上海外滩美术馆在展览“伟大的掩饰”展期内推出了一系列学者专场导览。这些导览汇聚了来自上海及国际的学者、研究人员和文化从业者，深入探讨展览的核心议题，包括黑人性、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，并为观众开辟理解展览作品的新路径。这些导览介于讲座与现场导览之间，为展览注入了动态的思辨能量，帮助观众看到展览的智性韵律。
在第五期，也是最后一期“伟大的掩饰”展览学者导览中，我们继续与上海中非关系研究网络（CASIN）合作，特别邀请孙遇洲博士和胡亮宇博士共同呈现。孙遇洲博士是复旦大学历史学系副教授、上海中非关系研究网络主席，她将结合其关于“非洲左翼”的研究，从非洲—亚洲跨国联结、黑人激进思想、女性网络与文化阵线等历史脉络出发，带领观众沿展览动线重新观看作品。导览过程中，孙遇洲博士不仅将“革命”理解为一段已经结束的历史事件，还从残片、记忆、表演、身体与离散经验中，探讨革命如何在艺术中持续回响，并为当下重新打开理解团结与世界想象的可能。
胡亮宇博士是北京语言大学文学院副教授，他将展览放置在战后亚非团结运动和媒介变革的双重语境中。在导览过程中，他将介绍有关革命的知识话语和那些携带20世纪特有时空经验的要素如何在今天被感知并呈现为具体的艺术形式：在此过程中，有什么被突出？有哪些被遮蔽？而这些影像和视觉艺术又提醒人们如何去思考今天全球文化工业的历史性——甚至这场展览本身又置身于怎样的历史构造之中。
此系列学者专场导览由拾壹基金会特别支持。
Rockbund Art Museum is pleased to announce a series of specialist guided tours for The Great Camouflage. Bringing together academics, researchers, and cultural workers from Shanghai and internationally, these specialists will give tours that will 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. Somewhere between a lecture and a walkthrough, these specialist tours provide a dynamic discursive energy that punctuates, intensifies, and refines the intellectual rhythms of the exhibition.
For the fifth and final tour in this program, Rockbund Art Museum will host the scholars Dr Jodie Sun and Dr Liangyu Hu, programmed in collaboration with the China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN). Guiding visitors through The Great Camouflage, Dr Sun will trace the so-called "African Left" through transnational histories of Afro-Asian exchange, the influence of Black radical thought, women’s networks and its formation of a cultural front. Rather than framing “revolution” as a concluded historical episode, Dr Sun explores how revolution reappears and resonates in artistic practices through fragments: in memories, performance, the body, and diasporic experience, suggesting how such appearances allow for greater understandings of what global solidarity can mean in the present moment.
Dr Hu will examine The Great Camouflage through the interrelated frames of Afro-Asia solidarity following World War II, and the artistic innovations that followed. Focusing on how contemporary discourses of revolution carry with them the unique spatio-temporal experiences of the 20th century, his tour will unpack how these ideas are perceived today and are manifest in certain artistic practices. Moreover, Dr Hu examines how revolutionary discourses both highlight and obscure, and how image-making practices and the visual arts prompt us to reflect on the historicity of today’s global cultural industry—including the historical framework within which The Great Camouflage itself is situated.
This series of specialist tours is made possible through the generous support of the Octone Foundation.