Dialogue is the Way: Interviews with Twenty-One Chinese Artists

Author: Li Luming, Peng Ying
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Publish Date: 2000-06-01
Features: From 1995 to 1997, the young interviewer Xu Xiaoyu gained highly useful information for understanding the work and life of the artists through her non-academic questions. As she put it, the conversation was not one-way acquisition but rather "the conversation becomes the path." In other words, for both the interviewer and the interviewee, the process of clarifying thoughts and actions was a one-time and event. Many years later, each artist in the book is more or less distanced from the state at that time. Therefore, reading this book feels particularly strange: something in progress also indicates its passage. This is the cruelty of time, which has become a common issue faced by artists today.