TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

当流动女工们拿起画笔

静远

什么才算创作？我们在生活中常做的那些事，比如随手拍照、写日记、照着一幅画描一描，是不是也能算？艺术家静远给出了她的回答：创作的关键不在于形式，而在于创作者是否经历了一次真正的“看见”和“思考”。当你开始质疑生活、反观自我，并将这些真实感受转化为表达，那才是真正的创作。

在这次演讲中，静远谈到了她在“汗流浃背”项目中的经验。这是一个为基层女性提供免费写作与绘画指导的项目。她相信，每个人都可以拥有属于自己的创作过程。通过写和画，我们不仅能理解世界，也能重新理解自己。她说，当你真的投入一次创作，你会感受到一种根植于内心的平等感、思辨力和尊严。

静远1979年生于广西。她在国内大学毕业后，于2006年前往加拿大康考迪亚大学艺术系就读，之后在芝加哥艺术学院取得艺术硕士学位。她的创作横跨纪录片、绘画、参与式艺术，并长期关注底层女性的表达权。

她曾发起“写母亲”项目，并出版了五本作品集。在2018年，她将这个项目延伸为“汗流浃背”，专门协助流动女工群体进行文字与视觉创作，在多个公益组织中也开设过写作课程。

在“普通人也能创作”的理念下，她不断挑战专业与非专业的界限，用艺术的力量搭建一个弱势声音能够互相看见、彼此支持的空间。

When migrant women workers pick up paint brushes

Jingyuan

What is considered “creation”? Is taking a photo on your phone creation? What about writing a journal entry or copying someone else’s painting? For artist Jingyuan, creation isn’t about the format—it’s about the process. To her, true creation begins when a person truly sees life, questions themselves, and transforms that experience into expression. That reflection, she says, is the essence of creating.

In this talk, Jingyuan shares her journey with Sweat, Stop, Rewrite, a free creative mentorship program for grassroots women. She believes that everyone deserves an authentic creative experience—and through it, people can sense, and even reimagine, how they relate to the world. When you create with intention and self-reflection, what emerges is a sense of equality, clarity, and dignity.

Born in Guangxi in 1979, Jingyuan studied Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work spans documentary film, painting, and participatory art.

She launched Writing · Mothers, a five-year literary project focused on women’s narratives, which has published five volumes. In 2018, she developed Sweat, Stop, Rewrite as an extension—specifically aimed at helping migrant women workers explore written and visual storytelling. She’s also led writing workshops through various nonprofit platforms.

Through her ongoing exploration of “ordinary people’s creativity,” Jingyuan challenges the line between what is professional and what is personal, and uses the power of creation to foster mutual recognition and support among those often excluded from dominant narratives.