Due to scheduling difficulties, I was finally able to chat with Ziyang, who’s currently based in Hangzhou, China, last Friday. The conversation was so fun, it went from 1 hour to 2 hours, and we’ve agreed to touch base again during the summer session.
It was my first time trying to explain things in Mandarin to an artist who’s experienced in making art in both China and the USA. We spent a lot of time talking about the in-betweeness, the fear of being considered as an opportunist, and my kind of “strength” and “toughness,” which is more like a cotton/sponge rather than toughness in a traditional patriarchal sense.
I also asked him a lot about his honest experiences of censorship in China when it comes to artmaking, and I was able to get a better understanding of what to do and what to be careful of…I won’t go into the details here as I think some of the stuff shared were considered private.
Ziyang resonates with my strong interest in communicating with people and encourages me to think of ways that can bring the idea into a physical space during summer. While we had several different perspectives on political events, I felt understood and respected during our chat, and I hope he felt the same way.
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