Academy sends teams to various locations to understand and redefine our creative process.

Art reflects the time it was created and also the locality. The China Academy of Art, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, decided to delve into the historical and anthropological significance underlying the realm of art, extracting profound insights from each unique locale.

The locations 12 selected teams from the academy went to throughout the summer were inspirational. These places included Lufeng Dinosaur Valley in China's Yunnan province, the Amazon Basin in South America, Icelandic volcanoes, and the Rusakov Workers' Club in Russia, among other pivotal sites.

Last month, the teams from the academy convened at the recently inaugurated Liangzhu campus, in Hangzhou, to host the Reports From the World event and the Starplex exhibition. During this gathering, they collectively shared thoughts, posed intriguing questions, and presented key findings arising from their diverse global expeditions.

The whole project, themed on "mutual learning of civilizations", is the centerpiece of a series of events celebrating the 95th anniversary of the academy, which aims to view human civilization as a whole, transcending temporal and spatial boundaries.

This series of events turned the Liangzhu campus into a vibrant hub of artistic reaction, facilitating an enriching exchange of ideas and fostering a spirit of mutual learning among civilizations.

Gao Shiming, president of the academy, says that it is a long-term project that aims to reconsider the fundamental issues of art education from the perspective of world civilization history. The project is designed to interweave diverse disciplines internally, broaden both the conceptual and practical realms of art, while forging novel connections externally and constructing a network of international academic partnerships.

"This is a post-pandemic era 'Academic Initiative' and also a part of our academy's journey toward the centennial of our founding," he says, adding that the goal is to transcend existing concepts of art history and professional views, to reopen the vistas of art and the concerns of the academy, interpreting the history of civilization through art and understanding art from the height of civilization history.

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