Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. Focusing on the concept of “The Brain as the Screen”, the School of Film Art explores the contemporary development of poetic cinema through the perspective of young people.
The subject exists within the world, and the world exists within the subject, making the brain a canvas, a screen in and of itself.
Over the past three years, a fleeting stream of images has dominated our gaze. No longer enthralled by the grand ceremony of cinema, we find ourselves immersed in the increasingly distorted and proliferating world of special effects. Content, emotions, and high-intensity events are presented on a shallow and small screen, evoking a startling resemblance to the slapstick short films of the silent era. Accompanied by a heavier silence, this diffusion expands into a profound and far-reaching stillness. Faith in the potential of imagery has waned, replaced by a sense of emptiness and fear that extinguishes the flames of imagination, and gives rise to a callous curiosity. Cinema is vanishing before our eyes.
In the final moment, consciousness breaks through the disorder of representation and saves the chaos of scenes. The past catches up with us when the future is impassable, giving birth to images in the mind, giving us a film that belongs to us.
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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