叱咤于街中
Tsk-Tsk In The Streets
研究/策展小组
Research-Curatorial group
李筱天、卢川、梁健华 Li Xiaotian, Lu Chuan, Liang Jianhua
参展艺术家
Participating artists
44月报、陈大满、陈再炎、冯火、冯倩钰、副本制作、何辉、何赞、沙业亚、徐坦、许超、鲁毅+世界书店、阳江组合（陈再炎、孙庆麟、郑国谷）、曾青柏、郑国谷44 Monthly, Chen Daman, Chen Zaiyan, Feng Qianyu, Fong Fo, Instance, He Hui, He Zan, Xu Tan, Xu Chao, Sha Yeya, Lu Yi+ lokadhātu (World Bookshop), Yangjiang Group, Zheng Guogu, Zeng Qingbai
20世纪90年代，广东沿海城市阳江正夹裹在新旧交替中，混乱与机会并存，现代化进程带来的新秩序对日常生活产生了剧烈改造。“阳江青年”和朋友们在当地文化资源相对匮乏的情况下尝试自给自足，筹建设计公司、书店、画廊及工作室，Ta们流连于家宅、街道、工地和娱乐场所中，工作与生活，创作与娱乐的界限几近模糊。这些实践和网络筑织了来往密切又具创造力的社群和空间，并以此为依托链接外界。而与一贯认知不同，这些实践并未朝专业化方向转变，而是维持着游戏、游离的姿态，紧紧镶嵌在阳江的街头生活中，在个体与公共之间游击，另辟蹊径地回应当时关于未来的期待。
展览意在对90年代至千禧年初阳江及其周边的艺术实践和自组织进行研究性展示。除了集中呈现37件作品和重要文献（包含艺术家手稿、图录、出版物等），冯火作为对话实践者，与郑国谷共同设计了此次展览的空间。空间将由一条跨越半个阳江城区的街道构成，阳江的建筑实体以新的方式嵌入展厅，观众得以在街道、巷子、自建房之间游走和驻留。除了呈现出千禧年之交阳江青年的街头生活，一种在家的周围活动的空间关系，也勾勒出一个个相互交缠且具行动力的网络。
“叱咤于街中”不是一次历史的回返，而是从具体语境出发，将阳江青年拥抱社会现场的姿态及互助精神视为激发行动力的方法来考察，进而对照日渐撕裂的今天，以期对共同处境有所感知。展览除了理解阳江青年的动力、转变及其一系列塑造行动力的工具外，也为新一代的实践者提供对话的通道。因此，展览将成为生产关联、组织网络的据点，它包含了一系列的集会讨论和双城行走、一个临时的档案室，而研究项目期间生产的对话和文本，将回落到展览的自出版平台，以期形成某种行动指南。
“阳江青年研究项目”于2017年8月由黄边站发起，后与时代美术馆共同支持。
In the 1990s, the coastal city of Yangjiang in Guangdong was engulfed in a socioeconomic transition where the new supplanted the old, and chaos coexisted alongside opportunities. The new order brought about by the modernization process drastically transformed daily life. “Yangjiang Youth” and their friends forged self-sufficiency when local cultural resources were relatively scarce. They raised the necessary funds to found design firms, bookstores, galleries, and studios. They wandered around residential neighborhoods, streets, construction sites, and entertainment venues. The boundaries between living and working, creating and entertaining were completely blurred. This resulted in tight-knit creative communities and spaces that rely on each other to connect to the outside world. Straying from the usual trajectory of development, these practices have not turned toward the direction of professionalizing. Instead, they have retained a freeform posture of gameplay, firmly embedded in the street life of Yangjiang, deploying guerrilla tactics to occupy the spaces between individuals and the public, and finding alternative responses to expectations of the future.
The exhibition intends to serve as a research-based presentation of artistic practices and self-organization in and around Yangjiang from the 1990s to the beginning of the millennium. In addition to focusing on 37 works and important documents (including artists’ sketches and manuscripts, catalogs, publications, etc.), Fong Fo, as a dialogical practitioner, has co-designed the exhibition space with Zheng Guogu. The space will recreate a street that spans half of Yangjiang’s urban area and embed Yangjiang’s architectural entities in the exhibition hall in a novel manner, allowing the viewer to wander and dwell among the streets, alleyways and self-built houses. In addition to presenting the street life of Yangjiang Youth at the turn of the millennium, a spatial relationship of activities around the home is also mapped out to reflect an intertwined and dynamic network.
“Yangjiang Youth” is not only a return to history, but also an examination of their gesture of embracing social currents and the spirit of mutual aid as a way to stimulate action in a concrete context, with a view to perceive shared situations that run contrary to the increasingly divided present. In addition to understanding the transformations and dynamism experienced by Yangjiang Youth, as well as the repertoire of tools they draw on to shape their own mobility, the exhibition will also provide a channel of dialogue for new generations of practitioners. Thus, the exhibition will become a stronghold for the production of connections and the organization of networks. The exhibition sets forth a series of assemblies, discussions, twin-cities walks, as well as a temporary archive. Moreover, dialogues and texts produced during the research project will be archived through the exhibition’s self-publishing platform, compiling a sort guide to action over time.
“Yangjiang Youth Research Project” was initiated by HB Station in 2017, co-supported by HB Station and Guangdong Times Museum.
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