07大声展北京站论坛活动之一
今天的世界，现代化的影响无远弗届，我们已经再难在这个地球上找到一块未被现代化影响过的土地。资本主义曾经在发达地区所遭遇的问题，通过全球化找到了它的解决方案；而不发达地区也通过参与全球化来解决其地区性的问题。在一个全面全球化的时代，经济合作与移民浪潮成为普遍的现象，政治交往与文化融合也比前更加频密与深入，民族国家的功能和界限亦日益模糊，在这样一种语境下，谈论国族认同的意义何在？
中国在过去数十年的新经济运动中所积聚的能量使这个国家日益走向强大。特别是在它赢得了2008年奥运会和2010年的世博会的主办权后，整个国家陷入了重新崛起并要成为二十一世纪超级大国的集体想象。这种想象可以说是近百年来中国现代化进程的一种历史性的心理补偿：在积弱多年后，国力开始强大，于是国族认同便成为一种自觉。但什么才是中国的身份认同？所谓中国性(Chineseness)又是什么？是儒家学说？龙凤图腾？汉语？还是日常生活的集体记忆？或者只是一本中国护照？
对今天的中国而言，国族认同无疑具有政治上的巨大意义。但在艺术、设计领域，这种国族认同有必要吗？在这一领域的创作实践中，是否存在着一种所谓的民族或国家的风格？如果有的话，如何去鉴别？比如说，如果我们在艺术与设计前面加上中国、英国、日本或荷兰的定语时，我们如何描述它们的特性？……我们将在本次会议中讨论上述所有问题，并且希望所有讨论不仅指向当下，亦能涉及历史，在一个更开阔的视野中厘清我们的认识。
时间：2007年8月17日星期五16:30-18:30
地点：新光文苑，北京朝阳区建国路87号华贸中心新光天地五楼
主持人：欧宁 (北京)，Shumon Basar (伦敦)
第一部分发言人： Emily Campbell (伦敦), Joshua Bolchover(伦敦)，梁井宇（北京），马岩松（北京），刘密（北京）， Philip Tinari（北京），Brendan McGetrick（北京），Charlie Koolhaas（广州/伦敦）
第二部分发言人：Patrick Lacey(Abake，伦敦), Sam Buxton(伦敦), Michael Cross (Wokmedia，伦敦) ，姜剑（北京），石川（广州），刘治治（北京），福山正紘 （东京），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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