing, calligraphy is not any more contained within the previous boundary.

Writing is a course where mankind leaves prints on life, and also a result created by life. Both the classic art forms and untamed primitive ones in the long course of writing history will transcend the boundary and inter-connect the semantics under a concept of writing. Despite that calligraphy has the most important presence in traditional Chinese writing with extremely substantive cultural accumulation, it has been increasingly trapped in a dilemma of aphasia in the social, art and cultural contexts. In the meantime, the Chinese modern and contemporary arts, subject to impact and enlightenment of globalization, have started to look for experimental paths and models independent from others. It's more than obvious that understanding on writing is not any more simply restricted to classical inheritance, and has become new forms, methods and rules of higher complexity deeply influenced by technologies and ideologies.

When the world is reshaped by digital technologies, internet has become a key medium of modern communication and transformed experience of contemporary arts as a global arena for self-expression and debates on current topics. But what art sustains is more than war, pandemic and climate crisis. It is a paradox of men under increasing pressure, both physically and mentally, in a consolidated spatiotemporal structure in the context of Anthropocene. New life style and technology environment also prompts updates and expansion of writing concepts. Faced with potential fundamental discrepancies in understanding writing art from heterogeneous cultures, cross-cultural confrontation is inevitable. But that will help us back-track and adjust the growth strategies of traditions, which will help probe into contemporaneity of writing. As the western modernism has mitigated the Chinese traditional writing forms as a cross-cultural art practice, writing is faced with opportunities of re-growth. When traditional practice forms are insufficient to express complexity of contemporary cultural life, rediscovering possibility of contemporary transformation in conventional arts is unavoidable.

This exhibition looks into the dilemma and opportunities that conventional culture experiences in the contemporary era from a perspective of calligraphy in order to grow and build the future of the Chinese main culture. "Boundary" in the context of this exhibition has two-fold meanings: first, based on extension from calligraphy to writing concept, artists must be engaged in writing art of greater contemporaneity, and even discover and create other artistic forms and ways of thinking from a writing concept; and second, interaction amongst disciplines will unfold a metaphor of boundary in rhetorical sense to find differentiation in categorization and classification. So the Biennale calls for wide discussions among artists, art critics, theorists, philosophers, historians, anthropologists and academics from diversified areas on how to break the discipline "boundary" and review the topic "Writing and Boundary".

This Exhibition will display the exploration and creation of current practitioners on writing art in four sessions including "Inheritance and Development", "Modern Experiment", "Intercultural Connectivity", and "Out-of-Bounds Growth". A seminar will be held to touch upon multiple topics and focus on varied phenomenon on writing art in and outside of the domain to look into the spiritual core and explore more possibilities in writing and future arts.

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