施政特别项目“慵懒的机器”于四方当代美术馆展出中
悬梯计划
Levitation
展期 Duration：
2022.7.22 - 10.16
参展艺术家 Artists：
林科（Lin Ke）
郭城（Guo Cheng）
施政（Shi Zheng）
地点 Venue：
四方当代美术馆，南京，中国
四方当代美术馆最新系列项目“悬梯计划”于2022年7月22日顺利开幕，作为“悬梯计划”第一回，此次展览由郭城、林科、施政三位艺术家的三场平行项目组成。施政在展馆负一层与下沉阶梯空间呈现特别项目“慵懒的机器”。
慵懒是一种自我意识到的不完整存在的姿态，一种类似脱水的状态，像是没有完全参与到此时此地。慵懒的状态又像极了受到控制的坠落，使得能动性降低。而模仿也是一种懒散的行为，新的技能往往从模仿性的懒散开始，然后因意识的扩展而变得生动起来，所以模仿性的学习可以看成是意识提升的开始。
“慵懒的机器”呈现施政近几年的一系列代表作品，围绕着艺术家对计算机视觉、面部识别、 模拟和人工智能的持续关注，“慵懒的机器”是艺术家为此次展览提出的假设，希望观众以另一种视⻆进行观看，机器的慵懒也许是一种不够智能的表现，又或者作品中出现的机器或制作这些作品的机器正处于一种懒散的状态，对于某种现实事物的模仿正在循环往复。
《门罗》，《自由落体 研究之三》，“悬梯计划”展览现场，四方当代美术馆，2022
Monore, Free Fall Study III, “Levitation" site view, Sifang Art Museum, 2022
四方当代美术馆长期致力于推动中国当代艺术家的创造性实践。针对中国年轻艺术家在初露锋芒后的积累阶段常缺乏相应支持的现状，本馆发起“悬梯计划”为前沿领域内持续探索五年以上的中青年一代中国艺术家们铺展阶梯，希冀以美术馆项目的形式帮助他们对自己近年的求索开展一次整体性呈现或挑战性实验，通往创作的下一阶段。
2022年夏季，“悬梯计划”的第一回聚焦新兴技术与自然环境、人类社会间越发纠缠的共生关系，首次把三层展厅分别提供给三位中国新媒体艺术家：郭城、林科、施政，以每人使用一层的形式同时呈现三场艺术项目。
《停悬于汇集处》，“悬梯计划”展览现场，四方当代美术馆，2022
Hovering at the Convergence of Entrances and Exits, “Levitation" site view, Sifang Art Museum, 2022
Sifang Art Museum is pleased to present the opening exhibition of a new project, Levitation, on July 22nd, 2022. The inaugural exhibition of this series comprises three paralleled projects by artists Guo Cheng, Lin Ke and Shi Zheng. Shi Zheng presents his project Slothful Machine in the exhibition.
《雾晨》，《雾晨（日常）》，“悬梯计划”展览现场，四方当代美术馆，2022
Frosty Morning, Frosty Morning (Daily), “Levitation" site view, Sifang Art Museum, 2022
Slothfulness is a self-conscious gesture of incomplete existence, a status similar to dehydration, where one seems to be partially engaged with but also partially detached from the here and now. The slothful status is akin to a controlled free fall too, during which process one’s agency is compromised. Imitation, on the other hand, is also a slothful behavior. A new skill oftentimes develops from imitative slothfulness, but then levels up thanks to the expansion of consciousness. As a result, imitative learning can also be considered as the beginning of one’s consciousness raising.
Slothful Machine exhibits a series of the artist’s representative works from recent years. The title, Slothful Machine, which denotes the artist’s constant interest in computer vision, face recognition, simulation and artificial intelligence, is a hypothesis which he proposed specifically for this exhibition, in the hope that the audience could adopt an alternative perspective to view it and realize that perhaps the slothfulness of machine represents its limited intelligence, or perhaps the machines appeared in his works and the machines making these works are slacking off, when they only keep repeating their imitation of things and events that have happened in reality.
《雾晨（日常）》，《来自电影〈阿尔法城〉的片场》，“悬梯计划”展览现场，四方当代美术馆，2022
Frosty Morning (Daily), From the Film Set of "Alphaville", “Levitation" site view, Sifang Art Museum, 2022
《色表（信箱）》，墙纸，尺寸可变，2022
Color Chart (Mailbox), Wallpaper, Dimensions variable, 2022
Over a long period of time, Sifang Art Museum has been dedicated to becoming a catalyst for the creative practices by Chinese contemporary artists. In response to the inadequate support for Chinese young artists during their career building process after debut, the museum has launched Levitation project to nurture emerging and mid-career Chinese artists who have been exploring the frontiers of art for more than five years. This project aims to offer support, in the form of museum programs, to help them deliver a holistic presentation or a challenging experiment about recent practices, and thus to pave the way for the next phase of their artistic creation.
《Visioning Versioning I》，“悬梯计划”展览现场，四方当代美术馆，2022
Visioning Versioning I, “Levitation" site view, Sifang Art Museum, 2022
In the summer of 2022, the first part of Levitation will focus on the increasingly entangled symbiosis between emerging technology and natural environment, as well as between human beings and the society. For the first time, the three floors of the museum space will be utilized by three representative Chinese artists who are original in the exploration of new media and contemporary technological thinking: Guo Cheng, Lin Ke and Shi Zheng, with each of them occupying an entire floor and presenting a total of three art projects simultaneously.
*文字和图片由艺术家和四方当代美术馆惠允
*Text and image courtesy the artist and Sifang Art Museum.
部分展出作品
SELECTED ARTWORKS
《门罗》，2018，影像装置，6'35"
Monore, 2018, Video installation, 6'35"
《雾晨》，2019，影像装置，10'00"
Frosty Morning, 2019, Video installation, 10'00"
《雾晨（日常）》，2021，影像装置，8'00"
Frosty Morning (Daily), 2021, Video installation, 8'00"
《停悬与汇集处》，2021，影像装置，4'25"
Hovering at the Convergence of Entrances and Exits, 2021, Video Installation, 4'25"
《Visioning Versioning I》，2019，声音影像装置，8'04"
Visioning Versioning I, 2019, Audio-visual installation, 8'04"
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展览预告 | “悬梯计划”第一回：郭城、林科、施政，7月22日开幕
开幕回顾 | “悬梯计划”第一回：郭城、林科、施政（2022.7.22-2022.10.16）
关于艺术家
ABOUT THE ARTIST
施政，1990年出生于江苏，2014年毕业于中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院，2019年获得芝加哥艺术学院硕士学位。现生活工作于上海和纽约。作为媒体艺术家，施政的创作形式涉及视听装置、电子音乐以及现场演出，开展一系列以模拟和“机器视觉”为出发点的艺术实践，通过扩充观众视听通感体验，体现其对技术哲学、数字漫游和“潜在时间”的持续思考。
施政在集中创作个人作品的同时，也和其领域内的优秀艺术家进行合作。2013年他与能火、王志鹏、翁巍共同成立媒体艺术小组RMBit(人⺠比特)，结合当下的社交媒体现象进行创作。他和能火也是视听演出团体OSC (Open Super Control)的成员。
其个人与合作作品也曾多次出现在国内外重要的美术馆、艺术机构、媒体艺术节中，包括油罐艺术中心、银川当代美术馆、Sound Art China (中国声音艺术大展)、FILE ElectronicLanguage International Festival、Ars Electronica (奥地利电子艺术节)、伦敦当代艺术中心、都灵Castello di Rivara美术馆、伦敦The Lumen Prize、上海二十一世纪⺠生美术馆、OCT当代艺术中心深圳馆。
Shi Zheng was born in 1990 in Jiangsu, China and now lives and works in Shanghai and New York. He graduated from China Academy of Art in 2014 and acquired MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. As a media artist, Shi's artistic creations range from audio-visual installations, digital music and live performance, demonstrating the artist's ongoing interest in simulation and "machine vision". Shi further embodies his reflection on the philosophy of technology, digital voyage and "latent time" by extending the audience's visual and audio experience.
Apart from individual creation, Shi Zheng also collaborates with other outstanding artists in various fields. In 2013, artistic ground RMBit was founded by Shi Zheng in conjunction with Nenghuo, Wang Zhipeng and Weng Wei with the focus on current context of social media. Both Shi and Nenghuo are the members of an Audio-Visual performance group OSC (Open Super Control).
Shi Zheng’s individual and cooperated works have been presented in a wide range of museums, art institutions and media art festivals home and abroad, including TANK Shanghai, MOCA Yinchuan, Sound Art China, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Ars Electronica, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Castello di Rivara, The Lumen Prize, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen.
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