起点:介入艺术生活366天

起点:介入艺术生活366天——2008年1月1日-12月31日生长与变化

展览主办:上海证大现代艺术馆
展览时间:2009年1月18日-4月18日
展览地点:上海证大现代艺术馆(上海浦东新区芳甸路199弄28号)

艺术家/艺术机构:吴俊勇

国籍:中国

作品名称:《俚语辞典》

媒材形式:网络艺术作品

实施时间:2008.1.10

实施地点:http://www.art590.com/

俚语作为公共词汇存在,因其形象和生动而成为某些语义的代名词,在成为公共词汇的过程和不断运用中,其原初的词面图像逐渐散失。《俚语辞典》计划为构建这些日常口语中的图像系谱。通过搭建一个留言网站http://www.art590.com/, 网络征集俚语词库。从中选择有代表性词汇进行创作。制作一本辞典,发布到互联网。作品为长期计划,并且不定期的进行更新。艺术家:吴俊勇,于1978生于 福建莆田,1996年到2000年在中国美术学院版画系学习。之后从2002年开始在中国美术学院研究新媒体,与此同时也开始尝试独立制作FLASH动 画。艺术评论家凯伦·史密斯曾表示:“吴俊勇有眼光用FLASH这种新型媒介来创作作品,并且形成自己独特的语言和表达方式。”她认为,“录像、摄影这些 现在常用的新媒体艺术载体最早也都从商业用途发展而来。早在19世纪70年代杜尚将小便池搬进美术馆时就已经提出了这样的问题:任何东西都可以变成艺术, 关键看艺术家如何去做。”在吴俊勇一系列更为抽象的动画作品中(《阅兵》、《广场》、《剧场Ⅰ》《剧场Ⅱ》、《剧场Ⅲ》),戴着红色高帽的一群裸体小人成 为其中的主角,用各种奇怪动作在单调的音效和片段式场景中表现社会政治生活中人与人之间微妙的关系。

Artist/Organization: Wu Junyong

Nationality: China

Project: Slang Dictionary

Medium: Internet Art

Date: Jan. 10, 2008

Location: http://www.art590.com/

As common vocabulary, slang becomes synonym of some expression for its vividness. In the process of becoming common vocabulary and being used over and over again, the surface meaning of the words gradually fade away. Slang Dictionary project intends to build the genealogy of slangs used in everyday conversation.To execute the project:Constructing a websitehttp://www.art590.com/: Call for entries for a slang database.Selecting slangs from the database.Compiling a slang dictionary and posting it online.This is a long term project and will be updated over time.Wu Junyong’s animation DVD works are the most exciting creations coming from the younger generation of contemporary Chinese artists. Images, sounds, and texts are combined to give a pulsating vision of a new rich, urban Chinese society. Just as the great contemporary painters of the previous generation of the Chinese avant-garde captured the zeitgeist of China in the 1990s, Wu Junyong captures it of a wealthy China in 2007. Wu Junyong’s newest works, the Opera series – Opera I, II and III, form a satirical comment on politics. Originating from the wholly Chinese context in which Wu Junyong lives and works, never leaving China before January 2007, the artist believes that his comments are applicable to politicians and politics worldwide. Politicians, like actors or characters in a DVD, perform on a stage. Their platform for expression and self-promotion also serve to expose all the ridicule and human frailties of their situation. The combination of image and sound gives a vision of a surreal domain in which these characters operate.

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