Rockbund Art Museum

【Exhibition Plus · Workshops】Whisper of something

2015.08.22 - 2015.08.30 15:00 - 17:00 | Workshops

Most of us have learned to appreciate music, however, when facing sound art works, we may describe them as disagreeable. Just as many other contemporary art works, they are not created to present beauty.we will admire and create sound art works which could be melodic, conceptual, experimental or visualized. We will train our ears through sound jigsaw, create our own musical instruments and record and edit our works.

【Exhibition Plus · Lecture】What keeps us alive?

2015.08.29 19:30 | Talks

Awakening the Visual and Auditory Senses of Vegetative Patients is a cooperative and cross-disciplinary program involving medical science, psychology, Buddhism and art. In this program, personalized visual and audio works are created based on the main memories, emotions and images of the patients as adjunctive means to awaken them. This program is set to explore the primitive force of life.

【Exhibition Plus · Lecture】The Connotation of Shanghai Photography in the 1990s

2015.08.21 19:30 - 21:00 | Talks

Shanghai photography in the 1990s emphasizes more on the expression of personalized urban emotions. This dialogue mainly looks at Zhou Ming’s photography works taken in the 1990s’ Shanghai to uncover his inner reflections about urban life. It will also gradually further its discussion on the possibility of multiple changes coming to urban photography when entering into the 21st century.

【Exhibition Plus·Screening】RAM x SFM Special Screening: Kidnapping Karajan

2015.08.15 19:30 - 21:10 | Screenings

In attempt to revisit the climatic period of the 1990s where Shanghai acted as a representative of Chinese cities regarding consumerism and globalization, Rockbund Art Museum is partnering with Shanghai Film Museum to promote "Chen Zhen: Without going to New York and Paris, life could be internationalized "as its main theme of special screenings from July to September of 2015.

【Exhibition Plus ·Kids @ RAM · Workshops】Sound Workshop

2015.08.01 - 2015.08.15 10:00 - 12:00 | Workshops

In this workshop, children can unleash their natural creative potential such as knock, scream and turn on and off the switches and in the meantime learn to control the pace and intensity. Sound making will blend the elements of our daily life into the rhythm and tempo. In the three-session workshop, we will undertake voice and sound making exercises, play games and produce a little album from our exercises.

【HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2015】In-between Conversations I: Whither Art History? Institutions, curatorship and the undead nation state

2015.08.14 19:30 - 21:00 | Talks

How should art be historicised in its ‘contemporary’ and ‘global’ phase? What is to be historicized, if not the work of art per se? Where art history has shallow roots, the emerging paradigms of visual culture, curatorial studies and exhibition histories offer appealing alternatives. But their path is strewn with hazards, not least, the lack of that visual literacy and discursive space that art history, for all its sins, has long cultivated elsewhere.

【Exhibition know more•Talk】 Facing the new German theatre in the present through

2015.08.09 19:30 - 21:00 | Talks

【Exhibition Plus · Lecture】Moments in Movements: Songhu Railway in the 1990s

2015.08.08 19:30 - 21:00 | Talks

In the 1990s, Shanghai photographer Xu Haifeng spent many years in recording the lively yet gradually faded life scenes along the Songhu Railway route, while the renowned scholar and historian Prof. Ge Jianxiong has also recalled in one of his early articles of the days he spent around the railway in his youth. In this dialogue, we are honored to invite Prof.Ge Jianxiong and Mr. Xu Haifeng, on the basis of these photos, to look back upon this not-too-distant history with the audience.

【新艺见·RAM系列讲座】于吉谈个人创作及角色转换

2015.08.07 19:30 - 21:00 | Talks

【Exhibition Plus · Panel Discussion】Chen Zhen: Without going to New York and Paris, life could be Internationalized

2015.08.02 14:30 - 17:30 | Forums

This symposium will begin from the exhibition. Furthermore, it invites Shanghai’s local critiques and scholars Zhao Chuan and Wu Liang to review with us the unique and important figures of the innovative artistic movement in Shanghai. Curator Hou Hanru will revisit Chen Zhen’s creations regarding 1990s Shanghai from abroad. Doctor of Medicine Liu Qiang, from his professional viewpoint, will also ponder Chen Zhen’s artistic executions in regards to medicine, the body, and healing.