C sums of light | What kind of art festival does Shenzhen still need

Author: Luo Yi curator, consultant of art museums

What kind of art festival does Shenzhen need? When I was asked about this question, what I thought of was the German Casel Literature Exhibition (five years once) and the Venice Art Biennale in Italy (two years once, and the Biennale with the Venice Architecture was held alternately) , Swiss Basel Art Expo (once a year) and the Seto Animal Art Festival in Japan. Originally, these were included in the "flight timetable" of each quarter for more than 15 consecutive years before 2020. I grew up from the "two knives" (graduated from non -related majors and switched to career) to "experts", all relying on these global core art events, and their associated urban art arteries grew together. These scenarios have become the resource banks at the scene of various brainstorms and seminars in Shenzhen again and again. I also hope that Shenzhen can have such an international influence art festival.

Where is the bottom of the "Deep Double"?

What kind of art festival does Shenzhen need? This is a question that the people of Shenzhen can answer. It stands to reason that I can only help the Shenzhen people from the perspective of their professional perspectives to take a inventory of visual art -related festivals (music and dramas are not involved), and then look at what good art festivals in China and the world are in the world. The model is that the people of Shenzhen can choose and choose. In fact, I haven't been the "festival" of Shenzhen for a long time. It has been 10 years since I participated in the OCAT Creative Art Festival, one of the curators, as one of the curators. What art festivals are there now such a variety of places like Shenzhen?

Of course, the core heavy is the "Shenzhen -Hong Kong City Two Cities Biennale" (referred to as "Shenzhen Double", UABB). UABB originated from Shenzhen in 2005 and started co -organizing with Hong Kong in 2007 (mainly Shenzhen). Extension and interaction. " UABB is now the world's top architecture biennale, mainly in the time and place of people, and the two decades of crescents of Shenzhen and Chinese cities, the 20 years of the development of real estate and infrastructure, and caught up with all the world in the world Top architects hope to design in Shenzhen for 20 years, and they have caught up with expert -type leaders and ideal groups of professional founders with international vision. Catching this group of people is exactly the most important " representative of A". "Shenzhen Shuang" this year's "adult ceremony", from the selection of world -renowned architects and curators as the curatorial combination to the first year of this year to choose a younger strategy to show up and launch a newcomer. The change of "deep double" makes people look forward to.

Overseas Chinese City Art District is a model, but it is not enough

Speaking of the core organizers and "creators" in the art festival are the Overseas Chinese Town. Mainly: "Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale", which was founded and born in the "Contemporary Sculpture Art Exhibition" of the Ho Xiangning Art Museum in 1998 (once stagnated, officially renamed in 2021); founded Oct -LOFT Creative Festival in 2007 ; Started in 2008, the T street creative market is the most fixed time in China, the most dense cycle, and the most stable venue facilities. The exhibition; since its establishment in 2012, it has successfully held OCT -LOFT "one -person and one world" lecture with more than 80 seasons; the first domestic Shenzhen independent animation biennale in China with the "biennial exhibition" as the curatorial mechanism in 2012 The exhibition has been involved in nearly 500 important artists and scholars at home and abroad, becoming an important exhibition in the field of independent animation. There is also the "Super New Year Art Project" opened in 2020; Bàng, which began in 2021! Children's festival and so on. There are also Oct -LOFT International Jazz Music Festival and Tomorrow Music Festival.

As an enterprise that operates the core cultural district of Shenzhen and combines culture as a combination of operations with real estate, OCT has earlier than most of China's peers, and so far, it is still one of China. Essence Therefore, it is not only a special museum management department, but also operators in each district. They have invested separately, forming a layered art project brand. Although the scale is not large, the key is long -term continuity and certain brand effects. Professional and professional, entertaining entertainment, each of them is good. In addition to the eye -catching KPI, insist on finding professional things to find professionals. Therefore, such a "festival cluster" is basically a model for China's "art + culture + real estate". It is not only copied to other districts, such as the "Guangming Art Festival" in Guangming District, and even affects the whole country.

Nanshan Overseas Chinese Town area is still the most typical.作为在城市中心区域由一个企业推动的从无到有的文化集群，其实有很大优势可以对标世界其他著名艺术街区，但稍有遗憾的是，纵然有何香凝美术馆、华·美术馆、 An important art institution such as the OCAT Art Center and several small theaters, but OCT did not operate the world's top art places such as the Tate Museum of Modern Museum of London, the Hayward Gallery, the Queen Theater, and Shakespeare. Hong Kong West Kowloon, which has M +, has a national new art and Mori Art Museum of Tokyo.

From the time of departure, you should have an international perspective

As a design capital, Shenzhen has both China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industry Expo Fair ("Cultural Expo"), as well Urban Cultural event. These are well -known in the domestic cultural event. But if you want to say which activity is a "pilgrimage" in a certain field in the world, it becomes a grand event for people in the world to achieve a global appeal of "Canton Fair". At the same time, "China (Shenzhen) International Industrial Design Week", Shenzhen Fashion Home Design Week and Shenzhen International Furniture Exhibition, Youth Art Week, Shenzhen Contemporary Art Biennale, and even joining the global brand Shenzhen Bay Yisui Festival, etc. Not prominent. The 2014 Shenzhen New Media Art Festival and 2020 Shenzhen Bay Technology and Art Program have not yet been seen. The so -called "born in response" is that the emphasis on science and technology in Shenzhen's current development has been keenly concerned. The state and direction of contemporary art and the integration of the times have been captured by Shenzhen people who are "first of the world". In this case, can we have an international perspective and ambition when we set off? Like we start to invest in "deep doubles", selecting a direction will affect the most outstanding people and institutions in this direction -or can choose the world's most outstanding people and projects in the world? Of course, take a step back, and it is also good to choose a professional person in small -scale professionals like OCT -as long as it is accumulated slowly, it is not difficult to build a reputation across the country. The most fearful thing is to find a basket. If it is messy, the art is not art, and the basket is not a basket. It is not related to the city brand, and it is even more invalid to the public. Finding a fashion point from the current policy, it seems that there is a good "famous" at the end of the year, but this kind of time is neither sounded, let alone leave marks. Who needs it? What does it mean?

The "art festival" is "generally referred to". A successful expo and trading will organize the exhibition and activity group of the entire city, which can be the art festival of the city. However, there is no effect on the "festival" in Shenzhen. At this moment in Basel, the first annual art expo was held normally after the epidemic. What made me miss is not only a variety of exhibitions and dressing parties, but also miss those who encountered the corners of different art places or which restaurant. Face, miss a VIP card for free ride in the city to watch dozens of fields in the city, and the venues are the top international museum exhibitions -some museum collectors warehouses are only open during the exhibition. After the Basel Art Expo settled in Hong Kong, I could have felt such a urban art atmosphere in Hong Kong, but in the era of epidemic in 2019, all this turned into thoughts.

Source | Jingbao APP

Edit: Chen Jianguo

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