Lacuna:Relationships 空隙：关系当代装置艺术
展览海报
“Lacuna:Relationships 空隙：关系”当代装置艺术展
策展人：Denise(德妮丝) 刘水洋 贾晶晶
学术支持：陈劼
特邀表演：没谱音乐/下午
展览时间：2016.4.23|24 10:00-18:00
展览地址：宋庄小堡艺术东区工业东路 空隙空间
《空隙：关系》
在苍茫的大地上，有一个物象，它含着露珠迎着朝霞。人们把它叫做“烂尾楼”。作为一类事物被迫中断的程序，或许先前的推动力其实是带着浪漫迷人的色彩和诸多美好遐想的。作为一种空间存在，它和“人身”和“人生”的欲念紧密关联着。虽然它非中国专属，但在“地产经济”的中国模式里，它是事实的建筑和人类痕迹。在艺术和文化快速发展的浪潮里，“烂尾楼”也成为了宋庄新区划里的历史存在和“新物种”。
在这个有着丰富背景含义的字眼里，裸露的钢筋混泥土框架，既是一个“现实”，一个“被中断”程序的存在物。同时，它的呈递状态及其背后被人猜测的故事，也给予了艺术家们无穷的遐想。 在“睹物”与“延伸”的思维结构里，这类不大不小的构架，它是亲昵着思索的眼睛，还是冷漠地释放着曾经凝聚良久的讯息?作为存在，它的信息密码到底是什么? 难道它灰色、高低错落、某端露着锈迹钢筋的框架，只是呈示着“物”特性及其关于“未完成”的哀思?
冥想空乏着概念及其隐喻。框之“空”是不言而喻的，架之“隙”是显而易见的。“空隙”应对着无所不支的框架，让吻合了信息密码的艺术主体，做最自由自在的思维穿越。 “空隙”的现实存在其实是种“虚妄”的遐想。宇宙是没用真正空隙的，世界皆是物质的存在。通过设想和关联的步骤，真实的“空隙”，显然是被现实的各种“关系”填充的。关系，才是世界的实体!对于人类的心灵来说，对于诸如“烂尾楼”框架起来的“空隙”来说，“关系”构建着虚实、主客之间的各种特征性构造。
如此看来，“空隙”和“关系”只是艺术主体的心灵代码，二者的概念引发只是类推的意义符号。 《空隙：关系》展览中，三十九位中外当代艺术家的装置和影像作品，即是“当下”思维的禅定、感悟和阐释。但愿作品能够以更多鲜活的姿态，敲击“空隙”为“关系”所做的思维预谋。
陈劼 2016.4.5
“LACUNA: Relationships 空隙： 关系”当代艺术展
Curators: Denise Keele-bedford 德妮丝Liu Shuiyang 刘水洋 Jia Jingjing 贾晶晶
The air is thick and dense and I cannot see the distance as I walk through this seemingly misty fog. I feel as if in a void of mystery and intrigue for I know not what will happen. I may stumble or trip bruising myself against an unseen obstacle. As I endeavor to continue to move forward I am aware of a helping hand that voluntarily supports me along the way. The air starts to clear slightly and I see pockets of clarity yet I continue to be surrounded by this misty fog. The helping hand passes me onward from one support to another and soon I realize that many hands are connected to the first, they link arms to raise me up that I may see above the dense fog where a clear sky and emptiness of space awaits me.
I could be speaking of a Beijing severely polluted city with an Air Quality index reading well above 500. However I am metaphorically describing Guanxi or Relationships.
In one lifetime a person cultivates, develops, establishes, acquires, creates and maintains many forms of relationships. There are many terms to describe these relationships, whether “good” or “bad”. Good Guanxi is about trust. Trusting that I will be supported, that I will be lifted above the fog, that I will see clarity and that I am trustworthy in return.
If I meet a dog on the street, I must trust that it will not bite me and it must trust that I will not kick it. We see each other; we stumble about wondering if we have faith to trust, we approach each other cautiously, quietly, as we do not know the history of each other. I reach out a hand in submissiveness, the dog sniffs, it inquires who I am and we decide that the other is trustworthy. This is “guanxi”; it takes one to start the building process, it takes another for the relationship to occur.
The dog could turn and walk away not accepting the hand, but never kick the dog once it has started to sniff.
I walk to an empty building, it has not been completed and stands stark like a skeleton. I only see the bones as the organs; muscles, blood and skin have not been added to give life to the building. The building has immense character and I know that this skeleton has the potential for life, it can be a living, lively space, but who cares. As I reach out a hand to touch the cold concrete and walk the many cavities and hollows the building calls to be lifted above the fog and I begin my relationship to give life to the skeleton.
《Guanxi关系》An exhibition at the old empty skeletalbuilding is based in relationships; with the building, with the materials, with the participating artists and finally with the audience.
In the hot Summer of 2015 Liu Shui Yang刘水洋 and Denise Keele-bedford德妮丝reached out their hands to create a significant relationship with the building, we now call 空袭 Lacuna. The building responded, accepting our friendship to interact and bring life into the concrete skeleton.
《关系 Guanxi》 In 2016 develops a stronger relationship.
More than 30 artists will converge at the Lacuna site, they will create relationships with the building through their intriguing and unique styles of art making. The relationships will be challenging and at the same time fulfilling giving life in exchange for creation between artists and the empty spaces.
Time: 23 and 24 April at 10am -6pm