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There is no general theme in the 100th event of Cement Park Live House. Planners of various cities (I feel honored to be supported by artists who are closely related to the cement Park) and the artists who participate in the activity do their own topics with interests or set up no themes. We believe that for us, the "young people" of this activity, what we’re confused about, what we concern and how we do it, are some very important matters. We also hope that this is a good opportunity for artists from all over the world to get to know each other through this activity, and then work together to explore more ways of communication in the future. Through the holding of on-the-spot activities, live broadcast, recordings of the activities, and texts, we will meet audiences from all over the world during the event.

This event will take place as the global pandemic is spreading out of control. In other words, at this moment everybody has no choice but to face their struggles alone. The continuous and controllability spread of the virus forces everyone to deeply ponder about the future and afresh imagine.

Faced with the social crisis brought about by the 2019-nCoV, the artists have doubts about their self-worth and lament the futility of art. It leads to a generally gloomy state of the art circle. Art is useless originally. Does it need to be doubted? What can be brought about by the gloomy state in the busy and bustling figure except for anxiety? I would like to talk about what I know of avant-garde Poets (though they are no longer so young) doing during the outbreak. A message from Wuhan, written by Xiao Yin, was posted day by day through his own official account in order to contact overseas students to purchase overseas masks. One after another, Yang Li's interview with Wuhan, 1234567, was repeatedly posted by the official account of the rubber literature award. "Yang Li’s questions" (questions about Wuhan) became an eternal question. It is said that some poets have launched online cloud drinking and chatting meetings about trivial matters, which I think may be impassioned sometimes. Move your fingers to search for the origin of the name of the "third generation poet", and you can see what is behind the vanguard! A few days ago, I made an analogy to a few friends, saying that the difference between artists and poets is not only a few steps, or dozens of steps, it is almost one kilometer away! As I’m writing at the moment, I find out that one kilometer is far too less than it should be! Of course, I would like to state once again that the gloomy state that I have just written is a general situation. Of course, I am not denying those artists who are really thinking and acting, one, two, three, four, five or even six or seven. What I have written is just the personal expression of the general situation.

It seems that art plays an irreplaceable role in the society with the help of the prosperous market and the rapid propaganda media. Artists of the "self-entertaining" style may feel embarrassed under the clear sky at a certain moment. In the past half a year, with the sharp reduction of exhibitions in the art market, those familiar international exchanges were forced to be interrupted, and all the previous plans lost the chance to be carried out, even small parties near the cities, is facing resistance. The exploration of online display is forced to emerge but at the same time active. Tension and excitement are inevitable. However, in the face of the crisis, the earth's rotation has not slowed down, and people's pace of solving practical problems seems to be more agile and rapid than before. We can't help thinking, does society really need so many exhibitions?

In the past one, two or three years, globalization has become the selling point of major galleries. The economic chain of globalization is becoming more and more obvious like the trace of an airplane flying over the arc-shaped sky of the earth. Exhibitions, international art projects, and famous artists are undoubtedly the "bright pearls" in this hidden economic chain! Art brings unprecedented halo to art practitioners in the global economic chain. Now, we think of Apichatpong's response to Jia Zhangke’s letter that people has learnt the art of watching during the epidemic; next, some obscure "slow film" directors will have a surge in box office. Since then, these new groups (who has experienced and experiencing the epidemic) as movie viewers will even feel that "slow movies" is going too fast. They’ll march on the streets to protest, shouting, "we need a movie without anything! The novel coronavirus pneumonia film Manifesto (CCM) will be drafted: the creation of the directors concerns only and reaches only the audiences enlightened. We believe that the arrival of the epidemic has not affected some previously unknown artists. On the contrary, the roads for them have become clearer and clearer, broader and broader! They will always keep in awe of and keep calm about "art", because they understand that "Art" is the unremitting understanding and doing of the word "art" in their lifetime. Like the stranger in one of the squares of Florence who went straight to Dante and asked, "what's the best thing in the world?" Dante blurted out: "eggs.". The stranger nodded and walked out of the square. A few years later, he went again to Dante and continued the conversation of several years ago: "so, how to cook?