Dai Lu
He is the director of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a lecturer in the interdisciplinary course "Body as a Medium" at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and a guest lecturer in art education at the Dia Art Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art.
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The track of youth
Cross-media choreographer artist and art educator, director of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, lecturer of interdisciplinary courses at the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts... The various identities are combined to achieve a capable person who spans multiple fields.
Her vision is to be an artist, and everything she tries is to enjoy the possibilities brought by cross-border.
In 2022, Dai Lu was the sub-director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, she assisted the general director Zhang Yimou to dock with the international artist team, and also served as the English host of the warm-up session on the opening day... Like a pigeon, she joined the Beijing Winter Olympics in the grand event.
From the beginning of the project into the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to the end of the Winter Paralympic Games, after more than two years, for Dai Lu, it seems to be a social practice, or really knocking on the door of this society.
All along, Dai Lu's works have explored the contemporary and social nature of art by studying the theoretical ideas of art history and philosophy, combining the media of body, image, text, and space.
Passionate about what you do, independent and introspective, positive and enterprising, hard and tenacious, this is what young people should have to look like today. "I am like water, always all-encompassing. No matter how many gaps and edges you experience, follow your goals. Dai Lu said.
As the dark night fades, the hazy daylight is slowly rising, ready to continue to shine on the earth as always.
Her latest work, a man dancing in a world park, big eyes with trepidation, a smooth body posture, and a musical note that feels like a beating on a person's heart, World Park Fantasia 2020, raises the immutable question: Who are you, where are you from, where are you going?
American talk show actor Dave Chappelle said a sentence that had a deep impact on Dailu, "Sometimes you gotta be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are". To be a lamb, you first have to be a lion, which means you need the courage of a lion to play. Dai Lu is surrounded by many such courageous young people, who are pinning down the shortcomings of the times - attention to the living conditions of women, discussions about the phenomenon of Gu Ailing, the Russo-Ukrainian War...
She wants to keep her mind clear at all times, to be able to find her position and attitude in the surrounding environment in real time, and she is satisfied that she is now in a state of positive thinking. She read and then wrote these prolific sentences, "I haven't become the person I want to be, and the future is full of unknowns for me, and I think it's particularly good." ”
Q - Beijing Youth Weekly
A - Dai Lu
QLikell the growth and harvest that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will bring to you?
At first, I was a director's assistant to connect with foreign artist teams and IOC staff, and then I began to work as a sub-director, and then I was the English host of the entire opening ceremony. I joked that except for not learning how to light the torch, everything else was involved. To be able to join this team as a young person and with my thinking, I had the privilege of seeing big artists such as Zhang Yimou and Cai Guoqiang brainstorming for the proposition of the Beijing Winter Olympics and exhibiting more space. This process has given me so much new knowledge and brought me new hope.
QHow do you see the integration of Eastern and Western education? How do you see how multiculturalism has influenced you?
A reflective thinking is a way of knowing oneself. New York places a lot of emphasis on multiculturalism, and Jobs once said, "Looking back, you'll see that a lot of the things you experienced were causally linked." I grew up as a host, debating, dancing, art... It's interest that dominates my choices. In my third year of college, I realized that I liked to express my voice through creation, and this ability to think was given to me by studying abroad. When I come into contact with the cultural conflict between the East and the West, I often pull away two meters away, see my own state of entanglement, struggle, and confusion, and realize my own examination and reflection between near and far.
At the same time, I am "Oriental", and my mentor commented on my work, "You are trying to say something very pioneering, but there is also the kind of concession of Confucianism. ”
Q What inspires your imagination and creativity?
A reading and life experience are my source of inspiration, my current work is concerned with the gesture behavior of people in daily life, for example, weaving technology, the repetitive operation of huge looms; Jingdezhen craftsmen making ceramics are also repeating mechanical work, and I am particularly curious about this kind of movement and posture emanating from the body.
Q Art education, directing, cross-media choreography, what do you think of these crossovers that have happened to you?
A cross-border must have strong organizational ability and action, and at the same time, it must be run into with the existing framework system. Another way is a cross-border way, there is no fixed model, there is no sense of solidity given by a fixed occupation, and it is quite difficult to find this balance while stimulating. But it is like a new shoot with strong vitality, breaking through the soil to grow and touching the stone and touching the wall, and also exploring its own growth path.
Wen Zhangna
Photography by Li Yingwu
New Media Editor Han Haha