“今天‘山水’有用吗？”「策·动」第五期：云游
“云游”
2024年 3月16日-4月29日
策划/主理：郭熙
艺术家：曹澍、陈欣、郭熙、梁子
I.「云游者」
在中国古典山水画深远的笔墨中，经常浮现旅人的孤影。这些以寥寥数笔勾勒而成的途中人，藏于壮丽的山川江河之间。他们与画面的主体景观构成了一种引人注目的体积对比。若我们放大这图卷到整个世界的尺度，那些游历于宏大多变的自然地貌中的身体几乎微缩成一个难以察觉的点。这些行动的点的位移却持续和缓慢地带动着信息和物质的流转。
3月16日至4月29日，「云游者」将发生在PARC杭州室内空间中。这个部分指向的是“云游”这个词的传统内涵。更加强调的是作为云游者的人，是肉身与天地直接的碰撞，探讨关于“有情”的肉身与“无情”的天地之间的互动关系。
II.「云·游」
活动时间表
关于艺术家
曹澍
曹澍的创作线索以3D数字模拟影像、电子游戏、场域装置为主，他关注计算机图形技术背后复杂的生产机制，关注不同媒介间的相互编织，通过针对某个特定地点的虚构写作，寻找和感知被困在历史时空中记忆。
近年于想象力学实验室、慕尼黑Muffatwerk、浙江美术馆、上海科技大学展览厅、横滨黄金町Bazaar等地举办个展或个人项目；并参与过巴塞尔乡村州美术馆，澳门艺术博物馆，UCCA沙丘美术馆，亚洲协会香港中心，天目里美术馆，OCAT上海馆，OCAT深圳馆，北京民生美术馆，X美术馆，798艺术中心等机构和美术馆的群展；曾获OCAT × KADIST 2022年青年媒体艺术家奖、2021年上海影像博览会Exposure Award、2017年BISFF艺术探索奖等，也曾作为巴塞尔Atelier Mondial （2017），横滨黄金町Bazaar（2019），以及歌德学院（2023）驻地艺术家。
除此之外，曹澍的作品也在世界各地的影展主竞赛单元展出，包括莱比锡纪录片与动画电影节，米兰电影节，昂西国际动画节，渥太华国际动画节，汉诺威国际短片节等。作品收藏于卡蒂斯特艺术基金会、澳大利亚白兔美术馆、天目里美术馆、尧山艺术基金会、浙江美术馆等。
陈欣
数据感知与媒体艺术硕士，毕业于中国美术学院跨媒体艺术学院。
1997年出生于浙江宁波，媒体艺术及计算机图形工作者，UFO媒体实验室成员，现工作生活于杭州。作品主要关注泛计算论语境下的机器智能与万物有灵论，控制论影响下的自治系统的递归生长与偶发变异，以及基于元胞自动机、黏菌模拟、鸟群算法等电子生物模型延展开来的有机且自主反馈的计算机视觉体验，以audio-visual现场演出、数字影像、屏幕装置、声音装置等媒介创作。2023年获第二届澜景·未来媒体学院奖“学院奖”，作品《移公愚山》入选第十八届台北数位艺术节。
梁子
齐齐哈尔人，毕业于伦敦艺术大学，现居圣彼得堡。他始终关注不同地域在自然和人文方面展现的民族文化心理。通过深入探索个人与所处文化之间错综复杂的联系，以雕塑、装置、影像等形式呈现以人、事、物相互映衬为核心的创作体系。
关于策划 / 主理
郭熙
1988年生于江苏盐城，2010年毕业于中国美术学院新媒体系，毕业后作为驻地艺术家前往荷兰皇家艺术学院驻馆两年，2015年获得纽约大学艺术硕士学位。
郭熙关心人们认知世界时所依赖的意识形态, 他將艺术家的工作比喻成一种“穿刺”, 刺破意识形态坚固的外壳, 从留下的孔洞中窥见“真相”。对于他来说, 艺术形式只是传递观念的载体, 他广泛使用装置、绘画、表演、雕塑、文本等多种形式来寻求最为准确的表达。
微信编辑/胡笳
Wandering as Cloud
Introduction:
Writer：Xi Guo
"Heaven and earth are not humane and regard all beings as straw dogs."
"Laozi in the Tao Te Ching presents us with a cosmology that is not anthropocentric, describing the universe's attitude towards all things as ‘uncompassionate’, which means the heavens and earth are neutral towards life, without emotional coloration. Corresponding to the 'uncompassionate' nature of the heavens and earth is the 'compassionate' nature of humanity. Throughout the long course of human history, human activities have continuously inputted and layered information into this uncompassionate world, constructing a compassionate cultural layer.
When we talk about 'Shanshui,' a word unique to the Chinese-speaking world, its meaning is not merely a simple description of natural beauty. More importantly, it carries humanistic implications. The unique spiritual core of the word 'Shanshui' is endowed by the work and actions of generations of literati and artists.
The theme of this planning, 'Wandering as Cloud,' has two meanings. The first is about the 'wanderers' , describing the physical wandering of people between heaven and earth, telling of the interaction and exploration between people and the cosmos. The second meaning comes from the concept of 'cloud' in contemporary information storage technology, translating 'Wandering as Cloud' into a journey through the world of information, reconstructing cognitive experiences through the actions of downloading, editing, and translating information. Based on these two concepts, this planning will be divided into two parts of the exhibition.
I：Wanderers
In the profound ink of Chinese classical landscape paintings, the solitary shadow of a traveler often emerges. These travelers, sketched with just a few strokes, are hidden among the magnificent mountains and rivers. They create a striking volume contrast with the main landscape of the painting. If we zoom out this scroll to the scale of the entire world, those bodies wandering in the grand and changing natural landscape almost shrink to an imperceptible point. Yet, the displacement of these points of action continuously and slowly drives the flow of information and materials.
From March 16th to April 29th, the show will take place in the living room of PARC Hangzhou.This part focuses on the traditional connotation of "wandering". It emphasizes more on the physical body of the wanderer directly interacting with the world, exploring the interactive relationship between the sentient body and the indifferent world.
image courtesy of Imagokinetics
Xin Chen, The Moving Man
Dual-channel computer and behavioral imaging
image courtesy of the artist
II：Cloud · Wandering
Here, "cloud" refers to a concept in information technology. In current Internet technologies, "cloud" has become a widely used concept, with information storage and computation taking place "in the cloud," and becoming visible through downloads to the devices. Unlike the traditional physical wandering discussed in the first part, the second part focuses on how the flow and transformation of information affects human perception, representing a journey through the information "cloud."
"Cloud·Wandering" will take place outdoors in the West Lake area of Hangzhou. During the project period, artists will unveil their newly commissioned works over several weekends. These include Zi Liang's "From West Lake to Lake Ladoga," Xin Chen's "Walking Cartography Project," and Shu Cao's "Dialogue in the dark."
In "From West Lake to Lake Ladoga," artist Zi Liang plans to have participants wear headphones and listen to the "soundscape" and narrations he recorded at Lake Ladoga while wandering around West Lake. The audio content guides the audience, thousands of miles away, to tour around multiple specific points around West Lake, engaging in chasing, tasting, gazing, and listening. During a stroll in early spring, through the weaving of plots, it triggers the audience's associations, peering into the familiar geographical environment and auditory sensations of distant lakes and mountains, glimpsing an extremely personal, distant, and fleeting soundscape, and getting lost between mountains and waters.
In his "Walking Cartography Project," Xin Chen plans to lead the audience in a process of redrawing maps based on personal bodily sensations. "A map is inherently unstable and unfinished, thus it can be redrawn, or drawn in a completely different way. This event aims to explore a collective map-making approach through walking in a designated area, guiding participants to perform, demonstrate, and debate during their continuous walk, expressing a new 'distortion' in their recognition of the landscape. This method encourages people to experience emotions from a first-person perspective, immersing themselves in geography, discarding established third-party information coordinate systems, and redrawing the geography experienced during their walk."
In Shu Cao's new project "Dialogue in the dark," the artist expresses great interest in the Morse signal lamp, a technology that has exited the historical stage. "It looms like a ghost over countless subsequent technologies, leaving a profound imprint on human communication in the 20th century. The information transmission landscape of the Morse signal lamp, on a vast scale of heaven and earth, appears small yet resilient." Shu Cao plans to set up two homemade Morse signal lamps capable of language translation on opposite shores of West Lake, allowing participating audiences to use them for cross-mountain dialogues, generating interpretation and loss between questions and answers, as well as misreading of information and feedback loops.
All three new creative plans showcase the artists' attempts to reconfigure the relationship between people and information, downloading, editing, and translating new information from "the cloud" to inscribe a new layer of informational texture onto the already culturally rich environment of "West Lake."
Event Schedule
About Artists
Shu Cao
Shu Cao's creative thread focuses on 3D digital simulation images, video games, and site-specific installations. He delves into the complex production mechanisms behind computer graphics technology and the interweaving of different media. Through fictional writing about specific locations, he seeks to explore and perceive memories trapped in historical and spatial dimensions.
In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions or individual projects at the IMAGOKINETICS, Muffatwerk in Munich, Zhejiang Art Museum, ShanghaiTech University Exhibition Hall, and the Yokohama Golden Town Bazaar, among others. He has also participated in group exhibitions at institutions and galleries such as the Basel-Landschaft Art Museum, the Macao Museum of Art, UCCA Dune Art Museum, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Tinmum Art Museum, OCAT Shanghai, OCAT Shenzhen, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, X Museum, and 798 Art Zone. He has received awards including the OCAT × KADIST Young Media Artist Award in 2022, the 2021 Shanghai Photo Fair Exposure Award, and the 2017 BISFF Art Exploration Award. He has been an artist-in-residence at Atelier Mondial in Basel (2017), the Yokohama Golden Town Bazaar (2019), and the Goethe-Institut (2023).
Furthermore, Shu Cao's works have been featured in the main competition sections of film festivals worldwide, including the Leipzig Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Milan Film Festival, Annecy International Animation Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and Hannover International Short Film Festival. His works are collected by institutions such as the Kadist Art Foundation, White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, Tinmum Art Museum, Yao Mountain Art Foundation, and Zhejiang Art Museum.
Xin Chen
(Born 1997 in Ningbo, China) Chen is a Hangzhou-based media artist and computer graphic researcher who works with audio-visual live performance, experimental video, sound and sculpture. His works focus on the theme of machine intelligence and Animism in the context of pervasive computing theory, Recursion and contingency of autonomous systems under the influence of cybernetics. Through investigating electronic biological models such as Physarum Simulation, Cellular Automata and Particle Swarm Optimization, Chen explores the potential of computer vision in the aspect of organic and self-feedback.
Chen is also the member of UFO Media Lab. In 2023, he was awarded 2022 2nd EnlightV · Future Media Academy Award (FMAA), His work “ The Moving Man” was selected for the 2023 Taipei Digital Art Festival.
Zi Liang
Originally from Qiqihar, graduated from the University of the Arts London, and currently residing in Saint Petersburg, he has always focused on the ethnic cultural psychology displayed by different regions in both natural and humanistic aspects. By deeply exploring the intricate connections between individuals and their surrounding cultures, he presents a creative system centered on the interplay between people, events, and objects through sculptures, installations, videos, and other forms.
About Curator / Organizer
Xi Guo
Born in 1988 in Yancheng, Jiangsu, Xi Guo graduated from the New Media Department of the China Academy of Art in 2010. After graduation, he spent two years as a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in the Netherlands and received a Master of Arts degree from New York University in 2015.
Xi Guo is concerned with the ideologies people rely on to perceive the world. He likens the work of an artist to a form of "piercing," breaking through the hard shell of ideology to glimpse the "truth" through the holes left behind. For him, artistic form is merely a vessel for conveying ideas; he employs a wide range of forms including installations, paintings, performances, sculptures, and texts in search of the most accurate expression.
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