Speaker

Chen Jiaying

Responder

Zhang Wenxin

Host

Liu Tian

Introduction

Lately I have (again) found myself doubting art and my newly established identity as a creator, but some colleagues have taken me out of this weightless place, or generously invited me into the eye of the storm. ‘Self-Declaration’ is a statement under the name of Chen Jiaying. Firstly, it is related to my thoughts on ineffective creation since the epidemic, re-examining the social, independent and productive nature of the creator’s identity and is entangled with the thoughts of Foucault, Bataille and other friends in the art world. This statement is then responded to by two unnamed artists. For this final return to the statement, I will provide an outsider’s perspective on the personal profile below, and the research turn explained in it, allowing the medical scalpel to travel unapologetically into the body in this black and white photograph. I try to find a personal explanation by disassembling it, but inevitably, and thankfully, it ends up lost and ineffective.