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疫情如何改变了街头艺术

NY20+国际驻留 2022-02-25 11:15:51

新冠疫情的出现完全改变了人们习以为常的活动方式，这对艺术行业也带来了沉重的打击。据《艺术新闻报》(The Art Newspaper)，到2021年3月为止，全球前100的艺术博物馆的参观人数下降了77%，即使是仍然开放的博物馆也需要限制参观人数，更不用说大量因此而难以维持的私人画廊。

在往期的疫见文章中，我们从征集到的艺术作品出发，通过艺术家对疫情的感悟和他们生活的蛛丝马迹，直观的看到疫情对艺术的影响。但是在众多作品中，我们突然意识到需要再走近街头艺术这一媒介。因此，本期小编将带领大家去聊一聊疫情下的街头艺术。

COVID-19has completely changed the way people are used tolive, whichalso dealt a heavy blow to the art industry.According to "The Art Newspaper", by March 2021, the number of visitors to the world's top 100 art museums has fallen by 77%. Even museums that are allowed to open have tolimit the number of visitors, leaving alonesome private galleries thatare difficult to maintainduring the pandemic.

In previous articlesabout Coantivirus, we mainly focused on artworksthe creator submitted, and find directlythe impact of the epidemic on artthroughtheir expression of art fromtheirperceptionaboutand the pandemic and their lives.But we suddenly realized that we 'd also get to the medium of street art.Therefore, today we are going totalk about street art under the epidemic.

来源/Source: BBC

街头艺术的现场、展馆和观众，都在街头。因此当我们想到在疫情时期的街头艺术时，未免会对此持消极的态度，因为在疫情期间上街成为了一件困难的事情。

然而在搜索引擎众多有关疫情对街头艺术的影响的条目里，也出现了众多“How pandemic inspired street art”的题目，这意味着我们需要重新思考这个问题。

The street art is created, showed and viewedin the street, sowhenthink about it at first timewe take it granted thatthe street art during the pandemic timeis hard to sustaindue to the quarantineand restrictions on travel.

But whenwe browse the influences on the street art during pandemic, we easily see many items about how pandemic inspired street art. Thatalso inspiresus to think allagain.

一个男孩路过街边的涂鸦，印度新孟买市——路透社/Francis Mascarenhas

A boy walks past a graffiti on a street in Navi Mumbai, India. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

那么疫情如何启发了街头艺术？

Then how pandemic inspired street art?

当我们看到曾经人来人往的街头空无一人，俨然一副末世的画面横在面前，未免升起一丝凄凉。但是这同样意味着，街头失去了管束。在我们眼中的“末世”，在街头艺术家眼里都是画布。公共空间被削弱了其作为公共空间的效力，到处都是完美的画布。

而且，在这样一个时刻，冰冷的街头需要色彩，需要活力。

那么街头艺术，何乐而不为。

When the hustle and bustle that belongs to the street is gone due to the virus, it seems that the world is about to end and we suddenly feel at full lost and isolated. But on the other way, maybe the empty street is a new “canvas”world for street artists. Without more restrictions and dogmaabout the public space, the creation on “canvas”is perfectlyfree.

Also, the cold and empty public space needs colors and vibrancy in such a pandemictime

So, street art why not?

艺术家在武汉市艺术学校的墙上作画。照片致谢：27KM

“我要了一堵墙，他们给了我一个工厂：武汉涂鸦艺术团体得到当地政府支持发展街头文化”——《环球时报》

Artists paint on a wall at Wuhan Municipal Art School. Photo: Courtesy of 27KM

“I asked for a wall, and they gave me a factory: Wuhan graffiti artist group gets support from local government to develop street culture”——Global Times

在2020年的3月，武汉的涂鸦团队27KM开启了一系列涂鸦活动，线上与线下同时进行，希望在给隔离中的人们带来慰藉，同时想用艺术来改变武汉已经受疫情损害的城市形象。

这些活动也受到了武汉政府的支持。

“很多人没去过武汉，现在都不敢来了。我想让他们知道我们不只有黄鹤楼。”——主理人GAN说到。

In March 2020, 27KM，aWuhan's graffiti team launched a series of online and offline graffiti activities, hoping to bring comfort to people in quarantine, and meanwhilechange the image of Wuhancity that arealready influenced by the epidemicvia art.These activities are also supported by the Wuhan government.

"Many people had not been to Wuhan and now they do not dare to come here. I want them to know we do not just have the Yellow Crane Tower." - GAN, a local graffiti artistand the initiator said.

武汉市艺术学校墙上的涂鸦作品。照片致谢：27KM

“我要了一堵墙，他们给了我一个工厂：武汉涂鸦艺术团体得到当地政府支持发展街头文化”——《环球时报》

A graffiti work is completed at Wuhan Municipal Art School. Photo: Courtesy of 27KM.

“I asked for a wall, and they gave me a factory: Wuhan graffiti artist group gets support from local government to develop street culture”—— Global Times

因此，不仅是艺术家需要街头，街头也同样需要艺术家，

甚至城市、社会，都需要艺术家，需要艺术来积极地成为时代的镜子和力量。

It is not only the artist needs the street, also the street need the artist.

What’s more, the city and the society need art and artist to be the mirrorand power in the time.

艺术给了人去独立表达个体生命的通道，同时，它最大的魅力在于能通过个体的诉说得到广泛的共鸣。因此艺术拥有强大的社会性作用，在必要的时刻，完全可以，甚至自发地参与到广泛的社会讨论之中。

对于街头艺术而言，更是如此。

全球疫情迫切的需要社会从上到下，有机的组织起来一起来抵抗。

因此街头艺术化身为标语、警示，这些自发组织团结大家的力量。

Art offers the people the channel to express themselves and lives, and at the same time the biggest charm brought by art is theresonanceamong people via personal art expression.Therefore, the social powers the art has canand should voluntarily get involved in the widespread discussion about the societywhen necessary.

This is especially true for street art.

The global epidemic urgently needs society to be organically united from top to bottom to resist.

Street artthen is more like transformed slogans, warnings, and such kind of forces so as to spontaneously uniteeveryone.

Close Your Doors, Open Your Mind,CorieMattie

Cancel Plans, Not Humanity, Corie Mattie

If You’re Reading This, Go Home, Corie Mattie

After the Plague, Came the Renaissance, Corie Mattie

艺术家科里·马蒂(Corie Mattie)在疫情大流行期间绘制了大量的涂鸦来警示大家疫情的存在。从来没有想过成为街头艺术家的她也因此在社交媒体上被疯传。

可以想见，街头艺术在大流行时期的重要性。街头艺术能够在危机时刻快速的做出反应，因为其易损毁、易消逝的特性，反而能短暂的做出原始而直接的反应，近距离地促进政治对话，接触到广泛的群众。这在国际矛盾尖锐、政治局势动荡、民生艰难的大流行时期变得十分重要。街头艺术家们都想积极的参与到这一历史性事件之中。街头艺术也因此呈现出爆炸性增长的势头。

Artist Corie Mattie painted a lot of graffiti during the pandemic to uplift people’s awarenessof the epidemic.She had never thought of becoming a street artist, but because of herstreet art during the pandemicwas spread wildly on social media.

One can seethe importance of street art during the pandemicbecause itcan respond quickly in times of crisis. Due toits fragile and perishable characteristics, it can make a short-lived, quickand direct responseso to promote political dialogue at close rangeand reach a wide audience.During the pandemic time when international conflicts are acute, political situations turbulent, and people's livelihoods fierce, street art came out of the street.Artists want to actively participate and have a sayin such historical times, which brings a growth of street art in some way.

Trump’s Covid-19 Disinfectant, John D’Oh.

Super Nurse!, Fake

The Lovers, Pobel

Racism is A Pandemic, Corie Mattie

街头——公共空间从来没有在哪一个时刻变得如此重要，让人意识到街头与自己如此息息相关。

人们向往昔日熙熙攘攘的人群，就如同看到文化仍然在街头涌现一样，乐于看到街头仍然在鲜活的发生着。

与此同时，被疫情威胁的世界需要所有人以共同的信念去消解孤独，去抵抗疫情给世界带来的改变，去看到被暴露出来的问题，去思考然后讨论。

身体虽然隔离，信念却不孤独，这也许让街头艺术变得重要。

The street, the public space becomes so precious in this quarantinemoment and so connectedto every individual.

We are looking forward to the hustleand bustle like it used to be, and are glad to see thestreet art isflourishingas if the culture and art is still vibrating on the streets.

At the same time, the world under the threatofthe epidemic requires everyone with a common belief to resolve loneliness, to resist the changes broughtby the epidemic, tolookdeep intothe problemsexposedby the pandemic, to contemplateand discuss.

Although the body is isolated, the belief is not separated, which may makes street art more important.

LOVE - We’re in This Together

现如今，疫情虽然没有完全结束，但是国内已经几乎步入正常的轨道。在后疫情时代，文化艺术受到深远的影响，正在悄然发生变化。但我们仍然希望，文化与艺术不仅仅是因为灾难而传达共同的信念，在未来的时刻，文明的力量能持续的在为到来的历史上发光发热。

Though the epidemic has not completelycome to anendall over the world,lifenow has almost entered a normal trackin China.In the post-epidemic era, culture and art have been so profoundly affected and are undergoing changes.But we still hope that culture and art will not only be theconveyorof common beliefsbut thepower of civilizationthatwill continue to shine for the coming future.

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