当代中国艺术中的性别化“身体”

Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art

男性艺术家着意于以高度抽象和概念化的方式通过他们的身体对社会问题进行质疑和追问,女性艺术家则偏向以抒情的方式去探索、揭秘母性情结等她们身体独特的渊源和意蕴。在当代中国艺术中,作为先锋理念必然载体的男性身体以及开启女性主义神秘图景的密钥——女性身体,到底有什么意味?它们看似无理,又是如此直白,它们倔强地占领着艺术的一席之地,完全不顾忌民族传统意识的矜持,不理会美德与道德沦丧其实只是一线之隔,亦不惧怕任何形式的舆论。从先锋艺术如此固执的"身体"主题中我们能得到怎样的教益?这一类诞生于即兴和想象的艺术所戳穿的正是民族集体意识的弱不堪击,伦理观念的飘摇无根以及语言的荒谬本质,它们启发观者在赏鉴的同时重新调试自己的眼光和见识,重建新颖的思维习性、情感和话语的体系。

In contemporary Chinese art, male bodies are used to express avantgarde conceptions and female bodies are a key to disclosing mysterious feminist scene. What exactly is on show？ The brute presence, the there -ness and materiality of the body, its persistence despite the fragility of the memory of traditions, the instability of what count as social virtues and vices, and the uneven power of language to capture what is happening at the level wherein lies the possibility of what can be thought, felt, and said. And what might we learn from the avant -garde art foregrounding of the materiality and persistence of the body？ That art -- born as it is of intuition and imagination - - can express this fragility of memory, instability of values, and fallibility of language and enable its viewers to reconfigure their sightlines and habits of thinking, feeling and saying.