Lecture Information:

Speaker: Xu Bing (徐冰)

Host: Lu Yang (陆扬)

Theme: My Method: An Artist's Response to Contemporary Dilemmas

Time: 19:00 – 20:30

Date: December 18 (Wednesday), 2019

Venue: Room B101, Second Gymnasium, Yenching Academy, Peking University

Language: Chinese

Abstract:

Wherever you live, you face local problems. Where there are problems, there is art. Our plights and our problems are actually the very source and inspiration of artistic creation. The saying, "Art originates from life, and is higher than life" touches upon the very essence of problems. As an artist, my method comes from the social scene. The knowledge and history of the artistic system lies therein, with hardly any change, whereas a social scene outside of this system is constantly changing, and will always bring a steady stream of inspiration.