余榮基 YU Wing Kei, Rik

余榮基 YU Wing Kei, Rik(b. 1985)
“當代藝術是關於我們身在哪裡,是關於我們如何處理在這情況之內的「自己」” Contemporary Art is about where we are and how we find ourselves in it”
– Nikos Papastergiadis

 

生命從來就沒有一本說明書, 只能藉著每天日常的硏習實踐完善生命。

所以繪畫也好 ,行為也好, 就是拿自己的身體為創作的開端、以自己的日常為創作的背景 – 從中尋找自我的重量, 去探討「我」這個東西究竟是什麼。

從創作過程到作品都向洋溢著「我」這個載體的概念, 圍繞著「我是誰 /是什麼/在哪裡/是何為…」等問題:

向觀眾和自己作出有關“自我”這個概念的提問:

“它是如何被社會塑造出來, 同時它又是如何塑造社會出來?”

 

There is no such thing as a user manual for life, one can only prefect it via daily practice – hence either in drawings or in performances, are as daily practices for the soma.

Through employing the soma into the Art marking, by taking the everyday life as Muses, the aim is to find out what is the weight of “Self” and fathoming the idea of “Me”.

Both the art making process and the works themselves embodies the idea of “Self in order to question both –

Both the audience and the artist about “Who am I?”, “What am I?”, “Where am I”,” Why am I?”

Thus to understand the idea of “Self”, how it is moulded by the society while the society is shaped by the “Me” at the same time.

 


 

從日常觀察 – 草圖本是移動的工作室

 

A.
第一步 – 筆和畫簿是日常的部分
第二步 – 在路上停頓無聊時的時候
第三步 – 放下智能電話
第四步 – 拿出筆和畫簿
第五步 – 用線條白描眼前的片刻 ,或人或事或景或心情
第六步 – 有時候就看看自己記録在畫簿内每頁上的痕跡
第七步 – 重複一至六步,把這成為了習慣


慢慢讓這習慣會成為創作中的養份

B.
雖然這習慣仍然保持到,但近來在這裹,觀察到的彷佛全是令人擔憂失望的人貌風景,當這種感受累積到一個重量,已經令自己什麼也不想做,很想放棄就算⋯⋯藝術也好,其他也好, 很想放棄就算⋯⋯
突然,看見了路上休息的貓,牠就跟我說:

太累真的是需要偷個懶的
伸個懶腰不是羞恥

休息下罷

 

 

From A Daily Observations – Sketch Book as a Moving Studio

 

A.

Step 1 –
Sketchbook and pen are part of your everyday life
Step 2 –
When there’s a break in the journey and you have nothing to do
Step 3 –
Put away your smartphone
Step 4 –
Take out your sketchbook and pen
Step 5 –
Sketch this moment of present, your subject could be the people around, the view, an event or emotion
Step 6 –
Once you have a moment, take a look at those traces that you have just made on each page of the sketchbook
Step 7 –
Repeat Step 1- 6, until it becomes a habit

then
Gradually that habit will become the nutrient for your art.

 

B.

I have kept the habit of sketching. From my recent observations, this place is filled with worries and disappointments. These overwhelmed feelings soon accumulate to such a weight that drag me down, and force me to give up on everything: Art and everything… I want to give up.

Suddenly, I saw a cat resting on the road and it said to me:

It’s really necessary to laze around when you’re too tired.
It’s not a shame to stretch your legs.

So,
It is time to have a break.

 

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