在上海外滩美术馆的支持下，艺术家胡伟于2024年9月至10月间前往我国西南山地——云贵川交界地带进行调研。在这片空间中，多条隐形的单向路径穿过地界、河道以及山间，它们既是迁移的地理网络，也是当地祭司借由想象与认知模型感知到的外部空间与时间，即给魂灵“导航”的路线。据说任何流动的方向受阻或逆行都会带来痛苦和不幸的余波。然而，这些古老的路径网络，在现代化的进程和外来暴力的冲击下，不断被撕裂、切断…… 在身体力行的行走与遭遇中，胡伟通过口述采集、描绘、记述以及与友人的即兴来尝试理解有关哀悼的政治，以及疼痛地理与幻想电影之间的联系。
讲座同时邀请了艺术研究者、写作者乔泓凯作为对谈嘉宾，他回应了胡伟的调研笔记，带领听者在理论与历史的纵深地带重新思考地图、幽灵、记忆与哀悼。在这里，地图超越了二维的空间组织形式，化为一座情感、记忆的迷宫——哀悼者即寻路者，“过去”是迷失在时间中的幽灵，“幽灵”是迷失在生者中的逝者。对愈发脆弱的当代人而言，指路经被导航仪所取代，与祖先的联系被与同时代人的联系所取代，我们究竟需要一种无法兑现的修复，还是一种正在上演的、更为彻底的遗忘？
本次活动由上海外滩美术馆“RAM Commissions”项目委任支持。 该项目自2021年启动，致力于持续支持艺术工作者的创作与研究。
关于讲者：
胡伟 ，艺术家，工作生活于北京。他的创作常通过调研、转译和想象展开，探索艺术与现实的多孔的、思辨性的联系。从地方性的微观和“消音”的历史或档案出发，胡伟以电影框架作为方法处理并反思社会、文化及历史的（超）个人叙事建构自我经验的方式。
乔泓凯，复旦大学艺术哲学系博士候选人、译者、写作者，主要研究图像理论与艺术哲学。译有德文版《记忆女神图集》《人与空间》(待出)，在《文艺研究》《文艺理论研究》《电影艺术》等处发表学术论文二十余篇。曾担任UCCA当代艺术中心讲座嘉宾、展览“图像记忆：德国当代新闻摄影的政治性图像记忆”(2024）学术翻译等。近期撰写的艺术评论有《空心山和太阳土》《漂浮的迷宫》等。
Hu Wei's Research on Mourning and Pain Geography in Southwest China
With the support of the Rockbund Art Museum, artist Hu Wei conducted research in the mountainous region of Southwest China, specifically the border area of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, from September to October 2024. In this space, multiple invisible, one-way paths crisscross geographical boundaries, rivers, and mountains. These paths are not only migratory geographical networks but also external spaces and times perceived by local shamans through imagination and cognitive models – essentially, routes for "navigating" spirits. It's said that any obstruction or reversal of these flowing directions brings pain and lasting misfortune. However, these ancient path networks are constantly being torn and severed by the forces of modernization and external violence. Through his personal journeys and encounters, Hu Wei attempts to understand the politics of mourning and the connection between pain geography and fantasy cinema, using oral histories, drawings, written accounts, and impromptu discussions with friends.
Dialogue on Maps, Ghosts, and Memory
The lecture also features art researcher and writer Qiao Hongkai as a guest speaker. He responds to Hu Wei's research notes, guiding listeners to re-examine maps, ghosts, memory, and mourning within a deeper theoretical and historical context. Here, maps transcend their two-dimensional spatial organization, transforming into a labyrinth of emotions and memories. The mourner becomes the pathfinder, "the past" is a ghost lost in time, and "ghosts" are the deceased lost among the living. For increasingly vulnerable contemporary individuals, spiritual guidance has been replaced by GPS navigators, and connections with ancestors have been supplanted by connections with contemporaries. Do we truly need an unfulfillable restoration, or a more thorough, ongoing process of forgetting?
About "RAM Commissions"
This event is commissioned and supported by the Rockbund Art Museum's "RAM Commissions" program. Launched in 2021, this program is dedicated to continuously supporting the creative work and research of artists.
About the Speakers
Hu Wei is an artist who lives and works in Beijing. His practice often unfolds through research, translation, and imagination, exploring the porous and speculative connections between art and reality. Starting from localized, microscopic, and "silenced" histories or archives, Hu Wei uses a cinematic framework as a method to process and reflect on how societal, cultural, and historical (super)personal narratives construct self-experience.
Qiao Hongkai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art Philosophy at Fudan University, as well as a translator and writer. His research primarily focuses on image theory and art philosophy. He has translated the German editions of Mnemosyne Atlas and Man and Space (forthcoming), and has published over twenty academic papers in journals such as Literary and Art Studies, Literary Theory Research, and Film Art. He has served as a guest speaker at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and as an academic translator for the exhibition "Image Memory: Political Image Memory in German Contemporary Photojournalism" (2024). His recent art critiques include Hollow Mountains and Sunken Earth and Floating Labyrinths.
