Dialogue

Yan Yuting

Themed 'Dialogue', the special program co-developed by Zheng Lu and Xie Tianxiao is expected to explore possibilities of joint creation between two artistic forms. Interestingly, Xie Tianxiao, a rock bigwig of China, majored in fine arts; Zheng Lu, a key Chinese post-1970s artist, has established a band and served as a drummer once. Our common experience suggests that artists and musicians have always been viewed as companions. Visual arts and music, rock in particular, are always in a state of interaction in both the Fluxus period and the passionate 1980s to 1990s in China, in which the two cultures interpenetrated and interplayed with each other.

Asian Art Works hopes to turn the ordinary 'play' into an experimental 'exhibition' possibly due to this. However, we find many barriers when the exhibition is in place: the creation forms and stances are both comparatively independent, hard to be harmonized. A question for this exhibition emerges - how to generate a dialogue between music and visual arts and turn it into corresponding works and exhibition forms. Finally, the artist Zheng Lu and musician Xie Tianxiao, based on the 'secret' of the dialogue, agreed on the attempts of behavior, music, and visual arts for this theme.

In fact, we find that both similarity and barrier exist in the creation of two fields, so a 'dialogue' is needed. The establishment of the dialogue is based on 'no understanding' and 'for understanding', while the 'dialogue' is a status. The core of the exhibition is to turn 'dialogue' into 'secret'. With the multiple reading barriers, the artists will enable the visitors to decipher the 'secret'. This is an experimental exhibition of sheer interaction, in which the two artists hope to present an inductive result close to extreme to the audiences in the dialogue - the barrier of communication to an unreadable limit. Whether a new possibility of communication can be triggered in such extreme? This is an issue deserving consideration.

Dialogue

阎玉婷

此次郑路 x 谢天笑共同合作的特别项目以“Dialogue | 唠嗑”为题，希望建立起两种艺术形式集合创作的实验可能。很有意思的是，谢天笑是国内重要的摇滚音乐人，但却是学美术出身；郑路是国内重要的70后艺术家，也曾组过乐队，担任过鼓手。在我们的日常经验中，艺术家与音乐人一直被认为是相伴出现的一伙儿人，不管是西方的激浪派时期还是中国激情的80、90年代，视觉艺术与音乐（尤其是摇滚乐）一直处于一种交合的生成状态中，两种文化互相渗透也互相影响。

或许正因此，AAW画廊发起这次特别项目，希望将日常的“玩儿”变成一次实验的“展览”，以展览被锁定后，我们却发现了重重隔阂：创作的方式与思考出发点都相对独立，难以直接协同合作。音乐与视觉艺术的形式如何产生对话，并且将这种对话转化为相应的作品与展览形式成为此次展览抛出的一个问题。最终艺术家郑路与音乐人谢天笑基于“秘密”作为对话基点，并通过这个主题进行行为、声音、视觉多重转化的尝试。

实际上，我们会发现之所以需要“对话”，是因为两个领域在创作过程中并存着共性与隔阂，对话的建立在“不理解”与“想理解”基础之上，这种“对话”同时也是一种状态。展览最终定位在如何将“对话”转为“秘密”。艺术家将通过多重阅读障碍的设置，将“秘密”抛给观众。这是一个纯粹的体验式的交互展览，两位艺术家在对话的过程中希望给观众提供一种接近极端的推理结果——交流的隔阂被推向的不可阅读的极限。值得思考的是，在这样的极限状态下，是否可以激活一种新的交流的可能？