上海外滩美术馆即将呈现群展“伟大的掩饰”的第二场学者专场导览。为五场的学者专场导览汇集了来自上海及国际的学者、研究人员和文化工作者，他们将通过导览进一步扩写展览的关键主题：黑人性（Blackness）、女性主义、革命历史，以及黑人激进传统与中国之间的跨文化交流，并开启理解和参与展览作品的新方式。这些学者专场导览将介于讲座、表演，和漫步式导览之间，为观众精炼展览中的知识节奏，提供充满活力的对话能量。
第二场导览，上海外滩美术馆继续与上海中非关系研究网络（CASIN）合作，邀请学者张丽方博士、诗人兼作家 Lethokuhle Msimang 以及音乐家兼作曲家文亮共同呈现一场对话与表演交织的公共导览。呼应展览“伟大的掩饰”的核心主题，这次导览将以张丽方博士的讲座拉开序幕，讲座将探讨日常生活、创意实践、劳动以及空间体验如何受殖民与去殖民条件的影响，并特别关注女性的生存经验。随后张丽方博士将与Msimang展开对话， Msimang与文亮还将合作呈现表演《土与草》（Soil & Grass）。结尾将开放现场问答。
《土与草》是一场结合影像、音乐与诗歌的现场表演，旨在探讨“掩饰”这一概念在不同美学形式中的定位。尽管风景之美、手工艺的亲密感以及诗歌与音乐的和谐引人入胜，但它们的历史往往同时被遮蔽，选择性地向我们敞开。《土与草》的影像部分重点呈现了来自南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省（KwaZulu-Natal）的三种物质实践——制陶、棕榈编织和铁丝篮编织。这些形式不仅连接了乡村与城市，同时也回应了由气候灾难、移民流转和全球化所引发的“掩饰”动态。在现场， Msimang 将呈现摘选自个人散文《女性独自创作》（Women Alone Creating）的现场朗诵，以及由文亮创作的现场音乐。通过突出非洲手工艺传统，Msimang 与文亮这一跨越影像、音乐、诗歌和国界的合作，在不期望配平差异的前提下，开辟了一个跨文化共鸣的空间。
Rockbund Art Museum is pleased to announce the second of five specialist guided tours for The Great Camouflage. Bringing together academics, researchers, and cultural workers from Shanghai and internationally, these specialists will give tours that expand upon the exhibition's key themes of Blackness, feminism, revolutionary history, and the intercultural exchange between the Black Radical Tradition and China, as well as open up new ways of engaging with and understanding the works on view. Bringing together formats as diverse as lectures, live performances, and walkthroughs, these specialist tours provide a dynamic discursive energy that punctuates, intensifies, and refines the intellectual rhythms of the exhibition.
For the second of these tours, Rockbund Art Museum will host an expanded presentation between scholar Dr Lifang Zhang, poet and writer Lethokuhle Msimang, and musician and composer WEN LIANG, programmed in collaboration with the China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN). Responding to the key themes of The Great Camouflage, this late afternoon event will begin with a lecture from Dr Zhang that traces how everyday life, creative practices, labor, and experiences of space are shaped by and against colonial and decolonial conditions, with particular attention paid to women’s lived experiences. Then, the early evening moves into a conversation with Msimang and culminates in a collaborative performance titled Soil & Grass between Msimang and WEN LIANG. A short Q&A will round out the event.
Soil & Grass is a live performance combining film, music, and poetry that locates the notion of camouflage in different aesthetic forms. That, while the beauty of landscapes, the intimacy of craft, and the harmonies in poetry and music draw people in, their histories are simultaneously concealed and only selectively revealed to us. In Soil & Grass, pottery, palm weaving, and wire basket-making are three material practices from the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal that are highlighted as forms that bridge rural and urban, while responding to the camouflaged dynamics that arise out of climate catastrophe, migration flows, and globalization. At Rockbund Art Museum, the film which holds these ideas together is scored by a live poetic reading drawn from Msimang's personal essay 'Women Alone Creating', and a forty-minute soundscape composed by WEN LIANG. In foregrounding African craft traditions, Msimang and WEN LIANG's live, transnational collaboration that spans film, music, and poetry opens up a space for cross-cultural resonance without flattening difference.