马六明：为无名山增高一米——2023第五届兰州国际影像双年展主题展作品
《看得见风景的房间——当代语境下的中国风景摄影》学术刊物于2023年5月由浙江摄影出版社正式出版（该书为观看当代艺术中心出品的学术出版物系列《观看十年》之五，该系列出版物在第十届大理国际影会上被评为金翅鸟最佳出版物大奖），第五届兰州国际影像双年展同名主题展也于2023年7月8日在兰州市雁儿湾当代美术馆举办，本平台将陆续推出所有艺术家的参展作品。
整个主题展分为四个单元。第一单元：山水的流转——东方图式的记忆与重构；第二单元：现场即风景——来自实在的虚构；第三单元：观念与文献；第四单元：媒介性 ——材料与技术的探索。
观念与文献
文献不仅仅是一种记录，更可以是事件及行动，而这一切则取决于对待与使用文献的观念。文献摄影最初只是一种实用性摄影，作为证据和视觉档案，其自身犹如双刃剑，既是权力机构的工具，同时也为抗争权力发挥着作用。在当代摄影中，艺术家以文献的方式超越了文献自身的属性，极大地发掘了文献的潜在力量，在当代艺术影像的探索中，用文献建构了交换——虚构的剧场。
Conception and Documentation
Documentation is not just a record, but also can be extrapolated into events and actions, depending on the conception of how it is approached and used. Documentary photography was originally a kind of practical photography. As evidence and visual archives, documentary photography itself is like a double-edged sword, a tool of authority yet a tool to resist it. In contemporary photography, artists have used documentation to transcend its own properties, to greatly exploit its potential power, and to construct a theatre of exchange-fiction with it in the exploration of the contemporary image.
为无名山增高一米
马六明
北京东村艺术家集体创作，1995，北京
王世华 苍鑫 高炀 左小祖咒 马忠仁 张洹 马六明 张彬彬 段英梅 朱冥
1995年春末夏初的一天，王世华、苍鑫、高炀、左小祖咒、马忠仁、张洹、马六明、张彬彬、段英梅、朱冥10位艺术家爬上了北京妙峰山的一个无名山头。他们站成一排，于薄雾中迅速脱去身上所有的衣物，在彼此以及观众的目光中，轮流上秤，由孔布负责称重。然后按照体重轻重排序，重的在下，轻的在上，以32221的次序和形势堆叠起了一座人体的小山。那一刻他们与天地、彼此融为一体。
天地为证，在场的计量工作人员现场测量，刚好“山高”一米。吕楠也郑重地记录下了这个行为艺术作品的画面，如此，这座无名山“增高”了一米，著名的《为无名山增高一米》便这样诞生了。
这个作品为上述10位行为艺术家的集体创作，由著名摄影师吕楠拍摄。作品于1999年参加第48届威尼斯双年展，轰动国际，成为代表中国行为艺术的经典之作。
（图片由艺术家马六明提供）
An Anonymous Mountain Increased One Meter
The collective works by artiest of Beijing East Village, 1995
Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zuo xiao Zuzhou, Ma Zhongren, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin, Duan Yingmei, Zhu Ming
One early summer day in 1995, ten artists, Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Ma Zhongren, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin, Duan Yingmei and Zhu Ming, climbed an anonymous peak of Miaofeng Mountain in Beijing. They stood in a line and quickly took off their cloths in the thin mist. In the eyes of each other and the audience present, they were weighed in turn, which was in the charge of Kong Bu. Then they were reordered according their weight. With the heavier ones at the bottom and the lighter at the top, they piled up a small mountain with their naked bodies. At that moment, they are one with the Nature and each other.
Having the Heaven and Earth as eyewitness, the staff present measured the mountain, which was exactly one meter. Photographer Lv Nan faithfully documented the scene of this performance art. Thus, this anonymous mountain was increased one meter, and the famous work ‘An Anonymous Mountain Increased One Meter’ was born.
This work was the collectively created by the ten performance artists involved, and recorded by renowned photographer Lv Nan. The work was selected to be exhibited in the 48th La Biennale di Venezia and gained international fame immediately, becoming the classical work representing China’s performance art.
( The photo was provided by artist Ma Liuming. )
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马六明
Ma Liuming
1969年出生于湖北黄石；
1987-1991年学习于湖北美术学院油画系；
1993年起工作和定居于北京并与其他艺术家一起创立北京东村。
展览
Inside Out：New Chinese Art，旧金山现代美术馆（纽约亚洲协会+P.S.1），1998年；第48届威尼斯双年展，1999年；光州双年展，2000年；在纽约国际图片中心、芝加哥当代美术馆、西雅图美术馆、英国Victoria and Albert 美术馆巡展；在过去和未来之间：来自中国的新照片和录像；艺术史40x40：从40位艺术家看1978年以来的中国当代艺术，宝龙美术馆，上海，2018年；纽约古根海姆展世纪剧场1989年后的中国艺术，2017年；泰特美术馆的常设展等等。
Ma Liuming
1969 Born in Huangshi, Hubei Province, China
1993 Lives and works in Beijing, China
EDUCATION:
1981 Painting training with tutor Cai Erhe
1987-1991 Oil Painting Department, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York;
SFMOMA
Aperto Over All, The 48th Biennale of Venice, Italy.
Man and Place, Kwangju Biennial 2000, Korea.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York; Chicago David Alfred Smart Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Victoria Albert Museum of London.
Camera / Action: Performance and Photography, Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago, USA .
Collection Displays: Performance and Participant, Tate Museum, London.
Art and China after 1989:Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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马六明系列作品收录于由浙江摄影出版社所出版的《看得见风景的房间——当代语境下的中国风景摄影》，本书共收录了39位中国艺术家的当代语境下的中国风景摄影与多媒体作品。
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观看当代艺术中心（VIEW CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER，简称VCAC）成立于2014年，是一家成长于中国西部的当代艺术机构，立足“兰州国际影像双年展”，积极参与国际对话，坚持“寻求艺术灵光”，拓展艺术的可能空间，从摄影开始，致力于影像、架上、装置与数字等多媒介当代艺术的交流、收藏、展览与出版，发现和推广最具潜力与创造力的艺术家，开展艺术家驻地计划、青年艺术家支持计划与公共艺术项目。
Founded in 2014, View Contemporary Art Center (VCAC for short) is a contemporary art institution in Western China. It based on the "Lanzhou International Image Biennale". VCAC actively participates in international dialogue and insists on "seeking artistic inspiration" to expand the possible space of art. Starting from photography, VCAC is committed to the communication, collection, exhibition and publication of multi-media contemporary art such as video, easels, installations and digital art. It finds and promotes the most promising and creative artists, and carries out artist residency programs, young artist support programs and public art projects.
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