Date:

2024.01.26 (Friday)

Time:

19:00-20:30

Guests:

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė (online), Zian Chen

Language:

English, Mandarin

Venue:

West Bund Museum (No. 2600 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai) 

Floor B1, Box

Co-organized by

Chronus Art Center, West Bund Museum

Supported by

Pro Helvetia Shanghai, the Swiss Arts Council

 

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Third in the extended Mouthless series, Mouthless Part IIIdeveloped duringthe Enter the Hyper-Scientific residency at EPFL, CH,presents machine-hallucinated images of natural landscapes that further challenge the separation between the nature and human, technology, and culture within the modern episteme. Through collaboration with engineers and scientists at the EPFL Center for Imaging and Image Analysis Hub, traditional Western painting conventions of depicting natural landscapes become the point of the investigation. Digital computer-game environments in the work are morphed by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to a latent space for the entanglement of the nature and the artificial, supernatural and technology. in the the dual-channel video, a dialogue unfolds between an Eastern European peasant and a landscape demon, transforming the Nature and its sublime into something nebulous with grotesque, viscosity, folklore, and magic.During the event “The Form of Grotesque: Mouthless Part III”, we will watch the video and Kulbokaitė will delve into the conception and process behind the artwork. Writer and curator Zian Chen will then join for a conversation with Kulbokaitė, engaging in a critical exploration of the artistic practices of the duo.

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Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, both graduated from the Royal College of Art in London (2012). They work across performance, video, painting, sculpture and installation- where language breaks down and one genre morphs into many. They have exhibited internationally including Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); Kunsthalle Mainz (2023); EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne (2023); Shedhalle, Zürich (2022); Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2022); CCS, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg (2021); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo/Milan (2021); Swiss Institute, New York (2020); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2020); Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Athens Biennale (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); ICA, London (2017) among others. They founded the YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013–2021). They are the recipients of the Allegro Artist Prize 2022; CERN Collide Residency 2022 and laureates of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021.

Zian Chen collaborates with artists and writers to develop alternative frameworks for thinking and speculation. His collaborative research and curatorial projects with artists have been presented at institutions such as the Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, and the Bleed Biennial in Melbourne, among others. As a critical thinker exploring the boundaries of art writing, he received the Contemporary Art Writing and Critical Thinking Award from the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2015. He has contributed to exhibition catalogues for artists such as Mark Dion, Arseny Zhilyaev, Elmgreen & Dragset, Wang Tuo, and institutions including the Liverpool Biennial; Asia Art Biennial; CHAT Centre for Heritage, Arts, and Textile in Hong Kong; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, and Arrow Factory, Beijing, among others. Currently, he is Contributing Editor at Ocula Magazine. He previously served as the founding editor of Heichi Magazine (2020-2021) and as a researcher at the Long March Project in Beijing (2017-2020).

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