Situationists believe that the construction of daily life embodies a kind of revolutionary force and that the construction of a context means the thorough penetration of life. The daily exchanges of opinions always take the form of ordinary routines, such as smoking, drinking or other habits. In this talk, Zhang Ding will invite Yan Jun to discuss the questions sprung from our daily life...
Urbanization and urban life have changed our lifestyle. The state of mind created by city life is mainly occupied by fleeting images. It is made of “the rapid telescoping of changing images, pronounced differences within what is grasped at a single glance and the unexpectedness of violent stimuli (Georg Simmel)”.
The lecture will talk about the art of Mark Bradford and the development of collage as a medium of creation in the past century. When it comes to collage, there are two kinds of techniques. The first is to chop up something that is complete and regroup the pieces. We can find its employment in cubist art that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. The second is to piece together the parts of real objects.
Please note this event is in Chinese language only. Bradford所在的南洛杉矶地区黑人社区的格局及其变化，是解读他的抽象艺术中的一种个体化的现实特性的一条途径。50年代洛杉矶freeway对南洛杉矶地理格局的改变，及其造成的社区间隔绝的状况，非中心化的大都市的社区中的个人艺术家的时空概念和他们对城市表面肌理的认识和表达是蕴涵了社会文化和政治的内涵的。张坚老师将侧重于从共时的角度来谈论马克及其创作，而不是去梳理某种风格或手法的历时性变化。
A map of a city is the primitive roaming reference for wanderers and explorers. However, it does not reflect the life of the city. Streets are always alive. Wanderers, daydreamers, collectors of stories, objects and images, theatre artists, performance artists and contemporary artists travel from west Europe to the Middle East and then from Middle East to Shanghai.
"We live in a time of transition", argues Yann Moulier Boutang. But the irony is that this is not a transition to a new type of society called ‘socialism’, as many on the Left had assumed; rather, it is a transition to a new type of capitalism.
