倪昆:我上次从伦敦回来后有这样一种体会,是关于作品的形态和外部语境之间的认知差异的。我们一直将西方的艺术系统作为我们学习和参考的体系,但是我们所面对的现实语境和西方比起来,却有着太大的不同。比如说政治,在我们的当代艺术体系里,虽说它不是外部语境的全部,但却是中国当代艺术最重要的外部存在。在西方,因为他们自身的社会体 Ni Kun: When I last returned from London, I realized that there was a cognitive difference between the morphology and the external context of a work. We have always regarded the Western art system as our learning and reference system, but the real context we face is much different from the West. Politics, for example, in our contemporary art system, though it is not the full external context, is the most important external presence of contemporary Chinese art. In the West, because of their own social body