“Live@RAM” combines a 10-day residency at the museum, which leads to a live presentation to the public in the exhibition spaces at RAM at the end. Coinciding with the museum’s annual exhibition program, Live@RAM provides 3 residencies a year, open to applications from all over the world.
The production of a text is followed by a series of consumption activities including dissemination and criticism. The text will also transform during consumption. Compared to creators of visual artworks, the authors of texts are not aware of the existence of their consumers. Texts and other artworks that can be reproduced also have another characteristic: collective consumption. This feature gives texts a perfect ethical structure.
Liao Fei’s practice starts from his doubt about things around as well as himself, with the hope to be closer to “things”. On one hand, Liao Fei doubts strongly about dualism; while on the other, he is much interested in the aesthetic feeling based on the dualism. This promotes him to carry out creative practice in terms of “matter” from 2011.
With the emergence of Weibo, Wechat, micro-film, micro-advertising, micro-plastic surgery and micro-finance, we seem to have entered an era of micro-media and micro-culture. These “micro media” characterized by their micro scale are more than just a phenomenon in the world of media; they have affected nearly all of our industries, art circles and everyday life.
Tours are held at 2:30pm and are free for visitors with a valid ticket. Guide: Yan Chan Language: Chinese
Tours are held at 2:30pm and are free for visitors with a valid ticket. Guide: Ramen Xie Language: Chinese
Exhibition “Ifs, Ands, or Buts”, as a way to explore the inner workings of special systems and the world, starts a discussion about the origin of knowledge carriers. Science fiction is created to help people escape reality and search new laws to regulate us. The texts in Legal Bookshop, an installation in the exhibition, are the laws people have found to shun away from the reality.
RAM team will provide exclusive free tours of the exhibition for RAM member. Guide: Larys Frogier Language: English