“Art Walk: Behind the Scenes” 

Episode 2 : Huang Wenya

艺术家生态图录 第二集：

黄文亚——行为的艺术，艺术的行为？

（Time/时长：03' 23''）

Albert Camus once said that, no artist could live without reality. Art can question reality, but art cannot escape from reality. Compared with most mature artworks, the living conditions and life stories behind the art production seem to be more intriguing. Taking from the first-person perspective, CAFA ART INFO is now presenting you with our latest micro video program, “Art Walk: Behind  the  Scenes”. With a focus on individual artists’ life stories, we will take you on a tour to explore how an artist actually works and lives in real-life situations. This series will be filmed at a part of the artists’ studios in some art districts at Beijing. Each artist’s unique character will be revealed to our audience in a more realistic and tangible way. 

阿尔贝·加缪曾说，没有一个艺术家离得开真实。艺术可以怀疑真实，却不能逃避真实。相对于成熟的作品来说，隐匿在艺术家背后的现实境遇与生活方式或许更为神秘引人。中央美术学院艺讯网英文版微视频栏目《艺术家生态图录》以记者第一视角切入，从艺术家个人的生活微话题出发，在趋近平视的视角中窥探其工作环境与生活状态。首先基于中国北京部分集中艺术区的艺术家工作室进行走访，每位艺术家的独特个性在镜头之外徐徐显现。

Huang Wenya: Performance as Art, 

Art as a Performance？

黄文亚：行为的艺术，艺术的行为？

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Born in Hunan province, China, Huang Wenya graduated from the School of Experimental Art, CAFA, in 2015, with a master’s degree. His works cover video, photography, installation and performance art. Now he works and lives in Beijing. Huang Wenya’s studio is located in the Caochangdi Art District, it’s on the third floor of an apartment building on the right. Huang Wenya grew up just like most contemporary artists with his father’s passion for art having a significant influence on him.

黄文亚生于湖南，2015年毕业于中央美术学院实验艺术学院，获硕士学位。现居北京，主要从事影像、装置和行为艺术创作。黄文亚的工作室座落在草场地艺术区，门口左手边一栋小公寓楼的三层尽头便是他的工作地点。黄文亚和大多数艺术家的成长经历相似，父亲爱好文艺对他的影响很大。

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In the past decade, the artist has done a series of performance photographs. “The Smoke Series” is one of his most novel works which was created between 2011 and 2012. These photos involve a variety of scenes in which the artist holds a smoking torch in different locations. The torch shown in the image was made by the artist himself, with a baseball bat and an iron lunch box. The heavy smoke rises from the torch and penetrates various scenes and spaces. Sometimes it’s a lake within remote mountains, sometimes it’s within a city made of steel concrete structures. The artist attempts to express how he feels towards these various scenes.

在过去的十年里，艺术家创作了一批行为摄影作品，这批2011年至2012年创作的《烟云系列》是其中较为出彩的一部分，这些照片记录了艺术家本人在不同地点手持冒烟火把的情形，图片中的火把是艺术家自制的，材料来自棒球棍和铁饭盒，火把内的浓烟渗入到不同的场景空间，例如在深山湖水中、在钢筋城市里——艺术家表达他想借此抒发自己内心的各种情绪。

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This is “Seeing is not believing”, Huang Wenya’s video installation work in 2015. The stacked braille books are in response to the stories presented in the video. This artwork has led to him becoming more popular.  

这是黄文亚于2015年创作的影像装置作品《见何见》，堆放的盲文书籍和视频中的故事交相呼应，这件作品也让一部分人认识到他。   

We can see that, on the table, Huang’s sketches and notes are neatly laid out. This is the way he tries to show his students how to do a detailed drawing.

黄文亚的手稿和方案都整齐地摆放在桌面，这是他示范给学生怎样画一个局部。 

At the moment, along with making art, he also has a part-time job teaching the art basis course in a university. Huang has been thinking of selling his artworks so as to support himself as a freelance artist, and he attended many artist residency programs. In some way, he’s an intellectually active and ambitious artist. After this, Huang attended many artist residency programs. In some way, he’s an intellectually active and ambitious artist. 

目前，除了做创作以外，他业余兼职在一家高校中教基础课，但他透露或许以销售作品来获得经济支柱更符合职业艺术家的方式。黄文亚参加了很多驻留计划，可以说，他是一个思维较活跃并且野心勃勃的艺术家。

下期预告

Please stay tuned. Next time, we will take you to the artist Bu Yunjun’s studio.  

下一期我们将带观众走进艺术家卜云军的工作室，敬请关注。     

Artist Bu Yunjun 

艺术家卜云军

Special thanks to the artist Huang Wenya   

鸣谢 艺术家黄文亚 

Strategy Planning Director: Zhang Yanzi 

总策划：章燕紫 

Producer: Zhu Li  

监制：朱莉

English Producer: Sue Wang

英文监制：王姝  

Copy Writer: Zhang Yizhi  

文案策划：张译之

Director / Videographer: Chen Peihua

导演/拍摄：陈佩华  

Translator / Dubbing Specialist: Miao Yinan 

翻译/配音：缪亦楠

Post Production: Hu Sichen 

后期制作：胡思辰

Technical Adviser: Yang Yanyuan 

技术指导：杨延远