Is hanging art or self-abuse?

Human body suspension is a kind of performance art. In modern times, human body suspension, as a religious behavior, became popular in Europe and America in the late 1990s. Some young people think that when the body is suspended, the tearing of the skin makes people dizzy, and the soul will be closest to God at this time. In recent years, hanging on a new face has set off a craze all over the world, even coming to us. The biggest feeling of lost people is numbness, and they can't feel the meaning and value of their own existence, and human existence is the most important and core meaning of a person's life. We usually say that some people are like some walking dead, that is, only the body exists and there is no spirit. At this time, it is easiest for people to experience their existence by stimulating their sensory organs, because the dead will not feel. The stronger the sensory stimulation, the more people can experience their own existence.

The earliest hanging of human beings should appear in slave society. At that time, in order to punish runaway slaves, slave owners hooked their collarbones or pipa bones with hooks and hung them up. Also known as hanging. For thousands of years, hanging has been a kind of torture in human society. In modern times, hanging by human body, as a religious act, became popular in Europe and America in the late 1990s. Some young people think that when the body is suspended, the tearing feeling of the skin makes people dizzy. At this time, the soul will be closest to God. In recent years, putting on new faces has set off an upsurge all over the world. At present, the circle of human body hanging in China is still very small. Fei Da, Wu Shuangquan, Jiuji and Huzi of Xi in Qingdao are outstanding figures in the mainland circle. March 29th, 2006. Jiuji alone carried out the first human suspension in Qingdao. On June 23rd, Fei Da and Zero One performed his first human body suspension on the same stage in Beijing 13CLUB Bar.

On the stage, human suspension is often shown to the audience as a performance. Foreign countries often hold such performances in bars and other entertainment places, and some even hold special performances for this purpose.

This is the highest state of human suspension-whole body suspension, even in the world, few people can reach this state.

In the preparation work before hanging, even people who often hang up gasped.

It is a strange phenomenon in western society that performance art originated in the west. In essence, it can be defined as a free life activity, which is an artistic form created by artists through the process of thinking and behavior. Some performance arts have really inspired people's minds, enriched people's imagination and cognitive fields, and spread for a long time. Since 1980s, performance art has become increasingly popular in China, and some creators repeatedly use extreme behaviors such as nudity, self-abuse, injury and blood as their main expressions. This indigestible foreign product often collides with China people's aesthetics, morality and traditional social customs, and becomes the focus of debate.

In Xi 'an, some people are doing all kinds of creations under the banner of performance art. Recently, journalists have entered this circle and tried to show their inner secrets to readers.

In mid-September, a photo named "Why did the post-90s generation play bloody human body hanging" suddenly appeared in Weibo, which was quickly reprinted and discussed by a large number of netizens once it was released. Some netizens speculated that the protagonist of this bloody performance, the post-90 s girl, was self-mutilation or pure performance art? The reporter wants to contact the post-90 s girl in the photo, but because this post is reposted, it is difficult to trace the source.

Then the reporter entered the words "Post-90s girls hang on their bodies" in Baidu, and finally found the original post hotly discussed by netizens in Weibo. It turns out that this photo was taken at the end of April, and the two post-90 s girls in the photo are both from Chongqing. The human body hanging they agreed with a few friends is really a kind of performance art rather than self-harming.

According to the description in the original post, the theme of this human body hanging art performance is the meaning of soul existence. On that day, except for two girls who participated in the hanging, only a few insiders who loved performance art participated. Before the performance, the suspenders had undergone strict skin anti-inflammatory treatment and tetanus injection, and the whole suspension process lasted for nearly an hour. Judging from the expression of suspenders, it is very relaxed and natural, and there is no pain.

The reporter found through online search that the family show about human body hanging disappeared from 2008. In the eyes of the general public, such a bloody and cruel performance is said to be a kind of performance art by participants in human body hanging, while scholars point out that if this is also art, then swallowing glass is also art, which at best challenges people's physiological limits. Whether it is art or not, the real intentions and psychological activities of its participants are worth exploring.

Fierce competition distorts art.

Interview with art creator Wang

June 5438+October 2007 10, several young people carried out the last human body hanging in the northwest near Xi 'an cold kiln. Among them, the most striking stunt this time is the stunt called China's first knee suspension. On June 2nd this year, 10, the reporter contacted Wang, the creator of the knee hanging performance, and interviewed him.

Wang, born in Xianyang after 1980s, has long hair, a little beard on his chin and a totem tattoo on his neck, which is impressive. He even enlarged a hole in his right ear. "I think everyone is a kind of performance art. It is too big to talk about this concept alone." For performance art, he explained this.

Everyone can perform art.

Reporter: What do you think is performance art? When did you come into contact with this art?

Wang: This problem is too big! Performance art expresses the creator's self-emotion through body language. Performance art is an abstract expressionism, a variation and extension of "performance painting" and "informal art". From this point of view, everyone can perform artistic performances. For example, if a person is drinking tea, it is also a kind of performance art as long as the background of his drinking tea is simply treated artistically.

In fact, do the hanging, tattooing, piercing, wearing a belt and burying nails we see every day belong to "BME"? (body? Ezine？ Physical transformation), personal? Does BME have a strong personality? Mods？ Artistic creation of human color rather than performance art.

I was born in an ordinary working family. Because my father prefers painting, I have loved it since I was a child. For what? I first came into contact with BME in 2002, when I saw reports about tattoos and piercings on a foreign website. BME？ Introduction, infatuation from now on.