Beyond the cinematic: Reinventing Chinese martial arts through new media art practices

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W. Wong
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Abstract This article argues that the reinvention of Chinese martial arts through new media art practices reveals new aesthetic potentialities not readily available in the conventional cinematic medium. While martial arts cinema has captivated the global audience with visual and visceral excitements, most notably through the new-style wuxia films of the 1960s and the kung fu craze of the 1970s, it focuses on representational strategies characteristic of imaginative irreversibility and passive immersivity. The former refers to the rigid segregation of reality and fantasy that discourages the possibility of reversal, whereas the latter describes the immersive wuxia and kung fu spectacles as a disembodied experience, contrary to the core of martial arts learning and practice. To address the above issues, martial arts-inspired new media artworks, such as susuan pui san lok's RoCH Fans & Legends (2015) and Jeffery Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine and Hing Chao's Lingnan Hung Kuen Across the Century (2017), look for alternative approaches to represent martial arts imaginations for the goals of preserving an intangible cultural heritage and promoting an intellectual reflexivity. In so doing, not only do the new media artworks help to reposition Chinese martial arts as an everyday art form via conventional art spaces worldwide through the transnational and transregional flow of cinema, but they also establish the subtle connection between traditional martial art and contemporary art in the context of globalization.
超越电影:通过新媒体艺术实践重塑中国武术
摘要本文认为,通过新媒体艺术实践对中国武术的重塑,揭示了传统电影媒体所不具备的新的美学潜力。虽然武侠电影以视觉和内心的兴奋吸引了全球观众,尤其是通过20世纪60年代的新型武侠电影和70年代的功夫热,但它关注的是具有想象力不可逆转和被动沉浸性特征的具象策略。前者指的是现实与幻想的严格隔离,这阻碍了逆转的可能性,而后者则将身临其境的武侠和功夫场面描述为一种无实体的体验,与武术学习和实践的核心背道而驰。为了解决上述问题,以武术为灵感的新媒体艺术作品,如苏的《RoCH Fans&Legends》(2015)和肖的《Sarah Kenderdine》和邢超的《跨越世纪的岭南宏权》(2017),都在寻找替代方法来表现武术想象力,以保护非物质文化遗产和促进智力反思。新媒体艺术不仅有助于通过电影的跨国和跨地区流动,通过世界范围内的传统艺术空间,将中国武术重新定位为一种日常艺术形式,还建立了全球化背景下传统武术与当代艺术之间的微妙联系。
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