在没有看这些视频之前,杨丽萍在我脑海中的印象是这样的:一个冷僻、神秘的女人,从事着高雅到让人难以理解的艺术。受众的这一印象,暗示了主流媒体对她的态度:尊崇里带着疏远;既奉她为国宝又视她为异类,敬而远之,叶公好龙。直到我在视频中真切地目睹她的言行举止,才发现以往的印象完全是错觉。 Before looking at these videos, Yang Liping’s impression in my mind is this: a lonely and mysterious woman, engaged in elegant to incomprehensible art. This impression of the audience implies that the mainstream media attitudes toward her are: alienation with estrangement; she not only regards her as a national treasure but also treats her as a heterogeneous, at arm’s length. It was not my illusion until I saw her demeanor in my video.