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达米恩-沃策尔欢迎致辞:文化是独特的交流方式

http://www.sina.com.cn 2011年11月16日 20:44 新浪尚品 微博

  2011年11月16日,首届中美文艺论坛将在北京拉开帷幕。此次为期四天的盛会由中国人民对外友好协会、美国亚洲协会及阿斯彭学会联合主办,旨在加强中美两国在文化领域的交流和理解。下为主办方负责人达米恩-沃策尔欢迎致辞。

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  我很高兴地代表阿斯彭学会欢迎各位来宾参加首届中美文化艺术论坛。文化为我们提供了一种独特的交流方式,它发源于古代,却在今天仍然保持着旺盛的生命力。艺术能够帮助我们突破理性解释的极限:当抒发喜悦或悲伤,我们投入音乐和舞蹈;要找寻灵感,我们融入那富有神秘创造力的诗歌的海洋,或是那呈现无穷表达形式的视觉艺术世界里;想审思我们的时代和人的本性,我们则到荧幕和舞台世界里那些想象力无限的作品中去挖掘。艺术就是这样,它使我们能够充分的表达自己,为我们的时代创造见证,最终将我们汇聚到一个充满通识和理解的世界中。

  我们作为人类,在伟大的艺术面前,总是怀揣着一种同时带有敬畏与亲切的混合情感。爱默生曾经这样写道:“天才的作品,总能让我们看到那些我们曾自我压抑的思绪。”这些思绪情感是我们内在与生俱来的, 只有在艺术的协助下才能被充分的表达。 有些时候,我们发现自己不由自主地将首次听到的一段旋律铭记心中,似乎只有认为这段旋律是我们自己写的才能够解释的通!这就是为什么当听到巴赫的大提琴前奏曲,欣赏到巴兰钦的芭蕾表演,或是读到王维的诗词时,所有人都会被同一种敬畏之情凝聚到一起。我们就是怀揣着这样的一种精神来分享我们的思想和艺术,也很高兴地邀您加入我们的旅程。

  On behalf of the Aspen Institute it is my pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural US-China Forum on Arts and Culture. This unique opportunity to exchange is born of ancient principles which remain powerfully relevant today. Consider that the arts are ways to communicate when we must breach the limits of explanation: to express sorrow or joy, we turn to song or dance; to find inspiration we surrender to the enigmatic creativity of poetry and to the myriad expressions to be found in visual arts representations; to reflect on our time and on our very natures, we mine the endless invention to be discovered on movie screens and on the stages of our theaters. Indeed, the arts are a way to express ourselves fully, and, to create a testament to our times, drawing us in to a common understanding。

  We all as humans share a mixture of awe and familiarity in the presence of great art—Emerson wrote that in “genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts”— they are ours innately, but it takes the artistic to adequately voice them. On first hearing a tune which we then cannot help but remember, we feel that we might have written the melody ourselves it makes such sense to our minds! And so we unite in common awe as we listen to a Bach Prelude for cello, or watch a ballet by Balanchine, or listen to a poem by Wang Wei. It is in this spirit that we meet to share our thoughts and celebrate our arts, and I am so pleased to invite you to join us this journey。

 

 

 

— Damian Woetzel, Director, Arts Programs, The Aspen Institute,  New York, USA

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