Date: 2011.1.22-2.27

Venue: White Box Museum of Art, 798 Art Zone, Beijing

Li Wei and his No.1

Face by Qiu Qijin

The word game has a very long history. But it is also very common concept. The whole concept of Western philosophy's understanding of the game, continuing a means - the game of life refers to the daily conduct involved; in the Eastern culture, there is "recreation in the arts," saying, "Six Arts" is the regularity and routine acts as Purpose of the unified naive understanding. Meanwhile, in the form of everyday behavior is diverse, with the opening of its own, it is the same as the concept of the game can not find the common essence. In fact, everything there is nothing to speak of the essence, we can not define and can not find the essence of the so-called game.

In this context, all human behavior can be viewed as a game. Any game has rules, no inherent knowledge of both an external standard. No daily experience is natural and to be able to confirm from the objective.

Tracing the source to find, from the perspective of human art and history, there is to say the game originated in the arts; in the present environment of human discourse, art is seen as the ultimate human game. Today, groups of young Chinese artists have begun to gradually active in the independent creation of the stage, where the value is no longer needed a uniform, nor is there a same position, their life and art are diverse. Game is an initial state, is a natural order is also in a multicultural context, the existence of the collective will of the individual digestion.