WEEK 2

Key words: animation character, double identities, visual artworks, minor curating, religion and commerce

I want to do a minor exhibition focusing on visual works.

Theme: How do ordinary people deal with their identity in different contexts

Purpose: To focus on the lives of ordinary people. I find that a lot of art about identity focuses on colonial, anti-colonial and sexual minorities, but not many focus on the fact that ordinary people have multiple identities of their own. Such as dual nationality and so on. There are multiple identities that can affect the person’s worldview or values, and he may have different ways of dealing with the same thing because of different identities. This choice is also a “dilemma”. So I want to focus on the dilemmas in life.

Show it through animated characters. Wang Ye. The dilemma he faced was how to balance his very different roles as a monk and a businessman, and whether to engage in complex human interactions.

Position: There is no need for a large space, the ground floor of the main building is more than enough space, and it can also be connected to a power source for video display, etc. You can put ten or fifteen pieces on display.

If given the opportunity, I would like to work with an artist who also has multiple and vastly different identities, differences that influence the perspective from which he or she chooses to approach a problem. For example, the artist is both a confectioner and a diabetic. I hope to learn how to deal with the same thing with different identities, what contradictions I need to overcome in this process, whether there are any changes in my mentality, whether I will be treated differently because of different identities, etc. I also hope that by cooperating with such artists, more audiences can pay attention to themselves and learn to face and deal with various situations bravely.

Presentation: The Taoist Yin-yang diagram is used to show the two colors of Wang Ye’s two identities. (as shown in the picture)

My difficulty: How to choose the exhibits to show the relationship between two identities. I was worried about turning the exhibition into a “character exhibition” that would not represent my subject. My current idea is the “different solutions to the same thing” plot that exists in anime and manga as part of the exhibit, but how to highlight my theme, how to make the audience think?