Going Out and Coming Home －－ Dha-Tsang Art Space Academic Exhibition (Ppreface)
I. Yunnan’s Contemporary Art on the Move
The “going out” and “coming home” are two mutually reinforcing and contradictory behaviors. The reason why I use them to make analogy is I want to borrow these two concepts to discuss the development of Yunnan’s contemporary art, the process from the “Art in Series” from 1980s to the “Art Homecoming” that now has been featured in the “Loft” and other art communities at Dali, Lijiang. It’s a two-way, interactive artistic and cultural exchange process, with a dimension as such I intent to explore the development of Yunnan’s contemporary art in the 1980s within its context. It also involves the locality of art development and the sense of cultural belonging of artists, as well as other sensitive and dynamic academic topics.
