Miao Xiaochun’s “Out of Body”
Apr 30 - May 31, 2011
Apr 30 - May 31, 2011
Press Release
CURATOR: Gu Zhenqing
EXHIBITION DIRECTOR: Sun Yongzeng
EXECUTIVE CURATOR: Dai Zhuoqun
ASSISTANT CURATORS: Hao Danmeng, Zhang Zhixin
PUBLIC RELATIONS: Diana Song
SPONSOR: WHITE BOX MUSEUM OF ART
OPENING: 15:00, Saturday, 30th April, 2011
DATES: 30th April, 2011 - 30th May, 2011
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Curator Article
Miao Xiaochun’s “Out of Body”
Gu Zhenqing
“Out-of-body” basically refers to the experiences that one’s consciousness and spirit leave their bodies or even leave the actual world to enter a brand new dimension.
Miao Xiaochun has a very sensitive perception towards the body of human, and he intentionally created these “out-of-body” experiences. With the help of 3D and filming technologies, he breaks away from his body and surpasses his original desires. With this idea, he has creates infinite reincarnations by using the 3D module technology. From creating The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Restart, Disillusion, we can see that Miao sometimes uses his free spirit to oversee the world, and sometimes turns his own experiences to become everything. The infinite duplicate function of digital technologies has given Miao Xiao a chance to get the out-of-body experiences. Moreover, it is worth noticing that Out of Body should also been seen as the result of Miao Xiaochun’s long-time dedication to art. His study towards classical works in the history of western art empowers him to recreate and assemble the daily life. Miao Xiaochun ruminates on the past experiences and prototypes of European images, and gradually figures out the distance between the reality and the truth. The fact that the real world has been defined again and again by artists from the past, has shrouded the nature and the origin of all thins. The phenomenon and essence of this world’s visualize properties often turn out to be described in texts and secularist visual figures. Therefore, Miao Xiaochun has no choice but to choose the “out-of-body” method to exclude his confusions and objections. With this out-of –body experience, Miao can empty his body and set everything back to zero; during this experience he has got a chance to travel cross various lanes and zones of many dimensions. Through the continuous “out of body” and “re-possession”, he continuously de-constructs and constructs his works, and reshuffles them for his audiences. To these audiences, Miao likes a mesmerist or even a dream theft- he travels between the history and reality, spiritual and material worlds with his free will. And the struggling within his heart can only be seen from the figures of his works as a sign of his self awakening.
Miao Xiaochun’s “out of body” is an intentional “out-of” his consciousness. He leaves the fixed art experiences and art systems behind, because he wants to step into the infinite art consciousness. In fact, what he tries to challenge is not only the nightmare of the European sub-consciousness, but the overwhelming logics of European culture as well. Maybe in the not too distant future, by using experience with traditional Chinese imaging, Miao Xiaochun will show us very flexible “back-to-body” experiences.
Gu Zhenqing
“Out-of-body” basically refers to the experiences that one’s consciousness and spirit leave their bodies or even leave the actual world to enter a brand new dimension.
Miao Xiaochun has a very sensitive perception towards the body of human, and he intentionally created these “out-of-body” experiences. With the help of 3D and filming technologies, he breaks away from his body and surpasses his original desires. With this idea, he has creates infinite reincarnations by using the 3D module technology. From creating The Last Judgment in Cyberspace, Restart, Disillusion, we can see that Miao sometimes uses his free spirit to oversee the world, and sometimes turns his own experiences to become everything. The infinite duplicate function of digital technologies has given Miao Xiao a chance to get the out-of-body experiences. Moreover, it is worth noticing that Out of Body should also been seen as the result of Miao Xiaochun’s long-time dedication to art. His study towards classical works in the history of western art empowers him to recreate and assemble the daily life. Miao Xiaochun ruminates on the past experiences and prototypes of European images, and gradually figures out the distance between the reality and the truth. The fact that the real world has been defined again and again by artists from the past, has shrouded the nature and the origin of all thins. The phenomenon and essence of this world’s visualize properties often turn out to be described in texts and secularist visual figures. Therefore, Miao Xiaochun has no choice but to choose the “out-of-body” method to exclude his confusions and objections. With this out-of –body experience, Miao can empty his body and set everything back to zero; during this experience he has got a chance to travel cross various lanes and zones of many dimensions. Through the continuous “out of body” and “re-possession”, he continuously de-constructs and constructs his works, and reshuffles them for his audiences. To these audiences, Miao likes a mesmerist or even a dream theft- he travels between the history and reality, spiritual and material worlds with his free will. And the struggling within his heart can only be seen from the figures of his works as a sign of his self awakening.
Miao Xiaochun’s “out of body” is an intentional “out-of” his consciousness. He leaves the fixed art experiences and art systems behind, because he wants to step into the infinite art consciousness. In fact, what he tries to challenge is not only the nightmare of the European sub-consciousness, but the overwhelming logics of European culture as well. Maybe in the not too distant future, by using experience with traditional Chinese imaging, Miao Xiaochun will show us very flexible “back-to-body” experiences.
