I Can’t Be Part of Your Revolution
Jin Feng+Huang Fangling
Duration: 2015.01.24-2015.03.15
Address: BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China
I Can’t be Part of Your Revolution is a special collaboration between artist, Jin Feng and contemporary theatre director, Huang Fengling that deploys Mount Everest, the highest place on earth, as the definitive metaphor for human aspiration. Whether it is political conquest, late-capital sport, or pure status, Mount Everest has become the ultimate stage for not only pitting man against nature, but also man against man.
It was first the British, then the French, then the Chinese and eventually America that mounted the peak. China’s ascent, while controversial outside of China, has been used as leverage for rallying national morale. By 2012, Everest has been climbed 5,656 times with 223 deaths. Today, with an average cost of over 100,000USD to reach the summit, it has become a rich man’s sport, with the number of wealthy thrill seekers rising sharply since 2000.
Like the ascent of Mt. Everest we are continually nurtured to orient our goals towards the myth of success: The highest peaks, the most money, the greatest freedom, etc. Through live-performance, installation, painting, and video works this hybrid project aims to examine universal goals and their changing nature. The mountain becomes a stage for absurd theatrics wherein the rituals and ideals that we are programmed to adopt as our own go awry, ultimately leading us to the artist’s maxim ‘I can’t be part of your revolution’. I will make my own.
《我不能成为你革命的一部分》
金锋+黄芳翎
展期: 2015.01.24-2015.03.15
地址: BANK 中国上海市黄浦区香港路59号1楼
《我不能成为你革命的一部分》是艺术家金锋向当代话剧导演黄芳翎发起的一次艺术的“对话”。展览以地球上的最高峰珠穆朗玛为主题,并将其作为对人类终极 追求的比喻。无论是作为政治征服的野性象征,还是后资本主义的政治行为,亦或只是纯粹的社会身份符号,珠穆朗玛峰已经成为了人对抗自然,甚至是人与人之 间争锋相对的终极舞台。
继英国之后,法国、中国和美国相继征服山巅。在境外引起争议的“中方登顶”,成为了国内鼓舞人心的宣传工具。截止到2012年,攀登珠峰的总次数已达5656 次,其中233人罹难。现在,登顶珠穆朗玛峰的平均费用为十万美金,它已然成为了有钱人的运动。寻求极限刺激的富有探险者的人数从2000年起一直在快速增长 。
和登顶珠穆朗玛一样,我们的价值取向不断地被潜移默化着。在当今变幻莫测的主流思潮中,我们将神秘的成功设定为不同层面的目标:最高的山峰、最多的金钱 以及最大的自由等等。这次综合项目将通过现场表演、装置、绘画和视频作品等多种形式,来审视这些日异月殊的普遍目标与共识,以探讨这背后波谲云诡的本质 。当珠穆朗玛峰成为汇聚各种荒谬戏剧的舞台时,那些制式化的日常和理想开始在其中迷失,最终让我们直面艺术家的座右铭“我不能成为你革命的一部分”,因 为我会有属于我自己的。
Jin Feng+Huang Fangling
Duration: 2015.01.24-2015.03.15
Address: BANK 1/F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Shanghai, China
I Can’t be Part of Your Revolution is a special collaboration between artist, Jin Feng and contemporary theatre director, Huang Fengling that deploys Mount Everest, the highest place on earth, as the definitive metaphor for human aspiration. Whether it is political conquest, late-capital sport, or pure status, Mount Everest has become the ultimate stage for not only pitting man against nature, but also man against man.
It was first the British, then the French, then the Chinese and eventually America that mounted the peak. China’s ascent, while controversial outside of China, has been used as leverage for rallying national morale. By 2012, Everest has been climbed 5,656 times with 223 deaths. Today, with an average cost of over 100,000USD to reach the summit, it has become a rich man’s sport, with the number of wealthy thrill seekers rising sharply since 2000.
Like the ascent of Mt. Everest we are continually nurtured to orient our goals towards the myth of success: The highest peaks, the most money, the greatest freedom, etc. Through live-performance, installation, painting, and video works this hybrid project aims to examine universal goals and their changing nature. The mountain becomes a stage for absurd theatrics wherein the rituals and ideals that we are programmed to adopt as our own go awry, ultimately leading us to the artist’s maxim ‘I can’t be part of your revolution’. I will make my own.
《我不能成为你革命的一部分》
金锋+黄芳翎
展期: 2015.01.24-2015.03.15
地址: BANK 中国上海市黄浦区香港路59号1楼
《我不能成为你革命的一部分》是艺术家金锋向当代话剧导演黄芳翎发起的一次艺术的“对话”。展览以地球上的最高峰珠穆朗玛为主题,并将其作为对人类终极 追求的比喻。无论是作为政治征服的野性象征,还是后资本主义的政治行为,亦或只是纯粹的社会身份符号,珠穆朗玛峰已经成为了人对抗自然,甚至是人与人之 间争锋相对的终极舞台。
继英国之后,法国、中国和美国相继征服山巅。在境外引起争议的“中方登顶”,成为了国内鼓舞人心的宣传工具。截止到2012年,攀登珠峰的总次数已达5656 次,其中233人罹难。现在,登顶珠穆朗玛峰的平均费用为十万美金,它已然成为了有钱人的运动。寻求极限刺激的富有探险者的人数从2000年起一直在快速增长 。
和登顶珠穆朗玛一样,我们的价值取向不断地被潜移默化着。在当今变幻莫测的主流思潮中,我们将神秘的成功设定为不同层面的目标:最高的山峰、最多的金钱 以及最大的自由等等。这次综合项目将通过现场表演、装置、绘画和视频作品等多种形式,来审视这些日异月殊的普遍目标与共识,以探讨这背后波谲云诡的本质 。当珠穆朗玛峰成为汇聚各种荒谬戏剧的舞台时,那些制式化的日常和理想开始在其中迷失,最终让我们直面艺术家的座右铭“我不能成为你革命的一部分”,因 为我会有属于我自己的。