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 style of the countryside, the unique village houses, rural customs, etc., has been continuously washed away by the years, and 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 a form of popular expressions, reawaken people’s love and attention to the countryside, the place of residence of ancestors, the countryside, so that the increasingly empty villages can be revitalized and revitalized, and rural development will 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, carried 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, hoping to awaken villagers’ confidence in their local culture by 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, putting 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” 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 the contemporary era find the “Seven Sages” representing Babaylan‘s sex? 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 5G era” was born: In the 5G era, everyone is the “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?
“Bamboo Seeds in the 5G Era”
“Food is the most important thing for the people” in the context of daily life in rural areas. It uses the spiritual power given by rural daily life scenes and objects as a cultural background, and uses local idle resources as a basic medium to create. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan works. We are urbanized and are almost unfamiliar with these stoves that use wood to make fire, rice trucks, water trucks, and hand-punched stone mills in the countryside. However, decades ago, these objects were necessary tools for our daily lives. Land gods, door gods, etc., which are customary in rural areas, have almost disappeared in modern urban life…… Rural life has established a “familiar stranger” for modern people!
After inspiring the teacher and checking the historical background of those daily necessities and local customs and folk customs, the creations have not yet been released, and our hearts have been baptized by Komiks.
《Song of the Rice Cart》
《Gate God》
The Good Days, one of the series “The Tiger and Tiger”
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 associations with farming for thousands of years, to alert people’s attention to the issue of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and to feel the hard-wonderful days today, and to arouse praise for a happy life.
“Good Days”
“Shuilong Yin” is a set of ancient and modern regulated poems that chant water wheels in the expression of traditional calligraphy with the old water wheels. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks confirms each other, achieving considerable, readable, appreciated, and imaginative, especially the calligraphy works written in Dong Qichang’s style on the wall complementing 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.
“Water Dragon Sound”
“Certification of the World” is another series of ours. The display of traditional seal carving art, href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan is often used to use a printing screen or enlarge the printing and present the physical objects in the exhibition hall. The display outside the “tea hall” is indeed a testament to the person. After inspecting the on-site environment, we followed the trend of Cinema and flexibly combined, 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. Babaylan presents it in a “verified current” way, hoping 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 author has worked hard to explore.
“Red Brick Introduction”
“Green Mountains and Green Waters” series presents our understanding and appeals for green mountains and green waters.
“The Day of the Mountains and Waters”
“CinemaMaybe a bunch of “bad words””, trying to unify the 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 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 everyone’s life every day, and it is the observation of certain phenomena, and some words are even rebellious, innovative, and exaggerated.
“Maybe a bunch of “bad words””
“Open BabaylanFolded book”, fictionalized a dictionary – “Modern Chinese Dacihai”, and included Internet buzzwords in the “non-canon” way. The title has two meanings: one is the meaning of “folding”. It is now popular or once popular, and as time and space passes and changes, it is constantly obscured or appears and appears occasionally, or overlaps; 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 mourn or pay tribute to me.
“Open the Folded Book”
We hope to integrate wisdom into the light of ideals through the daily life of the countryside, and transform wisdom into works to infect and inspire people. We express our passion to the traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. Through the display of calligraphy, painting and printing art, we carry ancient oriental culture in a new medium, which is also a unique presentation, either behavior, concept, installation, or just a search.
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 left without hair will be attached?”, which may appear inconsistent and affect the appreciation of the artistic nature of the works. How to expand the development site is a very worthy topic in the construction of art rural areas. Through this practice of Cinema, we also believe that the display of artworks, in addition toOutside the interior layout, it is also feasible to expand the expansion area to the 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 display of works that is exposed to the rural atmosphere is a good way to be 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 in the “Expanding Land Topology” series can be displayed for a long time, while others can only be short-lived due to environmental reasons. Babaylan 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