Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Illuminating the Margins: a Moving Image Program and a Lecture by Cheng Xinhao 照亮边缘:程新皓讲座

Event Information

Date: 13 January 2024
Time: 10:30 13:30
Venue: 3F, Rockbund Art Museum (20 Huqiu Road, Shanghai)
Speaker: Cheng Xinhao
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活动信息

日期: 2024年 1月 13日
时间: 10:30 13:30
场馆: 上海外滩美术馆三楼 (上海 虎丘路20号)
主讲人: 程新皓
语言: Chinese

"Illuminating the Margins" is a moving image program that examines the margin as a site of resistance, with a lecture by artist Cheng Xinhao challenging the notion of margin as an interface between humans and non-humans through a close reading of his 2022 film March of the Elephants. Other works featured in the program include Shubigi Rao's The Pelagic Tracts (2018), Hao Jingban's Slow Motion (2018), Tan Jing's Trancing Lap Hung (2021), Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Collapse (2009), and Cheng Xinhao's March of the Elephants (2022).

Speaker Introduction:

Cheng Xinhao (b.1985 in Yunnan Province, China) currently lives and works in Kunming, China. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2013. Cheng’s works are usually based on long-term field studies, centering around his hometown in Yunnan Province. With videos, installations, photographs, and words, he personally investigates the polyphonic relationships between logic, discussions, knowledge, and the part that nature, society, and history play within them.


Artist Introduction:

Shubigi Rao (born in 1975) is a visual artist and writer based in Singapore. Her interests encompass history and lies, literature and violence, archival systems, ecology, and natural history. Her art, texts, films, and photographs look at current and historical flashpoints as perspectival shifts to examining contemporary crises of displacement, whether of people, languages, cultures, or knowledge bodies. Her decade-long project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, delves into the history of book destruction and the future of knowledge. The second publication of this project won the Singapore Literature Prize (Non-fiction) in 2020, while the first was shortlisted in 2018. The first installment of the project Written in the Margins won the Juror's Choice Award at the APB Signature Art Prize 2018. Rao represented Singapore at the Singapore Pavilion in La Biennale di Venezia (Arte) in 2022. She was included in the Asia Pacific Triennial, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Taipei Biennial, the Pune Biennale, the Singapore Biennale, and the Singapore Writer's Festival. Rao was also the Artistic Director for the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale(2022-2023).


Hao Jingban works with film and video to investigate the historical distance between the present viewer and a certain era in the past. In her research-based practice, Hao conducts historical investigation, archival research, field study, personal interviews, and live performances. Her works are presented as observational documentaries, entangling individual stories with collective histories. From the ballroom dancing in Beijing before and after the Cultural Revolution, to the films of North-eastern China from the 1930s, Hao weaves together complex historical narratives, social movements, and cultural commentary against the ambivalence and silence of the bygone era. In recent works, Hao scrutinizes and reflects on contemporary socio-political conditions, particularly the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the Black Lives Matter Movement.


Tan Jing (b. 1992, Shenzhen, China) lives and works between Jingdezhen and Shenzhen. She experiments with textures, materials, and forms within sculpture and installation, through which she often combines the unpredictable composition of materials and techniques, with the whimsical intertwist of biological matters and folklore. Tan uses objects to create scenarios of the surreal within the space, striking the viewer aesthetically and psychologically, making visible and sensible the trauma and solitude of individuals in societies. Her works have been shown internationally in institutions such as HB Station, Guangzhou; X Museum, Beijing; Para Site, Hong Kong; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; Spielzeug Welten Museum, Basel; Camden Art Center project, London, and others.


Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation, and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body, and virtuality. Across their works, they probe a contemporary landscape marked by seemingly perpetual crisis and an endless ‘present’, one that is shaped by a politics of desire and disaster. They have been developing a body of work that questions this suspension of the present and searches for ways in which an altogether different imagination and language can emerge that is not bound within colonial/capitalist narrative and discourse. In their projects, they find themselves excavating, activating, and inventing incidental narratives, figures, gestures, and sites as material for re-imagining the possibilities of the present. Often reflecting on ideas of non-linearity in the form of returns, amnesia, and deja vu, and in the process unfolding the slippages between actuality and projection (fiction, myth, wish), what is and what could be. Largely their approach has been one of sampling materials both existing and self-authored in the form of sound, image, text, and objects and recasting them into altogether new ‘scripts’. The result is a practice that investigates the political, visceral, material possibilities of sound, image, text, and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live sound/image performances.


“照亮边缘:程新皓讲座”汇聚不同语境下的边缘,并探讨边缘如何被视为抵抗之地。该活动将呈现一系列作品,并邀请艺术家程新皓围绕自己的实践和作品《象征》展开讲座。作品包含舒比吉·拉奥《远洋之地》(2018)、郝敬班《慢镜头》(2018)、谭婧《阿雄出走了》(2021)、巴塞尔‧阿巴斯和茹安妮‧阿布-拉赫梅《坍塌》(2009)和程新皓《象征》(2022年)。

讲者介绍:

程新皓(1985 年生于云南)2013 年毕业于北京大学化学与分子工程学院,获博士学位。现作为艺术家工作生活于云南昆明。他的作品通常基于长期的田野调查,并均与故乡云南相关。通过身体在场的工作方式,程新皓使用录像、装置、摄影与文字等媒介,体察不同来源的逻辑、话语、知识与其背后自然、社会、历史,及镶嵌于其中的行动者之间的复调链接。

艺术家介绍:

舒比吉·拉奥(生于1975年)是一位生活于新加坡的视觉艺术家和作家。她的兴趣包括历史与谎言、文学与暴力、档案系统、生态学与自然史。她的电影、艺术、文本与摄影将当下与历史中的暴力冲突作为视角的转变,审视当代人类、语言、文化以及知识系统流离失所的危机。她近期的长达十年的项目“纸浆:放逐之书简史”(Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book)探讨了图书销毁的历史与知识的未来。该项目的第二本出版物荣获2020新加坡文学奖(非虚构),而第一本出版物在2018年入围该奖项。该项目的首个展览“边缘书写” (Written in the Margins)获2018年APB艺术评审特别奖。拉奥代表新加坡参加了2022年威尼斯双年展。她还曾参加过亚太三年展、科钦-穆齐里斯双年展、台北双年展、浦那双年展、新加坡双年展以及新加坡作家节等。拉奥是2022年科钦-穆齐里斯双年展的艺术总监。
郝敬班透过电影及录像研究现代的观众与某个旧时代之间的历史距离。在以研究为基础的实践中,她进行历史研究、 资料搜集、实地考察、个人访谈和现场表演。她的作品梳理个体故事与集体历史之间的纠缠关系,并以观察式记录电影的形式呈现。从文化大革命前后北京的交谊舞到 1930年代的中国东北电影,艺术家将复杂的历史叙事,社会运动和文化评论编织在一起,以对抗过去时代的矛盾和沈默。她的近期创作主要检视并反思当代社会政治处境,尤其是新冠疫情对个人的心理冲击、乌克兰战争以及“黑命攸关”(Black Lives Matter)运动。
谭婧(1992年生于深圳)现生活工作于景德镇与深圳。她的艺术实践以雕塑和多媒体装置为主,擅长将气味物质、纤维、玻璃、生物粘液等材料混合凝练出特定的情感体验。她的创作时常源于个体历史与生物学、民俗学以及魔幻素材的交织。谭婧着迷于研究特定场域中感官如何被实验性的材料调动,以及在物体和空间的作用下实现个体感受与半虚构故事的重叠。她通过艺术实践探索想象的空间如何被流动和出走的经验共情所牵引,使观者对她构建的叙事产生推测性的联想。谭婧的作品曾在广州黄边站当代艺术研究中心,北京X美术馆,香港Parasite ,广东时代美术馆,巴塞尔玩具世界博物馆(Spielzeug Welten Museum),伦敦卡姆登艺术中心(Camden Art Center)等机构展出。
巴塞尔·阿巴斯(Basel Abbas)和鲁安妮·阿布-拉赫姆(Ruanne Abou-Rahme)共同围绕声音、图像、文本、装置和行为艺术等多个领域进行创作,实践交汇于操演性、政治想象力、身体性和虚拟性之间。他们的作品探讨着当代景观中一个似乎永不停歇的危机,以及由政治欲望及灾难所塑造的无尽“当下”。其一系列创作都致力于质疑这种对当下的悬置,并寻找一种在不受殖民/资本主义叙事和话语限制下也可以涌现出的全然不同的想象和语言的方式。作为重新构想当下可能性的素材,他们挖掘、激活和创造着偶然的叙事、人物、姿态和场所来作为重新想象当下之可能性的材料。 经常反思失忆以及既视感(déjà vu)中非线性的概念。并通过这些过程揭露现实与投影(虚构、神话、愿望)之间的落差,实际情况及其原始可能性的距离。巴塞尔和鲁安妮热衷于对现有和自创材料进行采样,如声音、图像、文本和物体,并将它们重新铸造成全新的“剧本”,其结果大多采取多媒体装置和现场声音/图像表演的形式,探索声音、图像、文本和场所中有关政治、内在以及物质方面的可能性。


郝敬班透过电影及录像研究现代的观众与某个旧时代之间的历史距离。在以研究为基础的实践中,她进行历史研究、 资料搜集、实地考察、个人访谈和现场表演。她的作品梳理个体故事与集体历史之间的纠缠关系,并以观察式记录电影的形式呈现。从文化大革命前后北京的交谊舞到 1930年代的中国东北电影,艺术家将复杂的历史叙事,社会运动和文化评论编织在一起,以对抗过去时代的矛盾和沈默。她的近期创作主要检视并反思当代社会政治处境,尤其是新冠疫情对个人的心理冲击、乌克兰战争以及“黑命攸关”(Black Lives Matter)运动。
谭婧(1992年生于深圳)现生活工作于景德镇与深圳。她的艺术实践以雕塑和多媒体装置为主,擅长将气味物质、纤维、玻璃、生物粘液等材料混合凝练出特定的情感体验。她的创作时常源于个体历史与生物学、民俗学以及魔幻素材的交织。

谭婧(1992年生于深圳)现生活工作于景德镇与深圳。她的艺术实践以雕塑和多媒体装置为主,擅长将气味物质、纤维、玻璃、生物粘液等材料混合凝练出特定的情感体验。她的创作时常源于个体历史与生物学、民俗学以及魔幻素材的交织。谭婧着迷于研究特定场域中感官如何被实验性的材料调动,以及在物体和空间的作用下实现个体感受与半虚构故事的重叠。她通过艺术实践探索想象的空间如何被流动和出走的经验共情所牵引,使观者对她构建的叙事产生推测性的联想。谭婧的作品曾在广州黄边站当代艺术研究中心,北京X美术馆,香港Parasite ,广东时代美术馆,巴塞尔玩具世界博物馆(Spielzeug Welten Museum),伦敦卡姆登艺术中心(Camden Art Center)等机构展出。
巴塞尔·阿巴斯(Basel Abbas)和鲁安妮·阿布-拉赫姆(Ruanne Abou-Rahme)共同围绕声音、图像、文本、装置和行为艺术等多个领域进行创作,实践交汇于操演性、政治想象力、身体性和虚拟性之间。他们的作品探讨着当代景观中一个似乎永不停歇的危机,以及由政治欲望及灾难所塑造的无尽“当下”。其一系列创作都致力于质疑这种对当下的悬置,并寻找一种在不受殖民/资本主义叙事和话语限制下也可以涌现出的全然不同的想象和语言的方式。作为重新构想当下可能性的素材,他们挖掘、激活和创造着偶然的叙事、人物、姿态和场所来作为重新想象当下之可能性的材料。 经常反思失忆以及既视感(déjà vu)中非线性的概念。并通过这些过程揭露现实与投影(虚构、神话、愿望)之间的落差,实际情况及其原始可能性的距离。巴塞尔和鲁安妮热衷于对现有和自创材料进行采样,如声音、图像、文本和物体,并将它们重新铸造成全新的“剧本”,其结果大多采取多媒体装置和现场声音/图像表演的形式,探索声音、图像、文本和场所中有关政治、内在以及物质方面的可能性。

巴塞尔·阿巴斯(Basel Abbas)和鲁安妮·阿布-拉赫姆(Ruanne Abou-Rahme)共同围绕声音、图像、文本、装置和行为艺术等多个领域进行创作,实践交汇于操演性、政治想象力、身体性和虚拟性之间。他们的作品探讨着当代景观中一个似乎永不停歇的危机,以及由政治欲望及灾难所塑造的无尽“当下”。其一系列创作都致力于质疑这种对当下的悬置,并寻找一种在不受殖民/资本主义叙事和话语限制下也可以涌现出的全然不同的想象和语言的方式。作为重新构想当下可能性的素材,他们挖掘、激活和创造着偶然的叙事、人物、姿态和场所来作为重新想象当下之可能性的材料。 经常反思失忆以及既视感(déjà vu)中非线性的概念。并通过这些过程揭露现实与投影(虚构、神话、愿望)之间的落差,实际情况及其原始可能性的距离。巴塞尔和鲁安妮热衷于对现有和自创材料进行采样,如声音、图像、文本和物体,并将它们重新铸造成全新的“剧本”,其结果大多采取多媒体装置和现场声音/图像表演的形式,探索声音、图像、文本和场所中有关政治、内在以及物质方面的可能性。