Songzhuang: The Contemporary Practice In China's Art Worlds

This paper takes Songzhuang,the largest artists' gathering area in the world,as the object,and takes China's social change and globalization in the past 40 years of practicing reform and opening up policies,and 30 years' development of Songzhuang as background to observe the local practice of the appearance and development of art districts in China and to explore the practice strategy of China's contemporary cultural change from the perspective of art worlds.The research value of Songzhuang lies in the diversity,difference and contradiction of its culture.The changing art practice arouses the "communication worlds" in the local culture.The interaction between system and individual initiative is activated in various dimensions: "crisis of change","contradiction of history","trial and error of reconstruction",etc.Songzhuang's cultural conflicts between local and global,modern and premodern,the elite and the public,system and spirit,freedom and fairness,consumption and aesthetics will help us to understand the complexity of local culture,and to have a better understanding of contemporary art worlds and today's China.This paper focuses on the interaction of art worlds and the reproduction of culture system.From the initial "utopia" of artists' village to the ecological change of "artist community" under the prosperity of the market,and to the government-led "art town".Each period of Songzhuang has carried on the creative cultural interaction and cultural reproduction in the reference of "communication worlds".From the construction and practice of "utopia" to the "conscious dislocation" and "expectation imbalance";From the functional differentiation of the system to the creative practice of "official and civilian co-creation";From the "disappearance of art districts" in the era to the practice and innovation of "art hyperlinks".As an epitome of the era,Songzhuang shows the behavior patterns and spiritual illustrations of Chinese people in the face of "globalization" and "social transformation" from the perspective of the art worlds.This paper aims to provide an anthropological perspective for understanding the motivation of changes and contemporary cultural practice in the Chinese art worlds from the interactive practice of the art community.The contemporary practice of Songzhuang shows that artistic creation is a net,and human creation and social system evolution are highly mixed.Art practice in the context of "postmodern" is more of a "self-observation" ability,and art starts to return to daily life.The significance of the art worlds lies in the fact that Songzhuang's 30 years of practice has proved that art plays a powerful role in social change and is of great inspiration to future development.That is to say,the art worlds is an imaginary community of hope and creation in which every one of us is involved.We constantly pursue spiritual consciousness and cultural harmony in the "communication worlds" of local culture,which helps us to gain hopes and courages in face of future risks and challenges.This is how Chinese people understand the social value of cultural art with their own practice,and is of pratical importance in the study of local art worlds.