HOW新展丨喧哗 HETEROGLOSSIA
新展预告
展期：2018.11.07 - 2019.02.17
艺术家：曹斐 Cao Fei、何子彦 Ho Tzu Nyen、陆垒 Lu Lei、彭弘智 Peng Hung-Chih、唐·吉安 Tiong Ang、菲奥纳·谭 Fiona Tan、杨嘉辉 Samson Young、阳江组合 Yangjiang Group、萧昱Xiao Yu、王庆松 Wang Qingsong
昊美术馆（上海）将于2018年11月07日至2019年2月17日呈现展览“喧哗 Heteroglossia ”。
何子彦，无人之境，2015，镜面6频道视频投影、烟雾机、8声道音响、演出控制系统，6分钟，图片由艺术家及马凌画廊提供
展览邀请了包括来自中国大陆、香港和台湾，新加坡以及荷兰在内的不同国家和地区、活跃在当代艺术前沿的艺术家参与其中。他们在成长过程中都受到中华文化的影响，但却有着不同的历史经验、记忆与身份。这些艺术家成长于全球化加速发展的时代，世界的极速变化与科技、媒体的发展令他们的个人经历与前辈们完全不同。他们运用产生和流行于当下的媒介与素材进行创作，并由此传达出对所处独特地域与时代的不同观察和见解。
王庆松，长城？，2017，综合材料，图片：致谢艺术家
“喧哗 Heteroglossia ”源自苏联文艺理论家巴赫金（Mikhail Bakhtin）提出的批评观念，通常也被称为“众声喧哗”或“复调”理论，最初是对陀思妥耶夫斯基小说特质的概括。“喧哗”不仅代表了不同语言共存与冲突的状态，也象征着当代社会文化的多元与非固定性特征：众多各自独立而不相融合的声音与意识，他们有机地交错在一起，彼此平等地相互讨论、争辩所构筑成的景观。蓬勃于20世纪末的全球化浪潮突显并加速了这一特征。然而，带来了多元性的同时，全球化也在某种程度上促进了民族主义的发展和国家疆域的强化；在全球化语境相互影响的趋同表象下，激烈的社会变迁正同步进行着。“喧哗”既是本次展览的主题，亦作为贯穿始终的线索，构建起艺术家与这个业已复杂残酷的世界的对话。观众则能由此看到艺术家存在的世界与时代，以及该世界与时代在艺术家心中的模样。
曹斐，霾，2013，影像，46分30秒，图片：致谢艺术家
杨嘉辉，史丹利，2014，16张艺术微喷、霓虹灯、沙，尺寸可变，图片由艺术家及马凌画廊提供
展览作品主要由装置和影像组成，表演及多媒体影像装置作为亮点共同参与其中。这些作品的形式，是全球化背景下多媒体技术时代的产物，而内容，则是艺术家对于当前时代社会中敏感问题和重大事件作出的积极回应。在“喧哗”的图景之下，王庆松和阳江组合用醒目的视觉符号及商品向消费社会发问，曹斐和菲奥纳·谭将镜头聚焦于社会洪流中渺小个体的日常生活。何子彦、彭弘智和杨嘉辉运用多媒体图像与影音，讨论着历史和身份，过去、现在与未来的议题。萧昱和陆垒的作品，跳出了“第一人称”的叙述视角，以旁观者的身份传递蕴藏在生命中的力量。唐·吉安则希望通过开放的空间结构和观念性的演出削弱界限的定义，达成强调视觉陈述的总体艺术作品。
陆垒，佯装狂妄自大，2015，综合材料装置，图片：致谢艺术家及香格纳画廊
菲奥纳·谭，幽灵寓所I，2014，影像装置，5分30秒，图片：致谢艺术家
“当代”是所有历史矛盾的聚焦点，21世纪的当代性则超越了国家的界限，并以融合性、多元性以及非固定性作为其核心价值。展览“喧哗”立足于当代性，有着众多不同的声音与意识，特征鲜明而绝不划一，各自独立又相互融合，是具有充分价值的真正复调。昊美术馆希望能通过展览“喧哗”所构建的对话平台，传达美术馆对当代的认知与思考，同时也期待观众能够加入这场对话，呈现作为社会个体的观点和态度。
HOW UPCOMING
Period : November 7th, 2018 – February 17th, 2019
Artists : Cao Fei / Ho Tzu Nyen / Lu Lei / Peng Hung-Chih / Fiona Tan / Tiong Ang / Xiao Yu / Yangjiang Group / Samson Young / Wang Qingsong
HOW Art Museum (Shanghai) is pleased to present Heteroglossia, our forthcoming exhibition which will be on view from November 7, 2018 through February 17, 2019.
Peng Hung-Chih, Honorable Soldiers, 2017, Single channel HD video, 3 min 53 sec, Courtesy of the artist
This exhibition brings together a group of artists actively engaged in the contemporary art scene, from across the world including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the Netherlands. These artists have been exposed to the general influence of Chinese culture, yet they have evolved along different trajectories by incorporating distinct varieties of historical experience, memory, and identity. Growing up in an age of increased globalization and accelerated economic development, a world that keeps changing so fast particularly through innovations in new technologies and media, this generation of artists experienced a markedly different world from their predecessors. Their works make use of the media and materials produced by and populating our current society, and offer unique observations upon as well as distinct insights into each specific site and zeitgeist they inhabit.
Ho Tzu Nyen, NO MAN, 2015, 6 channel video projection on mirrors, smoke machines, 8 channel sound, show control system, 6 min, Image courtesy the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery
Heteroglossia, also known as the theory of polyphony, was a concept introduced by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to summarize the unique characteristics of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels. The term refers to the coexistence of different languages as well as the conflicts between them, and it also reflects the plurality and fluidity that characterizes our contemporary culture and society, where independent, uncompromising voices and ideas come at us through a variety of different agencies, but which nonetheless intertwine with each other and participate equally in the discussions and debates of a shared contemporary landscape. The wave of globalization (already very visible at the end of the last millennium) has lent momentum to the acceleration of this movement towards pluralism. Meanwhile this same globalization has witnessed the expansion of nationalism, and the increased tensions and segregations that have emerged along territorial borders. In other words, along with the consequences of global standardization at the superficial level, radical changes have simultaneously germinated within society. As the theme of this exhibition, Heteroglossia also provides a critical line of inquiry into it, and invests the whole exhibition by formulating a dialogue between the artists and a world that has become more and more complex and challenging. By establishing this theme, we hope to communicate to the public what this world looks like from the artists’ perspectives.
Tiong Ang, Misconceptions Lyrical Cube (Group photo of performers), 2018, Installation and performance, Courtesy of the artist
Featured in this exhibition are installations and videos, accompanied by other forms of art such as performance and multi-media installations. In terms of artistic form, they are invariably influenced by media technologies in a globalized world. Meanwhile they also represent the artists’ active responses to some of the most sensitive and significant events and issues of our contemporary society. Hence in such a picture of Heteroglossia we might see Wang Qingsong and the Yangjiang Group questioning consumer society through a series of striking visual signs and commodities; Cao Fei and Fiona Tan directing their cameras towards the daily life of individuals often neglected by society at large; the employment of multi-media sources (both image and sound) by Ho Tzu Nyen, Peng Hung-Chih, and Samson Young that address issues related to history and identity, in the past, present, and future; instead of using first-person narrative, Xiao Yu and Lu Lei’s works adopt the perspective of an outsider for the expression of life’s potential and dynamic forces; and as an attempt at Gesamtkunstwerk focusing on the visual statement, Tiong Ang’s performance undermines the conception of boundaries and brings to the audience an open structure of space.
Xiao Yu, Thinking too much will… No.3, 2015, Video, 25 min 45 sec, Courtesy of the artist
The “contemporary” has bought different historical conflicts into focus. The contemporaneity of the twenty-first century transcends national boundaries and embraces integration, plurality, and fluidity as its core values. Situated in the context of contemporaneity, the exhibition Heteroglossia brings together a group of heterogeneous works – a polyphony of different voices and ideas, independent yet intertwined. Through this presentation HOW Art Museum wishes to build a platform for dialogue, and to convey to the public our thoughts and concerns regarding the “contemporary”. At the same time, we look forward to the participation of the public and listening to different voices and ideas from individuals.