【展览】The Swiftness of Feeling and Thinking 敏捷于右岸预约报名-BACA艺术中心活动-活动行

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开幕式 Opening：2020.09.04 17:30-20:30

行为艺术 Performance Duden2020starts from 17:30

舞蹈表演 Dance performance Body is Present starts from 18:00

策展人 Curator：

关棋 Gloria Guan

参展艺术家 Artists:

古然 Ryan Tian

孤本身体空间 Unique Body Space

李依妮 Li Yini

王羊 Emerson Young

闫禹霏 Charlotte Yan

袁晗寒 Yuan Hanhan

What is art? What makes a piece of art good or bad are the questions that have been posed incessantly to artists and art lovers alike. Some artworks are notable for the questioning of traditional values, artistic conventions, systems of representation, and so on. However, in most cases, art is judged difficult to understand. The British philosopher of art, Richard Wollheim believes that we should resist the tendency to see art as an abstract idea that needs to be analysed and explained. If we are to fully understand art, according to his view, we must always define it in relation to its social context. Since art is a form of life, and it is always a reflection of an individuals’ beliefs, emotions, experiences, skills, social background and happiness. According to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist….Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking….”

By feeling is meant the response of the ‘body-and-mind’ as a whole to the events of reality. However, the aim of the exhibition “The Swiftness of Feeling and Thinking” is not trying to give an answer to the question of what is art but is trying to express the feeling of how material reality is. By showcasing 6 young artists’ different art practices, including film, performance, dance, video, installation, drawing, photography, fashion design and board games. “The Swiftness of Feeling and Thinking” is letting these 6 artists who are in a unique position to share their happiness in art, to tell a story about the world in which they live, to perform a social function, to illustrate what being creative can be, to examine boundaries between the individual body and the social environment and between the inside and outside of the body itself, to explore the interaction and communication between the viewer and art design. As well as to establish the ideology that continues to shape their vision of today and tomorrow.

孤本身体空间 Unique Body Space | 李宣雨 Li Xuanyu

Lo Que Siento

2019

摄影 Photography

In Factory Maze, for instance, Li Yini is reaching people and objectively exploring humanistic care in a board game. It is a direct challenge to assumptions about the meaning of art and its function in a society. While in the video The Wedding, Unique Body Space offers not too many clues indicative of a narrative of the story itself, rather uses montage to represent a very complex and conflicting relationship between a woman and a man. In Body is Present, Unique Body Space’s new dance practice with Charlotte Yan’s fashion design’s programme Scepticism, not only is using body simply as the ‘content’ of the work, but also as an attempt to dramatizing the gap between surface perceptions and inner realities. Confronted with something that is usually kept hidden, we are being encouraged to review many of the fundamental issues of existence: identity, religion, faith, racial tension, patriotism, joy, distress, hope, death and so on.

古然 Ryan Tian

若天是海 When Sky Was Sea

2018

电影短片 Short Film

Through an assemblage of video, ritual and installations, Emerson Young’s The Body Adorned presents the contemporary stereotype of an artist in a non-linear fashion. Meanwhile proposing a discussion on the authenticity and probability of “artist” as an identity. In the short film When Sky Was Sea, director Ryan Tian provides a clear narrative to tell a story about how an ambitious graphic designer who will be eventually blind in his life, met a talented blind photographer. This unexpected experience brings this young man a new vision to ‘see’ the world and to have faith in life again. In many cases, art opens up exciting new possibilities for artists to see the world differently, not by sight, but by heart and imagination. Where is art going? How will it be different in the future? What will be the viewer’s interpretations of their artworks?

王羊 Emerson Young

被装饰的身体 The Body Adorned

2018-2020

视频、仪式和装置 Video, Ritual and installations

Witnessing a live performance leaves the viewer with a very different impression about the artwork. The artists use their own body language as the material of their work reveals a cross-fertilization of ideas and ideologies from different disciplines and cultures. In Yuan Hanhan’s performance Duden 2020, the artist use a “touch” to show the viewer what is her emotion and where is her sight. Nevertheless the body in art involves emotions, memory, ideas of beauty, concepts of power and identity not only in the mind of the artist but in that of the viewer as well. The viewer is thus invited to enter into the artist’s performance, left to attempt to fill in the story, or to imagine what happened before he/she joined in and what might happen next.

Whatever the exhibition is able to accomplish here, “The Swiftness of Feeling and Thinking” is showing a point that transforming our reality is no longer a question of just making more art. It is a matter of having an attitude to strive to fix the problems set by life and realising what social tools we have. Of one thing is certain in this exhibition: anything we might think of as art will have to be solidly constructed in all its social dimensions.

何为艺术？人们不断的向艺术家和艺术爱好者提出“如何鉴别一件艺术品的好坏”诸如此类的问题，一些艺术作品正是因为质疑了传统观念、艺术惯例、表现体系等而著名，然而，在大多数情况下，艺术是不被大众所理解的。正如英国艺术哲学家Richard Wollheim所说，我们应该抵制将艺术解读为是需要分析和解释的抽象概念。当我们充分理解艺术，并根据Richard所说的观点，我们需要结合社会背景来解读艺术。当艺术成为一种生活方式，自然而然的成为了某个个体的信仰，反应着情绪、经验、技能、社会背景以及幸福。根据德国哲学家尼采的说法，“幸福只存在于理智，其他的都索然无味。而最高的理智，我只能从艺术家的作品中发现。。。幸福的产生来自于感觉与思考的敏捷。。。”

李依妮 Li Yini

电厂迷宫 Factory Maze

2019

棋盘游戏 Board Games

所谓感觉，是指“身心”作为一个整体对现实事件作出的反应。展览“敏捷于右岸”的目的不是在为大家解答什么是艺术这一问题，而是试图传达一种感受物质实体的感觉。展览将展示6位艺术家不同风格的作品，其中包括影视作品、行为艺术、舞蹈表演、视频影像、装置、绘画、摄影、时尚设计和棋盘游戏。“敏捷于右岸”请到这六位各具特色的艺术家来分享他们在艺术创作中的幸福；讲述属于他们的故事；解析各自的社会分工；并说明何为创造性；去检测个体与社会，身体内与外之间的界限；探索观众与艺术和设计之间的互动与交流，以及在建立意识形态的同时继续塑造他们未来的样子。

在《工厂迷宫》中，李依妮通过棋盘游戏，客观地探索人文关怀。假设这个棋盘游戏就像一个关于艺术和其的社会功能性的挑战。在影片《婚礼》中，孤本身体空间并没有提供太多故事本身的线索，而是用蒙太奇的手法表现了一段非常复杂和矛盾的男女关系。《Body is Present》是孤本身体空间为闫禹霏的服装设计作品“怀疑主义”所设计的新舞蹈作品，此作品不仅是简单地将身体作为作品的一部分，而是通过一种戏剧化的形式表达表面感知和内在现实之间的间隙。通常面对一些被隐藏的东西，我们被鼓励重新审视一些基本问题：身份、性别、宗教、信仰、种族、爱国主义、快乐、痛苦、希望、死亡等等。

闫禹霏 Charlotte Yan

怀疑主义者 Scepticism

2017

时尚设计 Fashion Design

王羊《被装饰的身体》通过视屏、仪式和装置的拼贴呈现，用非线形的方式展现了当代“艺术家”身份的刻板印象，并且提出了“艺术家”作为一种身份，是否真实或合理。在电影短片《若天是海》中，导演古然则为观者带来了一个叙事清晰的影片，讲述了一个雄心勃勃的平面设计师是如何通过遇到一个有才华的盲人摄影师找到新的视角去“看”这个世界，再次感受命运。在很多情况下，艺术犹如开启新世界大门的钥匙，给了艺术家很多令人激动的机会去感受这个世界的不同，不是轻描淡写的一瞥，而是通过心灵的想象力去感受。艺术的未来何去何从？未来的艺术会存在着怎样的差异性？观者又会对他们的作品提出哪些评论？

身临现场观看艺术作品总会给观者留下不一样的回忆。艺术家们通过肢体语言揭示着来自不同纪律与文化的“杂交”意识形态。在袁晗寒的行为艺术表演《Duden 2020》中她通过“触感”去展现她的情感和视觉。然而，肢体艺术设计到了情感，记忆，美学，力量和身份认同，这些概念不仅仅存在于艺术家的脑子里，也存在于观者的心里。因此，观者被邀请并参与艺术家的表演，试着填补故事，或想象一下在她/他的加入前后会发生什么？

袁晗寒 Yuan Hanhan

Duden 2020

2020

行为艺术 Performance

《敏捷于右岸》展览在结束的那一刻，所完成的也许是在当下关于什么是艺术的一次讨论，它表明在这个时代下创作更多的艺术已经不再是个问题，更为重要的则是去探究什么是艺术和去清晰创作艺术的目的。被认知为艺术的那些概念，也许它们是需要在其所创作的社会体系和环境背景的基础上牢固的构建。除此之外，我们需要意识到当艺术在社会体系中作为解决问题的一种可能性时，它与个体的主观能动性、个体态度和艺术方法论的密切联系。