- Critique Juice
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So I began an investigation.
Like a spy, I infiltrated his class. I exhibited in their thebrokengallery_official, as if I were already part of his class. My name was listed in their class exhibition.
It turned out that the frequency with which I heard the word success increased dramatically.
In his interviews, Christian also speaks excessively about success, destiny, and coincidence. This left me confused: is so-called success really something that is predetermined? This kind of rhetoric cloaks art in the guise of a mystical commodity—something that cannot be explained, yet is irresistibly seductive.
It reminded me of Joseph Beuys’s shamanic narratives and his doctrine of salvation through art. This made me wonder: do they truly believe what they are saying, or are they using language strategically—to construct the image of a postwar shaman artist, and later, the figure of the “successful artist” after the 1990s?
I then used my own keywords to generate a poetic game about CJ with ChatGPT, and made small adjustments to it, rendering it more personal, for instance, by incorporating my relationship with Christian.
This poetic game led me once again to work through fiction, collage, editing, and writing, allowing me to continue to deepen this project.
Throughout this process, I kept asking myself the same question: why does CJ interest me so much? Besides Christian Jankowski, what else is CJ? I began to find connections between CJ and art, between CJ and China, and between CJ and paradox........ The process was fascinating, and I decided to continue.
Like a spy, I infiltrated his class. I exhibited in their thebrokengallery_official, as if I were already part of his class. My name was listed in their class exhibition.
It turned out that the frequency with which I heard the word success increased dramatically.
In his interviews, Christian also speaks excessively about success, destiny, and coincidence. This left me confused: is so-called success really something that is predetermined? This kind of rhetoric cloaks art in the guise of a mystical commodity—something that cannot be explained, yet is irresistibly seductive.
It reminded me of Joseph Beuys’s shamanic narratives and his doctrine of salvation through art. This made me wonder: do they truly believe what they are saying, or are they using language strategically—to construct the image of a postwar shaman artist, and later, the figure of the “successful artist” after the 1990s?
I then used my own keywords to generate a poetic game about CJ with ChatGPT, and made small adjustments to it, rendering it more personal, for instance, by incorporating my relationship with Christian.
This poetic game led me once again to work through fiction, collage, editing, and writing, allowing me to continue to deepen this project.
Throughout this process, I kept asking myself the same question: why does CJ interest me so much? Besides Christian Jankowski, what else is CJ? I began to find connections between CJ and art, between CJ and China, and between CJ and paradox........ The process was fascinating, and I decided to continue.