“920公斤”是上海多伦现代美术馆即将于8月推出的一群年轻艺术家的展览计划。展览将通过影像、装置、绘画和各种跨媒介创作呈现。
对一个艺术展览，在观者的认知经验中，从名字——展览索引的想象我们几乎就可以判断这个展览将有什么样的企图以及大部分作品的气质和倾向。展览名称和展览的作品一样被赋予极其重要的期望，因此人们迷恋于一个强力的、宽广内涵的、朗朗上口的，哪怕是拗口的但看起来讳莫如深的名称。从上个世纪90年代至今名目众多的展览名称中不难看出，在充满假想敌和被压迫幻想的逻辑里，展览名称和艺术本身的实验一样背负着使命。在传统的指物定义中，一个名称对应一个具体的实在物，必须具有意义。然而这不是唯一方式。维特根斯坦也告诉我们语词的意义不在于把语词和所指连起来，而在于使用。某一主题的确立和选择必须对应的是意思吗？那些不可言说的部分是可以在使用中被显现的。
“920公斤”是我们确定的所有参展艺术家的总体重之和，这是一个无厘头的数学游戏。对身体重量的测量，似乎在为我们提供一种方法，是否可以通过对身体的丈量来为我们的创作重新开拓视野。很显然，我们将把目光投到身体上来。身体作为材料在艺术创作上有着久远的历史，然而我们见多了直接地粗暴地对身体的使用，比如，在审美的外衣下，裸体获得合法化；因为对身体的直接呈现企图获得更多的关注。如今，身体——已不再仅仅作为一个禁忌被谈论和使用，新的艺术史要求我们必须使用一种新的身体观来照会我们的艺术。“920公斤”提供一个检测的机遇。
最后得出的艺术家的体重之和——这些阿拉伯数字可以直接想象展览本身吗？也许这一回，那些在我们脑袋里深刻盘踞的语言图像论和基础符号学知识都派不上用场。然而，就与现在的艺术作品一直面临着过度阐释和监守私人语言之间的矛盾一样，理解“920公斤”看起来好像也是个颇为周折的事情，那么，唯一的办法就是，让我们把目光投向作品吧。
时间：2005年8月19日—9月16日
地点：上海多伦现代美术馆1-2楼 （上海市多伦路27号）
开幕：2005年8月19日（星期五）下午19：00
艺术家：李牧+张芳、彭韫、黄奎、刘波、迟鹏、李小松、罗晓冬、马秋莎、吴野、苏文祥、李郁、王俊、石玩玩、死K
艺术总监：沈其斌
学术主持：顾振清
策展：苏文祥
媒体协调：冯若愚
工程负责：盛善源、鲍正源
联系：021，6587 5996
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www.duolunart.org920 Kilograms Art Exhibition
920 Kg, an exhibition to be launched in August at Shanghai Duolun MoMA, will showcase a group of young artists’ works in form of photography, video, installation, paintings and multimedia, etc.
Guided by cognitive experiences, audiences are enabled to make their own judgments about the show’s intention as well as the qualities of the works, by following the title and index of the exhibition. When high hopes are placed on the title as much as on the exhibits, people are obsessed with a certain kind of denomination which is supposed to be overwhelming, profound, easy-to-read (though sometimes unreadable), yet most importantly, mysterious and covert. It can be found in a variety of dazzling titles since the late 1990s that the title and the experiment of art are both born with a mission. According to the traditional definition, a name, corresponding to a concrete object, must have its significance. Whereas exceptions still exist. Ludwig Wittgenstein held that the value of a word lies in its usage rather than in the connection between word and the signified. Do the establishment and option of a subject correspond to the meaning of the word? Actually those ineffable parts are manifested in practical use.
920 Kg will wind up replaced by the collective weight of participating artists, like a farcical mathematical game. Since weighing our body is likely to provide us with an alternative method. And in this way our horizon of art creation might be broadened. As far as human body is concerned, there is a long history of such a body-as-material approach in which registered a number of cases of abuse. Nudity has got legalized in the context of esthetics, and more attention has been drawn upon the explicit depict of our bodies. A new chapter in art history is calling on us to adopt an updated view of body – no longer reckoned and handled as a taboo – to refine the art of our generation. Then 920 Kg will work as an occasion of examination.
Does the sum of weight of artists, or rather those Arabic figures that we reached at last reflect the show itself? Chances are that this time our good grip of Picture Theory of Language and Basic Semiotics will be of little help. Therefore to understand 920 Kg is a matter of time and effort while contemporary artworks are put in a dilemma by the over-interpretation and the strict pursuit of a private vocabulary. In the end, the only way out is resorting to the works per se.
Date: August 19, 2005 –September 16, 2005
Venue: 1-2F Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (No.27, Duolun Road, Shanghai)
Opening: August 19, 2005 19:00 Friday
Artists: Li Mu & Zhang Fang, Peng Yun, Huang Kui, Liu Bo, Chi Peng, Li Xiaosong, Luo Xiaodong, Ma Qiusha, Wu Ye, Su Wenxiang, Li Yu, Wang Jun, Shi Wanwan, Sik
Art Director: Shen Qibin
Academic Organizers: Gu Zheqing
Curator: Su Wenxiang
Media Coordinator: Feng Ruoyu
Technical Assistance: Sheng Shanyuan, Bao Zhengyuan
Contact: 021, 6587 5996
More Info:
www.duolunart.org
