The Lamp on the Miner's Helmet Is the Subterranean Sun

Artist: Zhang Shuxuan (China Institute for Visual Studies)

Instructor: Huang Sunquan

"How do we differentiate day and night?"

"As long as I'm working, it doesn't matter if it's dark outside, it's still daytime."

After shutting the eyes that have been gazing at the sun during the day, we continue to see the sun's afterimage behind our eyelids. What is remembered in history is wherever the light touches. Everything else becomes fragments of a collective memory − white noise on the radio. The "past" is a dormant entity − conditions that allow actual events to unfold in the present. "Noise" can be muffled but never entirely muted. Listen closely, and you will hear yourself.

TOP20 10th Anniversary Review: 2011−2021

Artist: Wu Zeye (China Institute for Visual Studies)

Instructor: Gao Chu

The graduation work is centered on TOP20's history as well as the overall creative process and practice of artists, presenting key events and developments in contemporary photography in China as a microcosm of the domain during the period from 2011 to 2021. Through the collation, reorganization, integration and reconstruction of the records, Wu presents his reflections on TOP20, which include problem awareness in photography, the effectiveness of photo books, and the development of youth photography.

Journey into the Long Night

Artist: Pan Jie (China Institute for Visual Studies)

Instructor: Mou Sen

The 2023 intermedia masterpieces, Across the River and Into the Trees, integrates settings, exhibitions, performances, and visuals in the form of a prelude and trilogy, deconstructing significant milestones in human history. The spatial concept of "From Drawing Room to the Waste Land," alludes to the transition from 19th-century parlor dramas centered around a day, a place, and an event to T.S. Eliot's fragmented modern metropolis of the 20th century. The objective is to present a desolate, progressive narrative landscape through the extension of settings.

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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