后感性总体艺术贯通艺术
How to Empty Your Mind
2008年7月17日-8月17日
July 17th - August 17th, 2008
参与者：中国美术学院总体艺术工作室和展示文化中心部分硕士生与本科生，其他自愿参与者。
Participants: Selective graduate and undergraduate students from the Total Art Studio and Visual Culture Center, CAA, and other voluntary participants.
为尤伦斯当代艺术中心收藏展所作的《如何成为无知者》的总体艺术计划是一个创作和教学计划。在为期一个月的实施过程中，艺术家和参与者们在展厅/教室/作坊的三位一体的空间之中，展开讨论和训练。该过程中，所有人为解释、记录工作过程而进行的在黑板上的书写和涂绘，必须以翻转的镜体文字呈现。
由此产生的这些有着翻转文字和图形的黑板，将刻制成为木版画印刷的原版。在设置于展厅现场的作坊中以印刷机大量印制无限量木刻版画。整个展览期间，这些版画的印刷工作尽可能大量地进行。这些版画将由参与者和观众随意取走，播散到展厅/教室/作坊之外的社会空间之中。
整个过程中，一共产生了108幅版画。
“如何成为无知者”是邱志杰在创作和教学中提出的一个重要命题。
该命题假定：我们所拥有的既有的成见和定见，对于我们和事物、历史乃至自我之间建立更具创造性的关系，可能是一种遮蔽和障碍。因此，我们必须不断地回到无知者的态度。而清除成见和定见的负面影响，并不仅仅是一次性的态度上的觉悟。它首先需要通过艰难的努力来获得，更需要长期的修持来继续，还需要一套有效的机制来反复激活。成为无知者，既是一个颠覆性的任务，也是一个建设性的过程。这是一种目标，更是一种训练。在这个过程中，知识与信念、性情与习惯、认知与表达的地图将重新描绘。
研讨分为：“无知者的必要性……一个自我调查……通过结缘认识物品……通过行走认识世界……犯错误的方法论以及从错误中学习…………密码如何可能……与医院无关的红十字……九曲桥的盲区……通过Google走向无知……常识的折叠……与记忆作战……概念地图……阅读陌生者……由飞鸟形成的瀑布……醒句俱乐部……九用计划……必败行为和无效行为”等部分。
How to Empty Your Mind is a "total art" proposal to make an art and education project as part of the Ullens Foundation Collection. During a one-month period, artist and participants gathered in a space combining an exhibition hall, a classroom, and a workshop to discuss various topics and to develop thinking training. During this process, blackboards were used to explain and to record writings and scribbles, which must be presented in the form of rotated mirror texts.
The blackboards which were filled with rotated text and images were carved to become the originals for woodblock printing. A workshop was set up during the exhibition; printing presses were used to produce unlimited editions of wood-block prints. During the entire exhibition, the workshop produced as many prints as possible. The prints were free for participants and visitors to take home, for they will spread into social spaces beyond the exhibition/classroom/workshop space.
108 versions of woodblock print were produced during the project.
How to Empty Your Mind is an important proposal brought up by Qiu Zhijie during his artistic creation and teaching.
The basics of this proposition are: The existing prejudices and stereotypes we possess may form a kind of shadow and obstacle to building a more creative relationship between ourselves and objects or history, even within ourselves. Therefore, we should keep emptying our minds. To negate the negative effects prejudicing and stereotyping have on us is not a one-time enlightenment of attitude. It requires a great effort to begin with, long-term practice to maintain, and a set of effective mechanism to reactivate periodically. To empty our mind is both a task of subversion and a process of construction. It has a goal, and it is also a type of training. During this process, the map of knowledge and faith, disposition and habit, vision and expression are re-depicted.
The workshop is divided into the following parts: “The Necessity to Emptying Your Mind”, “A Self Investigation”, “Understanding an Object through Making Connections”, “Understanding the World through Walking”, “the Methodology of Making Mistakes and Learning from Mistakes”, “How Does Secret Coding Become Possible?”, “The Red Cross Unrelated to Hospital”, “The Misconception of the Bridge of Nine Turnings”, “Emptying Your Mind through Google”, “The Folding of Common Sense”, “Fight against Memory”, “Map of Conception”, “Reading and the Stranger”, “The Waterfall Formed by Flying Birds”, “Motto Club”, “A Plan with Nine Uses”, “Action of No-Win and Action of No-Effect”.