《1+1+...=X》作品全景 the work panorama (01)

《1+1+...=X》作品全景 the work panorama (02)

《1+1+...=X》作品全景 the work panorama (03)

1+1+…=X
装置和行为艺术
艺术家：胡志颖
材料：综合媒介
参与者：Yuting（大提琴手），Mercedes（大提琴手），Vance（摄影师），Toot（职员）
音乐：《客厅音乐》（约翰·凯奇）
时间：2021年10月11日（哥伦布日），下午2:00-4:30
地点：纽约大都会艺术博物馆广场前，曼哈顿第五大道&东83街
主办：纽约城市艺术家团，纽约艺术基金，纽约市文化事务局，纽约市政府

2021年10月11日，胡志颖在纽约大都会艺术博物馆前面的广场制作了一件名为《1+1+…=X》的作品，把表演艺术与装置艺术相结合，展现人类在毁灭和牺牲中的自相矛盾的处境。胡志颖用朴素的特别材料——黑色汽油罐和黑色塑料管——搭建了一个高高的平台。它既像一个审判台又像一个祭坛，介于两者之间。

匍匐爬行 creeping (01)

匍匐爬行 creeping (02)

匍匐爬行 creeping (03)

第一部分

胡志颖裹着黑布，围绕高高的平台的四周爬行，一圈又一圈，一圈又一圈，就像人类所谓的“进步”一样，艰难、缓慢、尴尬……这意味着人类总是在不知不觉中重复着自我矛盾的悲剧之旅。整个创作过程都展现在观众面前，这一装置与表演艺术所反映的人的处境是矛盾的、无奈的、悲剧性的。借助于综合媒体的复杂性制作了这件装置。并邀请了2名圣路加管弦乐团（Orchestra of St. Luke's）的大提琴手演奏约翰·凯奇的音乐作品《客厅音乐》（Living Room Music）。艺术家胡志颖和两位大提琴手互为孤立地各行其是。

捆绑 binding (01)

捆绑 binding (02)

捆绑 binding (03)

饲食 feeding (01)

饲食 feeding (02)

饲食 feeding (03)

大提琴手 cellist Yuting (left) and Mercedes (right) (01)

大提琴手 cellists

第二部分

艺术家与观众的互动。邀请现场3位观众参与作品创作过程。他们用胶带把艺术家胡志颖从头到脚捆绑起来；然后对已经被封住嘴的艺术家喂食、说话，恰如人类饱受被迫接受之苦，而期望得到的东西却无法得到的矛盾。或者，尽管是你需要的东西，却是在你无法获得的时候被“给与”。“1+1+…”究竟等于多少，人类可能永远寻找不到答案。整个作品产生意外和不确定的多义效果，就像人类境况的不可知——未知数X。

如下面的图片的显现和介绍，观众积极参与互动。这在前卫艺术中是不多见的。整个项目的思想观念表现得非常独特，很有价值。

观众 audiences (01)

观众 audiences (02)

观众参与 participating audences (01)

观众参与 participating audences (02)

观众参与 participating audences (03)

摄影师 the photographer

艺术家和他的工作组 the artist and his team

胡志颖《1+1+...=X》（草图） Hu Zhiying, 1+1+...=X, 2021, installation and performance (sketch), ink on paperboard, 30.8×20.5 cm

胡志颖《1+1+...=X》（视频） Hu Zhiying：1+1+...=X (video)

PROJECT: 1+1+…=X

installation and performance

Artist: Hu Zhiying

Media: mixed media

Participants: Yuting (cellist), Mercedes (cellist), Vance (photograhper), Toot (staff), etc

Music: Living Room Musice by John Cage

Video production: Vance

Time and location: in front of Metropolitan Museum of Art at 5 Avenue & East 83 Street in Manhattan, on Monday 2pm – 4:30pm, October 11th, 2021

Sponsors: New York City Artist Corps

New York Foundation for the Art

New York City Dep of Cultural Affairs

On October 11th, 2021, artist Zhiying Hu presented his work "1+1+...=X" in front of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Combing installation and performance arts, "1+1+...=X" embodies the internal conflicts people experience when facing demises and sacrifices.

INSTALLATION:

Hu constructed a tall platform with simple yet unusual components: a black plastic pipe and black gasoline oil drums. The installation looks like a trail stand or a sacrificial altar, or something in between.

PERFORMANCE ART:

Part I

Covered in black fabrics, Hu crawled around the installation in circles, laying out the irony of human "progress" —— It is a hard, slow, and often awkward journey, during which mankind almost always unknowingly repeat the tragedy of self-contradictions. As the entire project is laid out in front of the audience, the installation and performance art intend to convey the idea that humans are constantly in a position of conflicts, helplessness and misfortunes. Hu takes advantage of the complexity of mixed media to conduct this art piece. He invited 2 cellists from the Orchestra of St. Luke's to play John Cage's "Living Room Music." Hu performance and the cellists' performance seem to be separated and unbothered by each other.

Part II

The artist interacted with the audience. Hu invited 3 audiences to participate in performing his art. The first participating audience wrapped Hu up from head to toes with duct tapes. Then, all three participating audiences took turns to talk to and try to feed the artist, whose mouth was sealed with duct tapes. This can be interpreted as the visualization of the human suffering of being forced to accept, yet, at the same time, not being able to obtain what they actually desire. Or, even when they are offered what they desire, it is often at a time when they are unable to accept the offerings. Mankind might never find out the answer to "1+1+...". The uncertainty of how the interactive art project would play out translates into the different ways its meaning can be perceived, just like the ambiguous condition’s humans are in —— the unknown number X.

The audience actively participates in the interaction. This is rare in avant-garde art. The photographer carefully took photos and made videos with a digital camera. Good clarity of photos and videos. Especially the production is very exquisite. The ideas of the whole project are very unique and valuable.

胡志颖（伍锦良摄）Hu Zhiying (photo by Wu Jinliang)

主要个展

2008 胡志颖作品展，意大利Piziarte画廊

2010 在幻象锁链的彼岸——胡志颖绘画作品1989—2009（20年作品回顾展），墙美术馆，北京

2016 安徒生童话, 装置，纽约现代艺术博物馆

2017 体验与超验：胡志颖艺术1987—2017，53美术馆，广州

主要展览

1992 大尾象·联合艺术展，广东广播电视大学大楼

1996 中国15当代艺术家工作室，德国慕尼黑

1996 今日中国！瑞士巴塞尔

2011 透明的墙：中印艺术展，对比窗（艺术门集团），上海

2012 艺术·前沿——当代艺术邀请展，宋庄美术馆，北京

2015 “曝光奖”展览，巴黎卢浮宫

2017 为什么是蟾蜍？外交辞令等四件装置，Dia: 比肯博物馆，纽约

2018 废除死刑，无法重新获得童年等装置，新艺术博物馆，纽约

2018 没有电影（2），为什么是蟾蜍？（2）等装置，惠特尼美国艺术博物馆，纽约

2019 后殖民工场，装置，大都会艺术博物馆，纽约

2020 第17届亚非&地中海国际当代艺术展，青岛

2020 墨菲的光辉之门（音乐和美术联袂），与纽约路加管弦乐团合作，纽约

2021 1+1+…=X，装置和行为艺术纽约城市艺术家团，纽约艺术基金，纽约市文化事务局，纽约市政府

收藏

路德维希博物馆收藏，科隆

暨南大学博物馆，广州

墙美术馆，北京

53美术馆，广州

HU ZHIYING Artist,Ph. D., Professor

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Art Exhibition of Hu Zhiying, Galleria Piziarte, Teramo, Italy

2010 Beyond the Chains of Illusion——Hu Zhiying’s Paintings (1989-2009), the Wall Art Museum, Beijing

2016 The Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Installations, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2017 Experience and Transcendence: Hu Zhiying’s Art (1987-2017), 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1992 Big-Tail Elephant, The United Art Exhibition, the building of Guangdong Broadcast and Television University, Guangzhou

1996 China-Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers, Munich, Germany

1996 CHINA NOW! Basel, Switzerland

2006 The Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition of Celebrity in China, Jinan University Museum, Guangzhou

2011 Window in the Wall：India and China – Imaginary Conversations, Pearl Lam Fine Art, Shanghai

2012 ART FRONTIER Contemporary Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing

2015 The Exposure Award, Louvre Museum, Paris

2017 DiplomaticLanguage, etc., Dia:Beacon, New York

2018 Abolition of the Death Penalty, Unable to Get New Childhood, New Museum, New York

2018 No Movie (2), Why Is It A Toad? (2), installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2019 Postcolonial Workshop, installation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2020 Asian & African and Mediterranean International modern Art Exhibition, Qingdao

2020 The World of Dreams: Shining Gate of Morpheus (music & art), Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL), New York

2021 1+1+…=X, installation and performance, the project supported by NYFA and NYC Dep of Culture Affairs,New York

COLLECTIONS

Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Jinan University Museum, Guangzhou

Wall Art Museum, Beijing

53 Art Museum, Guangzhou