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SHEN Shaomin, <Art History>, Voice installation, Dimension variable, 2015 ⓒ Courtesy of Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art
SHEN Shaomin Art History
Shen Shaomin is an artist of China who works in conceptual art and installation art. His works are mostly related to studies and reflection on some of the problems that exist in the history of art. At the same time, he constantly reveals and criticizes problems in the modern society like ‘Opinion leader’. His recent work <Art History>(2015) is a large scale interactive installation which is still an ongoing research project. <Art History>(2015) is composed of 50 headphones and 50 microphones. Narrations on the results of the artist’s research on the definition of art can be heard from the headphones, and the audience listening to the voice can speak at the microphones about their thoughts on the definition of art. The stories are then passed through a computer, converted into characters, printed out, and combined in one book. Those ‘shared statements’ are completed as such and ultimately becomes an archive of the artist. Through this work, Shen Shaomin opens up, edits and expands the history of art which is considered as an inviolable territory that only scholars and critics can enter, by encouraging the participation of the general public and thus, enriches the definition of art. |
