保卫艺术
Protecting ART
作品信息
DATA
保卫艺术
2013
时间，录音
NAME: Protecting ART
DATE: 2013
#Event #Audio Record
Credits: 2014，Composition of Different Screens，1920x1080，16:9，color，Stereo.
展览
EXHIBITIONS
独立项目
“保卫艺术”&“夜走黑桥”
2013
"Protecting Art”&“Hei Qiao by Night”
Independent Project
2013
北京黑桥
Beijing
关于 《保卫艺术》
ABOUT 《Protecting Art》
雇佣两名民工，签订协议：“艺术空间外面的一米空气是我的作品，任何人不能破坏。”他们的任务是保卫艺术。被雇佣者为了保卫这件空气作品，在项目空间外拉置一根5米绳子并且不让任何人接近，进入空间。雇佣者阻止了艺术家，空间负责人进入，策展人，媒体人…用录音笔纪录了这两位民工和这些人的之前的对话。
Background.
A famous curator in China organized an exhibition called “Ye Zou Hei Qiao” in Beijing. During 2 months, around 100 artists came to show works of all kinds, ephemerally. Many of them planned to use the last day of the show to stand under the spotlights of the media.
The Contract.
In the morning of the last day of the exhibition, Hu Yinping went to look for two migrant workers from Henan province working on a building site nearby. She asked them to sign a contract: they were to keep unsullied the one meter space in front of the art gallery from 12 am to 12 pm. Were the task completed successfully without giving in her name, 400RMB would be given to each of them at midnight.
Event.
The workers arrive and set up a precisely measured rope around the perimeter of the artist’s artwork. What remains of the scene is a record of the brilliant dialogue between the media, angry artists, a frustrated curator, and two honest migrant workers doing their job as told. During 12 hours, the workers conscientiously replied the questions they were asked, kept their composure when insulted, humorously changed subject when being laughed at, refused the temptation of being bribed, and called a dozen of other migrant workers when threatened to be beaten up.