Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Before presenting the first solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs in China, the Rockbund Art Museum is proud to invite Yuko Hasegawa, Curator of this exhibition, and Cuauhtémoc Medina, Chief Curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennale, to discuss the artistic creation of Francis Alÿs.

Reviewing their collaborations with the artist, the two speakers will share their insights on how Francis Alÿs incorporates human bodies in his creations. Illustrating through vivid fables, the artist sets forth a thorough contemplation on physical labor and time consumption. Curator Yuko Hasegawa will delineate her field research with Francis Alÿs on China’s northern Inner Mongolia region in 2017, underscored by their thoughts on territories and boundaries occurs throughout. While Cuauhtémoc Medina, a long-term collaborator of Francis Alÿs, will unveil the two’s past projects they have worked on in Mexico.

艺术家弗朗西斯·埃利斯在中国的首场个人展览于上海外滩美术馆开展之际，我们特别邀请了本展策展人长谷川祐子与上海双年展主策展人夸特莫克·梅迪纳共同探讨这位艺术家的艺术创作。

这场对谈将从两位与艺术家合作过的策展人的视角与观众分享艺术家是如何将身体带入创作语境，通过讲述独特的寓言性故事推动人们有关体力劳动、时间消耗意义的思考。此外，策展人长谷川祐子将讲述她与艺术家于2017年在内蒙古考察背后的故事，以及在此过程中所生发的对于疆域、边界的思考；而和艺术家长期合作的梅迪纳也将分享过去他们在墨西哥的合作经历。

Yuko Hasegawa is Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016 - present) and Professor of the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (2016 - present). She has previously been Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (1999 - 2006) and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006 - 2016). She is currently Artistic Director of Inujima Art House Project (2011 - present). She was Curator of 11th Sharjah Biennial (2013), Co-Curator of 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), and Artistic Director of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001).

Hasegawa's recent projects include the FUKAMI, a dive into Japanese anesthetics at Hotel Salmon de Rothschild (2018), the 7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Clouds ⇄ Forests (2017), Japanorama: New Vision on Art since 1970 at Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017), Kishio Suga: Situations at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2016), and New Sensorium Exiting from Failures of Modernization at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2016).

She has served on the jury for the Nasher Prize Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015 - 18), the Premio MAXXI BULGARI, Roma (2017 - 18), and the 48 Esposizione La Biennale di Venezia (1999), among others, and is currently jury member of Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2013, 2015, 2017).

Cuauhtémoc Medina is an art critic, curator and historian. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex in Britain and a BA in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Since 1993 he has been a full time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), lecturer at the Philosophy Faculty and the Postgraduate Department of Art History of the same university, and between 2002 and 2008 was the first Associate Curator of Latin American Art Collections at the Tate Modern.

He has widely published texts in books, catalogues and periodicals, and among other things between 1999 and 2013 he was in charge of the art critical section of the Reforma newspaper in Mexico city, titled “Ojo Breve”. A recent compilations on his critical interventions on art in Mexico has been published with the title Abuso Mutuo (Mutual Abuse) by Cubo Blanco and RM in 2017.

Among other projects, he has organized When Faith Moves Mountains (Lima, Peru, 2001) by Francis Alÿs; The Age of Discrepancies, Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968–1997, (in collaboration with Olivier Debroise, Pilar García and Alvaro Vazquez, 2007-2008); Teresa Margolles's project for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009, What Else Could We Talk About?, Dominó Canibal (Cannibal Dominoes) (2010), one year long series for, the Contemporary Art Project (PAC) in Murcia, Spain; and in 2012, he was Head Curator of the Manifesta 9 Biennial in Genk, Belgium, titled The Deep of the Modern, in association with Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades. Since 2013, he is Chief Curator at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico city, where he has curated a number of exhibitions by artists such as Harun Farocki, Raqs Media Collective, Jeremy Deller, Andrea Fraser, Vicente Rojo, Vincent Meessen, Jorge Macchi, Jill Magid and Hito Steyerl, among others. He has also recently curated Francis Alÿs A Story of Negotation, (2014-) a travelling show organized for museums in Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Canada and the USA.

In 2013 he was granted the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement by the Menil Foundation in Houston, Texas.

长谷川祐子自2016年起担任东京都现代美术馆总策展人、东京艺术大学国际艺术创造研究科教授。她曾长期担任金泽21世纪当代美术馆首席策展人及首位艺术总监（1999年-2006年）、东京都现代美术馆首席策展人（2006年-2016年），同时出任日本犬岛“艺术之家”项目艺术总监（2011年至今）。

长谷川祐子曾任第11届沙迦双年展策展人（2013年）、第29届圣保罗双年展联合策展人（2010年）和第7届伊斯坦布尔双年展艺术总监（2001年）。近期策展项目包括巴黎所罗门罗斯柴尔德公馆展览《FUKAMI》（2018年）、第七届莫斯科国际当代艺术双年展《云⇄森林》（2017年9月）、法国梅兹蓬皮杜中心举办的《全景日本：当代创作新视角》（2017年10月）、米兰Pirelli HangarBicocca当代艺术中心菅木志雄个展《情境》（2016年）、卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心举办的《新感官：逃逸现代性的失灵》（2016年）。

长谷川祐子曾任达拉斯纳什尔雕塑中心纳什尔雕塑奖（2015年-2018年）、Maxxi-宝格丽艺术奖（2017年-2018年）、第48届威尼斯双年展（1999年）等奖项的评审委员，并担任2013、2015和2017年HUGO BOSS亚洲新锐艺术家大奖评委。

夸特莫克·梅迪纳（Cuauhtémoc Medina），1965年12月5日生于墨西哥。策展人、评论家和艺术史学家。拥有墨西哥国立自治大学（UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México）历史学学士学位，以及英国埃塞克斯大学（University of Essex）艺术史及艺术理论博士学位。

1993年起任教于墨西哥国立自治大学，并担任其艺术研究所全职研究员。2002年至2008年间担任伦敦泰特美术馆（Tate Modern London）首位拉丁美洲当代艺术收藏联合策展人。

他的艺术观点广泛地著述于各类杂志、期刊与出版物。1999年至2013年间负责墨西哥城《改革报》艺评专栏；2017年出版名为《双向滥用》（Mutual Abuse）的专著，回顾了其有关墨西哥的主要艺术研究。

他曾参与组织、策划多个国际大型展览和艺术项目，包括：弗朗西斯·埃利斯（Francis Alÿs）的《当信仰移动山脉》（When Faith Moves Mountains，2001年，秘鲁利马）；《差异时代：墨西哥1968-1997艺术和视觉文化》（The Age of Discrepancies. Art and Visual Culture in Mexico 1968-1997，2007年至2008年）；第53届威尼斯双年展墨西哥国家馆的项目《我们还能谈什么？》（What Else Could We Talk About?，2009年）；西班牙穆尔西亚当代艺术计划（PAC Murcia）的展览项目《食人多米诺》（Cannibal Dominoes，2010年）。2012年，梅迪纳担任第九届欧洲宣言展（Manifesta 9）总策展人。2013年起，他担任墨西哥国立自治大学当代艺术博物馆（MUAC）首席策展人，为诸如哈伦·法罗基（Harun Farocki）、Raqs媒体小组（Raqs Media Collective）、杰里米·戴勒（Jeremy Deller）、安德烈·弗雷泽（Andrea Fraser）、文森特·罗霍（Vicente Rojo）、文森特·梅森（Vincent Meessen）、豪尔赫·马基（Jorge Macchi）、吉尔·马吉德（Jill Magid）、黑特·史德耶尔（Hito Steyerl）等艺术家策展。近期担任《谈判的故事》（A Story of Negotiation）项目策展人，该展先后于墨西哥、阿根廷、古巴、加拿大及美国巡回展出。