丽水摄影节

2015

Teaching and Learning: Exhibition of Professors and Their Students of Famous Universities in China: Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts

Jan, 29.2019

Twenty Years Unrepentant: A Potential Community

Written by Dong Jun

Chinese people like to say that ancient heroes come out of the young, a survey of the history of young talents generation after generation, and in ancient times when men were 20 years old, they need to perform a crown ceremony to indicate that they have come of age. Young people in their twenties are full of youth, learning and stubbornness, which is the most idealistic period of a person, often thinking "Who are we?" Where did we come from? Where are you going?" Such philosophical questions, because this stage is an important period for a person to find differences and establish themselves, questioning the difference between their own consciousness and the consciousness of others is a grasp of the noumenon, from the meaning of life, is a grasp of the self. The grasp of the noumenon is also the beginning of the awakening of personality and the independence of thought.

TThe photography major of Xi ’an Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1995, and it is one of the earliest fine arts colleges in China to set up photography major. These two decades are also the most important period for the development of contemporary photography in China. Since 1996, the folk magazine New Photography, founded by artist Liu Zheng and others, has emerged, and the Second Pingyao International Photography Festival, curated by independent curator Shu Yang, has been organized. A series of publications, activities and exhibitions related to contemporary new photography, such as the academic discussion triggered by the exhibition "New Photography in China", have invigorated the traditional photography industry. A large number of artists have used images to express themselves, which has effectively nursed the spirit of the original solidified and closed photography industry, and also made it an important cornerstone of the future Chinese contemporary art image media craze.

In sociology, the word Community was first introduced by the German classical sociologist Tennes in his "Community and Society". Until now, the word community only represents the people, not the government. Tennis divided the community into: blood community, geographical community, spiritual community. The artists participating in this exhibition are all born under the background and system of the development of contemporary video art, and the teacher is the blood. Although they have been far away from the former geographical community due to their respective work reasons, they have the potential to converge into a purer spiritual community, and reach themselves through various paths such as photography, film and video.

Teaching and Learning: Exhibition of Professors and Their Students of Famous Universities in China: Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts