CHINA DAILY专稿第二波，让世界看见这个中国小城的桃花源理想 - 市民留言

2017-11-07 11:08

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从众是方便的，指引是困难的，但一座城市的魅力，总是出现在指引的层面上。

指引人群，从来都是文化的职能。江南临江棚改右岸城项目尝试用文化探索城市发展与未来生活，将更高层次的服务理念和人文情怀体验带给城市，为百姓提供有温度的社区生活，为城市创造更多的价值。

我们反复地探讨，又一遍遍推倒重来。但是，始终抱持一个信念:用洞察时代的生活空间作品，以不断完善的人文传递去反哺土地的执著与坚持。

这份初心与行动，正在让影响发生，也吸引了世界的关注。2017年11月4日，中国日报China Daily以首页新闻的方式大篇幅刊发了记者邓章瑜撰写的《From rubble，art and new life spring》（棚户区里生根发芽的艺术和新生）、《Land of the peach blossom beckons once more》（重现桃花源）两篇文章，

现将第二篇专稿《Land of the peach blossom beckons once more》（重现桃花源）翻译稿以及英文稿件原文转载如下。

重现桃花源

一个新的艺术中心为小城的文化生活注入活力

@邓章瑜 CHINA DAILY 特稿部记者

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每当夜幕降临，湖南常德的市民开始了每天雷打不动的消遣活动——打牌、足浴按摩或其他活动——来打发时间。九月，一个高雅文化艺术中心的开幕为渴望参与文化活动的市民们提供了新的选择。

这座位于鼎城区的右岸文化艺术中心耗资六千万打造。高规格的艺术中心在开幕大展中展出了一批中国顶尖艺术家的作品，包括来自于以大型装置闻名的徐冰和雕塑家隋建国的艺术作品。

开幕除展览外，还有现代舞与音乐结合的表演，这场类似于实验艺术的表演即便让不少观众大呼看不懂，但在没有中场休息的表演中，他们一直保持礼貌的安静，直到两小时的表演结束。

艺术中心的负责人姜晗表示：“演出结束后，当地观众有强烈的欲望与舞者和导演交谈，我感到很惊讶！观众承认他们看不懂这场表演，但是打心底里喜欢。”

姜晗回忆道，当徐冰和隋建国等艺术家被邀请到常德做展览时，这群艺术家们认为小城市对先锋艺术的兴趣不大。事实上，到访右岸文化艺术中心的许多观众以前从未去过剧院或美术馆。

住在附近的76岁鼎城区居民冯世林曾两次到访文化艺术中心。第一次是开幕大展和演出，另一次是参加小提琴音乐会，音乐会的主角正是就读于纽约茱莉亚音乐学院的常德籍小提琴家朱维。

冯世林曾是一名工厂工人，他说：“我对艺术一无所知，但我能感受到它的魅力，这很棒。”

右岸文化艺术中心位于常德市鼎城区，这里正在进行棚户区改造，将旧貌换新颜。右岸文化艺术中心是由香港汇创国际建筑设计有限公司设计的，如今她被上世纪建成的老旧建筑和红砖楼房围绕，在当前的环境中看起来不太协调，但6到8年之后，待棚户区改造完成，一切都会改变。

艺术中心由剧场、美术馆、书院、咖啡厅、儿童美育空间组成，书院拥有数万本关于艺术、建筑、历史和文学的书籍。

“书院每到周末总是座无虚席，这已成为城市中最受欢迎的读书空间”，姜晗说，他指着书院里一个特殊的藏书空间，这里有许多的英文书籍，其中包括安迪·沃霍尔的传记。

当地数百个文艺社团纷纷主动联系姜晗，向艺术中心询问如何合作举办活动，包括戏曲、诗歌朗诵和茶艺等。

“我们必须先为人们提供一个艺术的平台，然后艺术的种子才能生根发芽。”

进入10月，右岸文化艺术中心举办了亲子戏剧节和一系列现代舞蹈艺术表演，门票迅速售罄。

中央美术学院公共空间艺术家胡泉纯在四月份来常德参加了为期一个月的艺术驻留项目。他对当地居民对当代艺术的接受度感到兴奋。在艺术驻留期间，每天晚上他都会给自己团队中的中央美术学院的学生上课，与他们讨论艺术，并就即将创作的艺术作品展开头脑风暴。令他惊讶的是，很多居民自发前来听课，并乐此不疲。

“我认为当地居民对艺术的热情与常德的历史文化是息息相关的。毕竟，这里曾经孕育了很多诗人和作家。”

古代诗人陶渊明的《桃花源记》在中国家喻户晓。在这个故事中，一个打渔为业的武陵人发现了一个桃花源，这里与世隔绝、屋舍井然、人们怡然自乐。而常德正是陶渊明笔下桃花源的所在地。这个城市也被著名作家沈从文在多篇文章中重点描绘。

中国美术学院艺术家赵明也参加了当地支持的艺术驻留计划，她认为常德完全有潜力再造陶渊明笔下的桃花源。

“这里山清水秀，居民单纯美好，并热爱参与艺术活动。”

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△ 在湖南常德新开幕的艺术中心的大型装置——融合了声音和照片，是新近展出的中国顶级艺术家的众多先锋派艺术作品之一，许多当地居民对此兴趣浓厚。

文章来源：CHINA DAILY Nov.4-5,2017
作者：邓章瑜

翻译：江南城发
校审：邓章瑜

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CHINA DAILY 报道电子版

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Land of the peach blossom beckons once more

By Deng Zhangyu ( China Daily )

When night falls in the city of Changde in Hunan province, you will find many people playing cards, relaxing with a soothing foot massage or taking part in some other activity to while away the time. A fancy art center that opened in September now offers another choice to those yearning to be involved in cultural activities.
In the inaugural show of the art center, which cost 60 million yuan ($9.07 million) to build, works of top Chinese artists were on display, including those of Xu Bing, known for his large-scale installations, and the sculptor Sui Jianguo.
Following the exhibition were performances of modern dance and music that seemed to leave many of those who saw them perplexed, even if they maintained a polite silence throughout and stayed in place until the two-hour performance－with no intermission－had concluded.
Jiang Han, who is in charge of the art center, says he was surprised about the local audience's eagerness to talk with dancers and directors after the performance.
"They admitted they did not really understand it, but they liked it," he says.
When the likes of Xu Bing and Sui Jianguo were invited to display their works in Changde they were surprised because they thought there would be little interest in their avant-garde art in small cities, Jiang says.
In fact, many of those in the audience said they had never been to a theater or to an art museum before, he says.
Feng Shilin, 76, who lives in a shantytown nearby, has visited the art center twice. One visit was for the inauguration exhibition and performance, and the other for a concert by a local violinist who studies at the Julliard School in New York
"I don't know anything about art, but I can feel its charm," says Feng, who was once a factory worker. "It's great."
The art center is located in a shantytown that is to be cleared and replaced with new buildings. The center, surrounded by the remains of dilapidated buildings and redbrick apartments built last century, was designed by the Hong Kong architectural firm Atelier Global and looks out of place in its current environment, but that will change once everything has been cleared and the new buildings have been completed in six to eight years.
It consists of a theater, an art museum, a bookshop with tens of thousands of books on art, architecture, history and literature, a coffee bar and an education space for children.
"The bookshop is always full on the weekend and has become the most popular one in the city," says Jiang, pointing to a special space in the bookstore that sells English books, including a biography of Andy Warhol.
Many local art societies have approached Jiang, asking about holding activities in the art center. There are more than 100 art societies in Changde, including operas, poetry reciting and tea art, Jiang says.
"We have to provide an art platform for people first and then the seed of art will grow."In October a children's play festival and a series of modern dance and music were held in the art center, and tickets sold out rapidly.
Hu Quanchun, an artist who specializes in public art, was in Changde to take part in a one-month art project in April. He says he was thrilled by people's acceptance of contemporary art. During his stay he held classes at night with his students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to discuss their ideas on what kind of works they would produce. He was pleasantly surprised by the keen interest that locals showed in his classes.
"I think people's passion for art here must be related with the city's history. After all, it was once a breeding ground for poets and writers."
Changde is where the utopia of the ancient poet Tao Yuanming, in his fable The Peach Blossom Spring, is located. In the fable, a fisherman finds a utopian world where people live in harmony with nature and keep a distance from the outside world. The city has also been prominent in works by the writer Shen Congwen.
The artist Zhao Ming, who took part in a residential art project sponsored by the local government, says she thinks the city has the potential to recreate the peach blossom land described in poet Tao's fable.
"It has clean rivers and mountains, and people here are simple and love taking part in artistic activities."

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△ An installation of sound and photos is one of many avant-garde artworks by top Chinese artists on display in a newly opened art center in Changde, Hunan, in which many locals expressed their interest. [Photo provided to China Daily]

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