CURRENT：

苏格兰当代艺术展（第二期）

展览开幕：2016年12月17日 16:30

展期：2016年12月17日-2017年1月15日

上海民生现代美术馆

地址：淮海西路570号红坊F座（地铁3、4、10号线虹桥路站直达）

活动介绍

主办：

上海民生现代美术馆、

邓迪大学艺术设计学院库柏美术馆

英国文化教育协会全程支持

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上海民生现代美术馆即将呈现大型群展“CURRENT：苏格兰当代艺术展(第二期)”。本次展览是苏格兰当代艺术第二次登陆上海，由上海民生现代美术馆和邓迪大学艺术设计学院库柏美术馆联合策划主办，英国文化教育协会全程支持。展览将于2016年12月17日开幕，持续至2017年1月15日。

“CURRENT：苏格兰当代艺术展(第二期)” 包括“REWIND｜倒带：英国70及80年代录像艺术”以及“>>FFWD｜快进：苏格兰当代移动影像”两个单元。这两个展览单元将聚焦苏格兰当代艺术中最富有特色的移动影像领域，通过艺术家的镜头将观众引向“当下”这一瞬息万变难以定义的概念。展览将重点梳理移动影像艺术在英国的历史脉络、发展过程及其在苏格兰特定的人文地域社会语境下产生的艺术实践方向，向中国观众展示苏格兰当代艺术的草根精神以及独特魅力。

记录时间，创造时间，“同时代”的自身确立在那充满变化的高科技图像世界中。面对着这个在高清特写和令人震撼的广角全景图之间游荡的时间幻象，“CURRENT:苏格兰当代艺术展（第二期）”旨在通过移动影像中两个相对立的动作“倒带”和“快进”中来把握“当下”这个焦躁不安的能量。高科技世界里的摄像机、胶片以及记忆卡等似乎掌握着重温昨日并且把握今天的能力。通过剖析“移动影像”中蕴含的时间哲学的悖论，本次展览将揭示人类无法把握的“此时此刻”中的永恒激情以及现代生活中瞬时性里蕴含的美丽与悲哀。

 “倒带”单元旨在揭示70年代及80年代最具影响力的英国录像艺术的激进历史，同时也为观众提供一个深刻的历史视角来解读“同时代”作为一个历史概念中的移动影像的特质。 “快进”单元中的作品如同一组阐释“当下”的视觉词汇，凸显着“同时代”的直接性和冲击性。

通过“倒带”中的昨日和“快进”中的今日，“CURRENT：苏格兰当代艺术展（第二期）”期望能够在“同时代”这个幻影之上投射些许光线；充斥着激进的形式和艺术的激情，“倒带”和“快进”两个展览单元将通过移动影像，揭示“同时代”虚构的永恒性。

△ David Hall, TV Interruptions (1971)

“倒带”单元展出6位英国视频艺术领域最具代表性的艺术家George Barber, David Critchley, Judith Goddard,David Hall, Stephen Partridge及 ElaineShemilt的作品，这些作品均被《REWIND｜倒带：英国70及80年代录像艺术文献》研究项目所收藏。《REWIND｜倒带：英国70及80年代录像艺术文献》是一项由英国政府艺术人文研究委员会（AHRC）重点支持的国家级研究项目。该项目填补了英国新媒体艺术发展史的空白，对视频影像创作发展的最初二十年间艺术家创作的作品进行深入细致地研究。由于其特殊的短时性创作特征，以及当时的技术设备的所造成的局限，这些作品正处于消失的危机中。《倒带》项目运用当今最先进的数字化技术收集修复并保存了这些珍贵的视频艺术作品，为当下和未来学术研究之需作出了意义深远的贡献。

△ Katy Dove, October (2011)

“快进”单元呈现24位苏格兰新锐艺术家近十五年内在苏格兰本土创作的移动影像作品。在展览期间，作品将围绕四个不同的主题在四周展期內轮回展出，分别是“注视和姿态：身体的双重秩序”、“声音和雕塑：历史的透明度”、“方法和演绎： 叙事的追求”及“描述和距离： 时间的重叠”。通过移动影像这一媒体本身对时间的阐释，四个主题将凸显人类在错综复杂的“同时代”中所体验的历史与当下交错重叠的“此时此刻”。“快进”单元的展出作品由苏格兰实验影像艺术机构爱丁堡现代电影学院协助筛选 。

展览策展人，部分艺术家以及爱丁堡现代电影学院策展人将出席开幕式并与现场观众互动，探讨他们的艺术创作实践，作品所蕴含的哲学理念以及苏格兰当代艺术现状。更多详情请留意美术馆官方网站及微信平台。

库柏美术馆是一个公共美术馆，隶属于英国最具历史性的著名艺术学院之一，始建于1892年的邓迪大学邓肯乔丹斯通艺术设计学院 (Duncan of Jordanstone Collegeof Art and Design)。

由于其在当代艺术与文化上具有新锐的策展研究专业性、国际取向与对批判语境的侧重，库柏美术馆被国际艺术界誉为苏格兰独特的实验性当代艺术平台。

在“整合策展理念”框架下，库柏美术馆的四个展览空间致力于推行深度学术展览与场外合作项目、公共参与活动、艺术家/作家驻留计划与出版项目，并积极地发展与英国国内外机构以及个人的深度有效的合作。这个取向提高了其执行项目的质量与覆盖度，促使库柏美术馆能够积极地支持、生产与传播国内外顶级艺术家以及新兴艺术家、创意工作者、思想家的作品。

更多信息可以访问库柏美术馆官网：

http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/current

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CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland (Phase Two)

Exhibition Programme 

REWIND: British Video Art in the 70s & 80s

>>FFWD: Artists’ Moving Image from Scotland

17 December 2016 – 15 January 2017

Organisers: Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Cooper Gallery DJCAD, University of Dundee

in partnership with the British Council

REWIND: British Video Art in the 70s & 80s

George Barber, David Critchley, Judith Goddard, David Hall, Stephen Partridge, Elaine Shemilt

>>FFWD: Artists’ Moving Image from Scotland：

Anne Colvin, Anne-Marie Copestake, Karen Cunningham, Kate Davis, Katy Dove, Kathryn Elkin, Sarah Forrest, Allison Gibbs, Michelle Hannah, Elín Jakobsdóttir, Mairi Lafferty, Adam Lewis Jacob, Lyndsay Mann, Duncan Marquiss, Oliver Mezger, Rosalind Nashashibi, Bobby Niven, Hardeep Pandhal, Ross Sinclair, Lucy Skaer, Pernille Spence, Corin Sworn, Tom Varley, Dominic Watson

▍About the Exhibiton

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum is pleased to present CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland (Phase Two). Following the successful 2015 debut in China, CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland programme will move into Phase Two at Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum in December 2016. The project is curated by Cooper Gallery DJCAD, University of Dundee in collaboration with Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum and organized in partnership with the British Council. The exhibitions will open to the public on December 17 and continue to run until January 15.

Consisting of two group exhibitions REWIND: British Video Art in the 70s & 80s and >>FFWD: Artists’ Moving Image from Scotland, Phase Two of CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland focuses on the history, development and current conditions of artists’ moving image works to further explore the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland, its grass-roots spirit and its keen debates with the social and political dimensions of art and culture.

Transfixed in the immediate passage of a recurring now, the contemporary captures and projects only its own image. This is its currency, its irredeemable value, the unique quality of being simultaneously both what is watched and the means of watching. But the now of the contemporary is inherently unstable and indefinite. Without permanency or stability, it smoulders in a closed loop, ceaselessly rewinding and leaping forward, an image always moving ahead and falling back upon itself. 

Marking and making time, the contemporary inscribes itself within a technical universe composed of images in constant flux. Faced with this temporal apparition that oscillates between high definition close-ups and impossible wide angle panoramas, Phase Two of CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland grasps the restless energies of now by means of two contrasting takes on the moving image; REWIND and >>FFWD.  

Crashing in and out of focus, cutting and editing time, the moving image is the aesthetic medium of the contemporary. Yet as a medium it holds more than just the present moment, its play of film strips and pixels is marked by radical histories. Excavating this radical history encapsulated in seminal artists’ video works from the 1970’s and 80’s, REWIND provides an in-depth historical perspective with which to grasp the condition of the contemporary as a moving image falling in and out of history. In contrast, >>FFWD seizes the contemporary in its full immediacy and impact. Choreographed as a four-week rolling programme of moving image works from Scotland, >>FFWD illuminates a visual lexicon of now.

Fast-forwarding to yesterday and rewinding today, Phase Two of CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland throws light on the shadow we call the contemporary. Replete with radical aesthetics and artistic passions, >>FFWD and REWIND bring into startling focus the moving images that give the contemporary its fiction of permanency.

REWIND: British Video Art in the 70s & 80s

Drawn from the significant national AHRC research project led by scholars at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, REWIND is a critical and historical counter-point to the contemporary moving image works presented in >>FFWD. Sampling the visual languages and formal innovations developed by video artists working during the 1970’s and 80’s, REWIND provides a telling account of how the image culture of the contemporary is saturated with citations, quotations and references from its near past. 

>>FFWD: Artists’ Moving Image from Scotland

Spliced together as a four week ‘film strip’ of Artists’ Moving Image practices animating contemporary art from Scotland, >>FFWD holds time as a material, and the camera as the medium of looking, recording and seeing. Featuring works by twenty-four artists, >>FFWD captures the evocative light of contemporary moving image works from four distinct angles. Indexed by questions of the body, history, narrative and time, >>FFWD unrolls the moving image as a medium irrevocably defined by the urgencies of our contemporary moment. The selection of >>FFWD is supported by Modern Edinburgh Film School. 

There will be an opportunity for the audience to meet with the curators and some of the artists featured in the exhibitions to discuss the ideas behind their work and contemporary art in Scotland. For further information, please visit our website or follow us on Wechat.

CURRENT | Contemporary Art from Scotland is kindly supported by the British Council, China-UK Connections through Culture, The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, Scottish Government, Shanghai International Culture Association, LUX Scotland and Goldsmiths College, University of London. CURRENT is a direct result of the Research and Development Trip (January 2014) funded by Creative Scotland.

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum (SMAM), sponsored and funded by the China Minsheng Banking Corporation, is a non-profit organization focused on the research of Chinese modern and contemporary art. Closely reflecting the international trajectory and the status of Chinese contemporary art, SMAM actively promotes dialogue and exchange between Chinese contemporary art and international cutting-edge art practices. Collecting and exhibiting outstanding artworks from both China and the rest of the world, SMAM is as a public platform for international debate and academic research with an extensive educational programme. 

Cooper Gallery DJCAD

Cooper Gallery DJCAD is a public gallery associated with one of the most respected art colleges in the UK, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) established in 1892.

Cooper Gallery have gained international recognition as a distinctive platform in Scotland with their radical curatorial research, international approach and focus on critical discourse in contemporary art and culture. 

With four galleries devoted to an integrated programme of new commissions, exhibitions, off-site projects, public engagement events, artists’/writers’ residencies and publishing, Cooper Gallery DJCAD actively develop meaningful and effective collaborations with national and international organizations/individuals. This approach enhances the reach and quality of its work, enabling the gallery to support, produce and disseminate the best practices of established and emerging, national and international artists and creative practitioners.

For further information, please visit: http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/current

The British Council

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. The British Council create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. Using the UK’s cultural resources, we make a positive contribution to the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.

The British Council work with over 100 countries across the world in the fields of arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. 

Founded in 1934, we are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body. The majority of our income is raised delivering a range of projects and contracts in English teaching and examinations, education and development contracts and from partnerships with public and private organisations. Eighteen per cent of our funding is received from the UK government.

We operate as the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Beijing and Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Wuhan. Our Exams work across China operates as a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise. 

▍About the Curator

Sophia Hao

Sophia Hao is Director and Curator of Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, where she leads an experimental and integrated curatorial programme with a focus on critical discourse in contemporary art and visual culture. 

Hao has published books, articles, catalogue essays, novels and poetry internationally. She is also the founder and editor of the contemporary art journal &labels. Her books include A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE (2015) and NOTES on a return (2010). Her most recent book Hubs and Fictions: On Current Art and Imported Remoteness (co-edited with Edgar Schmitz) was published by Sternberg Press in 2016. In 2014 Hao was awarded the Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship. She is a panel member of Margaret Tait Award for artists’ film and moving image 2016/17. 

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