From the Land to Island: Historical Changes and Site-specific Practice in Rural China.

In the 21st century, the strategy of rural rejuvenation has become a basic national policy in China, and rural construction has accelerated everywhere as well, from north to south. Artistic rural construction has become one of the forces to be reckoned with. In terms of either depth or breadth, artistic rural construction has rapidly expanded the geographical pattern and the cultural space. From prairie to borderland, from plateau to plain, from land to island, artists have rushed to the countryside. With site-specific practices in different regions, they adopt multi-subject cultural interaction and multi-angle relation embedding, rapidly influencing and shaping rural landscapes and cultural ecology. At the same time, the artists have explored different fields through art from the continental hinterland to remote islands, evolving the changing and different "land-island" culture into a rural landscape with its own characteristics. This paper puts forward a thinking framework for rural construction "from land to island", demonstrating an open route that can be reversed and jumped, and breaking the built-in characteristics and isolation properties of rural space under the modernist schema. Undoubtedly, this is not a denial of the earthy temperament and local nature of the countryside in the sense of binary confrontation. On the contrary, it is based on the sense of "amphibian". It is, in the relation between "sea-land" and "residencetravel", to promote our ability to understand the rural world and its cultural practices, so that the countryside has the potential to get out of the economic metaphor of agricultural culture and the logic of developmentalist governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]