Shakespeare's Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai
三角洲The Delta INST荣幸邀请艺术家贺勋、刘国强 、李明于GODOWN空间呈现他们的最新项目：「莎士比亚的名字是李白拔出的剑 (Shakespeare's Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai) 」。项目将于2024年9月1日19:00启动，并持续至10月7日。本次项目以即兴、突发和在场的方式展现了艺术家们如何决心、如何行动、如何“拔出了剑”。“莎士比亚的名字是李白拔出的剑 ”来自于贺勋《一只鸟和另外一只鸟》诗集中一首诗的标题，它是诗人也是艺术家的一种“临机”：在事物发生的边缘，临机一动，拔剑而行，在这一刻所有可能性都因艺术家的介入发生更改。这是一个“凯洛斯”（kairos）时刻——“它表明那促使一个行为可能或不可能的什么事情已经发生。我们大家在生活中都经历了这个时刻，感到现在是做某件事的正确时刻，现在这个时候已充分成熟了，现在我们可以做出决定”。这不是一个钟表的时间，而是相遇相契间行动质变的时间。“莎士比亚的名字是李白拔出的剑 ”，正是展现了艺术家或诗人的那个时刻：时机已到，该行动了。因此三位艺术家以不同的方式回应他们自身的“时机”，不断地在面对周遭事物时作出回应、改造与介入。在社区之间存在的并不断活跃的三角洲GODOWN空间也便成为了这样一个契机，三位艺术家以此来响应一种即发性的、与身边艺术家不断回应、提问的创作状态。三角洲GODOWN空间外景，©三角洲The Delta INST
23年初，作为好友的贺勋来到了GODOWN空间楼森华的展览“我在转塘转诗”。90年代的转塘，这是一个起点，也是许多个“契机”的起点。此次项目中贺勋将要呈现的是一个策划案，他将目光放在了转塘一个已经拆除的近三千平的电影院，并邀请了持续以“非职业状态”创作的艺术家郑嘉禾呈现她的个人项目。以策划作为一种创作，正是贺勋在黑桥时期通过孑孓社不断行动的方式，并且通过这样的方式，凝聚、回应、搅动着当时当地的艺术生态。此次项目既是黑桥时期的延续，也是向此时此地的艺术创作、策划、行动的新生力量的呼应和再问。贺勋，“月台”郑嘉禾个人项目策展手稿，©贺勋，图片致谢艺术家
三角洲GODOWN空间-“月台”展览场地，地图指引，©贺勋，图片致谢艺术家
李明在2009年于箭厂空间所在的箭厂胡同所做的一个项目，可以看作是对于此次在GODOWN空间项目一个遥远的呼应，也将展出于此次项目中。通过事件介入社会日常运行的现场，无论是多微小的事件，都对人们的内心进行扰动，同时心像-影像-视像以现场、图像、声音、概念等形成了一个闭环，并成为一种意识，最终也是一种现实。我们可以从李明2017年“心渲染间”这件作品中得到这样思维的理解与启发。同时，此次项目亦将呈现一次意识的“事件”。李明，《2009年在箭厂空间的一个项目》，2009，单通道标清录像、彩色、有声、4:3、720x576 ，31‘27，©李明，图片致谢艺术家
刘国强对于此次项目的想法，来自于他从未到访过GODOWN空间，但已经通过许多渠道看到、了解到这一空间的细节。在这一状态下他感受到一种契机并决定行动——似乎是为了再现印象中这一空间的细节，并在最终将意识中的与真实的现实进行比照与汇聚。我们可以看到刘国强对于意识的显现所采取的是更为客观与疏远的态度，是对意识的现实进行研究，例如“参照物”系列便展现了“格物”般的态度，但他的“格物”并不是为了“致知”，而是为了引发我们对于自身日常观照的意识的感知。刘国强，“陨石”，作品局部，2024，©刘国强，图片致谢艺术家“一个人生活中的单一事件的想法，可能是几乎无法察觉的，但它有着巨大的反响。”，正如加塔利在《三种生态》中所描述的，这个时刻是一个“奇异点”，艺术家都是在微小的尺度上，在刹那间发生质变，而不断地扩大，直到在世界中变得可见。此次项目「莎士比亚的名字是李白拔出的剑 (Shakespeare’s Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai) 」，便是这样一些瞬间，临机而动；过去、当下的状态不同或相同的人们相遇相契，直至显现出“实感”与反响。
The Delta INST is honored to invite artists He Xun, Liu Guoqiang, and Li Ming to present their latest project, "Shakespeare's Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai," at GODOWN space. The project will launch on September 1, 2024, at 7:00 PM and will continue until October 7, 2024.This project showcases how the artists decide, act, and “draw the sword” in an impromptu, spontaneous, and present manner. "Shakespeare's Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai" is derived from the title of a poem in He Xun's poetry collection, A Bird and Another Bird. It represents the poet's or artist's sense of “improvisation”: at the edge of events, with an impulse, the sword is drawn, and in that moment, all possibilities are altered by the artist's intervention. This is a “Kairos” moment—“It signifies that something has occurred, making a particular action possible or impossible. We have all experienced this moment in life, feeling that now is the right time to do something, that the moment is ripe, and now we can make a decision.” This is not measured by clock time but by a transformative moment of action during an encounter or agreement."Shakespeare's Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai" embodies the moment for artists or poets when the time has come, and action is necessary. Thus, the three artists respond to their own "moment" in different ways, continually reacting, transforming, and intervening in the world around them. The GODOWN space, actively engaged with the community, becomes such an opportunity, enabling the three artists to respond to a state of spontaneous creativity, continuously engaging with and questioning fellow artists.In early 2023, He Xun, as a close friend, visited GODOWN space for Lou Senhua's exhibition, I'm Writing Poems in Zhuantang. Zhuantang in the 1990s was both a starting point and the beginning of many such “opportunities.” In this project, He Xun will present a curatorial plan focusing on a nearly 3,000-square-meter cinema in Zhuantang that has been demolished and will invite artist Zheng Jiahe, who continually creates in a “non-professional state,” to present her project. Curating as a form of creation was a method He Xun employed during the Heiqiao period through the Jueju Society, using this approach to gather, respond, and stimulate the local art ecosystem. This project is both a continuation of the Heiqiao period and a response and inquiry to the new forces in contemporary art creation, curation, and action.Li Ming's 2009 project at Arrow Factory, located in Jianchang Hutong, can be seen as a distant response to this project at GODOWN space and will be featured in this project. By intervening in the everyday operations of society, even the smallest event can disturb people's inner selves. At the same time, the imagery formed by the mind—image, video, and vision—creates a closed loop through presence, pictures, sound, and concepts, becoming a form of consciousness, that ultimately turns into reality. We can gain understanding and inspiration from Li Ming's 2017 work, Rendering Mind. This project will also present an “event” of consciousness.Liu Guoqiang's ideas for this project stem from his never having visited GODOWN space but having seen and learned about its details through various channels. In this state, he sensed an opportunity and decided to act—to recreate the details of this space from his impressions and ultimately compare and merge the imagined with the real. Liu Guoqiang's approach to manifesting consciousness is more objective and detached, studying the reality of consciousness. His "Reference Object" series demonstrates an attitude akin to the Confucian concept of "gewu" (the investigation of things), but his investigation is not for the sake of gaining knowledge; rather, it is to provoke awareness of our perception of daily observations.“The idea of a single event in a person's life may be almost imperceptible, yet it has tremendous repercussions,” as Guattari describes in The Three Ecologies. This moment is a “singularity”; artists undergo qualitative changes on a small scale in an instant, expanding continuously until becoming visible in the world. This project, "Shakespeare’s Name is the Sword Drawn by Li Bai," represents such moments—acting on impulse; people from different or similar states in the past and present encounter and resonate until they manifest "reality" and response.
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贺勋，1984年生于江西，2006年毕业于中国美术学院，现工作生活于杭州和北京。孑孓社策划小组成员。贺勋的创作涉及绘画、诗歌和策划，关注农耕文明、神巫信仰和文学习惯在日常事物中的象征作用，着重于发现被忽视或被压抑的语言、民俗事项、图腾制度对当代生活的影响，藉此寻找人类普遍的情感关联、永恒的记忆及其衰败的历程。作品曾在想象力学实验室、南京艺术学院美术馆、广东时代美术馆、广东美术馆、声音艺术博物馆、Castello Di Rivara 当代美术馆、日本円室、意大利卡塞雷斯博物馆及坦桑尼亚国家博物馆等机构展出，公共收藏包括星美术馆、德中艺术基金会、杨锋艺术与教育基金会等机构。诗歌及随笔散见于《西湖》、《飞地》、《诗江南》、《2006 中国最佳诗歌》、 《艺术世界》、《艺术碎片》等刊物，著有诗集《一只鸟和另一只鸟》（2024）。其策划项目包括南京艺术学院美术馆的“去写生”，北京 UCCA STORE 的“缝合:当代艺术从业人员诗选”等。
He Xun (1984 Born in Jiangxi, China) graduated from the Department of Education in 2006Currently works and lives in Hangzhou and Beijing.Member of JIEJUE COMMUNITY.Hexun’s works include paintings, poetry, and curating with attention to the symbolic role of agricultural culture, wizard belief, and literal habits in daily life. He emphasizes the impact on modern life caused by the ignored or suppressed languages, folk customs, and totem worship, so as to seek the common human emotional bonds, eternal memories, and its deterioration. His works have been showcased in Imagokinetics (Hangzhou), Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, Times Museum, Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art, Sound Art Museum, Castello di Rivara Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy and Sovrapposizioni Di Immagini, Casa Dei Carraresi Museum, Italy; and collected by Start Museum, GeKA, etc. His poems and essays are published in journals as "West Lake", "Enclave", "Poem Jiangnan", "The Best Poems of China 2006", "Art World" and "Artshard"， Author of Portry《A Bird and Another Bird》(2024). Curation projects include "Go Live” with the Art Museum of the Nanjing University of the Art, "Suture: A Collection of Poetry by Contemporary Art Practitioners” with UCCA STORE, Beijing, etc.
近期个展：
2023 飞鸟寺，瑞思文化艺术中心，深圳，中国
2023 种太阳，拾萬空间，北京，中国
2022 指非月，円室，信州，日本
2021 黄金螺旋，拾萬空间，北京，中国
2021 望京，想象力实验室+游牧画廊，杭州，中国
2019 迦陵频伽，Tong Gallery+Projects，北京，中国
2018 第二司仪，A+ Contemporary 亚洲当代艺术空间，上海，中国
2017 念头珍珠，飞地艺术空间，深圳，中国
2016 农业迷幻 ，A+ Contemporary 亚洲当代艺术空间，上海，中国
2013 空包袱，蜂巢当代艺术中心，北京，中国
solo exhibitions include:
2023 Flying Birds Temple,Reith Culture Arts Center,Shenzhen,China
2023 Sow a sun,Hunsand Space, Beijing, China.
2022 No words,Round House,Shinshu,Japan
2021 Fibonacci, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China.
2021 Wang Jing, Imaginary Mechanics Laboratory+ POP UP Gallery , Hangzhou, China
2019 KALAVIKA, Tong Gallery+Projects , Beijing, China
2018 The Second Oracle , A+ Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2017 Pearls of Citta, Enclave contemporary, Shenzhen, China
2016 Rural Rhapsody, A+Contemporary, Shanghai, China
2013 Empty Baggage, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
艺术家肖像，图片致谢艺术家©刘国强
刘国强，1988生于山东省 2011毕业于中国美术学院新媒体系 现居杭州。他是一位综合的新媒体艺术家，作品涉及录像，装置，以及平面作品。艺术家常用简洁的视觉方式描述关于时间，运动，以及物理维度中的悖论关系。用最平常的手段与材料去组合这些日常元素，试图重新建立观者对作品的理解与认知。
LiuGuoQiang was born in Shandong province in 1988. Graduate from China Academy of Art in 2011. Live in Hangzhou now. Liu Guoqiang is a comprehensive new media artist, whose works involve videos, installations, and graphic works. Artists often use simple visual methods to describe the paradoxical relationship in time, motion, and physical dimensions. Use the most common means and materials to combine these daily elements, trying to re-establish the audience's
近期个展：2023“集中的涣散” 拾萬空间(北京)2021“侧面” 1000PRESS 杭州2020“参照物” 盒子美术馆 深圳 “List”Riverside 杭州2019“图形”单行道画廊 北京2018“打开的直线”想象力学实验室 杭州 2016“移动的图像” 蜂巢当代艺术中心 北京
Solo Exhibition：2023“Focused distraction” Hunsand Space Beijing2021“SIDE” 1000PRESS Hangzhou2020“Reference” OCT Boxes Art Museum“List” RIVERSIDE Hangzhou2019“Shape of structure”one way art Gallery Beijing2018“LINES OPENING” Hangzhou2016“THE MOVING IMAGES” Hive Center for Contemporary Art Beijing
艺术家肖像，图片致谢艺术家©李明
李明（ 1986年⽣于湖南沅江，现⽣活⼯作于杭州）于2008年学⼠毕业于中国美术学院。他早期的实践以DV镜头记录下艺术家⾃⾝在中国⾼速城市化⻛景中进⾏的表演⽽为⼈所知。李明以⾃⾝作品媒介中的时间性，检视数字图像和物质流通的逻辑。在⼀些作品中，他尝试将这些流通逻辑转化为图像递进的规则。总体⽽⾔，其作品的偶发和游戏性等特质，能让⼈想起90年代中国观念艺术和录像艺术的若⼲线索。李明的 录像作品除了探索数字影像存储设备对记忆和时间感知的影响以外，他的⽇常冥想实践也启发他追求⼀种感受性的电影，映射我们的内在现实，以及不同现实之间的超距联结。这点体现在他作品中的非线性影像节奏；在他的影像剪辑以及他对⽇常事件所进⾏的重新编排中，都可以⻅到这样的节奏——时⽽近乎迷幻，时⽽仿佛素⼈⾃制影片。Li Ming (born in 1986 in Yuanjiang; currently lives and works in Hangzhou) began to be known to the scene due to his early experimental performances, often recorded through DV cameras, intervening in the rapid urbanization of the Chinese landscape. His oeuvres examine the material flow of commodities or digital data through its time-based quality, in which a particular logic of circulation tends to be adopted as a loose protocol that guides the image sequences. Above all, the qualities of spontaneity and serendipity invoked the inaugural Chinese conceptualism and video art of the 1990s. Set in the age of data abundance that altered our sense of memory and temporality, Li Ming’s video work was impacted by his daily meditation practices. Together, it has led the artist to search for a cinema of affect with his sense of cognitive inner realities and its hyper-connectivity. This aspect is best epitomized by his creative use of non-linear rhythm in film editing and the densely choreographed daily events, at times psychedelic, at times reminiscent of homemade video reels.
李明曾获2022-2023 保时捷“中国青年艺术家双年评选”获奖艺术家，2017年Hugo Boss亚洲新锐艺术家 ⼤奖以及2008年⽪埃尔•于⻉尔创作提名奖⼤奖。他的作品曾于多家重要机构展出，包括釜⼭双年展、⽪ 诺帕斯卡⾥博物馆、Borusan当代艺术中⼼、深圳雕塑双年展、北京尤伦斯当代艺术中⼼。
近期个展：“被 吃掉了”，上海天线空间（2021）；“，佛⼭华侨城盒⼦美术馆（2021）；“朱昶全 × 李明：狂草狂草”，浙 江美术馆，杭州（2020）；“，上海天线空间（2018）；“烟⼠披⾥纯”，杭州HDM和维画廊（2017）；“， 北京尤伦斯当代艺术中⼼（2015）；“中介”，上海天线空间（2014）。
Li Ming has received the 2022-2023 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Winners and The 2017 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award and the 2008 Pierre Huber Creation Prize. His works have been shown widely in major institutions such as Busan Biennale, Museo Pino Pascali, Borusan Contemporary, Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial, and UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
Selected solo exhibitions: Being Consumed, Antenna Space, Shanghai (2021); 201420162021, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan (2021); Zhu Changquan & LiMing: Wild Cursive, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou (2020); 1703, Antenna Space, Shanghai (2018); Inspired by Transliteration, HDM Gallery,Hangzhou (2017); MEI WE, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015); Mediation, Antenna Space, Shanghai (2014).
三角洲The Delta INST ＋ GODOWN三角洲GODOWN出现于2023年，位于中国杭州，是由当代艺术创作与策划平台三角洲(The Delta INST)的艺术家联合发起的独立空间项目。三角洲GODOWN的工作聚焦于：组织独立策展项目及艺术家展览；邀请艺术家创作和展示实验性的作品；搭建常态化的多元艺术社群。同时，三角洲致力于与同时代艺术家分享资源、共同成长，并通过艺术家“自组织”的工作方式发起三角洲国际工作室(Inter-Studio)，组织国内外艺术驻地，以及平行展览等项目。