Beyond language - China Japan Korea Multimedia Exhibition
Sep 01 - Sep 30, 2007
Soka Art Beijing
When language appears, in stead of saying it is a tool of for human beings to communicate with each other, we rather taking it as a resolution for the insecure feeling that comes from distance between human and world. In order to eliminate this restlessness, language, as part of the social order, gradually changes into one kind of artistic form. As time goes by, the language develops a clear set and undoubted definition system. After Nietzsche proposed to use a rather fictional method to write to rebuild history and moral judgment, artists seem to work in practice. They start to use another fictional language to subvert the communication system which the human already has.
When technical revolution brings innovation of materials, artists start to create another kind of extremely ambiguous communication language, as a communication language between audience and artists themselves. From flickering 3D image, installation art, interactive video installation and the portraits of artists which appear in their artwork, even those forms of art are totally different but the essence of these artworks which want to communicate with the outside world is the same. Each artwork all becomes author's tool of communication, but the most shock of this change doesn’t come from the ambiguous language artists used, but from the multi-understanding of audience. The communication between artists and audience has already broken the order of the linguistics. Because of that, the audience will no longer be imprisoned in the language prison. Artists and audience seem start to build Babel tower to reach the heaven.