On 30 and 31 March 2024, The AUUUUDITORIUM at the Rockbund Art Museum presented Rendering Zhenze: Diadromous In Spring (2024), a newly commissioned performance by artist Payne Zhu. This sound, visual and gastronomical experience transformed AUUUUDITORIUM as a spiritual abode that propels one to reconsider the question of value. Referencing Wu vernacular novels (吴语列传), the performance explores the nomadic nature of amphibious creatures, the feminist resistance of the Jiangnan region, and the exchange frontier of sea-land collision in Shanghai. The Yangtze River Delta, where Shanghai is situated, was formed due to the constant accumulation of sediment carried by the river system. Under the flooding of moving images accompanied by music composed by the artist and Sun Dasi, Zhu narrates the spirit of fish swimming against the current and speculates the incalculable debt while consuming dishes with the audience alongside the other performer Zheng Haozhong. Rendering Zhenze de-financializes the act of exchange, decentralizes dominant language and belief systems, and reclaims the value of different bodies of water. The artist will continue his endeavor in searching for an alternative economy and critically examine the attention economy rendered by platforms that algorithmically encourage vicious competition and financial bidding through this project.
Artists:
Payne Zhu (b. 1990, Shanghai) is a graduate of the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. He currently lives and works in Shanghai. He probes into different economic systems and works between the rheology of finance, competing bodies and the flooding of images, celebrating the unmatchable nature of the subject through the mismatch of different technological media. He has held a solo exhibition at OCAT Shanghai (2022) and performance lectures at vortex@The Cloister Project, Shanghai (2022); HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2015). He has participated in group exhibitions at UCCA, Beijing (2020); Goethe-Institute China, Beijing (2019); HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2019); Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (2017); Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai (2017, 2016). He has also participated in art biennials in Shanghai (2023) and Anren (2019).
Zheng Haozhong (b.1985, Rizhao) works and lives in Shanghai. He is an artist and writer. Zheng Haozhong's paintings complement his literary works and improvisational music in his artistic practice. His paintings deconstruct, reconstruct, and fuse elements such as familiar friends, objects that have been part of his indoor environment for a long time, and landscapes that evoke empathy within his vision. They construct the artist's outward expressions. His solo exhibitions include “Melodic Variations”, Blindspot Gallery (2023), “Indoor Enclosure, Sub-Alto Saxophone, Drum Roll, Saw, Voice Silence Turns into A Major Musical Phrase”, BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai (2023), "13854", Gallery Weekend Beijing (2021), "TAKI", BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai (2019), and "Sun shining on Zhujiajiao", KWM artcenter, Beijing (2018). He won the Grand Prize in the 2014 John Moores Painting Prize (China), and the winning work has been exhibited at the National Museums Liverpool in the UK, as well as toured in Beijing, Shanghai, Macau, and other places. Zheng Haozhong has also published novels under the pen name "Li Cha (李察)," is a member of the Dolphy Kick Bebop band, and joined the Shanghai Free Music Collective in 2023.
Sun Dasi is an independent musician and theater practitioner lives and works in Shanghai.
2024年3 月 30 日至 31 日，上海外滩美术馆的“讲———堂”项目呈现了艺术家佩恩恩的新近委任创作的表演作品《震泽渲染：春季洄游》（2024）。其以声音、视觉和美食的体验将“讲———堂”转变为一个精神居所，令人重新思考价值问题。该表演以吴语列传的风格探索水陆两栖式的游牧基因、江南女性主义式的抵抗精神，以及海陆冲击混杂的交换前沿——上海，其所处的长江三角洲不断被河流水系裹挟着泥沙淤积成陆。随着与孙大肆一同创作的音乐和艺术家影像的涌入，佩恩恩与观众和另一位表演者郑皓中一起进餐，并讲述鱼逆流而上的精神以及推测无法估量的债务。《震泽渲染》将交换行为去金融化，将主流语言和信仰体系去中心化，为河流水体和生态声景重估价值。该项目将持续艺术家对其他可选经济体的探索，对平台经济通过算法鼓励恶性竞争与金融竞标来获取的注意力经济形态进行批判性研究。
艺术家：
佩恩恩（1990年出生于上海），毕业于上海对外经贸大学。现工作与生活在上海。他深入不同的经济系统，在流变的金融、竞争的身体和泛滥的影像之间展开工作，通过对不同技术媒介的错配（Mismatch）以祭典一种主体的无与伦比（Unmatchable）。 他曾在OCAT上海馆（2022）举办个展，在上海美凯龙艺术中心（2022）、上海昊美术馆（2019）和上海当代艺术博物馆（2015）举办表演性讲座。他的作品还呈现于UCCA，北京（2020）；歌德学院，北京（2019）；昊美术馆，上海（2019）；尤利娅斯托舍克基金会，杜塞尔多夫（2018）；莱比锡当代艺术美术馆（2017）；明当代美术馆，上海（2017，2016）。此外，佩恩恩还参与了在上海（2023）和安仁（2019）等地举办的艺术双年展。
郑皓中 Zheng Haozhong（1985年出生于日照）目前工作与生活于上海。他是艺术家，作家。郑皓中的绘画与他艺术实践中的小说以及即兴音乐相辅相成，对熟悉的朋友，室内⻓期为伴的物件，还有对视野内与之共情的景观反复描述。它们被拆解、再造、融合，一同构建出画家的向外表达。他曾举办个展“变奏曲”，刺点画廊（2023），“室内围栏次中音萨克斯鼓起锯子人声静默转A大调乐句”，上海BANK画廊（2023），“13854”，画廊周北京个展（2021），“TAKI”，上海 BANK画廊（2019），“日照朱家角”，北京金杜艺术中心(2018)。他曾获2014年约翰莫尔绘画比赛（中国）大奖，获奖作品展出于利物浦国家美术馆。郑皓中还曾以“李察”为笔名发表小说，是Dolphy Kick Bebop乐队成员，并于2023年加入上海自由音乐大联盟。
孙大肆工作与生活在上海。是一位独立音乐人，艺术工作者以及表演者。
