Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season opened in Hangzhou on June 1. This year’s theme for the School of Foundation Studies is “Parallel Counterpoint”.
The "counterpoint piece" is not a rhythmically and continuously playing sound, but instead a constant movement for boundary-making and boundary-breaking. We encounter each other in the artistic world, and the "counterpoint piece" is always in an open intermediary state. Those critical, chaotic "gaps" in the process of generation endow the counterpoint piece with a lasting movement and open up coherent planes, internal fields and "a body without organs".
Compared to the counteraction of forces in counterpoint, parallelism is a special relationship: it is the coordination of heterogeneous space, it is the people, things, and matters in artistic world, it is repetition, it is the possibility of critical moments, and if the counterpoint piece constitutes a dynamic world that alternately closes and opens, the parallel relationship is a passage within the world that is both real and elusive.
"Parallel Counterpoint" occurs in our daily life. It does not provide answers and is limited to presenting questions in a restless and uneasy way, or the possible solution to a suspended question.
About BRAIN GARDEN
Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.
The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.
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