Two of the most promising Chinese artist, Chen Tianzhuo and Lu Yang, will collaborate for the first time in B6C. The project is on from 6-9pm this Saturday, July 26.

这周六*7月26日晚上6点至9点，当代最有潜力艺术家陆扬和陈天灼首次合作，在B6C推出二人项目。

Basement 6: www.b6cshanghai.com

上海市徐汇区华山路1643号华山花苑6号地下室

Basement 6, 1643 Huashan Road, Xuhui, Shanghai

陈天灼Chen Tianzhuo: tianzhuochen.com

陆扬Lu Yang: luyang.asia

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In order to understand these two most prominent artists in China, B6C conducted a small interview.

为了更好的理解这两位目前最有潜力点中国艺术家，B6C做了一个小小的访谈

B6C 陈天灼，你近期在BANK编导的演出《野餐／天堂／婊子》受到了很多关注，你可以说一说这个表演的背后有什么故事情节吗？其中引用的Butoh舞踏元素有什么特别意义吗？这个作品接下去还有什么后续吗？

B6C: Chen Tianzhuo, the performance “Picnic, Paradise, Bitch” you curated recently in BANK received a lot of attention, is there any narrative behind the performance? Was there any special meaning when you use the element of Butoh dance? What’s your plan for it afterwards?

陈天灼（陈) 演出是基于明年想做的一个歌舞剧来的，它是歌舞剧的一个提炼。它不是歌舞剧的片段截取，因为歌舞剧还是比较叙事，这更像是一个歌舞剧的一个衍生表演。歌舞剧是有一个清晰的故事和叙事的，这个会更加身体表演一些。其中的舞蹈元素也不光有Butoh（Butoh只是其中的一小部分），还有纯粹的表演行为，后面还有一段Vogueing，是几种不太一样的元素融合起来吧。Butoh只是出现在适合Butoh的地方。因为Butoh本身挺精神的，它是一种舞者和自己灵魂沟通的方式，所以只有需要butoh的时候才有。

Chen Tianzhuo (Chen): The performance was based on an Opera we want to do next year. This is an abstraction of the opera. It’s not an episode of the opera, but rather a product of it, because opera tends to be narrative, and this performance is more about the body performance. There were a lot of different elements mixed in this performance, not only Butoh dance, but also performance art, an element of Vogueing was in it too. Butoh would appear only in where it needed to be, because Botoh dance is rather spiritual, it’s a way for the dancer to communicate with his/her soul, that’s why it only appear in where it needs to be.

B6C 陆扬，无论是之前用用青蛙尸体做水下舞蹈，或是之前在MOCA放映的《子宫战士》，又或是癌宝宝系列，你的作品一直很有冲击力。对你来说，影响你作品最关键的元素是什么？通常你是如何选择一个题材的？

B6C: Lu Yang, no matter if it’s when you use frog dead bodies to do underwater dance, or the “Uterus Man” that was recently screened in MOCA Shanghai, or your Cancer baby series, your work has a strong impact on the audience. For you, what element influenced you the most? And how do you pick a topic?

陆扬（陆）影响我自己作品最关键的元素？就是我自己啊。。。这个问题得具体作品具体分析，每一个都不一样，不过我的作品一直在疾病,死亡,医学,宗教,神经科学这几个点上打转。

Lu Yang （Lu）: The element that influence my work? That’s me… it’s different on different work, but my work has always circle around illness, death, medical, religion and Neuroscience.

B6C 我知道你们（陈天灼和陆扬）是情侣关系，请问你们的作品是否也会相互影响呢？你们之前有合作过吗？合作过什么？

B6C: I know you two (Chen Tianzhuo and Lu Yang) are a couple, do your work influence each other? Have you work on projects together before?

陈  相互影响还好吧，因为陆扬有她关注的点，而我也有我关注的地方。但可能作品本身就有一些共通的地方吧。而且两个人在一起久了，会有一些相互影响，也正常吧，我觉得也没有什么。合作倒是没有。

Chen: Not such big influence, because Lu Yang and I have our own focus. But maybe our work has some similarities. And since we have been together long, it’s normal to have some influence on each other. We have not work together before.

陆  我也不知道是否会影响，我们工作互不干扰，没有合作过。

Lu: I don’t know if we affect each other, we don’t disturb each other’s work, and we have not work together before.

B6C 你们两位的作品经常跨界：时尚，科学，宗教，游戏都玩过。跨度如此广，请问跨界合作上面你们有什么秘诀吗？

B6C: You two have always crossed over to other disciplinary: fashion, science, religion and game, were all under your belt. Do you have any secret sauce to a successful crossover?

陈  跨界上我觉得没有什么秘诀，主要就是做的那些都是我本身比较感兴趣的。可能大家兴趣点都挺多，也不想局限在做艺术这本身上，所以有机会的话，可以做一些其他感兴趣的事情，我觉得也挺好玩的，也是丰富一下，因为只做艺术也挺无聊的。还有的话，若我想做的事情自己不能完成的，总是要找一些我觉得更加专业的人去做。

Chen: There isn’t any secret to crossover. The main thing is that I am doing what I am interested in. Maybe we are all interested in many different things, and don’t want to be restricted by “ART”. When given the opportunities to work on other interesting things, it’s quite fun. We like to enrich ourselves, because doing only Art is boring. On the other hand, if there are things I cannot do myself, I will find someone professional to help me with it.

陆  秘诀？我觉得就是适合的人做相应的合作吧

Lu: Secret? I think it’s the right person doing the right work.

B6C 你们最想通过作品表达什么？

B6C: What message did you want to spread through your work?

陈  我的作品想表达的就是自己想关注的东西，说出来就比较像简历的东西，我觉得这样说就比较严肃。除了我自己关注的主题之外，最主要的就是想通过作品做一些自己想做的东西，感兴趣的其他的领域吧。

Chen: My work wants to talk about things I am interested in, it’s too serious to talk about it, too much like a resume. Apart from topics I am interested in, I just want to try things I always wanted to do.

陆  具体作品具体分析。。。。一句话说不清。。。

Lu: It’s case by case….hard to explain…

B6C  假如日后有机会改行，你们想做什么？

B6C: If you have a chance to choose a different career, what would you like to do?

陈  其实想做的挺多的，我特别想开店，有点像居酒屋的那种，这是我一直想干的事情，就是能有朋友来喝酒吃饭的地方。挺想做一个和艺术完全无关的事。不用再考虑艺术，也不想干设计，这些相近的都不想干。所以开店我还挺想的。

Chen: There are a lot of things I want to try. I always want to open a restaurant, like a Japanese bar type restaurant. I want to do something unrelated to art, nor design, nothing close to art.

陆  想去殡仪馆工作或者摆摊卖小吃

Lu: I want to work in funeral home or sell street food

本周六6-9点，陈天灼和陆扬首次合作切勿错过。

Please come join us for Chen Tianzhuo and Lu Yang's two-person projectthis Saturday 6-9