Curator's Tours
2014.05.31 14:30 - 15:30 | Guided Tours
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
May, 2014
SAVAKA@RAM CAFÉ VOL.1
2014.05.13 - 2014.05.31 10:00 - 18:00 | Specials
“SAVAKA: Asia Experimental Music Currents” is a experimental music project curated by sound artist Yin Yi and sound researcher Adel Wang Jing under the umbrella of “HUGO BOSS ASIA ART: Invisible Torrents” organized by Rockbund Art Museum. The extending project “SAVAKA@RAM CAFÉ” aims to encourage the audience who could not attend the SAVAKA performances or talks to have an opportunity to listen to the works related to each presented musician......
SAVAKA VOL.9 Lecture: Sound Art in Taiwan
2014.05.25 15:00 - 17:00 | Talks
The artist purposely creates the multiple refractions of audio beams in the space, through our listening experience, in order to create a new sounding space. As waves generated by wind blowing across the ocean surface, all the random noise sound waves travel through the space. Close the eyes to completely experience this amazingly audio space, which leads our imagination and spirit freely release to the state of the emptiness.
SAVAKA VOL.9 Performance: Hyper Transmission
2014.05.24 19:00 - 21:00 | Performance
The live performance uses multiple directional hypersonic speakers to generate several tightly focused beams of sound. The sound would like wind which blowing through our ears from various directions. Through movement of the kinetic installations, all these audio beams are similar as Laser light refracting in-between several mirrors.
RAM Performance: Blasted
2014.05.24 15:00 - 17:00 | Performance
Curator's Tours
2014.05.24 14:30 - 15:30 | Guided Tours
RAM team will provide free tours of the exhibition for visitors.
Action Asia Vol.8 Talk: Art as weapon to destroy all idiot power
2014.05.23 19:00 - 21:30 | Talks
Vasan Sitthiket will introduce the background of Thailand politics and art scene till the conflict and the root of Thailand problem, and how artists fight to join with the people to change. He will be further explaining his idea on art:” Art is a weapon to destroy all idiot power. The painting productions are still showed and hanging some where on the wall but the artist' message blast to the people heads (if they had seen it).
Talk: Ink Painting (or Art), a (Troubled) Symbol of Trans-Asian Modernity
2014.05.19 19:00 - 21:00 | Talks
In China, "Ink Painting" is also called "Chinese Painting", the concept of which is not only related to the media and materials of this form of art but also stands in contrast with Western art (oil paintings). Therefore, since the birth of this concept, Ink Painting (Chinese Painting) has been closely related to the modernization process brought about by the West—not only in China, but in all of East Asia, this traditional form of art has been transforming along with the establishment of modern
Talk: Articulation of Writing Language in Contemporary Art and Semantic Development
2014.05.16 19:00 - 21:00 | Talks
Language is believed to be the highest and the wisest presentation both in China and in the West, whereas visual reproduction is thought as a lesser way of representation. This requires us to put such art in the realm of visual culture and study it, which means besides the common research on art history and aesthetics, we need to add study on other areas on top of viewing our visual experiences.
RAM Talk: The supply chains of society - a participative photo project by Sibylle Hofter, Berlin
2014.05.15 19:00 - 21:00 | Talks
Sibylle Hofter introduces her working processes to potential participants as well as to an interested public. With her background of 2 decades of multi media art practice including extended research on extra artistic fields, curatorial and participative approaches she is currently driven by the hubris to create a multi focal collaborative photographic portray of Shanghai within its regional context and beyond the schemes of photographical genres.
Advance through Retreat Panel discussions(Session Three)
2014.05.11 19:00 - 21:00 | Forums
In recent years, exhibitions, academic activities and market events centering around Chinese traditional art (e.g. ink painting) have flooded the international and domestic art world, turning it into a trend. Most of these exhibitions and activities, however, have mainly focused on the value or effectiveness of the formalities, techniques, ideas and aesthetics of traditional art in contemporary contexts.
Advance through Retreat Panel discussions(Session Two)
2014.05.11 15:00 - 17:00 | Forums
In recent years, exhibitions, academic activities and market events centering around Chinese traditional art (e.g. ink painting) have flooded the international and domestic art world, turning it into a trend. Most of these exhibitions and activities, however, have mainly focused on the value or effectiveness of the formalities, techniques, ideas and aesthetics of traditional art in contemporary contexts.
Curator’s Talk: Advance through Retreat
2014.05.10 19:00 - 21:00 | Talks
This talk by the curator of the exhibition “Advance through Retreat” proposes a different angle to look at tradition and traditional media of art. It sets out to present artistic positions using traditional media and procedures, such as divination, the game, gambling and traditional strategies.
Advance through Retreat Panel discussions(Session One)
2014.05.10 15:00 - 17:00 | Forums
In recent years, exhibitions, academic activities and market events centering around Chinese traditional art (e.g. ink painting) have flooded the international and domestic art world, turning it into a trend. Most of these exhibitions and activities, however, have mainly focused on the value or effectiveness of the formalities, techniques, ideas and aesthetics of traditional art in contemporary contexts.
Curator’s Tour
2014.05.10 13:30 - 14:30 | Guided Tours
Martina Koeppel-Yang invites us on an exhibition walkthrough to explore the artworks in this survey and share her perspectives.