07大聲展北京站論壇活動之一
今天的世界，現代化的影響無遠弗屆，我們已經再難在這個地球上找到一塊未被現代化影響過的土地。資本主義曾經在發達地區所遭遇的問題，通過全球化找到了它的解決方案；而不發達地區也通過參與全球化來解決其地區性的問題。在一個全面全球化的時代，經濟合作與移民浪潮成為普遍的現象，政治交往與文化融合也比前更加頻密與深入，民族國家的功能和界限亦日益模糊，在這樣一種語境下，談論國族認同的意義何在？
中國在過去數十年的新經濟運動中所積聚的能量使這個國家日益走向強大。特別是在它贏得了2008年奧運會和2010年的世博會的主辦權後，整個國家陷入了重新崛起並要成為二十一世紀超級大國的集體想像。這種想像可以説是近百年來中國現代化進程的一種歷史性的心理補償：在積弱多年後，國力開始強大，於是國族認同便成為一種自覺。但什麼才是中國的身份認同？所謂中國性(Chineseness)又是什麼？是儒家學説？龍鳳圖騰？漢語？還是日常生活的集體記憶？或者只是一本中國護照？
對今天的中國而言，國族認同無疑具有政治上的巨大意義。但在藝術、設計領域，這種國族認同有必要嗎？在這一領域的創作實踐中，是否存在著一種所謂的民族或國家的風格？如果有的話，如何去鑒別？比如説，如果我們在藝術與設計前面加上中國、英國、日本或荷蘭的定語時，我們如何描述它們的特性？……我們將在本次會議中討論上述所有問題，並且希望所有討論不僅指向當下，亦能涉及歷史，在一個更開闊的視野中厘清我們的認識。
時間：2007年8月17日星期五16:30-18:30
地點：新光文苑，北京朝陽區建國路87號華貿中心新光天地五樓
主持人：歐寧 (北京)，Shumon Basar (倫敦)
第一部分發言人： Emily Campbell (倫敦), Joshua Bolchover(倫敦)，梁井宇（北京），馬岩松（北京），劉密（北京）， Philip Tinari（北京），Brendan McGetrick（北京），Charlie Koolhaas（廣州/倫敦）
第二部分發言人：Patrick Lacey(Abake，倫敦), Sam Buxton(倫敦), Michael Cross (Wokmedia，倫敦) ，姜劍（北京），石川（廣州），劉治治（北京），福山正紘 （東京），Frank van der Salm(鹿特丹)
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National Identity in Art and Design
Round Table Discussion
A Get It Louder Beijing 2007 Event
In today’s world, the influence of modernization reaches everywhere, making it nearly impossible to find anywhere on earth that remains untouched. Capitalism was once a problem encountered only in developed locales, but through globalization it has found its own solution, and undeveloped locales now through resolve their local problems by participating in globalization. In an utterly globalized era, economic cooperation and migration flows become ordinary pheomena, and political contact and cultural melding are more common and deeper than ever. Both the function and the limits of the nation state grow more vague by the day. In such a context, what is the meaning of talking about national identity?
The capacity that China has accumulated in the last several decades of economic movement has allowed the country to grow daily more powerful. Particularly after being named host of the 2008 Olympiad and the 2010 World Expo, the entire country lapsed into a new collective fantasy of becoming a superpower for the 21st Centry. This kind of imagination might be called a psychological reparation for the sufferings endured over the last century of Chinese modernization: after so many years of weakness, the nation’s power begins to expand, and so national identity emerges as a type of self-awareness. But what is Chinese national identity? And what is so-called Chineseness? Is it Confucian scholarship? Robes embroidered with phoenixes and dragons? Mandarin? Or is it the collective memories of daily life? Perhaps it is just a Chinese passport?
For today’s China, national identity indubitably carries massive political implications. But in the fields of art and design, is such national identity necessary? In the creative practice of these fields, does a so-called national or ethnic style exist? If so, how to distinguish it? For example, If we preface the words “art” or “design” with a national modifier such as Chinese, British, Japanese, or Dutch, how do we narrate the distinguishing characteristics that this implies? In this session we will discuss these questions, hoping to conduct our discussion with reference not merely to the present situation, but to history, using a wider frame of reference to elucidate our understanding.
Time: Friday August 17, 2007 | 16:30-18:30
Location: Event Hall, 5 Floor, Shin Kong Place, 87 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Chairs: Ou Ning (Beijing), Shumon Basar (London)
Speakers, Part One: Emily Campbell (London), Joshua Bolchover (London), Liang Jingyu (Beijing), Ma Yansong (Beijing), Liu Mi (Beijing), Philip Tinari (Beijing), Brendan McGetrick (Beijing), Charlie Koolhaas (Guangzhou/London)
Speakers, Part Two: Patrick Lacey (Abake, London), Sam Buxton (London), Michael Cross (Wokmedia, London), Jiang Jian (Beijing), Shi Chuan (Guangzhou), Liu Zhizhi (Beijing), Masahiro Fukuyama(Tokyo), Frank van der Salm (Rotterdam)
Free and open to the public
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