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Healing power of art therapy on display at mental health center's new gallery

In the corridor of the Rehabilitation Daycare Center at Shanghai Mental Health Center (SMHC), a special art facility called "No. 600 Gallery" opens its doors to the public with its first exhibition "Art Brut: Lines, Colors, Stories."

"This is the first art gallery established in a mental health clinic on the Chinese mainland," said Chen Zhimin, resident doctor in SMHC's Clinical Psychology Department, who is also the exhibition's curator.

According to Chen, the aim behind the gallery is to raise public awareness and eliminate misunderstanding about mental health, as well as open a new gate for the public to get closer to the inner world of the center's patients.

"I call them patient artists because I really feel their artwork has artistic values," Chen said. "They express their interpretation of the world around us through paintings. When you look at their artwork, you feel subtle emotions, you feel shock and you sense imagination."

All 60 paintings on show were created by inpatients who have been living with mental illness during their daily art therapy sessions, according to Zhong Na, deputy director of SMHC's Rehabilitation Department.

The rehabilitation center is dedicated to building an innovative mental rehabilitation and recovery management mode. Because it's a non-invasive form of intervention and doesn't require special, expensive medical equipment, art therapy is a great method to help patients enhance their self-expression and improve their emotional health and interpersonal connections.

According to relevant studies, after one year of drawing therapy, patients with schizophrenia can significantly increase their self-awareness, confidence and dignity, helping them regain social functions. It also helps patients with autism, anxiety, depression, Alzheimer's, bulimia nervosa and substance abuse issues.

"Generally, the goal of art therapy for patients with mental disorders is more focused on the process. But I think if we can help them establish self-confidence and social recognition through an exhibition, it will have a more profound mental impact on them," Chen said.

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https://www.shine.cn/feature/wellness/2108314337/

      本期节目，我们有幸邀请到上海精神卫生中心普通精神科住院医师陈智民，同时也是600号画廊的策展人，以及康复科副主任钟娜医生，在画廊现场，通过这次名为“原生艺术，线条，色彩和故事," 的展览，给大家分享精神健康和艺术疗愈的故事。

      作为策展人的陈医生,把作品的创作者称为是病人艺术家, 他更希望通过艺术的形式,来提升公众对精神病及其患者的认知。  “600号就是我们院所在的宛平南路600号。上海人都知道这个数字的涵义，常常被当做玩笑的一部分，但随着公众对于精神障碍的逐渐认识和包容，“600号”也慢慢变成了一个无伤大雅的梗，甚至听起来还有点亲切。这个名称也算是对一段公众观念改变史的见证,”陈医生说。

    钟医生告诉我们，很多患有精神疾病的患者，在用药物进行精神病阳性症状如幻听，幻视的治疗之后，其阴性功能并不能得到治愈，这些功能包括言语贫乏、注意缺陷、情感迟钝、情感淡漠和社会性退缩等；所以上海精神卫生中心的日间康复中心就会运用多种康复疗法，来在这方面帮助他们成功的回归社会。艺术疗愈项目就是其中重要的项目之一。

  “这个600号画廊的最主要目的,一方面是减少社会对这些人的一些误解和歧视, 然后另外一个理念就是希望把康复的理念也传播出去. 告诉公众, 其实精神病患除了症状以外, 功能的障碍康复也是很重要的。”

    团体艺术（绘画）治疗是一种非侵入性干预、易掌握、不需要特殊医疗设备设施、疗效明确、便于推广等特点，国外在应用团体艺术（绘画）治疗精神疾病的研究较多，目前团体艺术（绘画）治疗的导入主题也呈现多样化，比如“房-树-人”、“曼陀罗”、“九宫格”、“生命线”等。

     有研究显示对精神分裂症门诊患者进行为期一年的绘画治疗后发现可促进患者感知自我，增强自信、自尊，对于社会功能的恢复有着较好的促进作用。中国学者在使用中国传统材料的团体艺术（绘画）疗法也可以提高精神分裂症患者自我效能和社会功能，减少社会和生活功能的问题。艺术治疗在治疗成人焦虑症、抑郁症、阿尔茨海默症、神经性贪食症、物质滥用等精神疾病具有改善作用。

全文阅读（英文）：

https://www.shine.cn/feature/wellness/2108314337/

What links humans, nature and technology?

In many of artist Liu Chang's digital art projects, she explores the deeper connections human beings have with nature and technology as a whole, and tries to use technology to remind people of the beauty, love and moment in life that we have and ignore in the digital world.

"When you leave, there will be no photo and no proof, but you were there, no doubt, and you can only embrace this flickering moment," Liu said while expressing the reason behind not wanting photos taken in front of her interactive video installation, a project she named "Random Walker."

On the other hand, Liu has truly incorporated the gift that technology has brought her. In "Nature and Algorithm," she used algorithm in coding to program images of nature and landscape, based on photo or graphic texture, every day over the course of a hundred days.

"Whether it's nature, technology or us as human beings in between, the evolution that nature undergoes revolves around human beings, the two influencing each other symbiotically. You'll find out that things around you are not absolute or splitting," she said.

As her work is juxtaposing, it is also calming and aesthetically challenging, asking us to reexamine our relationships with nature and technology, respectively and collectively. Liu's work not only makes us take interest in works that are visually attractive, but also encourages us to enjoy art from more dimensions.

Check the following link to read the interview.

https://www.shine.cn/feature/wellness/2108193763/

If you are interested in Liu’s artwork, 

please go to her website at http://www.liuchang.work/

人，自然与科技，到底是什么将我们联系在一起？

在第二期跟刘唱的对谈中， 艺术家跟我们分享了她是如何看待人、自然、和科技三者之间相辅相成，不可分割的关系。

在刘唱的数字艺术装置作品中，她用科技提醒人们，那些在数字媒体时代，常常被我们忽略掉的，关乎爱，情感和很多生活中美好的瞬间。

“当你离开（这个装置）的时候，你不会留下照片，不会留下证明，但是你来过你存在过，你要做的就是拥抱那些转瞬即逝的瞬间”。在她的多媒体艺术装置“随机漫步者”展出时，刘唱希望观众更能全情享受这些时刻，而不仅仅去拍照留念。

在她的另一件作品“自然与算法”中，刘唱在一百天的时间内，挑战每天都用电脑制作一副真实存在的自然景象的图片。

她说：“自然随着人的活动而进行的变迁都是互相影响共生的状态。你自己也会发现你的周围并不是割裂的”。

她的作品在审美和形式上挑战着观众，让人们去重新审视自己和自然还有科技的关系。刘唱不仅带给了观众一个视觉效果很美很有趣的世界，她还鼓励观众从多维度去欣赏艺术。

刘唱是一位艺术家和教育工作者，目前工作生活于上海。在她的近期艺术实践中，时间与存在的关系成为她作品讨论的焦点，另外自然与人造风景之间既迥异又贴近的质感也是她作品中的提问之一。刘唱的作品游走于数字媒介和综合媒介之间，她的创作依托于在数字艺术，新兴科技与传统工艺之间寻找联结和对话。她的作品包括交互装置，艺术家书，生成艺术等。她的近期研究包括生成艺术在跨学科领域的表现，博物馆交互体验与科技，以及创意编程结合平面设计的探索。

刘唱曾先后学习于普拉特艺术学院以及纽约大学Tisch艺术学院，并于2016年在纽约大学Tisch艺术学院，交互通讯学院(ITP)取得硕士学位。现任教于上海纽约大学交互媒体艺术系(IMA)，担任艺术系助理教授。她的艺术作品在世界各地的美术馆和博物官展出，包括中国国家博物馆，上海当代艺术博物馆，哥伦比亚大学，以及伦敦卡罗尔、弗莱彻画廊等。

如果你对第一期的访谈有兴趣，点这里回顾，

第二期访谈全文报道如下

https://www.shine.cn/feature/wellness/2108193763/

如果你对艺术家的作品感兴趣，可以前往她的主页

http://www.liuchang.work/

Examining human bonds with high-tech art

"Programming, opensource software have opened a new window for designers and artists. It's highly changeable, and it interacts with everything around it, air, humidity, temperature, nature, human. My computer is my work partner."A graduate from Tisch School of Arts at New York University and a professor of IMA at New York University Shanghai,Liu features audiovisual and interactive installations to coding art, from digital art to printmaking and artist books in her art work to seek the deeper meanings among human beings, between human beings and nature, and between nature and technology.

In one of her work "Social Clinic," she gives prescriptions like "talk to your loved ones," "say hello and save me from my phone," "talk to me, just do it" in a "Social Clinic" diagnosis.

She believes that art with data and algorithms gives people infinite possibilities, and awakens a higher level of thinking about ourselves and the world around us, especially during tough times like the COVID-19 pandemic.

"When we were at the darkest hour of this world, may it be a song, a painting, or an artistically interactive experience, these things can prompt us to think, to feel, to meditate," Liu said.

In the first part of Liu's conversation with us, she shares with us her ideas about how human beings interact with society around us.

“编程作为一个艺术工具，给艺术家和设计师打开了一个新的窗口，可变量，也可以跟周边的万事万物进行交互：空气、湿度、温度、自然、人类。我的合作伙伴就是我的电脑。”刘唱说道。刘唱曾先后学习于普拉特艺术学院以及纽约大学Tisch艺术学院，并于2016年在纽约大学Tisch艺术学院，交互通讯学院(ITP)取得硕士学位。现任教于上海纽约大学交互媒体艺术系(IMA)。她的作品运用了多媒体交互艺术、编程、新颖材料打印技术、艺术家书等等的形式和方式去探索人与人之间、人与自然、和自然与科技之间的关系。

她的作品"Social Clinic”中，她运用科技和表演的形式给参与者写了一些社会性诊断书，其中内容包括“与你爱的人交谈”、“跟我打招呼，把我从我的手机中拯救出来”、甚至“跟我聊天就好了”，目的是为了让人们产生面对面的交流，并让人们对自己的行为通过她的艺术装置而做出一些改变，哪怕再微小。

刘唱相信艺术和编程可以带给人们无限可能，并且呼吁大家去引发对我们周围的世界更深层次的思考，特别是在疫情时期。

“我们当处于这个世界上至暗时刻，或许就是一段音乐，一件艺术作品，一个参与式的交互体验，它能够让你产生一种冥想，一种感受”。

在今天的交谈栏目中，刘唱与我们分享了她对于人们是如何与自身周围的社会进行交涉的看法，来作为上半段的谈话。

Read the story in the following link:

https://www.shine.cn/feature/wellness/2108133507/

An alternative look at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics: What do the world's greatest athletes do when feeling stressful?

“首金”的压力有多大？

有没有现场观众对运动员有什么影响？

因疫情拖延一年，封闭训练下的运动员怎么调节心态？

心理素质决定金牌归属……

站在奥运会赛场上的选手都是世界顶级运动员，他们强大的心理防线不是一天筑城的，他们通常怎么做？情绪问题咋控制？学会了，你就能更成功！

绝对轻松三人“聊”愈，一起从不一样的角度聊聊刚结束的精彩奥运会。

Smartphones and you -- who is really in control ？

现在，相比我们自己，TA已经全面接管了我们的生活。

在你没有意识到的时候，你的手机和其他电子产品，已经引领了你的生活甚至思考方式。

如果你也在为电子产品影响了视力、影响了睡眠、影响了社交而略感困扰，来听听我们的四点解决方案吧。

我们的人设“美高冷”，我们的内容“很轻松”。

刘毅：在有限的“画布”上探索无尽的自由，在公共艺术活动中疗愈和开启感知力
Liu Yi：Finding inspiration in things small and public

A 2013 Japanese Ukiyoe exhibition at the British Museum sparked artist Liu Yi’s interest in small-scale paintings. A year later, he made a dozen copies of line drawings, sketching his wife sitting the month after childbirth, which led to mobile painting. Today, he has produced more than 2,000 mobile paintings, posted on his WeChat Moments and filed by month on the home page of his studio 61creative. “The most healing thing about art is it enables me to present my art in different ways,” the 40-year-old said.

A professor who teaches public art at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Liu intends to bring people beauty and enlightenment on social life, not only through monumental installation works, but also via temporary public activities. He called it “another kind of therapy” to arouse people’s awareness to care for those around and in need. 

Read the story in the following link:

https://www.shine.cn/feature/art-culture/2107302876/

艺术家刘毅：用手机绘画转移病痛

Liu Yi：A therapeutic tonic to overcome physical challenges


For artist Liu Yi, art was his magic pill in those bed-ridden teenage years. Born congenitally malformed, Liu had his first surgery when he was 6 months old at Shanghai’s Xinhua Hospital. Since then, he undertook countless corrective operations to regain mobility until the age of 15. 

Though physically challenged, Liu has lived a profound spiritual life since he was a kid thanks to art. The 40-year-old now teaches public art at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Along with teaching, he has devoted the past six years to mobile paintings, which he regularly posts on WeChat Moments and also homepage of his studio, 61creative.

Read the story in the following link:

https://www.shine.cn/feature/art-culture/2107232460/

“It’s essentially my job, and my life,” Missy Douglas said when we asked her what art meant to her.

Douglas is a British artist whose work has taken the form of abstract paintings and sculptures.

In one of her most renowned collections of paintings — “2:365” — Douglas painted one canvas a day for an entire year to visualize her feelings and emotions as someone with bipolar disorder.

“I felt quite ashamed and felt like I was oversharing, so I destroyed most of the paintings afterward. However, we had people come to me and tell me which paintings had spoken to them. Someone even had a panic attack after seeing one of the paintings.”

The truths that Douglas revealed about mental wellness and art caused quite a stir in both worlds

“But we are normal people. We do have to pay the bills, go to the grocery store, and we do watch TV.” She gave a little laugh. Douglas now lives in a beautiful house in Seattle with her husband Kim Rask, with whom she works in their Uckiood studio.

Like her artwork? Go visit https://www.uckiood.com/ for more information.

“艺术是我的工作，也是我的生活。” Missy Douglas说道。

Douglas是一位来自英国的艺术家，在她最著名的作品之一2：365中，她在一年的时间里每天画一副油画来表达她自己作为一位有双相情感障碍的艺术家的所思所想。

“后来我感觉有点羞耻，好像我过度分享了我自己的经历，所以我把大部分油画都毁了。不过有很多人来告诉我，说2：365很真实。甚至有人在看了其中一幅画后，突发恐慌症。”

她的作品在艺术界和心理界都产生了很大的反响。

“但是艺术家也是普通人啦，我们也有账单要付，也要去逛超市，也会看电视。”她笑了一下。Douglas现居西雅图，她的丈夫Kim Rask一起经营一间名为Uckiood的工作室。

喜欢她的作品吗？可以去 https://www.uckiood.com/ 发掘更多。

An idea on a mountain and pioneering art

本期节目对谈嘉宾汪斌女士，是欣稚锋艺术机构创始人。2016年，拥有二十多年高端地产项目建设规划从业经验的汪斌华丽转身，投身她热爱多年的当代艺术，创办欣稚锋艺术机构，专注于当代公共艺术项目策划、艺术品定制和公共艺术展览。本期对谈中，汪斌分享了她如何看待艺术与建筑的关系、公共艺术之于城市生活的意义，公共艺术如何抚慰心灵、与观众共情，以及她对公共艺术的愿景。
For this episode, we'll be having a conversation with Robin Wong. Having spend more than 20 years in high-profile real-estate projects in international metropolis, in 2016, Wong decided to take a rest and devoted herself to something she's been passionate about for a long time -- contemporary art. Three years later, Wong and her team of the Art Pioneer Studio curated for the 2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, overseeing the implementation of some 20 pieces of large-scale public art installations. Earlier this February, APSMUSEUM was unveiled in a shopping mall in Pudong Lujiazui. Their current exhibition "How It Flows On" is a combination of art, architecture, music and technology.

Smartphones and you -- who is really in control ？

现在，相比我们自己，TA已经全面接管了我们的生活。

难道不是吗？光阴的对手、视力的敌人、白昼的主人……

电子屏及其背后的信息流、视频、游戏、购物车……从早上睁开眼，到晚上睡前，永远都在我们眼前。它们既是文明最了不起的信号，也让人们习惯了碎片化思考，放弃了与自己相处。很多时候我放下手机时才会揉着眼睛想，为什么我要一直看呢？我刚在看什么来着？

你知道“接近”这个心理机制吗？你知道“停止信号”吗？

我们的人设“美高冷”，我们的内容“很轻松”，今天我们一起来聊聊令人愉快的电子产品反面的困扰吧？