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对于“性别的暴力”的审视，总是在未进入真正讨论之时已经陷入一种无法讨论的境地——任何试图对性别产生作用的评述，经由身体和文化的建构，都会反作用于评论者自身，成为一种自诘式话语的变体。

(中文) 大多数情况下，在当今商业化程度甚高的艺术界，一个画家没有找到个人符号并固定下来，有可能是他眼界有限，接触时代的面儿太窄，加之不善归纳、不够博闻强记；还有一种可能恰恰相反：接触的东西太多，入时代之戏太深，而忽略了“艺术家”的职业角色。倪军显然属于后者。

Being said, in comparison to her predecessors, JY purposely steps back from being an “artist as a creator” to “artist as an observer,” deploying a meticulous and reserved manner to scrutinise the system.

(中文) 高远策划的“基底”展览或许是个提醒，无论它的成与败，都在提醒我们应把更复杂的社会现实作为基底，在此之上思考艺术与创造，我们必须主动卷入艺术史与现实纠缠的漩涡中， 而非仅仅陷于形式的自恋与作茧自缚中。

Internet and smart phone technologies have led to sweeping change in society in our lifetime, forcing us to wrestle with new modes of thinking about and experiencing time, space, and speed, whereby our intellectual and emotional responses to past, present, and future are constantly shifting.

Don’t be taken in by the fancy terms though. Rehberger always wants you to look for the errors and the dissonances that allow us to ‘hack’ the system, to get inside. The glitches are revealing, if only you look.

In the process, you go somewhere and somelsewhere elastically, even a tiny bit. While inhabiting a ritual, one lives in and through time, via an odd interval sliced open and stitched back together.

The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress.