Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

“The artworks selected in this exhibition deal with the possibilities of representing the Other beyond our dualistic oppositions between me and the outside world. To build our Self we fundamentally need the Other but this Other has to be found into our mental space as well as into our daily life, into our private images as well as into our social representations. Such process requests fluid and changing existence, dynamic interrelations between the subject and the Other. ”--Larys Frogier, Director of Rockbund Art Museum

We are honored to invite Prof. Wu Guanjun, scholar of political science to have a public dialogue with Larys Frogier, Director of Rockbund Art Museum and Co-curator of “Walking on the Fade Out Lines” on the campus of East China Normal University. Through this dialogue, we hope to discuss “the Other” in the context of both the exhibition on view and in political theories.

“本展所选的艺术品皆超脱于我和外部世界的二元对立之外，关注呈现‘他者’的可能性。为了创建自我，我们从根本上是需要他者的，但这样的他者势必要既在我们的精神空间又在我们的日常生活里，既在我们的私人形象又在我们的社会再现里。这种过程需要流动的、变化的存在，在主体和他者之间有动态的关联。” ——拉瑞斯•弗洛乔，上海外滩美术馆馆长

他者，是相对“自我”而形成的概念，是由自我意识建立出的一种意向。人在和外部世界发生关系的时候发展出这种意向，将自己看作主体，将观察、凝视的对象看作他者。拉康认为的“所谓的主体是被言说中的他性（otherness）建构起来的。”那么，主体性究竟何为？通过把被凝视的对象与自我的区分、开来而确立起来的自我，实则依赖于这种对他者的否定，而这种否定的前提却是对他者的另一种肯定。本次“行将消退”展览的艺术作品所讨论的议题涉及普遍他者、文化他者等不同的他者形态，让观众反思人们在这个世界中交往、相处过程中对于他者的构建以及面对他者的态度。

2018年5月23日我们很荣幸地邀请到了华东师范大学政治学系教授、博士生导师吴冠军教授与上海外滩美术馆馆长拉瑞斯·弗洛乔一起，在华东师范大学校园，结合本次展览理念和作品，就艺术中的“他者”问题进行一场面对面的交流。

Larys Frogier is the Director of the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai. Curator, critic and art historian, he is involved in artistic and social challenges in post-global contexts where ongoing social, economical, cultural transformations demand new ways of interrelations, citizenship and reinvented creativity.

He curated numerous exhibitions and published extensive essays on the works of international artists: Adel Abdessemed, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Paola Pivi, Ugo Rondinone, Wang Du, Yang Jiechang. Larys Frogier taught art theory, history of art and curatorial studies at the University of Rennes, while he was also researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the Archives for Art Criticism.

Previously the Director of the contemporary art centre La Criée in Rennes (France), he curated long-term projects (symposiums, residencies, exhibitions, publications) which question the links and ruptures between broadening transcontinental areas. Chair of the HUGO BOSS ASIA ART jury since 2013 at the Rockbund Art Museum, he is conceiving this new award, exhibition and research program as an evolving platform to promote emerging artists and to question Asia as a construction to investigate rather than a monolithic area or fixed identities.

Wu Guanjun is Ph.D. of Monash University in Australia, Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics at ECNU, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice President of Department’s Academic Board and Executive Editor-in-Chief of ECNU Review. He also serves as the tutor teacher in New York University Shanghai, the visiting research fellow for the Faculty of Arts, Monash University and Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences. Mr. Wu focuses on the study of political philosophy and psychoanalysis.

拉瑞斯·弗洛乔，上海外滩美术馆馆长。

作为一名策展人、评论家与艺术史学家，他深入参与到后全球化语境中的艺术挑战与社会变革中，持续生发的社会、经济与文化转变同时也要求全新的关联方式、公民身份与重新研发的创造力。

他策划了多档展览，发表过多部专著与论文，研究并讨论了来自如下艺术家的创作：费利克斯•冈萨雷斯-托雷斯、南•戈尔丁、波拉•彼薇、乌戈•罗迪纳、王度和杨诘苍。曾任教于法国雷恩大学，教授艺术理论，艺术史和策展课程。他同时也是巴黎社会科学高等学院与艺术批评文献库的研究员。

他曾担任法国雷恩市La Criée当代艺术中心总监，策划过长期的研讨会、驻地、展览与出版物项目，不断挑战广泛的全球地域之间的联结与断裂。作为2013年首届HUGO BOSS亚洲新锐艺术家大奖的评委会主席，他将该项目构想为一个全新的奖项、一场展览与一系列研究项目，作为一个持续演变的平台，推广新锐艺术家，将亚洲作为一个持续的构建和亟待调研的问题而非一个单一的地区和固定的身份。

吴冠军

澳大利亚墨纳什大学（Monash University）哲学博士，华东师范大学政治学系教授、博士生导师、系学术委员会副主任，并兼任《华东师范大学学报》英文版执行主编、上海纽约大学授课导师、墨纳什大学人文学院客座研究员、复旦大学社会科学高等研究院客座研究员。研究领域为政治哲学与精神分析。