We are honored to invite multimedia artist Li Ming to interpret the works in this exhibition. We will feel the collision of ideas and resonance of creativity between Li Ming and the artist Francis Alÿs during this Walk & Talk activity. Boht as an artist and an audience, Li Ming will show us his thoughts on how to examine the multidimensional relationship between the audience and the artist/artworks.
The Rockbund Art Museum is proud to initiate its first project under ‘Curatorial Practices in Asia’, a new research platform dedicated to different local contexts situated in the region. For 2018, the platform has been organized in collaboration with the independent curator Biljana Ciric dedicated to exhibition histories in China and Southeast Asia. Since the beginning of this year, a series of public events and activities have been dedicated to this regional exchange in extension to the second
The Rockbund Art Museum, in collaboration with Fudan Poets Society, will hold a unique event for improvisation of poems under the theme of “Walking around the City,” a signature approach of creation by the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs. After admiring the artist’s works at his first solo exhibition in China held by RAM, members of the Society will walk along different streets near the museum for inspirations and improvise poems based on any of the key words that RAM will provide.
In this session of animation workshop, through videos and pictures presented at the art exhibition, the tutor will help pupils with an in-depth understanding of “Francis Alÿs:La dépense” by offering a detailed interpretation of the storyline and techniques behind the creation of Animation.
The Rockbund Art Museum is proud to invite Wen Pulin, a prominent Chinese art critic, and Xu Tiantian, Curator Manager of RAM, to discuss the performance art of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs and deconstruct how Francis Alÿs involves human’s body in his creation. The two speakers will also share with the audience the development of performance art in China, for which Wen Pulin will present valuable records of performance art practices of China’s whole art community since the 1980s. By comparing
Maximum effort, minimum result. ---Francis Alÿs’ motto for When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002 Under the social context nowadays where we are pursuing rationality, high-efficiency, abundance and prosperity, the concept of “dépense” proposed by Georges Bataille seems quite unique. Then what does it mean? What does this notion imply? How it is constructed within Bataille’s system? And will this “non-productive consumption” make our livelihood unsustainable?
The artist Francis Alÿs, together with Yuko Hasegawa, curator of the exhibition “Francis Alÿs: La dépense”, went on a field trip in Inner Mongolia in 2017, and paid a visit to the Aoluguya Ewenki tribe in Genhe of Hulunbuir. Ewenki hunters, having lived for generations in the mysterious Aoluguya forest, dropped off their shotguns and walked out of the forest in 2003, launching a massive migration and relocation. A series of dramatic incidents that happened thereafter have drawn extensive attenti
In this talk, Lu Zhiyu, a well-known film critic, will share his ideas on two movies which are deeply rooted in the culture of their filmmakers’ homeland: El Viaje by Fernando Ezequiel Solanas and Poesía sin fin by Alexandre Jodorowsky.
In this talk, Lu Zhiyu, a well-known film critic, will share his ideas on two movies which are deeply rooted in the culture of their filmmakers’ homeland: El Viaje by Fernando Ezequiel Solanas and Poesía sin fin by Alexandre Jodorowsky.
This talk will look at the exhibition histories starting from China’s local context in relation to the upcoming assembly. Through this period, we witnessed the rise of biennials (including Shanghai Bienniale established in 1996) and other large-scale exhibitions throughout Asia as a response to weak infrastructure of local art institutions to support more experimental contemporary productions.
Marking the fourth talk in a series related to “Second Assembly: Exhibition-Making Practice in China and Southeast Asia in the 1990s”, a curatorial project jointly curated by Biljana Ciric and the museum, RAM is delighted to invite artist Yu Hong and Vienna-based curator Julia Hartmann, who is also one of the granted researchers of the open call for the “Curatorial Practices in Asia” project.
Before presenting the first solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs in China, the Rockbund Art Museum is proud to invite Yuko Hasegawa, Curator of this exhibition, and Cuauhtémoc Medina, Chief Curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, to discuss the artistic creation of Francis Alÿs.
Technologies available in the modern society could influence and even sometimes control how we behave in a stealthy manner. In this case, could we claim that our thoughts and behavior are truly determined by ourselves?
We are honored to invite Professor Hideyuki Ando from Osaka University to give this talk together with Lu Yang. They will begin with the usage of GVS in Lu’s works to discuss how advanced technologies contribute to present virtual reality in artworks, if human perception of real space depends on individual wills, how this perception can be changed, and how we can “save ourselves.”
Philippines Macho Academy and Princess Studies, the works of Eisa Jocson's, mirror the entwined relations between dancing, physical labor and desire consumption. Physical sensation and structural contradiction will be the two main topics of this talk, during which the following questions will be discussed: How does a body present or become a performance of desire? How does such desire change the trading and power relations between the audience and the performer?
For the third talk in a series related to “Second Assembly: Exhibition-Making Practice in China and Southeast Asia in the 1990s”, a curatorial project jointly curated by Biljana Ciric and the museum, RAM is delighted to invite Kuala Lumpur-based curator and writer Eric Goh to discuss the 1995 exhibition Skin Trilogy by the Malaysian arts collective Five Arts Centre.
