西双版纳国际影像展抢鲜看：张巍《人工剧团》

我的童年是在剧团家属院里度过的，小时候经常可以见到许多演员，可以观看他们在舞台上扮演的古今中外各类角色。伴随着中国改革开放，剧团因为要不断适应社会经济、文化的发展，戏曲在悄悄地进行着变化——逐渐在传统的、地方的、民俗的文化艺术中引入流行的、时尚的、外来的内容，相互交杂糅合，呈现出一种混杂、荒诞和无序的独特审美。如今回想起来感触很深，一直怀有将这种感觉表现出来的冲动。

 

《人工剧团》是《临时演员》系列作品的延续，我希望将之前的“临时演员”融合到“人工剧团”的角色当中——用更加标志化的角色，来淡化人物本来的演员身份，使其“表演”显得愈发典型和荒诞。在表现上，我借用了电脑游戏式的人物虚拟方式，选取一些我喜欢的人物形象作为演员扮演的对象，应用电脑合成，将数以百计真实的普通演员的身体局部重新进行拼贴组合，利用每个演员与经典人物形象之间的微小相似点，包括肤色、头发等细节特征，通过人工互换，上百位演员原始的真实形象消失不见了，呈现在眼前的是一个崭新的虚拟肖像。这些肖像不再是“灵魂或精神”的载体，而是变成了具象的图式，有种物化的变异之感。

 

现实生活中，渴望成功的人往往因为不能如愿而失意，虚拟的网络游戏，却能带给处于游戏身份中的人们一种成功的感受。整个游戏都是从“人”这个基本的身份开始，由你为他设定性别和基本外型，并确定其人格特质。如同网络游戏中对角色的塑造，我把这种身份虚拟化夸张应用到我的作品里，整个过程虽然是一种假设,但却是一种精神上的真实体验。

 

I spentmy childhood growing up in the family compound of a theatre&nbs p;troupe,and as a child I could often see many actors and actresses as well as thevarious roles, both historical and contemporary, and both Chinese and foreign,they played on stage. With the door-opening and reform of China, the theatrehad undergone a silent change in an effort to adapt to the socio-cultural andeconomic development that were taking place - gradually introducing thepopular, trendy and foreign contents to the traditional, local and folk cultureand art, the mixture and fusion of which presented a beauty that was  piebald, absurd and chaotic. Retrospectively,I still hold a deep feeling for this, and I have always cherished an impulse toexpress such feeling.      

 

Artificial Theatre is acontinuation of the Interim Actor series. Idesire to blend the former "InterimActor" into the character of "ArtificialTheatre" - utilizing a more symbolic character to lighten the originalactor identity of the character, making the "performance" look moretypical and absurd. In terms of expression, I borrowed&nbs p;the Internetgame-style persona virtualization, selecting some characteristic images of myliking as the subjects to be played by the actors. By using computer synthesistechnology we reorganized and recomposed the body parts of hundreds of real actorsto produce, through artificial swapping, a brand new virtual image byincorporating the minor likenesses to the classic characters, including s uchdetails as skin color and hair of each actor. These images are no longer acarrier of "soul or spirit", but rather a concretized pattern, with asensation of materialized mutation. 

 

In real life, those yearning for success often end upin despair due to dreams unrealized, while virtual cyber games can bring asense of success to those under game identities. The whole game beginsfrom&n bsp;the fundamental identity of "human", and it is up toyou to install gender and general appearance and determine its personalitytraits. Like character building in Internet games, I exaggeratively used theidentity virtualization in my works. Although the whole process is ahypothesis, it is a real experience in the spiritual dimension. 


 

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