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This interview was conducted in Lin Yilin's Studio in Guangzhon on 1 August 2007.


Biography:

Lin Yilin(b. 1964, Guangzhou) is a performance and installation artist, who lives and works in Beijing and New York.

Lin studied sculpture at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1987. Between 1986 and 1987, he became an active member of the Southern Artists Salon.

At the end of 1990, Lin, Chen Shaoxiong and Liang Juhui formed the art group Big-Tail Elephant in Guangzhou. Some of Lin’s early exhibitions include the ‘Exhibition of the Big-Tail Elephant Group’ (Guangzhou No. 1 Worker’s Palace, Guangzhou), the ‘Joint Exhibition of the Big-Tail Elephant Group’ (Guangdong Broadcast/Television, Guangzhou, 1992), ‘China Avant-Garde’ (Haus de Kulture der Welt, Berlin, 1993), the ‘Third Exhibition of Big-Tail Elephant Group’ (Red Ants Bar, Guangzhou, 1993), ‘China New Art Exhibition’ (Exhibition Centre, Guangzhou, 1994), ‘No Room — Big-Tail Elephant’ (Guangzhou, 1994) and ‘Possibility — Big-Tail Elephant’ (Zhongguang Building, Guangzhou, 1996).

Some of his recent exhibitions include ‘Cities on the Move’ (Denmark, London, Bangkok and Helsinki, 1999), ‘Paris-Pekin’’ (Paris, 2002), the first and second Guangzhou Triennials (Guangzhou, 2002 and 2005), the fourth Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2002) and Documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007).


簡歷︰

林一林,1964年生於中國廣州。行為及裝置藝術家,現於北京及紐約生活和工作。

1987年畢業於廣州美術學院雕塑系,1986-1987年加入“南方藝術家沙龍”,是骨幹成員之一。

1990年底,林一林與廣州的陳劭雄和梁巨輝,組成「大尾象工作組」。「大尾象」沒特定宣言及方向,主張較自由的創作方式。其早年的展覽包括:《大尾象工作組藝術展》(廣州第一工人文化宮,1991)、《大尾象聯合藝術展》(廣東廣播電視大學,1992)、《中國前衛藝術展》(柏林世界文化宮,1993)、《大尾象工作組第三回藝術活動》(紅螞蟻酒吧,廣州,1993)、《中國新藝術展》(廣州交易會,1994)、《沒有空間:大尾象》(廣州,1994)、《可能性:大尾象》(廣州中心大廈,1996)等。

近年曾參加之大型展覽包括《運動中的城市》(丹麥、倫敦、曼�、赫爾辛基,1999)、《巴黎.北京》(卡丹藝術中心,巴黎,2002)、首屆及第二屆《廣州三年展》(廣東美術館,廣州,2002及2005)、第四屆《光州雙年展》(光州,韓國,2002 )、《第12屆卡塞爾文件展》(卡塞爾,2007)等。

Context

In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents. 

As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.

AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.

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Interview with Li Yilin (Transcript, Simplified Chinese), 訪問:林一林(抄本, 簡體中文)