Post: Performance Art Biennale has become the trigger of a number of controversial projects, since it is an internationally recognized form of Art Biennial, why invite a number of non-artists, community news, there has been a long time ago come into contact with art people to take part in the form of art?

Zhu Qi: the reality of Chinese society is full of creativity and vitality, and sometimes "Chongqing nail households" at the scene of the original more like a collective "social device" works, and Fan that run to the real value of their own attitudes, this kind of courage many artists and even a well-known artists, critics do not have. I think contemporary art should be to the reality of learning, especially the reality of China today is full of dramatic and surreal, which inspired more than the Western art of the creative arts.
The exhibition also invited a number of long-term do not "success" but the feelings of the artists intellectuals, I think that these artists "unsuccessful" is not because they lack talent, but they did not simply imitate Western art, has been more responsible attitude to the arts and social thinking, which of course take a very long cycle. They participate in the Biennale's works embody a sense of history and intellectual thought, this is the contemporary art of the next ten years an important trend.

Post: Subject set up "mobile community" refers to those groups in contemporary China?

Zhu Qi: "Community" in contemporary China, including the mainstream community and two types of non-mainstream groups. Community refers to the mainstream of the mainstream of those who have power and capital of the group, their status and living conditions are fixed; rather than the mainstream community, it means the mainstream do not have the power and capital groups, their status and survival are still in the floating and mobility status.

Non-mainstream groups are not necessarily referring to the bottom of the poverty population, but also may include some of the edge of life is still a good community of intellectuals.
Contemporary Art After the small group of people, and the West, and the commercialization of the road, you should redefine its values in China. I think contemporary art should be involved in the autonomy of Chinese society the process to be eligible for a real commitment to promoting China's new culture and art to create new responsibilities. The needs of contemporary art into the Chinese society, and to participate in China's social situation of the collective spirit of improvement, such as on behalf of the Chinese contemporary art to the next.

Post: The Biennial almost 798 did not invite any of the media in hot pursuit of the "price-Star" participation, this is your arrangement of it intentionally?

Zhu Qi: The Biennial positioning in the exhibition is indeed popular with the artistic style of a few years ago distanced themselves from, for example, we explicitly rejected the three types of works: works of symbols, computer collage works and works the image of the strange action. "Price-star" Most artists have the characteristics of these three categories, even if not, they are also the arts and technology into a production duplication.
I think this year's Art Circle has been great changes, that is, we do not care who or who is selling well-known. 798 Biennial star does not need to keep up appearances.

Post: 798 Biennial is entirely private capital, private voluntary participation, 798 Biennial features the strengths and where? Facing difficulties?

Zhu Qi: I have a friend who said that three decades of exhibitions of contemporary art history, really good show in the money almost always do so by the time. I agree with this statement. 798 First Beijing Biennale in fact belong to an international self-help Biennial, the curators are not all curatorial fees, costs of foreign artists from the exhibition of their own to solve, Chinese artists have created their own solution to the costs, many institutions Gallery provided the venue free of charge and a number of sponsorship, the main difficulties facing the capital. However, the advantages of 798 Biennial is that it's ideal, and non-governmental and independent spirit,
Most works are for the issue of Chinese society the spirit of self-examination and criticism.
Over the past decade, the world famous Biennale are not becoming more and more dynamic, which is the main choice Biennial curator of institutional interest groups. In addition, an outstanding art of an era at the edge and always known the birth of the groups, which are unlikely to be long-term from the art of grass-roots power of the well-known high Biennial curators found.

2009-07-16