展期：2016年8月30日—10月30日

地点：外交公寓12号空间（北京市建国门外外交公寓4号门12号楼8层082号）

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外交公寓12号空间将于8月30日，开展王友身的最新实验性项目《外交公寓》，这是艺术家为我空间“量身定做”的体验式的过程展示计划。从布展开始，王友身将持续工作至10月30日，历时80余天。

与中国唯一独享外交待遇的国际化社区“外交公寓”同名的王友身个展，是关于作品如何“展览”的展览，是借用当下日趋发达友善的“物联网”交互系统的有趣途径，呈现和记录了作品每日不断被“展览”、被“观看”、被“参与”的可能性。而在这自主和非自主的“外交公寓”里，作品是以“外交”和“公寓”这些特殊情境的文脉线索，来完成多层次的艺术与媒介、物理与心理等圈层空间的测试。

在《外交公寓》，我们有没有任性的自主空间？

作为国内重要的观念艺术家之一，“王友身的作品是90 年代以来中国观念艺术发展的一个重要组成部分。和大多数艺术家不同的是，他的观念批判一直是围绕着自己的角色身份的转换而发生的，而且很多时候将作为对象的观众的个体体验作为作品的一扇大门对外部世界敞开着。”（皮力）

展览期间，外交公寓12号空间将推出该项目导览手册以及在空间和自媒体平台举办的相关公共艺谈。

王友身，1964年生于北京，现生活和工作在北京。近年参加的重要展览：“世变”，Para Site艺术空间,香港（2016）；“艺术长沙”，谭国斌当代艺术博物馆,长沙（2015）；“CHINA 8”，富克旺根美术馆，埃森，德国（2015）；“王友身·每平米”，香格纳北京，北京（2014）；“时间的裂缝”，上海当代艺术馆，上海（2014）；“新作展1－让现代继续：沉浸、等待、理想主义”，OCAT,深圳（2014）；“王·友身－王友身双个展”，明尼苏达大学REGIS艺术中心&明尼阿波利斯影像中心,明尼阿波利斯，美国（2013）；“媒介研究－母题与个案”，林大艺术中心，北京（2012）；“第七届深圳雕塑双年展”，OCAT，深圳（2012）。

【外交公寓12号空间】

位于北京朝阳区建国门外的外交公寓始建于1971年，是新中国第一片独享外交待遇，为各国驻华使馆、国际组织代表机构、各新闻机构及其人员提供办公、住宅用房的国际化社区。在二十世纪七八十年代,基于这里独有的国际资讯传播，外交公寓成为了中国早期当代文化艺术交流活动的发祥地。

作为非盈利性艺术机构，本空间尊重时代背景，专注对代表性艺术家个案研究。以艺术家自我判断为条件、基础，从以往不同时期的重要作品、重要展览、思想形成以及生活经验等多条线索进行梳理。通过艺术家非公开性作品及档案资料的呈现，发现艺术家个体审美系统的建立过程。

展览开幕为非公开性，日常参观采取邀请方式。

出品人：彭晓阳 ｜策展人：戢大卫 ｜艺术总监：冯兮 ｜助理：葛燕华

地址：北京市朝阳区秀水街1号建国门外外交公寓4号门12号楼8层082号

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Wang Youshen : Diplomatic Residence Compound

Duration:  August 30—October 30,2016

Venue:       DRC No.12

                   (Gate4, Building 12, Floor 8, Suite 082, Jianguomenwai DRC, Chaoyang District, Beijing)

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On August 30,DRC No.12 will host Wang Youshen’s latest experimental project Diplomatic Residence Compound. This is an experimental process work created specifically for the site. From initial installation to completion, the project will span eighty days, concluding on October 30.

The Wang Youshen solo exhibition, which shares its name with the exclusive international facility “Diplomatic Residence Compound,” is an exhibition about how artworksare exhibited, exploring the fascinating interactive channels of the “logistics network” to present and document the new possibilities for the “exhibition”,“viewing” and “participation” of artworks that arise each day. Within the“Diplomatic Residence Compound,” a place at once autonomous and non-autonomous,the artworks work within the unique contexts of “diplomacy” and “residence” to carry out a multilayered examination of art and medium, material and mind.

In the Diplomatic Residence Compound, do we have a truly autonomous space?

Wang Youshen’s artworks have played an integral role in the development of Chinese conceptualart since the 1990s. Unlike most artists, his critical stance has been consistently tied to shifts in his own role and identity, and often treats the individual experience of the viewer as an open door to the outside world. (PiLi)

During the exhibition, DRC No.12 will release a project handbook and hold related public art discussions in the space and on social media.

Wang Youshen was born in Beijing in 1964.He resides and works in Beijing. Recent importantexhibitions include: “That Has Been and May Be Again”, Para Site, Hong Kong(2016); “Art Changsha”, Tan Guobin Contemporary Art Museum, Changsha (2015);“China 8”,Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2015); “Wang Youshen·Per SquareMeter”, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2014); “Aura of Poetry”, MoCA Shanghai,Shanghai (2014); “New Works 1—Keep the Modern Going: Immersion, Awaiting andIdealism”, OCAT, Shenzhen (2014); “Wang · Youshen-Wang Youshen Double Solo Exhibition”, Regis Center at the university of Minnesota & MinneapolisPhoto Center, Minneapolis,U.S.A (2013); “Media Study—Motif and Cases”, Linda Gallery, Beijing (2012); “7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale”, OCAT, Shenzhen (2012).

【DRCNo.12 】

The Diplomatic Residence Compound, located on Jianguomenwai Avenue in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, was constructed in 1971 as China’s first international office and residence compound for the overseas staff of embassies, international organizations and news agencies. In the 1970s and 80s, the compound’s uniquely international status made it a cradle forearly Chinese contemporary art exchange activities.

This non- profit space focuses on individual casestudies of representative artists with an eye for the times of which they are aproduct. On the foundation of the artist’s own judgment, these case studiessift through important works and exhibitions from different periods to find threads of life experience and the formation of ideas, presenting previously unpublished artworks and documentary materials to uncover the establishment of an artist’s individual aesthetic system.

Opening receptions are not open to the public. Visits are by appointment.

Producer: Peng Xiaoyang

Curator: Ji Dawei

Art Director: Feng Xi

Assistant :  Ge Yanhua

Gate 4, Building 12, Floor 8, Suite 082

Jianguomenwai Diplomatic Residence Compound

No. 1, Xiushui Street. Chaoyang District, Beijing100600, China

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