Guest: Marc Glode
Date: 2014-09-02 19:00 ~ 2014-09-02 20:30
Address: Chronus Art Center (Room101, Bldg18, NO.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai)
MODERATOR: Li Zhenhua
LANGUAGE: English (with Chinese translation)
Reservations via membership@chronusartcenter.org (please supply your full name, contact information, and the number of people attending)
Not only has the exploration of the medium of film joined such classic art forms as painting and sculpture as an integral part of artistic discourse over the past few years, but also engaging with the moving image has in fact become an ineluctable feature of artistic practice.
A growing number of museum shows and film series have repeatedly demonstrated the strong correspondence between the various arts, showing how closely film is interwoven with art production, and confirming the compelling influence it has exerted on the arts. Even new cinematic forms shed light on a wide variety of historical controversies, such as analog vs. digital processes, low-tech vs. high-tech, original vs. assimilated material, or documentary reality vs. fiction.
Against the backdrop of private collectors’ increasing interest and many museum institutions’ new awareness of their own expanding film collections, the aesthetic scope of cinematic art has now become apparent. Emancipated from the rigid structures of often almost paradigmatic self-reflection and formal orthodoxy, the artistic debate has developed new potential.
The aim of this talk at CAC is to reflect some of these new dynamics between the moving image and the art discourse and give an insight in the latest discussions and developments at art fairs, universities and the academy.
ABOUT THE ENCOUNTER:
This new series is initiated and curated by Li Zhenhua, invites several professionals who work for institutions. They will talk about the popular issues including museums, curators and art system. Through the encounters with these professionals coming from the mainstream art industry, we could understand better about how to be independent, autonomous, and free. Through the introduction of these institutions and their ways of working, we could take as reference and think about how to push forward the new and experimental arts. And in the same time, we aim to build more healthy institutional culture in the mainland of China. CAC Encounter is a platform for communication, it wishes to benefit the participants of the growing art system, it bridges between the West and the East, it attempts to think independently and keeping the mainstream in mind, so as for a better future of the art system.
ABOUT GUEST:
Marc Glode is an internationally acclaimed curator and art critic. His work focuses on the relation between images, technology, space, and the body, as well as the dynamics between artistic fields such as art/architecture, art/film, or film/architecture. He received his PhD in film studies from the Free University Berlin and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, the Free University of Berlin. Since 2013 he has been working as Assistant Professor at the ETH Zürich.
From the middle of the 1990s onward Glode worked as a curator. He was invited curator for the Experimenta Festival 2007 in Mumbai/Bangalore and curated the exhibition STILL/MOVING/STILL – The History of Slide Projection in the Arts in Knokke/Belgium. From 2008 until today he has been curator of Art Film, Art Basel's film programme. Some of his internationally outstanding curatorial projects include art berlin contemporary (Berlin 2010–2012), (Re-)locating the Self (Y8, Hamburg), and the film program of Beyond the Museum – The Art of Projection (Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof). Most recently he curated the exhibition Tom Marioni – Actions 1969–2014 focusing on the work of conceptual artist Tom Marioni.
His writing has been published in Fantom, Texte zur Kunst, Parkett, Art in America and X-TRA Magazine, among others. His newest book Farblicht. R?ume., has just been published by Fink Verlag in 2014.
Marc Glode lives and works in Berlin (Germany) and Zürich (Switzerland).
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Li Zhenhua (CN/CH) has been active in the field of art since 1996. His practice mainly concerns curation, art creation, and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (CH), as well as for The Prix Pictet (CH). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition “Digital Revolution” to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014. He has edited several artists’ publications (e.g. Yan Lei, Hu Jieming, and Feng Mengbo). A collection of his art reviews was published under the title “Text” in 2013.
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