Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆
From Corporeal Resistance to Mediated Body: The Dynamics of Embodiment in Performance Arts since 1960s “表演光谱”系列讲座 | 从肉身抵制到媒介装置：半世纪的观演身体流动
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About the Talk 关于讲座
Promo of From Corporeal Resistance to Mediated Body: The Dynamics of Embodiment in Performance Arts since 1960s
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For the inaugural discussion of the “Spectrum of Performance(ing) Arts” lecture series, the Rockbund Art Museum invites Katherine Hui-ling Chou, professor at the Department of English, National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan, playwright and theatre director, to share with the audience the fundamental concepts and the ongoing pertinence with contemporary evolution enthralled in performance arts. Tracing back to Western practices in 1960s, the discussion examines how artists diverted from artworks and veered towards actions and body remediations. Redefining concepts of art, artists and artworks facilitated by exploration of non-art institutional space, these practices challenged the established art systems and enkindled conceptual art. Sequentially, they castigated a great debate on constitutions of art and the socio-historical context surrounding artists and artistic actions.
Chou will delineate a series of pioneering attempts that exerted influences in diverse areas of performance arts, including the structure and aesthetics of plays and art history, thus underscoring their capacity for cultural production and alignment with new media, media art, interactive art and digital performance in the 21st-century. This analysis primarily incorporates examples from North America and is supplemented by a few from the U.K. and the European Continent. Through assessing a broad historical context and particular social circumstances, the discussion aims to engage the audience in evaluating current issues confronted by performance arts and other avant-garde movements, as well as any feasible tactics to combat.
本讲座作为“表演光谱”系列讲座第一场，我们邀请到台湾中央大学英美语文系教授，同时也是编剧、剧场导演周慧玲来为公众提供一个表演艺术的基本概念与今昔演变之间的对照。讲座将首先回溯1960年代在西方，艺术家是如何开始改以行动(action)（而非艺术品），从整治自身身体(body)出发，透过对非艺术体制空间的探索来重新定义艺术、艺术家与艺术品的概念，从而抵制艺术体制、激荡出观念艺术，以此揭开何谓艺术的大辩论？他们（艺术家和艺术行为）所处的社会历史情境(socio-historical context)又如何？
About the Speaker 关于讲者
Katherine Hui-ling Chou now works full time at the Department of English, NCU in Taiwan as Distinguished Professor, and is Coordinator of Electronic Theatre Intermix in Taiwan (eti-tw.com) – the digital archive of local modern play and performance. She previously served as Project Director of Black Box Theatre at NCU. Chou earned a PhD at Tisch School of Arts, New York University under the tuition of Richard Schechner, a celebrated American scholar of performance studies and director. In 1997, she co-founded the Creative Society, a theatre troupe in Taipei. As one of the very few artists in Taiwan that are active in both playwriting and directing, and academic research, she has published a number of plays, and made great achievements in extensive research, with plentiful academic writings recognized by awards or published in acclaimed journals of leading universities.
周慧玲(Katherine Hui-ling Chou)为国立中央大学特聘教授、英文系专任教授，台湾现代戏剧暨表演数据库eti-tw.com主持人、曾任中央大学黑盒子表演艺术中心计划主持人。
左手创作，右手论述，是台湾极少数兼具剧场编导和学术研究的剧场艺术工作者。她的学术研究范畴广泛而前沿，从性别表演到文化政策研究乃至于数字艺术，她的学术著作从博士生时代就获得瞩目，曾获纽约大学杰出博士论文奖。近年以英语发表的学术论文陆续获选入英美重量级学术出版社如美国哈佛大学出版社（Harvard Univ. Press）、加拿大Routledge、伦敦Palgrave学术撰述中，其中一篇更被美国麻省理工学院出版社MIT Press选为二十年来最常被阅读以及最有影响力的学术文章而获收入专书中。她的编剧作品以深邃的历史风貌以及多样的形式见长，她的导演手法尤其细腻而能优游与先锋和通俗之间。其原创戏剧作品曾获德、英、中文学术论文专文讨论，收入各地学术专书与期刊中。
About Series of Lecture of “Spectrum of Performance(ing) Arts” 关于“表演光谱”系列讲座
As art activities proliferate, performance and performing arts are evermore presented to the public, notably seen in art museums across recent years. The series of lectures of “Spectrum of Performance(ing) Arts” is not designed to invent some new vocabulary or definition, or to inquire “What is Performance (Performing)?”, but to examine how art in an unbound state flows and mutates into a spectrum with colorful connotations and more possibilities. It looks forward to the confluence and interaction of different realms of art, discussions from the artist, curator, researcher and scholar perspectives on issues such as the role of the platform, methods of artistic creation, ways of watching performances, the concept of curating, and the development of performance art and performing art under the globalization framework, as well as more dialogues in unexpected aspects between the speakers and audience.
This series of lectures is jointly initiated by RAM and Zhang Bing, an independent curator, and supported by Shanghai Artemis Art Center.
This lecture is co-organized by iPANDA and NMG.
随着艺术活动日渐蓬勃发展，行为与表演艺术更多地在大众面前呈现，特别近年来在美术馆里成为被关注的焦点。“表演光谱”系列讲座的策划不在于发明新的词汇或定义，或诘问“什么是表演？”，而是进一步探索、梳理艺术如何在不被“固着”的状态之下，流动、变异并形成一道肌理丰富的光谱，更多的可能性因此发生；并且希冀在不同艺术领域再度合流、交互作用的时刻，从艺术家、策划人、研究者、学者不同的角度去探讨：平台的角色、艺术创作方法、如何观看表演、策划概念、全球化框架下行为表演艺术的发展等等议题，也期待在讲者与观众的交流之间，开启更多不可预期的讨论面向。
本系列讲座由上海外滩美术馆与独立策展人张冰共同发起，并由上海至美艺术发展中心支持。
本场讲座由iPANDA及那行零度协办。
About The Shanghai Study Center, the University of Hong Kong (SSC HKU) 关于香港大学上海学习中心
The Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong established The Shanghai Study Centre in 2008. It is housed in the historical Post Office Building, on Suzhou Creek.
The Study Centre aims to be a place where new ideas emerge about urban development in the fastest urbanizing region in the world. The public program at HKU/SSC invites critics with challenging opinions, architects with provoking viewpoints, planners with innovative solutions and academics with new theories – all with the aim of understanding the current condition in Chinese cities, and to explore beyond today and tomorrow. The goal is to be able to generate new ideas that can contribute to better, more intelligent and more interesting cities and architecture.
香港大学上海学习中心由香港大学建筑学院在2008年建立，坐落于苏州河畔的邮政博物馆办公楼内。
香港大学上海学习中心致力于成为各种思想交汇的平台。中心的公共项目汇聚了来自批评者的观点，来自建筑师的实践经验，来自规划者的大局策略，来自学者的创新理论，让学界和业界倾听声音，交流思想。我们希望能够激发更多的新的思路，同公众一道认识更好、更智慧、更有趣的城市和建筑。
About Shanghai Artemis Art Center (SAAC) 关于上海至美艺术发展中心
Shanghai Artemis Art Center (SAAC), funded by Anxin Trust Co., Ltd. and approved for registration by Shanghai Bureau of Civil Administration, was established officially on June 6, 2016 as a non-profit art institution.
SAAC aims at promoting the production and development of modern arts, through hosting, supporting and assisting non-profit artistic activities of various forms, including but not limited to art exhibitions, publications, public projects, artistic research, academic discussion, art curating, criticism and writing.
上海至美艺术发展中心是由安信信托股份有限公司捐资设立，并获得上海民政局批准注册成立的非盈利性艺术机构，于2016年6月6日正式宣布成立。
上海至美艺术发展中心旨在推动当代艺术的发生和发展，举办、支持和扶持多种形态的非营利性艺术活动，这包括但不限于艺术展览、出版物、公共项目、艺术研究、学术研讨、艺术策展、批评与写作等