Curator's Tours
2014.03.29 14:00 - 15:00 | Guided Tours
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
Act of listening to noise is a self-contradictory and self-defeating activity because noise is by its definition what you don’t want to hear. However, this apparent contradiction leads us, the listeners, to start to think what is really an act of listening itself just like the case of listening to alleged silence, while when you listen to silence, you’re listening to something you cannot hear.
The participants are encouraged to appreciate the transformation of ordinary objects by applying a new “skin” of materials or techniques through the use of a range of various materials.
My main instrument for the recent years has been the amplified and unamplified turntables with objects. I have no background of DJing or collecting vinyl records. For me, turntable is less a record player than a electro-magnetic pick-up to amplify objects’s vibration or a resonator of certain things without any amplification. When things are amplified (or represented), then they lose their sonic presence; amplifier and speaker take over the presence and the sound gets more objectified.
An Evening with Angela Zito
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
The lecture will carry out a discussion on how these new worker artists finding their way in developing cultural subjectivity through art; their own interpretations of art.
Inspired by the hybrid images from Bharti Kher’s works, this workshop is designed to inspire children to open up their imagination and creativity, conceiving of new forms of life melding animal and human forms, and then granting them life and meaning through story-telling or other means.
The program extends the cultural dualism within the artworks of Bharti Kher as a starting point towards a larger discussion about the changes in visual images of life forms from a Chinese taxonomy originating in the radicals of Chinese characters to the introduction of Western binomial nomenclature. With this particular model of Chinese classification, we can observe the regenerative capabilities of legends in the contemporary Chinese language.
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
艺术家究竟可以承担一个怎样的角色? 当代艺术又能如何在不断变迁的社会意识形态和文化语境中激发新的思考,达成有效的批评?更重要的是保持艺术实践本身所具备的,先于理论的原创能动性。艺术往往不是科学,不是用来解决问题,而是用来发现问题和提出问题的,并能及时介入对于历史和当下社会的前沿思考。
印度的加尔各答,有多元的族群与文化,还有印度其它城市没有的「唐人街」与「中国早餐」。一群飘洋过海、远走他乡的华人移民,从18世纪末开始第一波移民潮,两百年来漫长的迁徙岁月中,他们落脚于城市边缘,随着大时代的流转,历经英属印度殖民、印度解殖、中印战争、政权轮替,直到年轻世代的停留与出走,他们的生存地位、阶级身份与世代的认同,随着时代在边界移动.....
Starting from the Chinese community’s arrival in India in the 1800s, to the effects of the 1962 Sino-Indian border conflict, to their recent mass emigration, From Border to Border puts voices to faces as interviewees retell their histories and describe their experiences living with generational discrimination and alienation, cultural preservation and familial expectations.
In addition to ongoing artistic creation and performance throughout the years, the space has hosted events such as theater and film festivals providing the city with a glimpse into a precious alternative cultural life and its creative energy. Its insistence on enabling free expression for a culture outside of the commercial and mainstream was never an easy endeavor, and it is now sadly, yet hopefully only temporarily, coming to an end.
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
How should we imagine India as a land, a country and a nation in other terms than geographic and political ones that have been reiterated in textbooks and mass media? How is the idea of India challenged and exceeded by the practice of artists, curators and writers both inside and outside India?
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.