“惯例下的狂欢”为您呈现项目五——陆平原个人项目：
等待一个艺术家
开幕：2013年3月1日，晚7：00
展期：2013年3月1日至2013 年3月30日
主办：德国驻上海总领事馆文化教育处
地点：歌德开放空间，上海，福州路318号高腾大厦101室
电话：086 21 63912068
空间开放时间：上午10：30至下午6点（周一至周五），下午1点至5点（周六），周日闭馆
如需了解更多信息请联系：董勤文
qinwen.dong@shanghai.goethe.org
《等待一个艺术家》触及到了系统的需求，提供了一种对于“需求”的理解方式。艺术系统不断要求艺术家给予一种便于传播的“价值”；艺术家的“身体”也常被简单的看作一种“现成品”。那么作为一个“现成品”我们还有什么样的选择能使自己保持源源不断的“价值”？观众能从陆平原这个搭建的装置中体验到这种关系的微妙之处。
陆平原的创作关注点宽泛，从对“物”的感官层面到艺术的历史本身都有涉及，从去年开始，他将部分的兴趣集中在艺术本身的创作情境上，“等待一个艺术家”也是针对创作情境的一个作品。陆平原搭建一个循环结构，试图尽力维护一种“湿度”。这种“湿”在这个结构中“合法”的被展示。作品涵盖了装置，现成品以及行为，通过反复和漫长的行为来刻意的维持艺术系统中对于创作者的假象状态。
简介
陆平原(1984年出生于浙江)是一位现生活工作于上海的艺术家 ,2007 年毕业于中国美术学院上海设计学院. 作品涉及录像，装置，绘画，行为等媒介，关注的内容包括从对日常的趣味探索到对艺术本身的怀疑，以一种轻松的日常化的趣味转向为一种对艺术本身更为严肃的探讨。陆平原2012年参与了Guest小组的创作，也是独立艺术杂志PDF的发起人之一。
陆平原2011年参与了瑞典IASPIS驻留项目,并在哥德堡 GalleryBox举办了个展 “胶囊”,他的个展 “不包括”曾在北京禾木空间展出（2012），“自律的呼吸”曾在上海M50创意中心展出(2010)，主要群 展包括:“回放-占领舞台”外滩18号(2011),“心境 Moca当代艺术馆文献展” 上海MoCA当代艺术馆(2010):“阅读” 黑蓝空间上海(2010):“青年折扣店” 艺门画廊(2010) 北京:“用手稿” SHIFT集装箱(2010)上海:“消失”东大名创库上海(2009):“艺术新经济”奥沙艺术空间 上海(2009): “HORNY A4” Gallery Box, 瑞典哥德堡(2009):“小制作第8回” 证大艺术 馆(2009): “小制作第5回”小平画廊上海(2008)
关于持续展览项目“惯例下的狂欢”：
策展人：比利安娜·思瑞克（BiljanaCiric）
艺术家：高铭研，胡昀，李然，陆平原，胡向前，宋拓
时间：2012年9月30号- 2013年3月30号
特别项目：从乌托邦到现实-我们的艺术世界是如何被建构的-项目发起人-Alexandra Hodby, Seng Yujin, 比利安娜·思瑞克
策展助理：GraceTng
在为期半年的时间内，展览将邀请多位艺术家开展艺术项目并分阶段进行呈现。受邀艺术家通过各自的艺术实践展示他们对于身处的艺术体系、价值观念和展览策划讨论的思考与立场，同时，将展览本身作为进一步参与的工具。通过艺术家、策展人及所有参与者的合作，一个主要问题将被展开：展览如何在今天成为一个真正开放，且具有生命力的分享平台？
艺术家将反思中国文化架构及特殊语境下的社会框架等议题，而这些又如何构建个体身份性和艺术实践并在系统内部对各种关系进行定义，这都是我们亟待思索的问题。艺术家将探索不同的展览模式、语境和形态如何反映出个人对于社会结构的态度。
展览试图围绕机构、机构化的形式和展览制作之间的关系展开探讨，这一关系在80年代的中国便已存在；80年代末受阻中断；90年代中期短暂重现，而进入21世纪后，艺术体制化及市场的驱动，直接影响、操纵着今天的当代艺术。
“惯例下的狂欢”试图找到一种抗衡当前艺术生产惯例的方式；提出新的个人实践和参与形式，改变以往审视艺术体系的主导方式。
“惯例下的狂欢”特别单元：艺术家博物馆
“惯例下的狂欢”是一个多元而富于变化的展出概念，将以个展和群展相结合的形式呈现。群展的策展理念源于第五届卡塞尔文献展“对现实的质疑——今日图像世界1972”，由哈罗德·赛曼（Harald Szeemann）策划的此次展览在世界展览史上享有极其重要的地位。在“将生活浓缩于展览之中”的口号下，为期100天的展览为艺术创作及其与体制和展览制作的关系提供了全新的解读视角。
“惯例下的狂欢”借鉴第五届卡塞尔文献展特设“艺术家博物馆”板块，邀请艺术家重新对“艺术家与博物馆”这个话题进行思考。
艺术家个展将在项目主空间呈现，而“艺术家博物馆”则将在机构的办公空间以群展的形式呈现。每个月，“艺术家博物馆”的一位参展艺术家都将在歌德开放空间的主空间内为观众带来自己的独立项目。“艺术家博物馆”会集中展示各个艺术家的实践与思考，1972年卡塞尔文献展的文献资料也将进行平行展示。
参与项目的艺术家将通过歌德学院组织的一系列公共讲座、网络平台、图书馆等渠道呈现自己的实践与思考成果。歌德学院的每一处空间都将被用于项目的开展。
歌德学院此番除了作为展示空间，还将作为讨论的发生地，进一步将“展厅”转变为半开放式的聚集讨论之地。对话将以小组讨论的形式开展，对体制和各种艺术实践进行反思。同时，还将与专业艺术期刊展开合作，包括由艺术家发起的电子期刊PDF。此外，讨论内容也将整理为文稿发表。之后，亦将集结成册出版发行。
展览跨时长，以期为反思和更多元艺术形式的探讨提供更多的空间。艺术家不仅创作并展示作品，而且还应静下心来，对当下的文化环境及“生产过热”的现象进行反思，以歌德学院所提供的平台为契机，再次让机构与艺术家携手合作，对我们身处的系统本身展开批判性思考。
关于"歌德开放空间"
"歌德开放空间"由德国驻上海总领事馆文化教育处发起，旨在为年轻的新生代艺术家提供交流、展示和讨论的平台，同时进一步推进德中两国在当代艺术领域的对话。
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‘Alternativesto Ritual’ presents fifth solo project:
Waitingfor an Artist by Lu Pingyuan
Openingreception: March 1st 2013, 19:00
Duration:March 1st to March 30th 2013
Venue:Goethe Open Space, Shanghai, 101 Ascendas CrossTower, 318 Fu Zhou Lu, Shanghai
Tel: +86 21 6391 2068
Presented by Departmentfor Culture and Education (DCAE) of the Consulate General of the FederalRepublic of Germany in Shanghai
Opening hours: 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Mo.-Fr.)and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. (Sa). Closed on Sun.
For more information contact: Dong Qinwen
qinwen.dong@shanghai.goethe.org
Waiting for An Artist touches upon demands of the art system and offers a perspective tounderstand “demands”. The art system constantly asks artists to come up withsome sort of “value” that can easily be disseminated. Artists’ “bodies” areoften simplified as a kind of “ready-made”. Then, as a “ready-made”, whatoptions do we have to keep ourselves “valuable”? The audience will perceive asense of subtlety and delicacy from the installation by Lu Pingyuan.
Lu’s art practice covers a variety oftopics, ranging from sensory aspects of the “object” to the history of art perse. Since last year he started to focus his attention more on the context ofart itself. Waiting for An Artist isa result of such an effort. By establishing a cycle structure, he endeavors tomaintain “humidity”, and such “humidity” is “legitimately” displayed withinsuch a structure. Comprising installation, ready-mades and performance, thework deliberately preserves the imagination imposed on creators by the artsystem through repetitive and endless action.
Waiting for an Artistispresented as the fifth and last segment of Alternatives to Ritual.
Biography
Lu Pingyuan, born 1984 in Zhejiang, currently lives andworks in Shanghai. He graduated from Shanghai Institute of Design under theChina Academy of Art in 2007. Lu works with different mediums such as video,installation, painting and performance. His interest ranges from musings abouteveryday life to contemplations of art issues, with a relaxed attitude he facesserious discussions about art. In 2012 he participated in the works of Guest,an art collective and is also a founding member of digital art magazine"PDF".
In 2011 he was invited to participate in a Swedish artist-in-residence program byIASPIS and held a soloexhibition "Time Capsule", in Gothenburg’s Gallery Box. His solo exhibitionsinclude, "Not Included" (2012) at Hemuse Gallery, Beijing and“Autonomous Breathing” (2010) at M50 Creative Space, Shanghai. Lu Pingyuan alsoheld numerous group exhibitions, “Taking over the Stage – Reperform” (2011) at18Gallery, “Reflection of Minds” (2010) at MoCA Shanghai, “Read” (2010) atHeilan Space, Shanghai, “The Youth Sale Store” (2010) at Pekin Fine Arts,Beijing,, “Use Sketches” (2010) by Shift Station, “Vanish” (2009) at DDM space ,Shanghai, “Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition” (2009) at Osage Gallery Shanghai, “HORNY A4”(2009) at Gallery Box,Gothenburg Sweden “Xiaozhizuo No.8” (2009) at Zhenda MOMA and “Xiaozhizuo No.5” (2008) at, ShoppingGallery,Shanghai.
About‘Alternatives to Ritual’:
Curator: Biljana Ciric
Artists: Gao Mingyan, Hu Yun, Li Ran, LuPingyuan, Hu Xiangqian, Song Ta
Art Worlds in the Making: From Utopia to Reality a project by Alexandra Hodby, Seng Yujin,andBiljana Ciric, among others
Duration:September 30th 2012- March 30th 2013
Curatorial assistant: Grace Tng
Alternatives to Ritual invited artists to develop projects over a half-yearperiod. The artists invited have shown an interest in discussing art systemsand their values, different levels of relations in contemporary art, andexhibition making through their practice. They also have used displaystrategies as a tool for engagement. One of the main questions that we pose,through working together with artists, curators and all other participants, ishow exhibitions can serve as an open and dynamic resource today?
The artists willreflect on cultural constructions and social frameworks in the special contextof China and how all these form individual identities and artistic practices aswell as define relations in the system that we urgently need to question. Theartists will also explore how different formats of exhibitions, contexts andconditions of appearance can reflect individual attitudes towards our socialconstructions.
The exhibition tries toopen up the discussion on the relationship between institutions, institutionalformats and exhibition making in China that has existed since the 80’s, whichwas interrupted after 1989, and had a short appearance again in the mid 90’s.It was then interrupted again after the year 2000 due to an institutionalizationof the art scene and its market driven existence which are till today itsstrongest forces.
Alternatives to Ritual attempts to find a way to resist current rituals ofproduction and dominant ways of looking at the art system through proposingalternatives in the form of individual practices and new ways of engagement.
About ‘Artists’ Museums’
Alternatives to Ritual will be presented in a format of constant change, between solo andgroup exhibitions. The group presentation takes its point of departure from oneof the most important exhibitions in history of exhibition making: QuestioningReality – Image Worlds Today, 1972curated by Harald Szeemann as a part ofDocumenta 5. “A concentrated version of life in the form of an exhibition”, withthe aim of being presented as a 100 day event, provided at that time, a newreading of artists’ production and its relation to institutions and exhibitionmaking. The so-called Artists’ Museum section of Documenta 5 will be taken aspoint of departure for Alternatives toRitual to invite artists to present their own artists’ museums.
Individual solo presentations will be on display in the mainproject space while Artists’ Museums will be presented in office spaces as agroup show. Every month artists will leave the Artists’ Museum space in orderto present independent project in the main Goethe Open Space and later leavethe exhibition. While each artisthas his own presentation in the group exhibition section of the Artists’Museum, archival material of the Artists’ Museum presentation from 1972 willalso be on display.
The artists will dealwith the different aspects of the Department forCulture and Education (DCAE) as aninstitution and structure through public talks, utilizing its online platform,and employing a specific approach to its library and its history to name only afew. Every space of the DCAE will be used – from the project space to theoffices.
Besides being anexhibition space, DCAE will serve as a space for closed door discussions aftergallery hours, turning the gallery space into a semi private place forgathering. Discussions organized will be held between small groups of invitedindividuals with the aim of reflecting on our system and its practices.
Discussions will beorganized in collaboration with PDFartists independent e- journal.
This format of theexhibition will be held over a long period, providing space for reflection andon-going discussions, inviting artists not only to produce and exhibit theirworks but also to slow down and provide the time needed to reflect on ourcurrent cultural conditions and the over production so common in the art fieldtoday. The exhibition re-engages institutions which are working together withartists to act as provocateur of thought, giving critical reflections on oursystem.
About Goethe Open Space
Goethe Open Space is a project of theDepartment for Culture and Education (DCAE) of the General Consulate of theFederal Republic of Germany in Shanghai. It aims at providing spacefor young and emerging artists to present their practice and at the same timestimulating the dialogue between China and Germany in the field of contemporaryart.
