Guest: Davide Quadrio, Xiaowen Zhu
Date: 2014-09-06 14:00 ~ 2014-09-06 16:00
Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
LANGUAGE: Chinese
Reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please indicate your full name, contact information and the number of reservation)
ABOUT LECTURE:
40+4 Art Is Not Enough! Not Enough! is a series of videotaped interviews, by curator Davide Quadrio, filmmaker Lothar Spree, artist Xiaowen Zhu, with some forty Shanghai-based artists, dealing not with artwork per se, but rather with how artists themselves perceive their activity, their role and position in a changing, post-conventional society. It seeks to “map out” some of the contours of the city’s artistic imagination, providing a cartography of the force fields of its subjectivities. And above and beyond an unsparingly critical, and at times partisan analysis of artistic imaginaries, it provides a heuristic focus on the urban subjectivities of one of the contemporary world’s most intense urban experiments – Shanghai.
This interactive panoramic version of 40+4, which is currently exhibited at Chronus Art Center on AVIE, was made by Lothar Spree, Xiaowen Zhu, in the collaboration with Bernd Lintermann from ZKM Institute for Art & Media, in Karlsruhe Germany.
The event is not only a lecture, but also reunite the original interviewer, Davide Quadrio and Xiaowen Zhu, with their interviewees (some of them are invited to attend) seven years later. They will together read their memoris, in retrospect, and also explore how the “Art Made In Shanghai” has been changed in the past few years.
ABOUT SPEAKERS:
Davide Quadrio (IT) is a China based producer and curator. He founded and directed for a decade the first not for profit independent creative lab in Shanghai, Bizart Art Center, as a platform to foster the local contemporary art scene. In 2007 Quadrio created ArtHub Asia, a production and curatorial proxy active in Asia and worldwide. He is currently hosted by Shanghai Visual Art Institute, Fudan University, and he is part of the Scientific Committee of PAC, Pavilion of Contemporary Art of Milan as well as Artistic Director of Scene 44 in Marseille.
Xiaowen Zhu (CH/UK) is a media artist, curator and writer, currently based in London. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, She uses video, photography, performance, installation and mixed media as platforms to communicate the complicated experience of being an international and to wrestle with the notion of a disembodied identity. She is the first receipt of the TASML Artist Residency Award and Marylyn Ginsburg Klaus Post-MFA Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
