DIGITAL
羗QIANG
GARDEN
回顾2024
SUMMER
2024 

花开上关
8.16-8.25 来⾃纽约⼤学交互媒体艺术专业的三名热情洋溢的毕业生(Rainee Wang, Mia Zhang, Hazel Yuan)在去年夏天共同发起了“花开上关-数字羌境“艺术驻地项目。带着对艺术赋能乡村振兴和民族⽂化⾛向世界舞台的愿景和⽬标，在她们的组织和倡导下，项⽬得到了帅博体育公司和中国电建成都院团委的协办，茂县富顺镇政府与上关村团委村委会的主办，以及上海纽约⼤学交互媒体艺术部⻔的学术⽀持。在⼴泛的社会⽀持下，艺术驻地项⽬得以为参与的艺术家们提供为期10天的在地艺术创作体验，包括全⾯的场地⽀持、⻝宿保障、以及⼀个充满活⼒的共创社群和丰富的创作⽣态，为他们的艺术探索和创作提供了独特的环境、资源和平台。

Three enthusiastic graduates of New York University's Interactive Media Arts programme (Rainee Wang, Mia Zhang, Hazel Yuan) initiated the ‘Blossom Lilies - Digital Qiang Garden’ art residency programme last summer. With the vision and goal of art empowering rural revitalisation and bringing nationalism to the world stage, they organised and advocated for the project, which was co-organised by Shuai Bo Sports and the Youth League Committee of CECC, hosted by the government of Fushun Township in Mao County and the Youth League Committee of Shangguan Village, and supported academically by the Department of Interactive Media Arts at the New York University in Shanghai. With the support of the wider community, the residency programme was able to provide the participating artists with a 10-day on-site art-making experience, including full venue support, accommodation, a vibrant co-creation community and creative vitality, providing them with a unique environment, resources and platform for their artistic exploration and creation.

2024年8月，一群新面孔汇聚成都。他们来自不同的城市与背景，却带着相似的问题：艺术如何深入地方？怎样与地方文化共创？又能否在数字化时代中为羌族文化与记忆的延续带来新的可能？继去年的"花开上关-数字羌境"艺术驻地项目之后，这场青年艺术家的山野之旅再度启程。他们中有刚从艺术院校毕业的青年创作者，也有活跃于设计、时尚、建筑、影像、音乐、绘画等领域的跨界实践者。这个夏天，他们从北京、上海、广州、杭州、纽约等地出发，一路向西，驶入川西阿坝的腹地。在上关村，羌族人世代生活的地方，艺术家们驻扎十日，开启了一场与土地、声音、语言和记忆的共生之旅。

Following last year’s Digital Qiang Garden Art Residency Programme, this journey into the mountains by a new generation of young artists begins once again. In August 2024, a group of new faces gathered in Chengdu. Among them are recent graduates from art academies as well as interdisciplinary practitioners active in design, fashion, architecture, film, music, and painting. This summer, they set out westward from cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and New York, heading deep into the heart of Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan. In Shangguan Village—a place where the Qiang people have lived for generations—the artists settled in for ten days, embarking on a journey of symbiosis with the land, its sounds, language, culture, and memory.




海报渲染、设计：Rainee Wang (驻地发起⼈、主理⼈)
Designed by Rainne Wang(Art Director, Founder)


在10天的驻地创作之旅中，驻地艺术家们将采⻛期间汲取的灵感与个⼈专⻓相结合，跨越媒介的界限，与羌族的古⽼遗产展开深度的艺术对话。他们拍摄关于羌语传承⼈的纪录⽚，建⽴以⾃然崇拜为主题的⼾外装置艺术，编纂刺绣艺术的专辑，并运⽤3D技术重新塑造传统刺绣图案。这些多元且创新的艺术实践不仅加深了艺术家们与羌族社群的联系，也在这块坚韧的⼟地上留下了他们的创新印记。这场创作探索了艺术如何赋能乡村振兴，展现了艺术表达在社会发展中的⽆限潜⼒。

During the 10-day residency, the resident artists combined the inspiration they gained during their trip with their own personal expertise, crossing the boundaries of the medium to engage in an in-depth artistic dialogue with the ancient heritage of the Qiang people. They have filmed documentary photographs of the Qiang language heritage, created outdoor installations on the theme of nature worship, compiled albums of embroidery art, and reimagined traditional embroidery patterns using 3D technology. These diverse and innovative artistic practices not only deepen the artists' connection with the Qiang community, but also leave their creative mark on this resilient land. This creation explores how art can empower rural revitalisation and demonstrates the unlimited potential of artistic expression in social development.


 作品回顾
      ART  WORKS
 每种文化都根植于一方土壤，羌族文化的产生与自然紧密相连。在茂县采风时，大片随风晃动的格桑花给我留下了很深的印象。我以格桑花作为灵感制作的画架，用来展示采风时创作的小幅画作。希望将我最直观感受到的民俗风情与自然环境，带入这座数字花园。


Every culture is rooted in its land, and Qiang culture is deeply intertwined with nature. During my field research in Maoxian, I was particularly struck by the vast fields of gesang flowers swaying in the wind. Inspired by these flowers, I created a painting stand to display a series of small works produced during the trip. Through this piece, I hope to bring the local folk spirit and natural environment—those elements that left the strongest impression on me—into this digital garden.

<根源>
The Roots

油画装置作品
Oil Painting Installation
杨梦雨 Mengyu Yang

 尔玛文是中国少数民族羌族的年轻一代创造出的一种文字系统，用来记录他们几千年来完全由口述传承的文化。这个多媒体装置作品基于羌族巫术仪式和历史信仰，突显出濒危文化与其转化为新的存在形式之间的联系。

Rrmea(尔玛) is a text system created by the younger generation of the people of Qiang(羌), an ethnic minority group in China, to record their culture, which has remained completely oral for thousands of years. This work is a multi-media installation based on Qiang's witchcraft ritual and historical belief, highlighting the bond between an endangered culture and its transformation into new forms of existence.

诗歌翻译:

这是一头羊，
它正在咀嚼。
每当它吃掉文字，
文字就在它的皮肤上流淌。
待它的皮肤变成鼓面，
被释比所敲响，
羌族的记录，
就会在鼓声中传唱。

Poem translation:

"Before you lies a sheep, Feasting on our sacred scriptures.
It swallows each and every text, as the words weave across its skin.
When that skin is stretched into a drum, Played by the hands of our Shibi(wizard), Our culture's stories,
Will be told in the echos, on and on."
Please feel free to touch, press, hit, and feel.

请自由地抚摸、按压或敲击，来与作品进行互动。

Please feel free to touch, press, hit and feel.

<尔玛之羊>
The Sheep of Rrmea

交互装置
Interactive Installation

陈思诺 Snow Chen


 羌族女性在织机上编织出精美的图案，我们邀请观众通过绘画和互动参与这一创作过程。系统将根据观众的创作实时自动生成新的羌绣图案。

Qiang women weave intricate patterns on the loom, and we invite the audience to participate in this process by drawing and interacting with the designs. The system will automatically generate new Qiang embroidery patterns in real time based on the audience's creations.

3D打印的花朵在数字投影的加持下，于纯白背景中呈现几何之美，色彩通过投影增添。艺术家以极简设计突显花朵的精髓——生长与绽放。当观众触碰花瓣时，隐藏的色彩在指尖悄然浮现，光影流动中，花朵焕发生机。

3D-printed flowers, enhanced with digital projection, showcase pure geometric forms on a white background, with color added through projection. The artist uses minimalist design to highlight the essence of flowers - growth and blossoming. As viewers touch the flowers and petals, hidden colors emerge at their fingertips, and the flowers come to life through shifting light and shadow.

此作品探索了数字与自然之间的关系，以花为媒介连接虚拟与现实、传统与未来。

This work explores the relationship between the digital and natural worlds, using flowers as a medium to connect the virtual with the real, and tradition with the future,

<数字羌笔>
Blooming Stroke

AI交互装置
AI Interactive Installation

Joshua Nijiati Alimujiang, Jaki Shi, Mingyu Chen, Jiawen Zhang
虚拟羌花园音乐卡片是对茂县的音乐和声音进行可视化的作品。音乐卡片的视觉效果由音频生成的音轮拼贴组成，以传统羌绣作为灵感，并运用数字编织技术来展现每段声音。音频素材包括羊皮鼓、羌笛和口弦等器乐演奏，还有释比组合音乐作品、羌族女声二重唱和女声母语吟唱等，日常生活中的自然音景，如上观村的叫卖声等等此次驻地创作期间采集录制的音频，以及去年欧阳乐一作品《飘在云上的语言》中的部分音频片段。卡片上的二维码可以引导观众前往虚拟羌花园的播放列表，进一步探索这些声音的独特体验

The Digital Qiang Garden Music ID Card is an audio visualization of music and sounds collected in Mao County (fE). This music ID card layers a collage of audio wheels inspired by traditional Qiang embroidery, using digital weaving techniques to visually represent each sound piece. The audio includes instrumental performances with the sheepskin drum（羊皮鼓）， Qiang flute（羌笛）， and kou xian（口弦）， as well as vocal arrangements from artists such as Shibi Ensemble (#/ta), women's duets, male solos, and native-language chants by women. Ambient sounds from daily village life, including the street vendor calls of Shangguan Village, also contribute to bringing an immersive sense of place. The ID card was created during the artist residency, incorporating new recordings alongside sound pieces from last year's project, Words Floating on the Clouds by Leyi Ouyang. The QR code on the postcard links to a playlist of the Digital Qiang Garden.

数字羌境音乐花园
Digital Qiang Garden Music ID Card

音乐可视化、视觉艺术
Audio Visualization, Video Art

王诗雨 Maggie Wang

 孔越：这是一次我与中国美术学院时尚学院的学子们（邓晶晶、黄镘杭、张思雨）的精彩合作，她们凭借着纯真无邪且极富创意的艺术表达，搭建起了一座与羌族文化交流的桥梁。我们通过拼图的形式，将对生活的美好祈愿寄托于纹样创作中，每一个单元纹样都如同一个“旋律”，承载着独特的吉祥寓意，我们将这些“旋律”巧妙串联，与羌族尔玛一同在云端奏响了一曲悠扬的乐章。

Kong Yue: This project was an inspiring collaboration with students from the China Academy of Art's Fashion Department (Deng Jingjing, Huang Mianhang, Zhang Siyu). With pure-hearted and highly creative artistic expression, they built a bridge to connect with Qiang culture. Using a mosaic format, we embedded our hopes for a beautiful life into the pattern design. Each individual pattern is like a "melody," carrying unique blessings and auspicious meanings. We skillfully strung these
"melodies" together, creating a harmonious symphony with the Erma of the Qiang people, resonating through the clouds.

邓晶晶: 我站在云端之上，目睹着羌族文化中的自然灵韵与微生物细胞的勃勃生机交相辉映，它们轻盈地共舞，仿佛在我的眼前共同谱写着一曲人与自然和谐共生的悠美旋律。

Deng Jingjing: Standing atop the clouds, I witnessed the vibrant dance between the natural spirit of Qiang culture and the life force of microbial cells, merging and moving together lightly. It was as though they were composing a beautiful melody of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature before my eyes.

黄镘杭: 我，深思着牙齿这一人体中最坚硬的骨骼，它对我而言，象征着生命的坚韧与不朽。正如羌族文明中那份对自然的深深崇拜，以及对生死的庄重敬畏，让我深切感受到他们的文化与自然是如何紧密相融，生生不息地延续至今。

Huang Mianhang: I contemplated teeth, the hardest bones in the human body, symbolizing resilience and immortality to me. Much like the deep reverence for nature in Qiang civilization, and its solemn respect for life and death, I deeply felt how their culture interweaves with nature, continuing to thrive in an unbroken legacy.

张思语: 我沉浸在美妆的艺术中，感受到它以人为核心，展现的人体之美，正如羌族人民那磅礴的生命力。美妆作为一种装饰艺术，与羌族纹样相通，都彰显了人们对美的无限追求，也寄托了我们对美好生活的深深向往。

Zhang Siyu: Immersed in the art of cosmetics, I sensed its core focus on humanity, showcasing the beauty of the human body-much like the Qiang people's exuberant life force. As a decorative art, makeup connects with Qiang patterns, both highlighting an unending pursuit of beauty and carrying our deep longing for a beautiful life.