Academic Work 教学与研究

Teaching & Long-Term Research 教学与长期研究

Research Position 研究立场

Research Portfolio Cover Research Portfolio Introduction

Artistic research provides the conceptual framework for my artistic practice. My work understands performance not as an artistic genre, but as a research methodology through which embodied experience, spatial relations, cultural memory, and social interaction become forms of knowledge production. Over more than three decades, this research has evolved across artistic creation, curatorial projects, international collaborations, and higher art education. Rather than separating these activities, I approach them as interconnected research practices. Each performance, exhibition, workshop, or pedagogical experiment functions as a site in which artistic knowledge is generated, examined, documented, and communicated. 艺术研究为我的艺术实践提供了概念框架。我的工作将行为艺术理解为一套研究方法论，而非一种艺术门类。通过具身体验、空间关系、文化记忆和社会互动，行为成为知识生产的形式。三十余年来，这项研究在艺术创作、策展项目、国际合作和高等艺术教育中不断演进。我不将这些活动割裂开来，而是将其视为相互关联的研究实践。每一次行为表演、展览、工作坊或教学实验，都是艺术知识生成、检验、记录和交流的场所。

The projects presented below reflect several complementary fields of inquiry: the body as a living archive; public space as a performative environment; participation as a process of collective knowledge production; intermedial practice as an expansion of performance beyond the live event; and documentation as an active form of artistic research rather than a passive record of artistic production. 以下项目反映了几个互补的研究领域：身体作为活态档案；公共空间作为行为环境；参与作为集体知识生产过程；跨媒介实践作为对现场事件之外的行为拓展；以及文献记录作为艺术研究的主动形式，而非被动记录。

I. Foundational Performance Research 一、基础行为研究

Destroying David Destroying David Destroying David

Destroying David — Performance Series 摧毁大卫——行为系列

Guangzhou, Chongqing, Fuzhou 广州、重庆、福州

"Three Smashes on David" at the Guangzhou Huashi Art Academy; "Roll David" on the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute campus; and "Destroying David Together" following a teacher-training seminar in Fuzhou. The traces remaining after each performance were preserved as temporary installations, extending the performative act into spatial practice. "三击大卫"于广州华师美术学院；"滚大卫"于四川美术学院校园；以及在福州教师培训研讨后的"共同摧毁大卫"。每次行为后留下的痕迹被保留为临时装置，将行为动作延伸为空间实践。

Destroying David investigates how embodied action can transform cultural symbols into sites of critical reflection, questioning authority, historical memory, and representation. 《摧毁大卫》探索具身行动如何将文化符号转化为批判性反思的场域，对权威、历史记忆和再现提出追问。

Shared Time Shared Time

Shared Time — Participatory Performance Project 共享时间——参与式行为项目

Sofia → India → Tübingen → New York 索菲亚 → 印度 → 图宾根 → 纽约

The project originated with the performance piece "Leave Your Message, Cai Qing Takes You Around the World" in Sofia. This long message traveled to the "Rain and Clouds" performance art festival in India, then to Poornima University in Jaipur, the university town of Tübingen in Germany, and finally to Washington Square in New York. 项目始于索菲亚的行为作品"留下你的信息，蔡青带你环游世界"。这条长信息传递至印度"雨与云"行为艺术节，再至斋浦尔普尔尼玛大学、德国图宾根大学城，最终抵达纽约华盛顿广场。

Shared Time examines how participatory performance produces collective memory across different cultural and geographical contexts. 《共享时间》审视参与式行为如何在不同文化和地理语境中产生集体记忆。

Elegy

Elegy 挽歌

2023 · Union Square, New York

On September 11, 2023, Cai Qing collaborated with performance artist Gao Ya on a site-specific performance at Union Square, New York, as part of the opening ceremony of the "Immersive" Live Art Tour 8. 2023年9月11日，蔡青与行为艺术家高亚在纽约联合广场合作了特定场域行为作品《挽歌》，作为"沉浸"现场艺术巡演8开幕式的组成部分。

Elegy reflects on loss, memory, and collective mourning through site-specific performance in public space, linking personal experience with historical remembrance. 《挽歌》通过公共空间中的特定场域行为，反思失落、记忆与集体哀悼，将个人经验与历史纪念联系起来。

II. Expanded Performance Platforms 二、扩展行为平台

Overlapping Kassel Overlapping Kassel Overlapping Kassel

Overlapping Kassel — Live Art Tour 7 重叠卡塞尔——现场艺术巡演 7

2022 · Kassel, Germany

An international performance art platform developed during the period of documenta fifteen, bringing together 59 artists from different countries. The opening ceremony featured a collective performance art piece in the Friedrichsplatz (Documenta Square). Artists then created works separately at different times and locations. Collective workshops, discussions, and performances generated an experimental environment for artistic research — creating a space for performance, dialogue, and intercultural artistic research. 在第十五届卡塞尔文献展期间发展的国际行为艺术平台，汇集了来自不同国家的59位艺术家。开幕式在弗里德里希广场（文献展广场）呈现了集体行为艺术作品。随后艺术家们在不同的时间和地点分别创作。集体工作坊、讨论和行为表演为艺术研究营造了实验性环境——为行为、对话和跨文化艺术研究创造了空间。

Immersive New York Immersive New York Immersive New York

Immersive — Live Art Tour 8 沉浸——现场艺术巡演 8

2023 · New York, USA

International artists gathered for a collaborative research residency at Grace Exhibition Space, with performance and workshop programmes. Public performances were held at Tompkins Square Park, New York, with screenings and research discussions at Rosekill Art Farm. 国际艺术家齐聚 Grace Exhibition Space 进行合作研究驻留，开展行为表演和工作坊项目。在纽约汤普金斯广场公园举行了公开表演，并在 Rosekill 艺术农场进行了放映和研究讨论。

Always Charming Paris Always Charming Paris

Always Charming — Live Art Tour 10 永远迷人——现场艺术巡演 10

2025 · Paris, France

Extending Live Art Tour into the context of Art Basel Paris, this project explored performance within the international contemporary art ecology. Artists created works in front of the Eiffel Tower and on-site at Art Basel Paris. 将现场艺术巡演延伸至巴塞尔艺术展巴黎展会的语境中，该项目探索了国际当代艺术生态中的行为艺术。艺术家们在埃菲尔铁塔前和巴塞尔艺术展巴黎现场进行了创作。

III. Performance as Education & Artistic Research 三、行为作为教育与艺术研究

Bodies in Classroom Bodies in Classroom

Bodies in Classroom 课堂中的身体

2024 · Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Cai Qing presented the live artwork "Destroying David" at the opening ceremony of the "Body in Classroom" exhibition — Guangzhou section. The exhibition displayed "The Experimental Art Class of a Performance Artist" and "Cai Qing's Teaching Records", demonstrating how artistic practice, teaching, and documentation function together as forms of artistic research. 蔡青在"课堂中的身体"展览广州站开幕式上呈现了现场作品《摧毁大卫》。展览展出了"一个行为艺术家的实验艺术课"和"蔡青教学记录"，展示了艺术实践、教学和文献记录如何共同作为艺术研究的形式发挥作用。

Behaviour and Space

Behaviour and Space 行为与空间

2021 · China Academy of Fine Arts

The entire teaching process was documented in the book "Cai Qing's Teaching Records", and an international online presentation project, "Face Transformation", was also organized during the teaching process. A series of "face-changing" works completed by students were published in professional online media. The project transformed teaching into a collaborative artistic research process integrating online presentation, performance, and critical reflection. 整个教学过程被记录在《蔡青教学记录》一书中，教学期间还组织了国际在线展示项目"变脸"。学生完成的一系列"变脸"作品发表在了专业网络媒体上。该项目将教学转变为协作性的艺术研究过程，融合了在线展示、行为表演和批判性反思。

IV. Intermedial & Cross-media Practice 四、跨媒介实践

Not Crazy Not Live Not Crazy Not Live

Not Crazy, Not Live — The Demonic World 不疯不活——魔幻世界

Poetry and Illustrations by Qing Sonnenberg (Cai Qing)

An intermedial artistic research project combining poetry, drawing, and speculative imagination to extend performative thinking beyond the live event. This book is only available in Chinese, featuring selected pages from the "Double Creation" sketch section alongside poetry and illustrations. 一项结合诗歌、绘画和思辨想象的跨媒介艺术研究项目，将行为思维延伸到现场事件之外。本书仅提供中文版本，精选了"双重创作"速写部分的页面以及诗歌与插画部分。

V. Documentation / Archive as Research 五、文献与档案研究

Dialogue with Performance Artists Dialogue with Performance Artists

Dialogue with Performance Artists and Curators 与行为艺术家和策展人的对话

2002 – Ongoing

Developed over more than fifteen years, this archive documents international performance artists through interviews, portraits, and biographies, preserving artistic knowledge as an open research resource. The continuously expanding independent archival project has created in-depth artistic portraits paired with contextual academic texts for over 200 internationally active performance artists and curators. 历经十五年以上的发展，该档案通过访谈、肖像和传记记录了国际行为艺术家，将艺术知识作为开放的研究资源进行保存。这个不断扩展的独立档案项目已为200余位活跃于国际舞台的行为艺术家和策展人创建了深度的艺术画像，并配以语境化的学术文本。

The open-access archive systematically traces the historical development of the global performance art network from the early 2000s to the present, filling a key documentation gap that has long been overlooked in mainstream contemporary art research. 该开放获取档案系统地追溯了自21世纪初至今全球行为艺术网络的历史发展，填补了主流当代艺术研究中长期被忽视的关键文献空白。

Dialogue — Cover Dialogue — Copyright & Bio Dialogue — About Cai Qing

Dialogue: Performance Artists and Curators I Have Met — The Publication 《对话——我曾遇到过的行为艺术家和策展人》出版物

Cai Qing · Text & Drawings · Live Art Studio, First Edition January 2025 · ISBN 978-981-94-1946-3

Published in January 2025, this book brings together in-depth dialogues with over two hundred internationally active performance artists and curators whom Cai Qing has met throughout his career. Each chapter pairs an original portrait drawing by Cai Qing with a bilingual (English / Chinese) interview or biographical essay, preserving intimate encounters with key figures of the global performance art network. Prefaces by He Yuhong and Lang Yaling frame the project as an act of living documentation — a continuously expanding archive of embodied artistic knowledge. 本书于2025年1月出版，汇集了蔡青在职业生涯中所遇到的两百余位活跃于国际舞台的行为艺术家与策展人的深度对话。每一章都配以蔡青为每位艺术家绘制的原创肖像，以及中英双语访谈或传记文章，保存了他与全球行为艺术网络关键人物的亲密相遇。何宇红与郎亚玲撰写的序言将这一项目界定为一种鲜活的记录行为——一个不断扩展的具身艺术知识档案。

Dialogue — Tehching Hsieh Dialogue — He Yunchang Dialogue — Marina Abramović

Selected Portraits: Tehching Hsieh · He Yunchang · Marina Abramović 精选画像：谢德庆 · 何云昌 · 玛丽娜·阿布拉莫维奇

Selected spreads from the book, pairing Cai Qing's portrait drawings with bilingual dialogues for three masters of performance art: the one-year-duration works of Tehching Hsieh, the physically extreme performances of He Yunchang, and the pioneering legacy of Marina Abramović. 选自本书的跨页，将蔡青的肖像画与三位行为艺术大师的双语对话并置：谢德庆的一年期作品、何云昌的身体极限表演，以及玛丽娜·阿布拉莫维奇的开创性传承。

Dialogue — Tomasz Szrama Dialogue — Chumpon Apisuk Dialogue — Yoon Jin Sup

Selected Portraits: Tomasz Szrama · Chumpon Apisuk · Yoon Jin Sup 精选画像：托马斯·沙阿曼 · 陈进 · 尹晋变

More selected spreads, including the Polish-Finnish artist Tomasz Szrama, Thai pioneer Chumpon Apisuk, and Korean critic-curator Yoon Jin Sup. 更多精选跨页，包括波兰/芬兰艺术家托马斯·沙阿曼、泰国先驱陈进，以及韩国批评家/策展人尹晋变。

Dialogue — Jonas Stampe Dialogue — Vito Acconci Dialogue — Lee Wen

Selected Portraits: Jonas Stampe · Vito Acconci · Lee Wen 精选画像：乔纳斯·斯坦普 · 维托·阿孔奇 · 李文

Further spreads featuring the Swedish curator Jonas Stampe, the late pioneer Vito Acconci, and Singapore's legendary Lee Wen — the latter whose legacy resonates closely with the Live Art Tour platform. 更多跨页，呈现瑞典策展人乔纳斯·斯坦普、已故先驱维托·阿孔奇，以及新加坡传奇人物李文——后者的遗产与 Live Art Tour 平台紧密呼应。

Dialogue — Chen Jin Dialogue — He Chengyao Dialogue — Self Portrait of Cai Qing

Selected Portraits: Chen Jin · He Chengyao · Self Portrait of the Artist 精选画像：陈进 · 何成瑶 · 艺术家自画像

The volume concludes with dialogues with the Chinese artists Chen Jin and He Chengyao, and a self-portrait of Cai Qing himself — closing the archive with the author's own place within this living community of practice. 本书以与中国艺术家陈进、何成瑶的对话作结，并附上蔡青本人的自画像——以作者在这个鲜活实践共同体中的位置为档案画上句号。

Publication: Dialogue — Performance Artists and Curators I Have Met, by Cai Qing. Prefaces by He Yuhong & Lang Yaling; cover design by Su I-Hsin; English translation by Cai Qing & ChatGPT. First edition January 2025, Live Art Studio, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-94-1946-3. 出版物：《对话——我曾遇到过的行为艺术家和策展人》，蔡青著。序言：何宇红、郎亚玲；封面设计：苏怡心；英文翻译：蔡青与 ChatGPT。2025年1月第一版，现玚艺术工作室（Live Art Studio）出版，新加坡。ISBN 978-981-94-1946-3。

Teaching Practice 教学实践

My teaching methodology breaks the traditional separation between theory and practice. It integrates hands-on performance making, critical reading of body aesthetics and interdisciplinary experimental creation, guiding students to develop their own independent artistic language rooted in embodied experience. 我的教学方法打破了理论与实践的传统分离。它融合了亲身行为创作、身体美学的批判性阅读与跨学科实验创作，引导学生发展根植于具身经验的独立艺术语言。

Core Courses Developed 开发的核心课程

  • Performance and Space 行为与空间
  • Body Aesthetics 身体美学
  • Experimental Art Methodology 实验艺术方法论
  • Public Art Creation with Contemporary Thinking 公共艺术创作中的当代思维

Graduate Supervision 研究生培养

Supervised over 40 MFA graduates between 2015 and 2019, many of whom are now active as professional performance artists and researchers across the world. 2015至2019年间指导超过40名艺术硕士毕业生，其中许多人如今活跃于世界各地，作为职业行为艺术家和研究者从事创作与学术工作。

Teaching Publication — Live Art Studio, First Edition January 2025 教学专著 —— 2025年1月第一版，Live Art Studio 出版

Experimental Art Class by Performance Artist 《行为艺术家的实验艺术课》

This book documents Cai Qing's teaching practice across China, Singapore and Southeast Asia from 2008 to the present, promoting contemporary art under the strategic label of "experimental art". The artist's performance project Destroying David runs through the entire volume — realized anew at each campus he visited, alongside small-scale performance festivals and intensive workshops that sought to ignite students' creative passion "like a spark of fire". 本书记录了蔡青自2008年至今在中国、新加坡及东南亚推广当代艺术的教学经历（在中国出于策略将当代艺术称为"实验艺术"）。艺术家的行为艺术项目《摧毁大卫》贯穿全书——在他造访的每一所校园里都会再次完成这一行动，同时配合小型行为艺术节和密集工作坊，以"星星之火"般点燃更多学生的创作热情。

Experimental Art Class by Performance Artist / by Cai Qing. Comments by Wang Lin; with Beate Reifenscheid's Theory of "Social Sculpture". Cover design: Deng Zhen; English translation: Cao Yang, Chen Yuzhi. First edition January 2025, Live Art Studio, Singapore. 《行为艺术家的实验艺术课》，蔡青著。王林评语；附贝娅特·赖芬沙伊德"社会雕塑"理论。封面设计：邓珍；英文翻译：曹阳、陈雨知。2025年1月第一版，Live Art Studio 出版，新加坡。

Experimental Art Class — Cover Experimental Art Class — Title Page Experimental Art Class — Contents

Cover · Title · Contents 封面 · 书名页 · 目录

The opening pages present the book's dual-language title, Wang Lin's commentary and Beate Reifenscheid's theory of "Social Sculpture", and a table of contents tracing the art academies where these experimental classes were taught. 开篇呈现了双语书名、王林评语与贝娅特·赖芬沙伊德"社会雕塑"理论，以及记录各所艺术学院实验课堂历程的目录。

Experimental Art Class — Social Sculpture Experimental Art Class — What is Performance Art Experimental Art Class — Curriculum

Theory & Curriculum 理论与课程

The opening chapters frame performance art within contemporary practice — from "Face Changing" and Beuys' social sculpture, through a definition of performance art as body-centered creation, to foundational exercises such as "The Eight Immortals", "A Chair" and "Reaching the Limit". 开篇章节将行为艺术置于当代实践语境中——从"变脸"与博伊斯的社会雕塑，到以身体为中心的行为艺术定义，再到"八仙过海""一把椅子""走向极限"等基础训练。

Experimental Art Class — Destroying David, Chengdu Experimental Art Class — China Academy of Art Experimental Art Class — David Torture, Tianjin

Destroying David — Across Chinese Art Academies 《摧毁大卫》—— 穿行于中国艺术院校

Selected documentation of the signature project realized in different campuses: its origin at the Chengdu UP-ON Festival and Sichuan University (2012), interventions at the China Academy of Art, and the interactive "David Torture" carried out with a painting-exam cram school in Tianjin. 精选这一标志性项目在不同校园的文献记录：2012年成都 UP-ON 行为艺术节与四川大学的起源、在中国美术学院的介入，以及天津绘画高考补习班中完成的互动"大卫酷刑"。

Experimental Art Class — GO Space Exhibition Experimental Art Class — Singapore Island Festival Experimental Art Class — Dhaka Lecture

Campus Festivals & International Lectures 校园艺术节与国际讲座

The book also records the small-scale festivals and lectures staged around the teaching, including the GO Space student exhibition, the renewed Singapore "Island" performance art festival (2022), and Cai Qing's lecture "Performance Art as a Method of Contemporary Art Creation" at the University of Dhaka. 本书还记录了围绕教学展开的小型艺术节与讲座，包括 Go 空间学生展、新加坡"岛"行为艺术节的重新开启（2022年），以及蔡青在达卡大学发表的"行为艺术作为当代艺术创作的手段"讲座。

Experimental Art Class — Sri Lanka Experimental Art Class — Afterword Experimental Art Class — About the Author

Beyond the Classroom · Afterword · About the Author 课堂之外 · 后记 · 关于作者

The volume closes with encounters beyond the classroom — such as the visit to the Sri Lankan artist Pala — followed by an afterword reflecting on a teaching journey that has persisted for over fifteen years, and a biography of the author. 本书以课堂之外的相遇作结——例如探访斯里兰卡艺术家帕拉——随后是回顾十五余年教学旅程的后记，以及作者简介。