拆北京:记忆与遗忘

Dismantling Beijing: Memory and Oblivion

北京正经历着一种巨变,这巨变可以在一个非常流行的象征符号“拆”上得到具体的体现与表达。“拆”是一种媒介,由此某些背景中的被遗忘的事情可以被唤醒而进入到记忆或者前景之中,其服从于一种“逆遗忘恢复”的原则。“非此非彼”以及“处于中间”而非“对立”可以看作是传统性与现代性之间关系的一个核心特征。表面上,通过“拆”,某种东西要被拆毁而其他东西要被记忆。从更深层的意义上来讲,这也是在中国文化背景下的一种再界定的过程,或者也可以说成是统治与服从之间的一种循环的游戏。

Beijing, as the capital of P. R. China, is now undergoing dramatic changes which can be reflected and expressed by a popular symbol chai（dismantle）. Chaiis the medium by which some forgotten things in the background can be aroused into memory or foreground. It is subjected to the principle of counter-forgetting recovery. In this sense, chaiin Beijing was presented just as a counter-forgetting recovery of the recent or distant past. Furthermore, “betwixt”and “between”other than “contrast”could be seen as the core character of relationship between tradition and modernity. In the surface, through chai, something is destructed and others are remembered. Deeply, it could be seen as a process of redefinition under the Chinese cultural background or, generally speaking, a circular game between the rulers and the subordinated.