contemporary artspeak
I am in Hangzhou for some meetings in and around the Academy and spent a few hours last night in the teahouse with some artists. I was talking with them about my the research project I am working on concerning conceptual art production and processes of manufacturing, outsourcing, etc. We had a nice talk and my Chinese is good enough to talk about these things to a certain degree but I often feel that I lack the skills to dig deeper, like I am constantly hovering at the surface. Probably it is that I feel hindered my abilities to do 'contemporary art speak' in Chinese. Maybe it is has to do with my tendencies to appropriate the highly specified language of the artworld, of which there is often no Chinese equivalent, though I also think it comes down to language itself--I would have a hard time talking about these things in english too! (thanks to rania for the link)


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