八位藝術家給年輕人的建議 Advice to the Young

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在很多人眼裡，學藝術的人是一個特殊的群體，7月這些藝術生開始離校，是找份工作還是成為職業藝術家？相比較其他專業，藝術畢業生們似乎面臨的壓力更大一些。本期視野分享給大家8位藝術家的一些自我經歷和建議。有時候人生會亂七八糟，這都很正常。

In the eyes of many people, art students are a special crowd. In July, students will be graduating from art schools and stepping into the society. Will they find a job, or will they be a professional artist? Compared to others, majoring in art seems to put more pressure on college graduates. Today, we share with you some advice coming from 8 great artists.

塞爾維亞行為藝術家：瑪莉娜·阿布拉莫維奇

Serbian Performance Artist : Marina Abramovi?

南非藝術家：威廉·肯特里奇

South African Artist : William Kentridge

美國搖滾歌手及詩人：帕蒂·史密斯

American Singer-Songwriter and Poet : Patti Smith

美國音樂藝術家：大衛·拜恩

American Musician : David Byrne

德國導演：維姆·文德斯

German Director : Wim Wenders

丹麥冰島藝術家：奧拉維爾·埃利亞松

Danish-Icelandic Artist : Olafur Eliasson

英國藝術家：查普曼兄弟

British Artists : Jake and Dinos Chapman

八位藝術家給年輕人的建議

塞爾維亞行為藝術家瑪莉娜·阿布拉莫維奇認為做好失敗的準備是很重要的。南非藝術家威廉·肯特里奇認為，好的建議與提出和接受建議的人的具體情況相關。搖滾歌手及詩人帕蒂·史密斯分享了威廉·柏洛茲曾經為她提出的建議：創作好的作品，以此樹立並保護你的名聲，最終這個名聲會成為它自己特有的貨幣。美國歌手大衛·拜恩強調了重視自己藝術滿足感的重要性，德國導演維姆·文德斯強調，沒有人可以做得比你自己更好。丹麥冰島藝術家奧拉維爾·埃利亞松推薦藝術家對自己的環境敏感，而英國藝術家查普曼兄弟二人則言辭簡潔到位。

8 Artists Advice to the Young

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovich feels that it is essential to be ready to fail. South African artist William Kentridge believes that good advice has more to do with the interaction between the person giving it and the person receiving it. Rock singer and poet Patti Smith shares the advice that writer William S. Burroughs once gave her: to build and protect your name by producing good work, and eventually the name will become its own currency. American singer David Byrne emphasizes the importance of not undervaluing your own artistic satisfaction. German film director Wim Wenders stresses that you have to do what no one else can dobetter than you. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson recommends that you are sensitive to your surroundings - and British artists Dinos and Jake Chapman cut to the bone.

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瑪莉娜·阿布拉莫維奇：

Marina Abramovi?:

在我教書的時候，這是我會問的一個問題：「你怎麼知道你是個藝術家」，這是最主要的問題。知道你是不是藝術家就像呼吸，你不會質疑呼吸，你必須呼吸，要不你就會死。所以你呼吸，所以如果你早上起來，有一些想法你就必須去創作，就像一種執迷，你必須要創造，並且你有創造的慾望，那麼你一定是一個藝術家。

So when I was teaching, this was one of the tests I would ask: "How do you know you re an artist？" That s the main question. And to know whether you re an artist or not is like breathing. You don t question breathing. You have to breathe, otherwise you just die. So you breathe. So if you wake up in the morning and you have some ideas, and you have to make them and it s become a kind of almost an obsession, and you have to create, and you have this urge to create, you re definitely an artist.

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威廉·肯特里奇：

William Kentridge:

我覺得「建議」必須要取決於聽的人和說的人的具體狀況，而不是很泛泛的：「努力工作」、「做出最好」、「做你自己喜歡的，別人就會為此尊重你」、「不管你以什麼主題創作，最後你創作的都是一幅自畫像，它會揭示你到底是誰。如果它傲慢，那它是關於你的；如果它做作，那它是關於你的。別以為你可以通過選擇不同的主題來逃避你自己」。很多類似這樣的東西我是不會說的。除非有人需要那些沒聽過的話語。

I think it has to do with the specific interactions of the person giving the advice and the person receiving it rather than broader spectrums. Work hard. Do your best. Do what you like and people will respect you for it. It doesn t matter what subject you take on, in the end whatever you do is going to be a self portrait, it will reveal who you are. If it s arrogant, it s about you. It s pretentious, it s about you. Don t think you can escape yourself by your choice of subject matter. Many things like that I m not going to say, unless someone is needing those words that don t get heard.

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奧拉維爾·埃利亞松：

Olafur Eliasson:

我認為最好的「建議」是：與藝術共事是在與一個很兇悍，很強大，很野蠻的東西共事。雖然世界似乎在說,藝術是脆弱的，應當被邊緣化，它不重要，它是達不到目標的，它不屬於傳統意義上現實的中心。藝術家應當有一種自信，就是在一張紙上畫畫可以改變世界的。從定義上來講，創作藝術就是創作世界。所以作一個藝術家是一件不可思議的叛逆的事情。

Well I think the best advice is, I think working with art, is working with something that is very fierce, very strong, very robust. And even though the whole world seems to say that, this is fragile, should be marginalized, it s not important, it s counterproductive, it, you know, doesn t belong to the center of what reality is defined as, artists should have confidence in the fact that, well, making a drawing on a piece of paper is changing the world. By definition, making art is making the world. So it is an unbelievably revolting thing to be an artist.

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帕蒂·史密斯：

Patti Smith:

我很年輕的時候，威廉·柏洛茲給予的我建議是「樹立一個好的名聲」。保持一個純潔的名聲，不要妥協。別擔心是否能賺大錢或者出名，專心創作，做正確的決定，並守護你的作品。如果你樹立良好的名聲，這個名聲將成為自身特有的貨幣。

When I was very young William Burroughs told me, "Build a good name." Keep your name clean. Don t make compromises, don t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and make the right choices, and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, you know, that name will be its own currency.

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維姆·文德斯：

Wim Wenders:

畫家，攝影師，製片人，影像藝術家，不管你做什麼，沒人能比你做得更好。不要做那些你內心深處知道別人能做得更好的事情，只做只有你能做的事情。

Painter, photographer, filmmaker, video artist, whatever you do, nobody else can do that better than you. Don t do anything that you know deep in your heart somebody else can do better, but do nobody else can do except for you.

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大衛·拜恩：

David Byrne:

雖然他們之中很多有雄心成為下一個JZ或者下一個誰，那種藝術家是極少的。很多時候，那樣有名的藝術家，他們沒有很大的彈性。在成功的過程中，他們會失去很多創造的自由。他們會重複製作差不多一樣的東西，一遍又一遍。所以如果這個音樂家或者藝術家珍視他的自由，和他的創造性，他們就要意識到他們可能不能賺到好幾百萬美元。他們可能會少賺一些錢，但是他們會有更多藝術上的滿足感。

Although some of them may have the ambition to be the next JZ or the next whatever, whatever it is, the number of those artists are very very small. And often the artists who are very successful that way, they don t have much flexibility. In achieving success, they kind of lose a lot of their creative freedom. They have to keep making the same thing, more or less, over and over and over again. And if the musician or artist values their freedom and their ability to be creative, then they have to realize that maybe they won t be making hundreds of millions of dollars. They might be making less money, but they might have more artistic satisfaction.

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查普曼兄弟：

Dinos and Jake Chapman:

穿暖和點，吃好點。不要抽煙。給你媽媽打電話。

Wrap up warm, eat properly, sensibly. Don t smoke. Phone your mom.

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