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FAAS5305 Seminar in Cultural Theory & Criticism
Final Assignment
Analyze the cultural phenomenon about the fragmentation of artist-award
schemes in Hong Kong
LEE Kwun-leung Vincent (ęŽå† č‰Æ) Student ID: 1007070165
Major: MA Fine Arts (Year 1, Semester 1)
The Canto-pop stars can easily obtain annual awards from the music industry
prize-giving ceremonies organized by various press-media units, whereas the athletes
from Hong Kong sport teams can strive for social recognitions through obtaining
medals from Olympic Games or Asian Games. Thereā€™s a clear index for singers and
sport enthusiasts to pursue upward mobility and earn widespread acknowledgement
on their enhanced reputations. However, for the visual-art field, such index of
meritocracy is often vague as the artist-award schemes in Hong Kong use to be very
fragmented and even the awardees themselves can hardly gain respects from the
conservatives within the art academia.
The former colonial government has established Hong Kong Arts Development
Council in 1995 and this official unit endeavors to annually enforce the ā€œArts
Development Awardā€ since 2003. This system of acknowledgement persists
effectively after the Handover. However, once Leung Chun Ying succeeded as the
Chief Executive, this artist-award scheme by the official strata began to be challenged.
Florence Hui Hiu-fai (1974 ā€“ 2018) took up the responsibility to plan for the
establishment of Cultural Bureau. The blue-ribbon painters, such as urban-sketchers
from Civic Painting Society Camp, began to make use of this reformative opportunity1
for challenging the ā€œartist-award schemeā€ culture of HKADC, asking Cultural Bureau
to be the role of traditional patron in distributing continuous premium offers of
survival supports to painters2
for the sake of getting focused to purely produce
paintings as similar as artisans from Da Fen Cun in Shenzhen practicing. The
awardees from HKADCā€™s strata of acknowledgement, though being legitimate in
HKSAR governmentā€™s legal and institutional level, can hardly earn respects because
the philosophy of those blue-ribbon painters think about another story which is a
1
Shaw Tze (蕭껋), Publishing, Fine Arts, Life å‡ŗē‰ˆļ¼Žč—č”“ļ¼Žäŗŗē”Ÿ (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Hong
Kong Company Limited, Sep 2017, 1st Edition) {P.139 - Painting is the most disastrous district within
Hong Kong's culture and art: In response to Shu Hua (舒čÆ)'s "Three attempts of visits with Leung
Chun Ying for discussing the establishment of Cultural Bureau"}
2
Same as above {P.150 ā€“ What problems have there been appearing from the visual arts in Hong
Kong? ā€“ The HKADC should increase expenditures and make good use of these expenditures. It should
change from a passive allocation of resources to a subjective exploitation of resources.}
2
desire for a direct feeding by a centralized rule as a fulfillment of pragmatism.
The reason for such ideological denial on the authority of artist-award scheme is
subjected to the matter of Sino-Western cultural dispute. If tracing Mou Zhongjian
(ē‰Ÿé¾é‘’)ā€™s explanation on how Western Civilization stresses individuality that violates
the ā€œfamily-nationā€ altruistic thought of Confucianism, you can find that the
traditional Chinese art culture uses to remain with a hostile attitude against artists
climbing up the social ladder through getting any sorts of personal-brand awards by
defining this gesture as ā€œself-centered protection of egocentric interestsā€:
The origin of Western thoughts was the classical Greek philosophy that stressed
individuality. Democritus advocated ā€œAtomismā€, which was used to explain the
basic formation of substances within the Universe. Atom is a single particle.
When the particles fabricate, they form a substance. When the particles scatter,
they lead to voidnessā€¦ā€¦ After the Renaissance, Baruch de Spinoza advocated
ā€œSubstantialism as a Cause of Itselfā€ theory, which stresses that an entity of a
substance is of self-existent, independent and eternal peculiarities. Thomas
Hobbes advocated that the self-preservation of humans is the inborn nature of
mankind, as well as a ā€œnatural rightā€ of mankind. This kind of natural status
definitely causes a power struggle among humans. Therefore, ā€œNatural Lawā€
and ā€œSocial Contractā€ are needed. This is associated with Xunziā€™s thought from
China.3
Going through the ecology of art education in Hong Kong, we can hardly find a
college that grants a ā€œStudent Artist of the Yearā€ eternal honour as similar as
Rosaryhill School does. The Sovereign Art Foundation began to offer ā€œThe Sovereign
Art Foundation Students Prizeā€ since 2012 for letting college students in Hong Kong
optimistically and hopefully experience how a teenager of DSE Visual Arts studies can
emerge as an influential master-artist with an international reputation in advance. Of
course, the ā€œestate collegesā€ deny such artist-award scheme as the educators there
worry about their students getting arrogant to overwhelm the contributions of the
elder generation and become isolated from basic-class humble services. However, if
looking at the case of the United Kingdom, the ā€œTurner Prizeā€ is a very common
acknowledgement scheme hosted by Tate Modern in which the widespread British
citizens and global art lovers jointly foresee the results of annual awardees as
3
Mou Zhongjian (ē‰Ÿé¾é‘’), The Contemporary Spirits of Chinese Culture äø­åœ‹ę–‡åŒ–ēš„ē•¶äø‹ē²¾ē„ž (Hong
Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company, Mar 2017, 1st Edition) {P.168 - Chinese Civilization stresses
family-nation as centered thought, whereas Western Civilization stresses individuality as cored basis}
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joyously as watching the K-Pop singers from ā€œBTSā€ music band obtaining an ā€œArtist of
the Yearā€ honour from ā€œMAMA Music Awards 2020ā€. Even for the watercolour
magazines from the United States such as the ā€œAmerican Watercolour Societyā€
catalogues, there are often some chapters for promoting artist-award scheme to
uphold some annual representational painters whom can fulfill the perfection of
Watercolour Photorealism.
The pure painters from Civic Painting Society Camp in Hong Kong would regard the
artist-award scheme as causing disorders to the curators in defining which kind of
artworks are of good qualities for collection purposes. Just like how Tomia Koyama
commented, ā€œMerchandizing can hardly remain netural within the realm of fine
artsā€4
. For example, a curator can see an ugly art piece by a renowned artist with
public honour as good for promotion, whereas he sees a pretty art piece by a
low-profile painter from Da Fen Cun as not cost-effective for promotion. The matter
of artist-award scheme can thus disorder a businessman or a clientā€™s ability in
aesthetic judgment due to the herd mentality. Tomia Koyama even mentioned that,
ā€œThe exploitations and productions of enterprises that connect with the artists
themselves can actually be very vague. It is because, the artworks are the creations
by various artists with various stylistic personalities. For how the finished products
should be like, it is an issue that we can hardly predictā€.5
For example, a gallery from
Central called ā€œIlluminati Fine Artsā€ has come up a permanent contract with Lam Tian
Xin whom has a great reputation due to its leading position of being an
Art-representative member in ā€œCultural Coexistenceā€ alliance as well as being
sheltered by pro-establishment great TV stars like Lisa Wang and Cally Kwong. The
Illuminati Fine Arts requests Lam Tian Xin to keep submitting lotus ink paintings
every month for continuous exhibitions. But, owing to Lamā€™s influential reputation
within Lisa Wangā€™s acknowledgement, Illuminati Fine Arts as an enterprise stressing
rewards from exploitations can hardly go through the details of Lam Tian Xinā€™s lotus
ink painting submissions and ask Lam to remove the occasional ugly pieces. So, no
matter Lam Tian Xinā€™s pieces are good or bad, all the submissions from him will be
consistently sold to the clients whereas Lam will never strive for improvements. This
will lead to an unfair phenomenon of reputation-based keen competitions among
artists themselves without prior precaution to the beauty refinements of their
artworks at all. So, the painters from Civic Painting Society Camp strongly hope
4
Tomio Koyama, The Commercial Opportunities from Contemporary Art (Japan: ACII Media Works
Incorporation, 2008, Original Edition; Taiwan: Business Weekly Publications, a division of Cite
Publishing Limited, 2010, Translated Traditional-Chinese Edition) {P.125 - The hidden problems from
the ā€œcommoditization of fine artsā€}
5
Same as above
4
Florence Hui Hiu-faiā€™s establishment of Cultural Bureau to be successful in order to
substitute the role of HKADC and eliminate the ā€œArts Development Awardā€ so that
everybody from the art scene will just concentrate on their creative contents instead
of their brands. In accordance with Tomia Koyamaā€™s logics of analysis, the systematic
prospering of an artistā€™s personal brand through institutional means like artist-award
scheme will also lead to a deteriorating circulation in ā€œcommoditization of fine artsā€.
From Imke Elliesen-Kliefothā€™s case of interviewing a painter called Albert Oehlen,
artists often encounter a variation between academic emphasis and commercial
gains within their spiritual realms of value judgments. Just like how Albert Oehlen
argued, ā€œI am impoverished but I can be very famous!ā€6
Albert Oehlen clearly knows
that he cannot be as fortunate as William Kentridge who can get his blue-pastel
drawings to be universally reported by global press media and even have a chance to
exhibit his portrait paper-cutting installations at Hong Kong Art Basel. But Albert will
remain satisfied with his gain from friendships all over his living circuits. Similar to
Albert Oehlenā€™s non-utilitarian thought, many pro-Beijing painters from Civic Painting
Society Camp and the leftard artists from the social-movement field in Hong Kong
would define that, a victory within the art market is rewarding for some personsā€™
money-desiring minds. But, it is nothing about a purely subjective judgment from
artist himself for being satisfied with the contents and aesthetic effects the artwork
he has created, as well as nothing about a particular community or group of people
with same affinities who comprehend that youā€™re successful in art practices. If an
artist has obtained ā€œArts Development Awardā€ from HKADC, it does not mean that
the very academic group of internal art practitioners will equivalently acknowledge
his award-based achievement by submissively following the institutional index of
government rulers whom are secular-minded in bureaucratic operations without any
previous background of art learning before. Rather, this artist might lose the
important friendships from the insiders, and get isolated from the art academia as
well in accordance with Albert Oehlenā€™s logics. The urban-sketchers from Civic
Painting Society Camp would usually warn off the awardees from HKADCā€™s
acknowledgement strata, that you can still be proactive in the contemporary art
market of Hong Kong, but we wonā€™t recommend you to enjoy the immense
opportunities of joining national exhibitions in the art-collection market of Mainland
China because youā€™re too short-sighted in just fulfilling the local meritocracy
requirements.
6
Imke Elliesen-Kliefoth, Bergauf beschleuni ä½•č¬‚ęˆåŠŸ ā€” č—č”“ļ¼Ÿååˆ©ļ¼Ÿ (Zurich: Ammann Verlag,
2009, Original Edition; Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2011, Translated Simplified-Chinese
Edition)
5
The influx of leftard thoughts since Donald Tsangā€™s administration era with Choi Yuen
Village Incident and property hegemonies also discourage Hong Kong citizens from
cherishing the awardees from artist-award schemes as precious assets of success in
Hong Kong art. As Wang Sufeng (ēŽ‹ē“ å³°) wrote for a publication issued by Taipei Fine
Arts Museum, it is understood that the leftards, including the social activists in Hong
Kong, usually regard the chasing for artist-award achievements as an enrichment of
their career resumes as adopting ā€œconscious brainsā€ instead of ā€œconsciencesā€7
to
achieve a target rapidly through the manipulation of cunning gestures, which finally
makes a human being get exhausted from the immense pursuit on speeds within this
metropolitan realm and diminish your truthful leisure in art expressions. For example,
if youā€™re obliged to strive for a ā€œSovereign Asian Art Prizeā€, you cannot create some
explorative works like visual diaries, collages, printmakings, zentagles and
harmonious soft-pastel greeting card designs because these works are not
cost-effective and risky in adjudications as you can hardly highlight your
advantageous image from these works with loosened contents or an over-multiple
visions of styles. However, art is full of diversity, and art-making is not simply for
obtaining personal-brand awards. So, thereā€™s often a point of contradiction in dealing
with these psychological struggles by some moderate artists with creative
personalities but without aggressive career aspirations. So, both the blue-ribbon
painters and the leftard artists commonly condemn artist-award scheme as not a
totally humanitarian asset of talent formation. The Civic Painting Society Camp would
argue that, not all the painters would be eager to externalize their
ā€œcommodity-basedā€ materialistic desires on interests as everyone can see from the
cases of painting artisans in Da Fen Cun that they are submissively willing to serve for
the national mission of cultural prospering by putting aside their egocentric
consideration for transforming to be a hedonistic slavery of Capitalism, whereas their
ultimate glory should go to the PRC regime.
The blue-ribbon painters in Hong Kong use to draw an equal line between the
meritocracy from artist-award scheme and the idea of post-colonialism. They think
that, to the agrarian-minded knowledge of senior citizens in Hong Kong, the liaison
groups of the basic-class community would only grant ā€œservice awardsā€ to those
community volunteers, and they never hear about a huge enterprise or a property
developer like K11 Atelier giving a young artist a ā€œSovereign Asian Art Prizeā€ simply
because of the attractive gimmicks from a particular piece of his nominated artwork.
7
Wang Sufeng (ēŽ‹ē“ å³°), Post-Modern Aesthetics and Living 後ē¾ä»£ē¾Žå­ø與ē”Ÿę“» (Taipei: Taipei Fine
Arts Museum, June ROC 85, 1st Edition) {P.55}
6
Even for the ā€œestate collegesā€, the principals there will just grant service awards to
prefects, boy scouts, Red Cross members and Civil Aid Service members to remind
their fruits that they have to be humble in committing to the caring duties of our
basic-class society even after graduation, instead of asking their fruits to emerge as a
ā€œpainter starā€ flying to the United States or Europe for showing-offs. Just like the
anti-colonialists in the West or other parts of Asia and Africa, these
proletariat-minded persons would think that, art is also enriched by ā€œmigratory
experiencesā€ in which they can never be diminished by the British value of nobility
through an implementation of artist-award scheme. A statement from Anne Ring
Petersenā€™s publication can illustrate such anti-British feeling that exactly obstructs
Hong Kong people from cherishing the ā€œArt Development Awardā€ from HKADC:
In John Druckerā€™s words, ā€œWe jettisoned the idea of originality a long time ago.
But, oddly, we remain attached to the concept of the individual talent.ā€ This
traditional model continues to structure the way artists are marketed and
presented in many exhibitions, galleries and auction houses today; and there is
nothing to suggest that the marketable concept of the autonomous creator is
going to go out of use in the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, we need new
conceptual models because we cannot account for the extent to which
contemporary artistic practices and careers are structured by migratory
experience without developing a conception of the artist as a relational and
transculturally interconnected subject.8
The term ā€œmigratory experienceā€ by Anne Ring Petersen implies that the
anti-colonialists, including the Civic Painting Society Camp in Hong Kong supporting
the establishment of Cultural Bureau, blame the British meritocracy as not forbearing
the primitive art practices by Oriental, South American and African natives with
cultural and material flexibilities, such as the nomad paintings with tattoos and dry
leafs without any honoring to the technological visual elements as similar as
Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severiniā€™s trend of Futurism in Italian Art.
The blue-ribbon painters would think that, Macau has demonstrated a successful
example of running an ā€œInstituto Culturalā€ no matter before and after the Handover,
and it is not appropriate for HKSAR to remain HKADC as a colonial unit for persisting
with the elitist mode of artist-award scheme that further intensifies social divisions
and hierarchical exploitations. This department within the RAEM will implement an
8
Anne Ring Petersen, Migration into art ā€“ Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalized
world (The United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2017, 1st Edition) {P.86}
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egalitarian allocation of the exhibition chances and resources to all Macau local
artists from different age groups. The Instituto Cultural tightly collaborates with
ā€œAssociaĆ§Ć£o de Mestres de Arte de Macauā€ to play the centralized role and nominate
quality artists for different joint-exhibitions, as well as contacting institutions like
FundaĆ§Ć£o Macau, Instituto para os Assuntos CĆ­
vicos e Municipais and FundaĆ§Ć£o Rui
Cunha to realize these joint-exhibition proposals by offering venues. Different great
casinos, Clube Militar and Casa de Portugal em Macau also feel pleasant in helping
artists curate solo-exhibitions. But they wonā€™t uphold anybody as distinguished
Macau-artist stars with transcendental awardee status that overwhelm Instituto
Culturalā€™s index of egalitarianism. In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Arts Development
Council can exert influences to the decision-makings of various social and
commercial institutions through its artist-award scheme. For example, it has granted
an ā€œAward for Young Artist (Visual Arts)ā€ to Chan Wai Lap in mid-2020 for
acknowledging his inter-disciplinary art contributions with swimming-pools as his
creative themes covering installation, painting and hand-drawn design mediums.
Then, both Tai Kwun and Karin Weber Gallery promptly cope with HKADCā€™s
acknowledgement index to offer Chan Wai Lap sustainable chances in serving for
their Artist-in-Residence projects. Thus, everybody from our society will be aware of
Chan Wai Lapā€™s emergence as a brand-new ā€œswimming poolā€ contemporary young
artist. Chan Wai Lapā€™s story of upward mobility is never seen in Macau, as HKADC has
successfully made Chan Wai Lap transform from an unknown status to a
suddenly-popular status that even the outsiders can initially pay attention to his
king-making charisma. Also, in Macau, the Instituto Cultural administers both library
and artist-nomination affairs. But, in Hong Kong, the Leisure & Cultural Services
Department administers Central Library and City Hall for dealing with Civic Painting
Society Campā€™s hiring of exhibition halls from these two public facilities, whereas the
Hong Kong Arts Development Council is absolutely independent from LCSD in terms
of acknowledging contemporary artists with transcendental personal-brand awards.
So, HKADC is actually confronting with LCSDā€™s mission in collectivized Chinese cultural
inheritance due to its unique role of commercialism under the post-colonial basis of
British meritocracy. This kind of confrontation is never seen from the compromising
politics of the Macau bureaucracy at all, and so the blue-ribbon painters in Hong
Kong urge the art-management rulers to humbly learn from the harmonious case of
Macau.
Proletariat-minded people in Hong Kong possess an anti-Freud mindset to lower
artistsā€™ personalities
8
Sigmund Freudā€™s theory is important for the Visual Arts students who aim at winning
the ā€œThe Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prizeā€ through a submission of narrative
paintings, as Freud stresses the reflection of subconscious mind as an
accomplishment of oneā€™s ā€œegoā€ for better portraying imaginative episodes as similar
as how Salvador Dali expressed his daydreaming desires to create Surrealist paintings
with illogical episodes. However, Lecan was renowned as counteracting against the
ā€œegoā€ emphasis of Sigmund Freud and his theories were a violation on the evolution
of an artistā€™s creative development. From Arthur Kroker and David Cookā€™s analysis,
you can see that the leftards including social activists in Hong Kong tend to uphold
Lecanā€™s ideal for justifying their anti-expressionistic approach of ethnographical art
practices:
In the fully estheticized phase of late capitalism, art as institution works to incite
desire in the designer body by providing a reception aesthetics suitable for
ā€œpromotional cultureā€ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ Psychoanalytically, the estheticization of the
commodity-form implies that Lacanā€™s misrecognition as the basis of the
bourgeoisie ego (the mirrored self is the fictive centre of the misplaced concrete
unity of bourgeosis identity)9
Lecan believed that artists should lower their personalities to avoid declaring their
desires and ā€œpromotional culturesā€ for being objective in striving for widespread
recognitions within the institutional framework through the ā€œdiscoursesā€ of
community penetrations, as well as admitting the limitations from the displacements
of unconsciousness within our ā€œsuperegosā€. Lecan was restricted to a
ā€œfiction-orientedā€ mode of objective art practice, in which Deleuze and Guattari
criticized him as making a wrong allocation of dialogue application on art in terms of
striving for an anthropological level of socio-political recognitions because the
process of his psychoanalytical therapy was just a continuous re-positioning of
language notions which excluded the possibility of front-lined political and creative
engagements. However, the leftards in Hong Kong ironically adore Lecanā€™s
ā€œsuperego-basedā€ avocation by claiming that all the elites from the artist-award
scheme with narrative-painting submissions are moving towards the decaying stage
of bourgeoisie ego. The leftards think that if a genius in iconographies, who is able to
easily visualize his illusions from his ā€œimage archiveā€ onto the canvas based on
Sigmund Freudā€™s ideal, can directly win a personal-brand award and emerge as a
9
Arthur Kroker and David Cook, The Postmodern Scene ā€“ Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics
(New York: St. Martinā€™s Press, 1988, 2nd Edition) {P.17 & 19 - Thesis 3. Estheticized Recommodification:
Art and Postmodern Capitalism}
9
kingmaker; this unfairly overwhelms the silent contributions of community-art
servants whom have done lots of solitary data collections, communicative activities,
codings and sequential analysis in a field-observer role but putting aside their
individual honours. So, they make our whole society be disheartened with the
cherishment on art elites whom can write their achievements of artist-award
schemes onto their job-hunting resumes but to prefer employing some mediocre
servants with Social Science mindsets for dealing with the art-project allocation tasks
and the collectivized portfolio-cultivation tasks.
Chinese culture never denies entrepreneurial spirits if talking about artist-award
schemes
Chinese art academia with a mixture of Confucian feudalism and Maoist socialism
uses to think that painters will definitely become famous beyond their ageing or after
their deaths, and there is no need to accumulate personal fames by obtaining
artist-awards since adolescence. The literati-painting intellectuals even suggest that
the cultivation of painting skills must connect with the long-term sedimentation of
Sinological nourishments. This kind of thought also influences the ideology of
blue-ribbon painters in Hong Kong. Just like Liang Shixiong (ę¢äø–雄) replied to the
interview by Guangzhou Artists Association, there is a need for painters to indulge in
a realm of persistently studying the Ancient Han Language, talking about Painting
Theories and learning poetries because being a continuous researcher in Sinology
definitely helps refine the spiritual characters of ink-paintings and calligraphies10
. If a
winner in HKACDā€™s artist-award scheme or ā€œSovereign Asian Art Prizeā€ hasnā€™t got a
stable foundation but emerge to be globally renowned all of a sudden, he cannot
take over the complicated collection-based creative tasks with diversified
requirements in spiritual expressions. Their lack of life experiences make them be
unable to highlight cultural significance and spirituality from their
daydreaming-based works, whereas the so-called ā€œself-curatorshipā€ methodologies
cannot directly reflect their sophistication in philosophical thinkings. However, the
modern cultural-management elites from the advanced provinces of Mainland China
have abandoned such autocratic thought of judgments. Enterprises of cultural
industries in Beijing, including those administering the curatorial tasks of 798
Avant-garde Art District, will keep abreast with Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zeminā€™s
ā€œLetting the partial civilians become wealthy firstā€ rightist economic philosophies to
10
Ou Guangan (區廣安), The Fine Arts of Guangzhou 廣州ē¾Žč”“ (Guangzhou: Guangzhou Artists
Association, 3rd Edition of 2010) {P.46 - Sinology helps enhance the spiritual characters of literati
paintings and calligraphies}
10
efficiently foster art elites based on a new party concept called ā€œTen New Holistic
Capabilitiesā€ (ę–°åå…Ø): ā€œmoral integrityā€, ā€œgifted talentsā€, ā€œacademic excellenceā€,
ā€œknowledgeable qualitiesā€, ā€œcourageā€, ā€œapplicable contributionsā€, ā€œforbearanceā€,
ā€œstrategic thinkingsā€, ā€œflexibilityā€ and ā€œprudenceā€11
. Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao further
accomplished the ā€œTen New Holistic Capabilitiesā€ by allowing Yue Minjun, Zhang
Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi and Cai Guoqiang to undergo the speculation strikes and
gigantic rewards of the global art-auction market for proving the success of Chinaā€™s
experimentation that contemporary Chinese artists can reach the bidding level of
Damien Hirstā€™s ā€œFor the Love of Godā€ diamond skull. During Hu Jintaoā€™s administration,
the PRC regime thoroughly trusted Donald Tsang to continue with this HKADC mode
of art-talent management, including HKADCā€™s artist-award scheme, and connect the
acknowledgement ideal of this official unit with the planning tasks of M+ Pavilionā€™s
establishment at West Kowloon Cultural District. Thatā€™s why, some artists who have
obtained ā€œArts Development Awardsā€ from HKADC can also be nominated by M+
Pavilion to participate in Venice Biennial Exhibition on behalf of contemporary Hong
Kong art.
The reformative version of contemporary Chinese culture is supposed as being
forbearing to the brand-promotion strategies and an emergence of individuality
because the Capitalism with Socialist features also enforces wholehearted
developers to catch up with keen competitions for adapting to the trend of
globalization. Just like Chen Fang (é™³ę”¾)ā€™s analysis, earning a graceful reputation is for
a celebrity or a renowned organization to showcase his/its good qualities, or for
those un-popular persons and units to emerge as popular. Chen also reminded that
the curatorship of earning a graceful reputation can associate with the matter of how
an individual person or an organization makes use of charitable events to
demonstrate social contributions as a way of propagandizing himself/itself.12
The
urban-sketchers from Civic Painting Society Camp and the leftards from social
movements are afraid of accumulating a bunch of exhibition records, award records,
art-tutorship experiences and community-art project experiences for enriching the
resume whenever competing for the ā€œArts Development Awardsā€ of HKADC. They
think that the culture of artist-award scheme is much more like a game of insurance
promoters or banking-and-financial professionals to chase the quotas for salary
increase by supervisors whereas artists should put a prior emphasis on the beauty of
their works first because the HKADC adjudicators might easily neglect this concern
11
Gao Zhanxiang (高占ē„„), Theories of Cultural & Art Managements ę–‡åŒ–č—č”“ē®”ē†č«– (Beijing:
Peking University Press, July 1994, 1st Edition) {P.156}
12
Chen Fang (é™³ę”¾), The Methodology of Cultural Curatorship ę–‡åŒ–ē­–劃å­ø (Beijing: Current Issues
Publishing House Ꙃäŗ‹å‡ŗē‰ˆē¤¾, Jan 2000, 1st Edition) {P.56-57}
11
due to the bureaucratic evaluation process.
BIBLOGRAPHY
ļ¬ Shaw Tze (蕭껋), Publishing, Fine Arts, Life å‡ŗē‰ˆļ¼Žč—č”“ļ¼Žäŗŗē”Ÿ (Hong Kong: Joint
Publishing Hong Kong Company Limited, Sep 2017, 1st Edition)
ļ¬ Mou Zhongjian (ē‰Ÿé¾é‘’), The Contemporary Spirits of Chinese Culture äø­åœ‹ę–‡
化ēš„ē•¶äø‹ē²¾ē„ž (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company, Mar 2017, 1st Edition)
ļ¬ Tomio Koyama, The Commercial Opportunities from Contemporary Art (Japan:
ACII Media Works Incorporation, 2008, Original Edition; Taiwan: Business
Weekly Publications, a division of Cite Publishing Limited, 2010, Translated
Traditional-Chinese Edition)
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Company, 2011, Translated Simplified-Chinese Edition)
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(Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, June ROC 85, 1st Edition)
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Fragmentation of artist awards in Hong Kong analyzed

  • 1. 1 FAAS5305 Seminar in Cultural Theory & Criticism Final Assignment Analyze the cultural phenomenon about the fragmentation of artist-award schemes in Hong Kong LEE Kwun-leung Vincent (ęŽå† č‰Æ) Student ID: 1007070165 Major: MA Fine Arts (Year 1, Semester 1) The Canto-pop stars can easily obtain annual awards from the music industry prize-giving ceremonies organized by various press-media units, whereas the athletes from Hong Kong sport teams can strive for social recognitions through obtaining medals from Olympic Games or Asian Games. Thereā€™s a clear index for singers and sport enthusiasts to pursue upward mobility and earn widespread acknowledgement on their enhanced reputations. However, for the visual-art field, such index of meritocracy is often vague as the artist-award schemes in Hong Kong use to be very fragmented and even the awardees themselves can hardly gain respects from the conservatives within the art academia. The former colonial government has established Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1995 and this official unit endeavors to annually enforce the ā€œArts Development Awardā€ since 2003. This system of acknowledgement persists effectively after the Handover. However, once Leung Chun Ying succeeded as the Chief Executive, this artist-award scheme by the official strata began to be challenged. Florence Hui Hiu-fai (1974 ā€“ 2018) took up the responsibility to plan for the establishment of Cultural Bureau. The blue-ribbon painters, such as urban-sketchers from Civic Painting Society Camp, began to make use of this reformative opportunity1 for challenging the ā€œartist-award schemeā€ culture of HKADC, asking Cultural Bureau to be the role of traditional patron in distributing continuous premium offers of survival supports to painters2 for the sake of getting focused to purely produce paintings as similar as artisans from Da Fen Cun in Shenzhen practicing. The awardees from HKADCā€™s strata of acknowledgement, though being legitimate in HKSAR governmentā€™s legal and institutional level, can hardly earn respects because the philosophy of those blue-ribbon painters think about another story which is a 1 Shaw Tze (蕭껋), Publishing, Fine Arts, Life å‡ŗē‰ˆļ¼Žč—č”“ļ¼Žäŗŗē”Ÿ (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Hong Kong Company Limited, Sep 2017, 1st Edition) {P.139 - Painting is the most disastrous district within Hong Kong's culture and art: In response to Shu Hua (舒čÆ)'s "Three attempts of visits with Leung Chun Ying for discussing the establishment of Cultural Bureau"} 2 Same as above {P.150 ā€“ What problems have there been appearing from the visual arts in Hong Kong? ā€“ The HKADC should increase expenditures and make good use of these expenditures. It should change from a passive allocation of resources to a subjective exploitation of resources.}
  • 2. 2 desire for a direct feeding by a centralized rule as a fulfillment of pragmatism. The reason for such ideological denial on the authority of artist-award scheme is subjected to the matter of Sino-Western cultural dispute. If tracing Mou Zhongjian (ē‰Ÿé¾é‘’)ā€™s explanation on how Western Civilization stresses individuality that violates the ā€œfamily-nationā€ altruistic thought of Confucianism, you can find that the traditional Chinese art culture uses to remain with a hostile attitude against artists climbing up the social ladder through getting any sorts of personal-brand awards by defining this gesture as ā€œself-centered protection of egocentric interestsā€: The origin of Western thoughts was the classical Greek philosophy that stressed individuality. Democritus advocated ā€œAtomismā€, which was used to explain the basic formation of substances within the Universe. Atom is a single particle. When the particles fabricate, they form a substance. When the particles scatter, they lead to voidnessā€¦ā€¦ After the Renaissance, Baruch de Spinoza advocated ā€œSubstantialism as a Cause of Itselfā€ theory, which stresses that an entity of a substance is of self-existent, independent and eternal peculiarities. Thomas Hobbes advocated that the self-preservation of humans is the inborn nature of mankind, as well as a ā€œnatural rightā€ of mankind. This kind of natural status definitely causes a power struggle among humans. Therefore, ā€œNatural Lawā€ and ā€œSocial Contractā€ are needed. This is associated with Xunziā€™s thought from China.3 Going through the ecology of art education in Hong Kong, we can hardly find a college that grants a ā€œStudent Artist of the Yearā€ eternal honour as similar as Rosaryhill School does. The Sovereign Art Foundation began to offer ā€œThe Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prizeā€ since 2012 for letting college students in Hong Kong optimistically and hopefully experience how a teenager of DSE Visual Arts studies can emerge as an influential master-artist with an international reputation in advance. Of course, the ā€œestate collegesā€ deny such artist-award scheme as the educators there worry about their students getting arrogant to overwhelm the contributions of the elder generation and become isolated from basic-class humble services. However, if looking at the case of the United Kingdom, the ā€œTurner Prizeā€ is a very common acknowledgement scheme hosted by Tate Modern in which the widespread British citizens and global art lovers jointly foresee the results of annual awardees as 3 Mou Zhongjian (ē‰Ÿé¾é‘’), The Contemporary Spirits of Chinese Culture äø­åœ‹ę–‡åŒ–ēš„ē•¶äø‹ē²¾ē„ž (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Company, Mar 2017, 1st Edition) {P.168 - Chinese Civilization stresses family-nation as centered thought, whereas Western Civilization stresses individuality as cored basis}
  • 3. 3 joyously as watching the K-Pop singers from ā€œBTSā€ music band obtaining an ā€œArtist of the Yearā€ honour from ā€œMAMA Music Awards 2020ā€. Even for the watercolour magazines from the United States such as the ā€œAmerican Watercolour Societyā€ catalogues, there are often some chapters for promoting artist-award scheme to uphold some annual representational painters whom can fulfill the perfection of Watercolour Photorealism. The pure painters from Civic Painting Society Camp in Hong Kong would regard the artist-award scheme as causing disorders to the curators in defining which kind of artworks are of good qualities for collection purposes. Just like how Tomia Koyama commented, ā€œMerchandizing can hardly remain netural within the realm of fine artsā€4 . For example, a curator can see an ugly art piece by a renowned artist with public honour as good for promotion, whereas he sees a pretty art piece by a low-profile painter from Da Fen Cun as not cost-effective for promotion. The matter of artist-award scheme can thus disorder a businessman or a clientā€™s ability in aesthetic judgment due to the herd mentality. Tomia Koyama even mentioned that, ā€œThe exploitations and productions of enterprises that connect with the artists themselves can actually be very vague. It is because, the artworks are the creations by various artists with various stylistic personalities. For how the finished products should be like, it is an issue that we can hardly predictā€.5 For example, a gallery from Central called ā€œIlluminati Fine Artsā€ has come up a permanent contract with Lam Tian Xin whom has a great reputation due to its leading position of being an Art-representative member in ā€œCultural Coexistenceā€ alliance as well as being sheltered by pro-establishment great TV stars like Lisa Wang and Cally Kwong. The Illuminati Fine Arts requests Lam Tian Xin to keep submitting lotus ink paintings every month for continuous exhibitions. But, owing to Lamā€™s influential reputation within Lisa Wangā€™s acknowledgement, Illuminati Fine Arts as an enterprise stressing rewards from exploitations can hardly go through the details of Lam Tian Xinā€™s lotus ink painting submissions and ask Lam to remove the occasional ugly pieces. So, no matter Lam Tian Xinā€™s pieces are good or bad, all the submissions from him will be consistently sold to the clients whereas Lam will never strive for improvements. This will lead to an unfair phenomenon of reputation-based keen competitions among artists themselves without prior precaution to the beauty refinements of their artworks at all. So, the painters from Civic Painting Society Camp strongly hope 4 Tomio Koyama, The Commercial Opportunities from Contemporary Art (Japan: ACII Media Works Incorporation, 2008, Original Edition; Taiwan: Business Weekly Publications, a division of Cite Publishing Limited, 2010, Translated Traditional-Chinese Edition) {P.125 - The hidden problems from the ā€œcommoditization of fine artsā€} 5 Same as above
  • 4. 4 Florence Hui Hiu-faiā€™s establishment of Cultural Bureau to be successful in order to substitute the role of HKADC and eliminate the ā€œArts Development Awardā€ so that everybody from the art scene will just concentrate on their creative contents instead of their brands. In accordance with Tomia Koyamaā€™s logics of analysis, the systematic prospering of an artistā€™s personal brand through institutional means like artist-award scheme will also lead to a deteriorating circulation in ā€œcommoditization of fine artsā€. From Imke Elliesen-Kliefothā€™s case of interviewing a painter called Albert Oehlen, artists often encounter a variation between academic emphasis and commercial gains within their spiritual realms of value judgments. Just like how Albert Oehlen argued, ā€œI am impoverished but I can be very famous!ā€6 Albert Oehlen clearly knows that he cannot be as fortunate as William Kentridge who can get his blue-pastel drawings to be universally reported by global press media and even have a chance to exhibit his portrait paper-cutting installations at Hong Kong Art Basel. But Albert will remain satisfied with his gain from friendships all over his living circuits. Similar to Albert Oehlenā€™s non-utilitarian thought, many pro-Beijing painters from Civic Painting Society Camp and the leftard artists from the social-movement field in Hong Kong would define that, a victory within the art market is rewarding for some personsā€™ money-desiring minds. But, it is nothing about a purely subjective judgment from artist himself for being satisfied with the contents and aesthetic effects the artwork he has created, as well as nothing about a particular community or group of people with same affinities who comprehend that youā€™re successful in art practices. If an artist has obtained ā€œArts Development Awardā€ from HKADC, it does not mean that the very academic group of internal art practitioners will equivalently acknowledge his award-based achievement by submissively following the institutional index of government rulers whom are secular-minded in bureaucratic operations without any previous background of art learning before. Rather, this artist might lose the important friendships from the insiders, and get isolated from the art academia as well in accordance with Albert Oehlenā€™s logics. The urban-sketchers from Civic Painting Society Camp would usually warn off the awardees from HKADCā€™s acknowledgement strata, that you can still be proactive in the contemporary art market of Hong Kong, but we wonā€™t recommend you to enjoy the immense opportunities of joining national exhibitions in the art-collection market of Mainland China because youā€™re too short-sighted in just fulfilling the local meritocracy requirements. 6 Imke Elliesen-Kliefoth, Bergauf beschleuni ä½•č¬‚ęˆåŠŸ ā€” č—č”“ļ¼Ÿååˆ©ļ¼Ÿ (Zurich: Ammann Verlag, 2009, Original Edition; Beijing: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2011, Translated Simplified-Chinese Edition)
  • 5. 5 The influx of leftard thoughts since Donald Tsangā€™s administration era with Choi Yuen Village Incident and property hegemonies also discourage Hong Kong citizens from cherishing the awardees from artist-award schemes as precious assets of success in Hong Kong art. As Wang Sufeng (ēŽ‹ē“ å³°) wrote for a publication issued by Taipei Fine Arts Museum, it is understood that the leftards, including the social activists in Hong Kong, usually regard the chasing for artist-award achievements as an enrichment of their career resumes as adopting ā€œconscious brainsā€ instead of ā€œconsciencesā€7 to achieve a target rapidly through the manipulation of cunning gestures, which finally makes a human being get exhausted from the immense pursuit on speeds within this metropolitan realm and diminish your truthful leisure in art expressions. For example, if youā€™re obliged to strive for a ā€œSovereign Asian Art Prizeā€, you cannot create some explorative works like visual diaries, collages, printmakings, zentagles and harmonious soft-pastel greeting card designs because these works are not cost-effective and risky in adjudications as you can hardly highlight your advantageous image from these works with loosened contents or an over-multiple visions of styles. However, art is full of diversity, and art-making is not simply for obtaining personal-brand awards. So, thereā€™s often a point of contradiction in dealing with these psychological struggles by some moderate artists with creative personalities but without aggressive career aspirations. So, both the blue-ribbon painters and the leftard artists commonly condemn artist-award scheme as not a totally humanitarian asset of talent formation. The Civic Painting Society Camp would argue that, not all the painters would be eager to externalize their ā€œcommodity-basedā€ materialistic desires on interests as everyone can see from the cases of painting artisans in Da Fen Cun that they are submissively willing to serve for the national mission of cultural prospering by putting aside their egocentric consideration for transforming to be a hedonistic slavery of Capitalism, whereas their ultimate glory should go to the PRC regime. The blue-ribbon painters in Hong Kong use to draw an equal line between the meritocracy from artist-award scheme and the idea of post-colonialism. They think that, to the agrarian-minded knowledge of senior citizens in Hong Kong, the liaison groups of the basic-class community would only grant ā€œservice awardsā€ to those community volunteers, and they never hear about a huge enterprise or a property developer like K11 Atelier giving a young artist a ā€œSovereign Asian Art Prizeā€ simply because of the attractive gimmicks from a particular piece of his nominated artwork. 7 Wang Sufeng (ēŽ‹ē“ å³°), Post-Modern Aesthetics and Living 後ē¾ä»£ē¾Žå­ø與ē”Ÿę“» (Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, June ROC 85, 1st Edition) {P.55}
  • 6. 6 Even for the ā€œestate collegesā€, the principals there will just grant service awards to prefects, boy scouts, Red Cross members and Civil Aid Service members to remind their fruits that they have to be humble in committing to the caring duties of our basic-class society even after graduation, instead of asking their fruits to emerge as a ā€œpainter starā€ flying to the United States or Europe for showing-offs. Just like the anti-colonialists in the West or other parts of Asia and Africa, these proletariat-minded persons would think that, art is also enriched by ā€œmigratory experiencesā€ in which they can never be diminished by the British value of nobility through an implementation of artist-award scheme. A statement from Anne Ring Petersenā€™s publication can illustrate such anti-British feeling that exactly obstructs Hong Kong people from cherishing the ā€œArt Development Awardā€ from HKADC: In John Druckerā€™s words, ā€œWe jettisoned the idea of originality a long time ago. But, oddly, we remain attached to the concept of the individual talent.ā€ This traditional model continues to structure the way artists are marketed and presented in many exhibitions, galleries and auction houses today; and there is nothing to suggest that the marketable concept of the autonomous creator is going to go out of use in the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, we need new conceptual models because we cannot account for the extent to which contemporary artistic practices and careers are structured by migratory experience without developing a conception of the artist as a relational and transculturally interconnected subject.8 The term ā€œmigratory experienceā€ by Anne Ring Petersen implies that the anti-colonialists, including the Civic Painting Society Camp in Hong Kong supporting the establishment of Cultural Bureau, blame the British meritocracy as not forbearing the primitive art practices by Oriental, South American and African natives with cultural and material flexibilities, such as the nomad paintings with tattoos and dry leafs without any honoring to the technological visual elements as similar as Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severiniā€™s trend of Futurism in Italian Art. The blue-ribbon painters would think that, Macau has demonstrated a successful example of running an ā€œInstituto Culturalā€ no matter before and after the Handover, and it is not appropriate for HKSAR to remain HKADC as a colonial unit for persisting with the elitist mode of artist-award scheme that further intensifies social divisions and hierarchical exploitations. This department within the RAEM will implement an 8 Anne Ring Petersen, Migration into art ā€“ Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalized world (The United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2017, 1st Edition) {P.86}
  • 7. 7 egalitarian allocation of the exhibition chances and resources to all Macau local artists from different age groups. The Instituto Cultural tightly collaborates with ā€œAssociaĆ§Ć£o de Mestres de Arte de Macauā€ to play the centralized role and nominate quality artists for different joint-exhibitions, as well as contacting institutions like FundaĆ§Ć£o Macau, Instituto para os Assuntos CĆ­ vicos e Municipais and FundaĆ§Ć£o Rui Cunha to realize these joint-exhibition proposals by offering venues. Different great casinos, Clube Militar and Casa de Portugal em Macau also feel pleasant in helping artists curate solo-exhibitions. But they wonā€™t uphold anybody as distinguished Macau-artist stars with transcendental awardee status that overwhelm Instituto Culturalā€™s index of egalitarianism. In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council can exert influences to the decision-makings of various social and commercial institutions through its artist-award scheme. For example, it has granted an ā€œAward for Young Artist (Visual Arts)ā€ to Chan Wai Lap in mid-2020 for acknowledging his inter-disciplinary art contributions with swimming-pools as his creative themes covering installation, painting and hand-drawn design mediums. Then, both Tai Kwun and Karin Weber Gallery promptly cope with HKADCā€™s acknowledgement index to offer Chan Wai Lap sustainable chances in serving for their Artist-in-Residence projects. Thus, everybody from our society will be aware of Chan Wai Lapā€™s emergence as a brand-new ā€œswimming poolā€ contemporary young artist. Chan Wai Lapā€™s story of upward mobility is never seen in Macau, as HKADC has successfully made Chan Wai Lap transform from an unknown status to a suddenly-popular status that even the outsiders can initially pay attention to his king-making charisma. Also, in Macau, the Instituto Cultural administers both library and artist-nomination affairs. But, in Hong Kong, the Leisure & Cultural Services Department administers Central Library and City Hall for dealing with Civic Painting Society Campā€™s hiring of exhibition halls from these two public facilities, whereas the Hong Kong Arts Development Council is absolutely independent from LCSD in terms of acknowledging contemporary artists with transcendental personal-brand awards. So, HKADC is actually confronting with LCSDā€™s mission in collectivized Chinese cultural inheritance due to its unique role of commercialism under the post-colonial basis of British meritocracy. This kind of confrontation is never seen from the compromising politics of the Macau bureaucracy at all, and so the blue-ribbon painters in Hong Kong urge the art-management rulers to humbly learn from the harmonious case of Macau. Proletariat-minded people in Hong Kong possess an anti-Freud mindset to lower artistsā€™ personalities
  • 8. 8 Sigmund Freudā€™s theory is important for the Visual Arts students who aim at winning the ā€œThe Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prizeā€ through a submission of narrative paintings, as Freud stresses the reflection of subconscious mind as an accomplishment of oneā€™s ā€œegoā€ for better portraying imaginative episodes as similar as how Salvador Dali expressed his daydreaming desires to create Surrealist paintings with illogical episodes. However, Lecan was renowned as counteracting against the ā€œegoā€ emphasis of Sigmund Freud and his theories were a violation on the evolution of an artistā€™s creative development. From Arthur Kroker and David Cookā€™s analysis, you can see that the leftards including social activists in Hong Kong tend to uphold Lecanā€™s ideal for justifying their anti-expressionistic approach of ethnographical art practices: In the fully estheticized phase of late capitalism, art as institution works to incite desire in the designer body by providing a reception aesthetics suitable for ā€œpromotional cultureā€ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ Psychoanalytically, the estheticization of the commodity-form implies that Lacanā€™s misrecognition as the basis of the bourgeoisie ego (the mirrored self is the fictive centre of the misplaced concrete unity of bourgeosis identity)9 Lecan believed that artists should lower their personalities to avoid declaring their desires and ā€œpromotional culturesā€ for being objective in striving for widespread recognitions within the institutional framework through the ā€œdiscoursesā€ of community penetrations, as well as admitting the limitations from the displacements of unconsciousness within our ā€œsuperegosā€. Lecan was restricted to a ā€œfiction-orientedā€ mode of objective art practice, in which Deleuze and Guattari criticized him as making a wrong allocation of dialogue application on art in terms of striving for an anthropological level of socio-political recognitions because the process of his psychoanalytical therapy was just a continuous re-positioning of language notions which excluded the possibility of front-lined political and creative engagements. However, the leftards in Hong Kong ironically adore Lecanā€™s ā€œsuperego-basedā€ avocation by claiming that all the elites from the artist-award scheme with narrative-painting submissions are moving towards the decaying stage of bourgeoisie ego. The leftards think that if a genius in iconographies, who is able to easily visualize his illusions from his ā€œimage archiveā€ onto the canvas based on Sigmund Freudā€™s ideal, can directly win a personal-brand award and emerge as a 9 Arthur Kroker and David Cook, The Postmodern Scene ā€“ Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics (New York: St. Martinā€™s Press, 1988, 2nd Edition) {P.17 & 19 - Thesis 3. Estheticized Recommodification: Art and Postmodern Capitalism}
  • 9. 9 kingmaker; this unfairly overwhelms the silent contributions of community-art servants whom have done lots of solitary data collections, communicative activities, codings and sequential analysis in a field-observer role but putting aside their individual honours. So, they make our whole society be disheartened with the cherishment on art elites whom can write their achievements of artist-award schemes onto their job-hunting resumes but to prefer employing some mediocre servants with Social Science mindsets for dealing with the art-project allocation tasks and the collectivized portfolio-cultivation tasks. Chinese culture never denies entrepreneurial spirits if talking about artist-award schemes Chinese art academia with a mixture of Confucian feudalism and Maoist socialism uses to think that painters will definitely become famous beyond their ageing or after their deaths, and there is no need to accumulate personal fames by obtaining artist-awards since adolescence. The literati-painting intellectuals even suggest that the cultivation of painting skills must connect with the long-term sedimentation of Sinological nourishments. This kind of thought also influences the ideology of blue-ribbon painters in Hong Kong. Just like Liang Shixiong (ę¢äø–雄) replied to the interview by Guangzhou Artists Association, there is a need for painters to indulge in a realm of persistently studying the Ancient Han Language, talking about Painting Theories and learning poetries because being a continuous researcher in Sinology definitely helps refine the spiritual characters of ink-paintings and calligraphies10 . If a winner in HKACDā€™s artist-award scheme or ā€œSovereign Asian Art Prizeā€ hasnā€™t got a stable foundation but emerge to be globally renowned all of a sudden, he cannot take over the complicated collection-based creative tasks with diversified requirements in spiritual expressions. Their lack of life experiences make them be unable to highlight cultural significance and spirituality from their daydreaming-based works, whereas the so-called ā€œself-curatorshipā€ methodologies cannot directly reflect their sophistication in philosophical thinkings. However, the modern cultural-management elites from the advanced provinces of Mainland China have abandoned such autocratic thought of judgments. Enterprises of cultural industries in Beijing, including those administering the curatorial tasks of 798 Avant-garde Art District, will keep abreast with Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zeminā€™s ā€œLetting the partial civilians become wealthy firstā€ rightist economic philosophies to 10 Ou Guangan (區廣安), The Fine Arts of Guangzhou 廣州ē¾Žč”“ (Guangzhou: Guangzhou Artists Association, 3rd Edition of 2010) {P.46 - Sinology helps enhance the spiritual characters of literati paintings and calligraphies}
  • 10. 10 efficiently foster art elites based on a new party concept called ā€œTen New Holistic Capabilitiesā€ (ę–°åå…Ø): ā€œmoral integrityā€, ā€œgifted talentsā€, ā€œacademic excellenceā€, ā€œknowledgeable qualitiesā€, ā€œcourageā€, ā€œapplicable contributionsā€, ā€œforbearanceā€, ā€œstrategic thinkingsā€, ā€œflexibilityā€ and ā€œprudenceā€11 . Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao further accomplished the ā€œTen New Holistic Capabilitiesā€ by allowing Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi and Cai Guoqiang to undergo the speculation strikes and gigantic rewards of the global art-auction market for proving the success of Chinaā€™s experimentation that contemporary Chinese artists can reach the bidding level of Damien Hirstā€™s ā€œFor the Love of Godā€ diamond skull. During Hu Jintaoā€™s administration, the PRC regime thoroughly trusted Donald Tsang to continue with this HKADC mode of art-talent management, including HKADCā€™s artist-award scheme, and connect the acknowledgement ideal of this official unit with the planning tasks of M+ Pavilionā€™s establishment at West Kowloon Cultural District. Thatā€™s why, some artists who have obtained ā€œArts Development Awardsā€ from HKADC can also be nominated by M+ Pavilion to participate in Venice Biennial Exhibition on behalf of contemporary Hong Kong art. The reformative version of contemporary Chinese culture is supposed as being forbearing to the brand-promotion strategies and an emergence of individuality because the Capitalism with Socialist features also enforces wholehearted developers to catch up with keen competitions for adapting to the trend of globalization. Just like Chen Fang (é™³ę”¾)ā€™s analysis, earning a graceful reputation is for a celebrity or a renowned organization to showcase his/its good qualities, or for those un-popular persons and units to emerge as popular. Chen also reminded that the curatorship of earning a graceful reputation can associate with the matter of how an individual person or an organization makes use of charitable events to demonstrate social contributions as a way of propagandizing himself/itself.12 The urban-sketchers from Civic Painting Society Camp and the leftards from social movements are afraid of accumulating a bunch of exhibition records, award records, art-tutorship experiences and community-art project experiences for enriching the resume whenever competing for the ā€œArts Development Awardsā€ of HKADC. They think that the culture of artist-award scheme is much more like a game of insurance promoters or banking-and-financial professionals to chase the quotas for salary increase by supervisors whereas artists should put a prior emphasis on the beauty of their works first because the HKADC adjudicators might easily neglect this concern 11 Gao Zhanxiang (高占ē„„), Theories of Cultural & Art Managements ę–‡åŒ–č—č”“ē®”ē†č«– (Beijing: Peking University Press, July 1994, 1st Edition) {P.156} 12 Chen Fang (é™³ę”¾), The Methodology of Cultural Curatorship ę–‡åŒ–ē­–劃å­ø (Beijing: Current Issues Publishing House Ꙃäŗ‹å‡ŗē‰ˆē¤¾, Jan 2000, 1st Edition) {P.56-57}
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