微征集延伸項目－新锐策展人工作坊现正接受报名
Micro-curatorial extended project – Emerging Curators Workshop now calling for application
文｜朱春杭
今年8月，比利时策展人Goedele Bartholomeeusen的方案“Reality Bytes”(现实的字节)从首届杨锋艺术与教育基金会“微征集”项目评选中脱颖而出，同名展览于9月18日在深圳有空间亮相。这个“将现实对照于虚拟，将艰难的城市现状对照于电子网络之中的乌托邦”的展览项目因为其与当下密切相关的视角、以及来自不同文化艺术家的多样式呈现，展出了阿格尼奇卡·波尔斯卡(波兰)、布莱恩·科科斯卡(加拿大)、唐娜·胡安卡(美国)、玛丽娅姆·本纳尼(摩洛哥)、玛丽娜·平斯基(俄罗斯)、林韬(美国)等多位艺术家的作品。展览将开放至2016年11月26日。
作为展览的衍生项目，杨锋艺术与教育基金会将于2016年11月20-22日举办一场关于策展的学术工作坊。特邀本次“微征集”评委，策展人鲍栋、刘秀仪（Venus Lau）进行两场专题讲座以及与新锐策展人深入讨论策展方案的交流活动。以通过收藏、展览与教育和研究活动来推动当代艺术的发展为其宗旨的杨锋艺术与教育基金会，希望透过这次的活动为参加者提供多元开放的策展理念学习、交流以及实践机会，让新锐策展人与讲者之间有深入探讨策展以及延伸议题。
鲍栋是中国活跃的艺术评论家与独立策展人，现工作生活在北京。从2005年进入中国当代艺术界至今，他的评论文章广泛见于国内外艺术期刊，批评文集以及艺术家专著；他曾为众多国内外艺术机构策划展览。他的议题将围绕着“展览的研究工作与展览现场之间的转换”，涉及到展览构想与具体实施之间的一系列操作性问题。
刘秀仪是一位在深圳、北京生活和工作的策展人和作者，目前担任OCAT深圳馆艺术总监。她曾获得CCAA中国当代艺术奖评委提名奖，其获奖方案对中国语境下机构批评的策略进行反思，同时探讨了物性和本体论在艺术中的纽带。她的议题则将围绕着“策展没有定律，每一个展览都是反思策展和图像历史的机会”的理论性思维展开：策展人在既有的认识论框架和物理空间限制之外，作为采集者(gatherer) 链接不同的知识系统和时间性，铺陈本雅明式的辩证图像(dialectic image)。讲座以Jens Hoffman 的著作《Show Time》作为起点，结合国内外其他展览案例，分析所谓“有影响力”的展览的特点，思索展览的标准是如何被塑造，以及如何重新看待已然制度化的“基准”(benchmark)，并讨论策展的几个基本元素 －理论结构、空间的掌握、作品的选择、话语的扩展等。
从即日起，杨锋艺术与教育基金会开始公开召集工作坊参加者：
1. 申请要求：
－详细个人简历
－20分钟以内的演讲PPT，介绍自己一个已实现或即将进行的策展理念
－过往曾参与和艺术相关的展览、活动与研究型文章的介绍（如有）
－名额有限，如报名，请将上述资料发送至info@fyfoundation.com
2. 报名截止时间：2016年11月6日
3. 评选方式：由评委会成员推荐以及接受公开报名，基金会会与讲师从报名者中综合评估，挑选出合适人选。
4. 入选名额：6-8名
5. 基金会将赞助入选参加者的两晚住宿以及膳食费用。
6. 日程安排
11月20日
到达&欢迎晚宴
11月21日
上午：刘秀仪主讲
策展没有定论，每一个展览都是反思策展和图像历史的机会
下午：鲍栋主讲
展览的研究工作与展览现场之间的转换
11月22日
方案陈述及评议 & 综合讨论
7. 更多详细信息，欢迎浏览官方网站：www.fyfoundation.com
除了可以与这两位策展经验丰富的专业策展人有深入的交流与学习之外，参与这次活动的策展人档案会进入杨锋艺术与教育基金会人才库，基金会会选择合适的机会进行合作。
Text | Joe Zhu
August this year, Begian curator Goedele Bartholomeeusen’s proposal “Reality Bytes” emerged from the jury selection of the first Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation’s “Micro-curatorial project”, an exhibition of the same title opened on September 18 at You Space in Shenzhen.
An exhibition project that “compares reality to the virtual, and the dire urban conditions to the digital network of utopia” is presented through perspectives closely tied to the present, shown by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. The exhibition includes the works of artists Donna Agnieska Polska (Poland), Brian Kokoska (Canada), Huanca (U.S.A), Meriem Bennani (Morocco), and Marina Pinsky (Russia) and Tao Lin (U.S.A), and will continue until November 26, 2016.
As an extended project to this exhibition, The Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation will host the first academic workshop on curatorial practice from November 20 to 22, 2016. We are pleased to invite two members of the “Micro-Curatorial Project” jury, curator Bao Dong and Venus Lau for giving two talks on this subject, as well as providing the opportunity to discuss exhibitions proposals of emerging curators. With the aims to “promote the development of contemporary art through collection, exhibition, education and research activities”, The Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation hopes to provide the participants a diverse and open learning environment on curatorial concepts, communication and opportunitiesfor practice through this workshop, allowing the emerging curators to establish in-depth discussions with the speakers on the exhibition and extended subjects.
Bao Dong is an active art critic and independent curator, who works and lives in Beijing. Since his first endeavour in the Chinese contemporary art world in 2005, his critical writing have been widely published on art periodicals, collections of texts and artists’ catalogues; he has curated a number of exhibitions in Chinese and international art institutions. His subject of discussion evolves around “The adaptability of exhibition research to on-site presentation”, which involves a series of operative issues on the conceptual structure of the exhibition to its implementations.
Venus Lau is a curator and writer based in Shenzhen, where she is artistic director of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, and Beijing. She won the Chinese Contemporary Art Award jury's prize with her proposal to rethink strategies of institutional critique within a Chinese context while exploring the links between ontology and objecthood in art. Her topic of discussion expands from the theoretical postulation that “Curatorial practice has no rules, where every exhibition is an opportunity to rethink curating and image history”, in other words, beyond the existing knowledge frameworks and the limitations of the physical exhibition space, the curator’s role as a gatherer, who connects different knowledge systems and temporalities, and elaborates on the dialectic image a la Walter Benjamin. The talk begins with Jens Hoffman’s volume Show Time, providing examples of exhibition in China and overseas as case studies to analyze the features of “influential” exhibitions, making inquisitions on how the standard of exhibition is being shaped, how to re-examine the institutionalized “benchmarks”, as well as, discussing the basic elements of an exhibition – theoretical structure, site management, selection of artworks and the extension of the discourse and etc.
As from this date, Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation begins to accept applications to participate in this workshop
1.Application Requirements:
-Detailed Curriculum Vitae
-20 mins powerpoint presentation on a completed or ongoing curatorial project
-Past participation in art related exhibitions, activities or research writing (if available)
-Due to limited availability of the workshop, pls send your application to info@fyfoundation.com
2. Application Deadline: November 6, 2016
3. Selection: recommendation by the members of the jury, while accepting open applications, the foundation will invite the speakers to make overall assessment and select the suitable participants.
4.Number of participants: 6-8
5.The foundation will provide two nights of accommodation and a per diem to the participants.
6.Event Schedule:
November 20
Evening: Arrival & welcome dinner
November 21
Morning: “Curatorial practice has no rules, where every exhibition is an opportunity to rethink curating and image history” by Venus Lau
Afternoon: “The adaptability of exhibition research to on-site presentation” by Bao Dong
November 22
Morning: Presentations of exhibition proposal and discussion
Afternoon: Presentations of exhibition proposal and discussion ／General Discussion
Besides having the opportunity to exchange ideas in-depth with these two experienced curators, the profiles of all emerging curators selected for this workshop will be archived into the Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation, with whom the foundation will seek opportunities for future collaboration.