Jingning  Qi

1. Breaking Boundaries 破界之地
2. The primitive call 原始的呼唤
3. Change for 'Minorities'  为‘少数’群体变革
4. Visible Collections 被看见的藏品
5. Fuxxing the Art Administration 去他妈的艺管
6. Living with Nature 与自然同居

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Change for 'Minorities'                
为‘少数’群体变革  Jun. 2023


"Minority groups" refer to social groups that do not dominate in the overall population of an existing society and cannot constitute a majority in political voting. In the ecosystem of the arts, these groups manifest as those differing from the mainstream in terms of existence methods or ideologies, such as art groups under heterogeneous cultures, alternative spaces, and visualized storages. They exist as a type of "minority group" at various links within the art ecological chain, often remaining unseen or undiscovered over long periods. This "minority group" also exists to some extent in a "majority" state—the secular definition of "success" is in fact held only by a few individuals.

The "external world" and its so-called "mainstream" influence us persistently and covertly—where the central role of subjectivity in the domestication process is challenged and rebelled against by the objectified "other," often switching roles, thus being almost in a subject-like position. This is also one of the anticipated goals of "transformation": that in the future, there might be no binary oppositions, no division between mainstream and non-mainstream, nor any use of the term "minority groups."


“少数群体”，是指在某一现存社会总人口中不占主导地位，政治性投票中也不能构成半数以上的一类社会群体。而在艺术生态中，则体现为与主流存在方式、方法或意识形态等存在差异的群体，如处于异质文化下的艺术小组，替代性空间、可视化存储等。他们分别在艺术生态圈的各个链条衔接处作为一种“少数群体”而存在着，长时间处于一种不能被发现或看见的情况下。而这种“少数群体”同时也在某种程度上处于一种“多数”的状态中——世俗定义上的“成功”实际上只掌握在少数个体中。

而“外部世界”及其所包含的所谓“主流”对我们的影响或是说反向驯化是持久且隐秘的——驯化进程中的主体性中心角色受到客体性“他者”角色的挑战与反叛，二者间的关系常常在转换，故其同时处于一种近似于主体的位置。而这也是“变革”所期望达到的目标之一：即可能在未来，并不存在所谓的二元对立之分，无主流与非主流之别，也再无“少数群体”一词。

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