展览活动｜艺术家对谈 ：马库斯·科茨与库埃·绅
艺术家对谈：
马库斯·科茨与库埃·绅
主持人：白雨婷
嘉宾：马库斯·科茨（Marcus Coates）
库埃·绅（Kuai Shen）
时间：2020年11月30日（周一）
19:00-21:00
腾讯会议：755 325 948
活动简介
本次活动邀请“动物故我在”方案展中的两位参展艺术家马库斯·科茨（Marcus Coates ）与库埃·绅（Kuai Shen），围绕他们长期以来在非人类主题领域的研究和创作进行对话。马库斯·科茨的作品以行为表演的方式探索动物意识，库埃·绅则是通过关注昆虫的社会及生物有机体，探索其与人类科技之间的关系。“动物故我在”是本次OCAT研究中心举办的“2020研究型展览：策展方案入围展”六组入围方案展之一。
Artist Talk: Marcus Coates & Kuai Shen invites two artists exhibited in The Animal That Therefore I Am to introduce their long-term practice and research on non-human subjects. Marcus Coates’ works often apply performative strategies to explore the consciousness of animals. Kuai Shen focuses on the social and biological organisms of insects which he draws comparisons with human technologies.
“动物故我在”展览现场，OCAT研究中心
嘉宾介绍
Marcus Coates is a contemporary artist and ornithologist living in London. His practice questions how we perceive human nature through imagined non-human situations. Extensive knowledge and understanding of British wildlife have led him to create interpretations of the natural world and its evolving relationship with society. An aspect of Coates’ recent work sees him as a ‘useful social agent’ or problem solver. Through self-designed, sometimes shaman-like rituals informed by traditional cultures he consults a non-conscious world of animals and birds to seek relevant information.
库埃·绅（Kuai Shen），1978年出生在厄瓜多尔的瓜亚基尔，现居住和工作于德国科隆。他着迷于昆虫的社会性与生物性行为，与蚂蚁共同创作视听装置和表演作品，专注探索昆虫美学的概念。他的研究跨越艺术与科学，通过科技强化型生态系统的应用，在人类和蚂蚁之间建立了新的关系。作品也探讨了蚂蚁与寄生虫、微生物和病毒的关系，涉及模仿、影响和社会传染等问题。
Kuai Shen was born in 1978 in Guayaquil, Ecuador and now lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Fascinated by social and biological insect behavior, he works with ants to create audiovisual installations and performances, exploring the concept of insect aesthetics. His research crosses art and science, creating new relationships between humans and ants through the use of lively technologically-enhanced ecologies. His work explores ant relationships with parasites, microorganisms, and viruses in relation to mimicry, affects, and social contagions.
策展人介绍
白雨婷（Lux Yuting Bai），独立策展人，现居于纽约和上海。她本科毕业于香港中文大学英美文学系，并于纽约视觉艺术学院获策展系硕士学位，目前是欧洲高等学院的博士生。其独立策展项目包括《茧》《柔软》《神秘岛》，以及《地图并非疆域》等，撰写的文章曾发表于《Daily Serving》《Cultbytes》 《OnCurating》等艺术类刊物。
Lux Yuting Bai is an independent curator based in New York and Shanghai. She received her bachelor’s degree in the Department of English (Literary Studies) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and holds a master’s degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts. Her previous curatorial projects include Cocoon, Docile, The Mysterious Island, and The Map Is Not the Territory. Her writings have appeared in various publications including Daily Serving, Cultbytes, and OnCurating. She’s currently a Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School.
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