What is "Late Summer School"?
Beginning with artist research in March, each month's AUUUUDITORIUM is curated around a specific theme, featuring a variety of programs, from music and film to literature and moving images. The new movement of "study", launched this spring, reached its peak during the recently concluded summer night party. At the end of August, following a brief summer break, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum proudly presents a new annual project, "Late Summer School," a key component of the 2024 AUUUUDITORIUM, which will run for three days. Recently, the Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum has focused on rekindling the profound connection between cultural institutions and knowledge. The aim is to transform the museum into a vibrant and interactive space, breaking away from traditional learning models to foster a community rich in creativity and inspiration. In the AUUUUDITORIUM, we view learning as a dynamic, collective journey, encompassing a diverse range of experiences including performances, lectures, dialogues, parties, dance, karaoke, dining, writing, and reading. The new project, "Late Summer School," seeks to explore radical pedagogical methods. In an era where independent knowledge production and exchange are often constrained, "Late Summer School" offers a platform for imagining alternative histories and future knowledge through specially designed courses with invited scholars. We look forward to embracing the end of each summer and inviting interested participants and speakers to engage in a dynamic and inclusive learning environment at the museum.
About Shanghai Inside/Out
Shanghai is profoundly entangled with the world, the world of the overseas but also the world of the hinterland. These observable links in every detail of the city life firmly associate Shanghai with cosmopolitanism. However broad-stroke isms more than often overshadow the trifles of daily life, relegating family histories, intimacies, sound, and smell to little importance. However, these palpitating details can never be erased. They have survived grand historiographies.
Shanghai Inside/Out invites artists, curators, dancers, scholars, writers and city inhabitants from Guizhou, Hong Kong, Brazil, and local Shanghai to stitch the myriad “feminine details” of Shanghai from the early 20th century onward through lectures, performances, screenings and discussions. The live-sung Yue Opera and the rhythmic 'Dí Dǔ' beats performed on-site traverse a century and gently resonate within the late summer school of the Rockbund Art Museum, weaving together the intricate harmonies of history and the present, to create a more expansive narrative framework and articulate a more specific colloquial vernacular that reconstructs resilient everyday life. By doing so, we hope to assemble a different kind of cosmopolitanism: petty and abundant, pretentious and tenacious ways of living-together.
*Note: 的笃班 (pronounced "dí dǔ bān") refers to an early nickname for Yue Opera that became popular in Shanghai in the 1920s. "Dí Dǔ" derives from the sound of the wooden clappers used by performers from Shengxian County, Zhejiang, during their rural performances at the genre's inception.
Curator
Zairong XIANG’s research, teaching, and curatorial practices engage with cosmology and cosmopolitanism in their culturally diverse, historically specific, and conceptually promiscuous manifestations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl. He teaches literature and art at Duke Kunshan University, and was co-curator of the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the 14th Shanghai Biennial Cosmos Cinema (2023-2024), among many other projects. He is working on two exhibition projects respectively in Hong Kong and Philadephia. Author of Queer Ancient Way: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books), he is the editor of exhibition catalogues, journal special issues, and a film archive. He is currently completing his second book on “transdualism.” Through the concept of “shanzhai/counterfeit,” he continues a multifaceted research into the artistic and intellectual exchanges in the Global South, especially between Latin America and China since the nineteenth century.
Dramaturgy
Wang Yinjie holds a PhD in Art History, and is a curator, theater director, and teacher at China Academy of Art. Her research focuses on the creation of contemporary theater and video art, performance theory, critical theory, and feminism. She is the director of Off Theater Studio and the author of Composite Imaginaries and Mirroring Image: Floating Landscape of Contemporary Chinese Theater&Moving Image, and Ungrounding Theater; the editor of Suspended Performance: The Forum Theater of Talking Away Series. She has also directed theatre works such as, A Sweet Dream In the Garden·the Past, the Present, Roman Friederich Nickolaus von Ungern-Sternber, Home Ground Offerings · limits, Home Ground Offerings · abundance, and Ramping.
什么是“晚夏课堂”？
从三月的艺术家研究开始，每个月的“讲———堂”都以某一主题为核心策划一系列活动，音乐、电影，到文学、影音，美术馆今年春天发起的“新学习计划”也在刚刚结束的夏夜派对中达到高潮。八月末，在短暂的夏休之后，美术馆将隆重推出为期三天的全新年度項目“晚夏课堂”(Late Summer School)，也是2024年“讲———堂”的重要组成部分。
近期上海外滩美术馆的工作着重于找回文化机构与知识之间的深层联结，希望将其变成一个充满活力与互动的空间，打破传统学习模式，创造一个充满创意和灵感的社群。在“讲———堂”中，我们相信学习是一个动态的、集体的旅程，一种不限于表演、讲座、对话、派对、舞蹈、卡拉OK、饮食、写作和阅读的多元化体验。全新项目“晚夏课堂”旨在探索激进的教学方式。在一个独立自主知识生产与交流多有受限的时代，“晚夏课堂”通过和一位/组特邀学者一起特別设计课程的形式，来共同想象另类历史和未来知识的平台。我們期待抓住每一個夏天的末尾，诚邀感兴趣的学员与讲者们在美术馆分享动态、包容的学习环境。
关于《外滩「的笃班」：上海内外》
上海这座城市历来以各种方式与中国内陆及世界各地紧密连接。这种随处可见的关联让上海至始至终成为“世界主义”的典范。而泛泛而谈的“主义”容易隐蔽日常生活的点点滴滴：家庭历史，亲密关系，音声与气味，淹没但是并没有消亡于大历史的鸿篇中。
* 注：的笃班（读音：dí dǔ bān）：是上世纪20年代始兴盛壮大于上海滩的越剧早期的别称。“的笃”来自它肇始之初，浙江嵊县艺人于田间说唱时笃鼓檀板击节之声。
《外滩「的笃班」：上海内外》(* )邀请到来自贵州、香港、巴西及上海本地的艺术家、学者、写作者、舞者、戏曲演员、策展人及普通市民，通过讲座、表演及讨论，为我们串联上海从二十世纪初至今的“阴性细节”；用随行赋唱的越剧，就地起舞的声声“的笃”，穿越一个世纪，轻敲在上海外滩美术馆晚夏的讲堂里，构织历史和当下两个声部的精妙和弦，为讲述调制更广阔的言语场域，更具体的闲话腔调，让淹没在大历史下顽强的日常重组成另一种世界主义，另一种琐碎又丰盛，矫情又坚韧的共同生活。
* 注：的笃班（读音：dí dǔ bān）：是上世纪20年代始兴盛壮大于上海滩的越剧早期的别称。“的笃”来自它肇始之初，浙江嵊县艺人于田间说唱时笃鼓檀板击节之声。
向在荣 策划人
向在荣教学、做研究、也策划展览。他在丰富的文化、历史情景及理论框架下，通过英、西、法、中及纳瓦特多语展开跨界研究。他在昆山杜克大学教授文学及艺术。他写有专著《古怪之道》(2018)，编撰多部不同形式的研究合集，电影文献及展览画册。他曾（共同）策划“小世界主义周末”（2018，柏林世界文化宫），2021广州影像三年展，展览《仪式：埋葬这个未卒的世界》（柏林世界文化宫，2022）及《宇宙电影》第14届上海双年展（2023-4）等展览及艺术项目。他正在香港及费城分别策划两个展览并正在完成第二本书“跨二元论”的写作。通过“山寨”，他继续研究全球南方特别是拉美及中国十九世纪以来的文化艺术之交流共生。
王音洁 剧构
王音洁，艺术学博士，剧场导演，中国美术学院电影学院导演系副教授。研究领域集中在当代剧场和影像艺术的创作、戏剧影视理论、女性主义等。外剧场工作室及“场外说”负责人，著有《复象与镜像——当代剧场与影像创作流动图景》《无地的剧场——当代电影与剧场批评新论》，编著《被悬置的演出：「场外说」谈话剧场合集》。剧场作品有《游园·今梦》、《罗曼·冯·恩琴》、《乡祭·limits》、《乡祭·丰》、《归零地》。