第七届上海双年展《X—后视盲区》
星期五, 十二月 5th, 2008杨少斌是中国当代艺术重要的艺术家之一,作品《X—后视盲区》历经四年走访了全国主要的煤炭生产基地,搜集大量煤炭生产移民的素材,旨在从中国当代艺术实践中重新审视现实主义观念,重新使用现实主义手法来反映煤矿移民的现实。作品意在反映工业大生产时代的迅猛发展与个人生存之间的矛盾,以及整体社会发展的集体宏大叙述与个体劳动发生的冲突和变迁关系。该片中的山西大同煤矿棚户拆迁片段采集于真实的矿工家庭迁移。这些矿工当初从农民转成工人,为安置他们建造了集体棚户,而现在由于采用先进的开采技术和设备,矿工大量下岗,他们将面临再次转变身份的困境。通过这一作品突出了中国社会转型期间煤矿移民的现实与境遇。
Yang Shaobin is one of the most important artists in the contemporary Chinese art world. His work, X-Blind Spot is the culmination of the four years that he spent visiting coal mines around the country, and collecting a large quantity of materials with respect to immigrants working in the mines. The purpose of his work is to reevaluate realist ideas through practical experience in contemporary Chinese art, and in doing so, reveal the reality of immigrants working in coal mines. His artwork also aims to illuminate the conflict between the rapid development of the industrial era and individual survival, the conflictual and changing relationship between society as a whole and individual laborers. In this movie, the demolition of squatter settlements around the Datong coal mine in Shanxi province is based on a real family s experience. These workers have changed from farmers to workers, and to accommodate them, the government provided them with temporary collective housing. But now with the development of high technology there is no need for so many workers, and they have lost their jobs, and face the need to change their identities once again, or even face another process of resettlement. This work describes the realities faced by coal workers during China’s transitional period.
