凡人艺术计划2 我们

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我们
主办：凡人传播
策划：高士明
参展艺术家：张培力（杭州） 邱志杰（北京）

“我们是谁？”
哲学家罗蒂向我们提出了一个极为尖锐的问题。在罗蒂看来，对于我们的追问与问“人是什么？”全然不同，后者是个标准的形而上学问题。问“我们是谁？”则是个彻头彻尾的政治问题。政治学的基本问题是区分“我们”和“他们”。当然，生活在贫乏日子里的我们，不必像政治家那般区分把人群区分的壁垒分明，可是，我们仍然要不断地说出：“我们……”。

“我们”首先是向着一个想象的共同体的归属，指向身份的自我确认。“我们”就在我的前后左右，是支撑个体的土地，是淹没自我的群氓。组成“我们”的，是一个个凡人，也就是“所有人”、 “每个人” 与 “任何人” 。

“所有人”是个体脆弱时分的依托。“所有人”有关于人类，这个全称大词，是支撑着个体生存并且担保着“人”这一物种的众人，却又从无其人。

“每个人”则是一切可能的人，是人人都自以为是的那个“某人”。

“任何人”是无论哪个人，它是个人主义者的否定式的反身称谓。然而，任何人都有权成为他人，任何人也都有权拒绝成为自己。

“所有人”是极权主义的理念，“每个人”是民主的主体，一个所有人都幸福的社会是每个人的不幸。“任何人”介乎二者之间。“任何人”指向“所有人”，也通达“每个人”。“任何人”与“所有人”、“每个人”共同标志了一种沉沦，一种面向das

Man（常人）的生存。
Das man并非某一特定的他人，而是“我们”每个人消散于其中的所在。所有人是聚集的群体，常人则是一般人、众人。常人是指：每个人都和其他人一样，都与所有人、任何人并无二致。这就是Uneigentlichkeit，一种非本真的存在。常人是人之常情，是我们时刻准备逃离又永远挥之不去的存在。日常生活中，我们往往作为常人而生存，这时“我们”就是任何人、每个人和所有人。

张培力、邱志杰，是中国当代艺术界中最特立独行的人物。对这两位艺术家来说， “我们”只是一群不确切个体的模糊存在。从1980年代开始，他们在不同方向上进行着一场共同的事业。张培力冷漠、枯燥的影像背后的尖锐寓意，邱志杰迷宫般机关重重的问题网络，这一切都可以被视为对于“我们”身处其中的意识形态的不怀好意的抵抗。“我们”是意识形态的载体，任何意识形态都是为了制造出相应的“我们”。而对这四位对意识形态心怀叵测的个体主义民兵来说，“我们”是不存在的。通过这个展览中的作品，他们希望呈现的是：每一个体的存在
都是一个绝对的奇迹，奇迹在其本质上是一次性发生的，而所谓“我们”，只是一个有待拆解的魔方，一张过期的支票，一个意识形态梦境中的崇高的幽灵。

开幕酒会：2006年5月13日下午4时
展览时间：2006年5月14日———5月27日
展览地点：loft49凡人乐墅
地址：杭州拱墅区杭印路49号——12号仓库



Art Program of the Common I

WE

Sponsored by: Art Communication Company of the Common, Art Club of the Common
Curators: Gao Shiming & Li Jiawen
Artists participated: Zhang Peili (Hangzhou), Qiu Zhijie (Beijing).


‘Who are we?’
This is a tough question raised by the philosopher Rorty. According to Rorty, the inquiry into ‘We’ differs from the question ‘what is a human being?’, for the latter is a typical metaphysical issue, while the former is a political one. The major problem inside politics lies in the differentiation of ‘we’ from ‘they’. Although we, leading common life, have no need to bother with such differentiation, we can’t help uttering these words: ‘We …’

First of all, there is an imaginative sense of community rooted in the word
‘we’, referring to the affirmation of one’s identity. I am surrounded by this ‘We’, a platform that supports individuals, and a mob that submerges individuality. It is each COMMON, namely, ‘ALL’, ‘EVERYMAN’, or ‘ANY
MAN’ that comprises ‘WE’.
‘All’ is the support for those upset by fragility. ‘All’, related to the human race, though a comprehensive word, and guaranteed the vitality of every individual, is devoid of every single figure.
‘Everyman’ refers to any possible figure, and, in fact, any one can be identified with a certain role in society.
‘Any man’ a word not specific, is a negative reflexive appellation used by individualists. However, any man retains the right to be someone else, or refuse to be what one is.
‘All’ is a totalitarian concept, ‘Everyman’ the subject of democracy, and a society that endows everybody with equal happiness unhappy; ‘Any man’, referring to ‘All’ and covering ‘Everyman’ plays an intermediate role. ‘Any man’, ‘All’, and ‘Everyman’, all these three terms signify a certain attitude, and a state of being in which there is ‘das man’.
Das man is not specific, too, but each of ‘us’ who have dissolved into it. ‘All’ is a convergent group, while common people are just the Common, namely, every common figure resembling one another. Such is what we call
Uneightlichkeit, a state diverted from its original condition. The Common indicates our common sense, which, though we intend to escape at every possible moment, is difficult to get rid of. In daily life, we behave in the form of common figures, and thus ‘We’ turn out to be ‘Any man’, ‘Everyman’, and ‘All’.

Zhang Peili, Qiu Zhijie are among those most individual in the contemporary Chinese art circle. For these four artists, ‘We’ indicates the vague existence of a group of individuals without specificity. From 1980 onward, they commenced the same career in different directions. Behind Zhang Peili’s cold, vapid video, there is poignant significance; Qiu Zhijie contemplates on a labyrinthic mess of problems; all of these above can be regarded as a malicious resistance against the ideology which ‘We’ is in. ‘We’ is the carrier of ideology, any of which intends to create a certain kind of ‘We’. For these four individualist posse men with a strong hostility against ideology, there is nothing like ‘We’. They intend to present such an idea via this exhibition: there is an absolute miracle, which can’t be repeated once it has happened, inside every individual being; and what we call ‘We’, is but an expired check, a Rubik’s cube waiting to be dismantled, or a sublime phantom looming in the dreams of ideology.

Opening ceremony: 3.00 pm, May 12 2006
Time: May 13-May 28 2006
Location: Loft 49, No. 12 Warehouse, 49 Hangyin Road, Hangzhou.


凡人艺术计划 1
统筹：单燕蓉 高琳琳
企宣：彭勃 赵秀君
设计：吴珏辉 卢涛

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