Why, haha? From eating dead babies to showing sexual behavior in public: Whose performance art did China play?

Performance Art "Selling Art Than" Text/Zhou Huaizong Recently, performance art Sung Jae Lee held a sex show as his own performance art exhibition in Songzhuang, Tongzhou, Beijing, and was taken away by the police, and was re-educated by the police for one year for provoking troubles. The news came and attracted controversy from all sides. A public action has evolved from an artistic event to a legal event and then to a social event. Although some experts and netizens think that the punishment is too heavy, few people agree with the incident itself and the parties. Performance art has always been known for its grotesque and avant-garde ideas. In recent years, domestic action artists have repeatedly broken the psychological bottom line of the audience, from eating shit to eating dead babies, from body painting to public display. Are these all for art or to attract attention? Displaying is not the police of performance art, but also the behavior of the audience of performance art without a sense of breakthrough. In fact, it has broken through other things, such as ethics, such as morality, such as universal values. Xia Xueluan said: The thinking mode of performance art is very strange. Maybe they think it is art and normal, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is public. The debate about performance art always points to the same question: is the boundary of artists wider than that of ordinary people, and does performance art have a bottom line? In fact, since the 1950s and 1960s, the boundaries of performance art have been widened and people's acceptance has been improved a lot. However, this does not mean that performance art has no boundaries. Even in its birthplace, some critics believe that performance art often designs both the audience and the police as elements of dynamic events. In this regard, Xia Xueluan said: Performance art is also art, its online line is law, and its bottom line is morality, because performance art itself has value judgment, and it uses behavior to express and express its artistic orientation, even like post-modernism, with behavior itself as its purpose and behavior process as its content, which is also an artistic orientation. So we can't go against the common value judgment of the public. Is America very open? They also have a lot of action art, but it is impossible to do so in public places. Artistic events have evolved into social events, and performance art has repeatedly broken through the psychological bottom line of the audience. More importantly, when this behavior becomes a social hotspot, its influence is no longer just artistic. Xia Xueluan said: In the transitional society, all kinds of bottom lines have been broken, people no longer have awe, corrupt officials dare to take anything, businessmen dare to sell anything, and artists naturally dare to do anything. Many events and phenomena repeatedly impact the universal values and ethics of the whole society. This is terrible. Spread, not only the values and world outlook of teenagers will be distorted, but also adults will have doubts, because these things seem to have their own set of theories, which are really fallacies in essence. Nowadays, a public act has evolved from an artistic event to a legal event, and the party concerned has been sentenced to one year of reeducation through labor. In this regard, Qiao Xinsheng believes that as far as the incident itself is concerned, such punishment seems a bit excessive. Legally speaking, this kind of behavior should consider subjective malignancy and social influence. As far as the situation in the report is concerned, the parties concerned should not be subjectively vicious, but perform in a niche environment with little social influence. Performance itself is different from the behavior of putting photos on the internet, so it is not suitable for reeducation through labor. On the contrary, punishment may only expand the influence of this behavior and make people generally think that it is part of performance art. Xia Xueluan: At present, many people in performance art have strange thinking patterns. Maybe they think it is art and normal, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is public. Qiao Xinsheng: Publicly displaying sexual behavior is obviously an act that has no breakthrough, no sense of beauty and no consideration for the audience's feelings. So it's not performance art, it's just grandstanding at best. The liberation of human nature should not be utilitarian. Qiao Xinsheng said: The progress of the times is always accompanied by the liberation of human nature. As we all know, the Renaissance began with the liberation of human nature. The liberation of human nature often begins with sex, from all kinds of yellow jokes in Ten Days Tan to the same things everywhere on the Internet now, which can be seen from ancient times to the present. Is the sexual liberation movement in the west going through? World War II? The so-called beat generation was born after that kind of depression, fear and even disillusionment. When China opened up 30 years ago, it was more about material and economic development, and paid less attention to the spiritual liberation of human nature. After this century, a large number of works of art showing human nature have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Jay, Apple, now 3D shows humanity by breaking the boundaries. However, this kind of exhibition is obviously not only for the liberation of human nature, but also a problem worthy of attention. Qiao Xinsheng said: The liberation of human nature in the West is pure human liberation, while ours is obviously utilitarian. Many times, the purpose of breaking the boundaries is to be famous, for the box office and so on. , not the liberation of human nature, but the pursuit of fame and fortune.