Since the 19th century, the new technology system represented by the railway has changed the connection of the world and the relationship between regions through the cutting of time and space, thus creating a new place and a new identity perception. Dr. Sun Yat sen, the pioneer of the revolution, once envisaged building 100000 kilometers of railway on China's territory to create citizens with the same perception of time and space, and to point to a new national community. However, for Yunnan Province, which is located in the corner of the motherland, its first road of modernization was built by the French colonialists, connecting Yunnan and the French colonies in Vietnam, and then pointing to the sea and distant Europe. If Dr. Sun Yat sen's assumption is accurate, what new perception and identity will be created by Yunnan's railway links to foreign countries rather than local areas, and what kind of historical process will Yunnan be pushed into?
Artist Cheng Xinhao's art project "To the Ocean", which started in 2018, focuses on the Yunnan Vietnam Railway, which connects the Yunnan Plateau and foreign oceans. Through walking, shooting and writing, he tried to respond to the impact of this railway on Yunnan, and threw it back to the scene connecting the body and the time and space scale for retelling. In this sharing, Cheng Xinhao will combine his own creative experience to analyze the local identity and national feelings created by this railway, as well as the history of Yunnan in the first half of the 20th century inspired by it.
从19世纪而降，以铁路为代表的新技术系统通过对时间和空间的裁切，改变了世界的连接和地域之间的关系，也由此制造出了新的地方与新的身份感知。革命先行者孙中山先生曾设想在中国国土上修建十万公里铁路，以此缔造出具有同样时空感知的国民，而指向一个新的民族国家共同体。然而，对于居于祖国一隅的云南省，它的第一条现代化的道路却是由法国殖民者修建，连接了云南与越南的法国殖民地，进而指向海洋和遥远的欧陆。如果孙中山先生的设想是准确的话，那么云南这样指向异邦而非本土的铁路链接将制造出怎样的新的感知与身份，又会将云南推入怎样的历史进程？
艺术家程新皓从2018年开始的艺术项目“致海洋”所关注的正是这条连接了云南高原与异国海洋的滇越铁路。他通过行走、拍摄和书写，试图回应这条铁路对云南带来的影响，并将之重新抛回连接身体与时空尺度的现场进行重述。在这次分享中，程新皓将结合自己的创作经历，分析由这条铁路制造出的地方身份和家国情怀，以及由此激发的云南20世纪上半叶的历史。
Cheng Xinhao was born in Yunnan in 1985. In 2013, he graduated from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Peking University with a doctor's degree. Now, he works and lives in Kunming, Yunnan Province as an artist. His works are usually based on long-term field research and are related to his hometown Yunnan. Through his physical presence, Cheng Xinhao uses video, devices, photography, words and other media to observe the polyphonic links between logic, discourse, knowledge from different sources and the nature, society, and history behind them, as well as the actors embedded in them.
程新皓，1985年出生于云南。2013年毕业于北京大学化学与分子工程学院，获博士学位。现作为艺术家工作生活于云南昆明。他的作品通常基于长期的田野调查，并均与故乡云南相关。通过身体在场的工作方式，程新皓使用录像、装置、摄影与文字等媒介，体察不同来源的逻辑、话语、知识与其背后自然、社会、历史，及镶嵌于其中的行动者之间的复调链接。
