Four Letters from 1950s
Yao Mengxi Report time of the Performance Lecture: 2019.6.29, 4:00 PM Final artwork: performance From the personal perspective into the grand narrative, Yao fictionalized four letters from real events that happened in four historical periods. and try to exploring the sacrifice and persistence in China's "modernization" road 1. The "Kashmir Princess" Incident of 1955 2. How to weigh the physical labor and mental work 3. The interaction between Chinese farmers and American teachers in the early stage of reform and opening-up 4. fifty years after the policy of "knowledge youth to the rural", a confession of an Old Man who still in the Countryside. Yao Mengxi was born in 1985 in Shanghai. lives and works in Shanghai. She involves in various aspects of Art such as curating, art criticism and participation-oriented / project-based practice. Yao co-founded “Radical Space” in 2014 and “Chongqing Work Institute” in 2018. 四封信 姚梦溪 表演性讲述报告时间:2019年6月29日,下午4点 最终作品:现场表演 我们需要不断对过去接受的、约定俗成的东西进行重新理解,以便于去认识和分析那些看似成熟的方法究竟适不适用,例如“现代化”其形成的经验过程,在不同的地区,客观上是不可重复的。而人们怎么跟“现代化”相处?是否也不能重复其他经验的模型?讲述就四封尘封已久的信件,展开个体对“现代化”想象和努力,以及个人意志在集体下的重塑,重返很少被提及的十七年。 姚梦溪,1985年生于上海,现生活工作于上海。策展人、作者、研究者、也基于实践和研究进行创作。激烈空间及重庆工作研究所的联合创办人。 |