项目协商：关于“后艺术”的讨论

Project Negotiation: A Discussion on "Post-Art"

艺术家 Artists:

李波 Li Bo

刘冠南 Liu Guannan

刘耀华 Liu Yaohua

石玩玩 Shi Wanwan

耶苏 Ye Su

策展人 Curator:

高远 Gao Yuan

开幕时间 Opening Time:

2022.01.16, 15:00

展览时间 Exhibition Dates:

2022.01.16 - 2022.02.23

“项目”是一种朝向未来的规划，每时每刻都有大量的“项目”没有通过审批而被抛弃，仿佛卡尔·波普尔所论的“乌托邦工程”一样，永远不可能实现。那种国家意志和历史主义者想象中的愿景正像诸多“艺术项目”一样，最终的结果是：项目取代了作品，方案取代了真实。

展览针对当今艺术家与作品关系的变化，讨论艺术家作为“项目发起人”，而非作品的制作者；而项目的参与者，可以是包括艺术家在内的社会各行各业的公众。在这些“项目”执行的过程中，往往充满不可控性；不预设结果，不规定具体方法，消解艺术家作为创作者的独占权力。艺术家不再行驶作品的主动权，把“制作”作品的权力下放给诸位参与者，采取社会调查或者公众参与的形式，以“项目”和“方案”取代“作品”，实际上也强调了事件的过程而非结果——似乎正是当下中国一些艺术家工作的常态。这种制定项目的工作方式也逐渐演变成一种艺术形式。就如理论家格罗伊斯所言：“艺术不再是为了创造出艺术作品，而是为了记录项目生活（life-in-the-project）”。如此，艺术与生活之间关系的陈旧话题不得不被重新提起，“艺术变成了生命政治（biopolitical），因为它自身已经通过艺术手段创造生活和记录生活”。批评家杰瑞·萨尔茨在《纽约杂志》上评论第13届卡塞尔文献展时，用到了“后艺术”（Post Art）这个词，用来描述那些“甚至不把艺术与生活分开的作品......那些不是艺术品的东西，而是关于制造东西的动力，它们像艺术一样，把想象力嵌入材料中，把握住创造力是一种宇宙力量......一个化学家或将军可能每天都在办公室里做‘后艺术’”。实际上，关于“后艺术”的讨论一直不绝于耳，从艾伦·卡普罗到库斯比特，都是在意识到了艺术和生活微妙的互换关系时提到了这个词。“后艺术”确实消解了艺术家的身份，使艺术家不再独自占有创造艺术作品的权力；但实际上，又赋予了艺术家更多的选择：首先就是其放弃创作作品的权力，其次是艺术家发起项目引导参与者的权力。

展览以5位项目发起人（艺术家：李波、刘冠南、刘耀华、石玩玩、耶苏）的具体项目实施过程为展示对象，注重展陈方式和视觉逻辑的探讨，通过空间搭建和参与者的互动设置展陈模式，形成一种开放式的现场。尝试将“项目”的征集和协商方式以视觉化呈现。对项目和计划本身的展示不仅仅是乏味的文献和档案，而是不同参与者社会和生活实践的汇总，这同时也是“后艺术”讨论的对象。5位“项目发起人”的项目仿佛生动可视的“项目协商”，既是与空间和策展人的协商，又是在互相协商，在有限的展陈空间内“协商”出无限的可能。

文/高远

A "project" is a plan for the future, and every moment a large number of "projects" are abandoned without approval, as if they were "utopian projects" according to Karl Popper. which can never be realized. This vision of the state's will and the historicist's imagination, like so many "art projects," ends up with the project replacing the work and the program replacing the real.

 

The exhibition addresses the changing relationship between the artist and the works of art, discussing the artist as the "project initiator" rather than the producer of the works of art, and the participants in the project, who may be members of the public from all walks of life, including the artists. The process of executing these "projects" is often full of uncontrollability; there is no predetermined outcome, no specific method, and the artist's exclusive power as creator is dissolved. The artist no longer takes the initiative of the work, but delegates the power of "making" the work to the participants, taking the form of social surveys or public participation, replacing the "work" with "projects" and "programs. "In fact, it also emphasizes the process of the event rather than the result - which seems to be the norm of some Chinese contemporary artists' work nowadays. This way of working to develop projects has also gradually evolved into an art form. As the theorist Groys puts it: "Art is no longer about creating works of art, but about documenting life-in-the-project". In this way, the age-old topic of the relationship between art and life has to be revisited, "art becomes biopolitical because it has itself created life and documented it through artistic means". Critic Jerry Saltz, reviewing Documenta 13 in New York Magazine, used the term "Post Art" to describe works that "don't even separate art from life ...... Things that are not works of art, but about the drive to make things that, like art, embed imagination in materials and capture creativity as a cosmic force ...... A chemist or a general might spend every day in his office doing 'post-art'. In fact, there has been much discussion of "post-art," from Alan Kaprow to Kuspit，the term was mentioned in the awareness of the subtle interchangeable relationship between art and life. It is true that "post-art" dissolves the identity of the artist, so that the artist no longer possesses the power to create works of art alone; but in fact, it gives the artist more options: first, the power to renounce the creation of works, and second, the power to initiate projects to guide participants.

 

The exhibition takes the specific project implementation process of the five project initiators (artists: Li Bo, Liu Guannan, Liu Yaohua, Shi Wanwan, and Ye su) as the exhibition object, focusing on the exploration of exhibition methods and visual logic, and setting up the exhibition mode through space construction and participants' interaction to form an open site. The exhibition attempts to visualize the collection and consultation of the projects. The projects and programs themselves are not just boring documents and archives, but a summary of the social and life practices of different participants, which is also the object of "post-art" discussion. The projects of the five "project initiators" are like a vivid and visible "project negotiation", both with the space and the curator, and with each other, "negotiating" infinite possibilities within the limited exhibition space.

—— Gao Yuan

《联合新国地图勘查》

综合媒介

绘画尺寸18x18cm

明信片尺寸20x12cm

视频为彩色有声，尺寸可变

2020-2021

拟像空间，北京，2022

 

NUN Mapping Project

Mixed media

Drawing size 18x18cm

Postcard size 20x12cm

colored video, dimensions variable

2020-2021

Simulacra Space, Beijing, 2022

“NUN地图勘测”项目

“NUN（New United Nations-联合新国）地图勘测”项目，旨在邀请世界各地的人分享或真实或虚构的故事。艺术家则充当图像生产的媒介，将这些故事手绘出来并制作成明信片赠予故事提供者们。

“NUN地图勘测”项目缘起于一幅海陆颠倒的世界地图，以此反思宏观的历史话语，转而关注个人视角下的现实。本项目缘于2020年至今不断弥漫的疫情，首先与位于洛杉矶的Bridge Projects（桥项目）合作，通过Zoom视频交谈方式，采集了17位美国人的故事。在本次展览期间，有兴趣的朋友也可以通过面谈，现场写下故事投入邮箱，发送Email等多种形式将自己的故事给到艺术家，获取一张明信片。

 

 

"NUN Mapping" project

 

The "NUN (New United Nations) Mapping" project aims to invite people from all over the world to share stories, both real and fictional. The artist acts as a medium for the production of images, hand-drawing the stories and producing postcards for the storytellers.

 

"The NUN Mapping"project is based on an upside-down map of the world, reflecting on macro historical discourses and focusing instead on individual perspectives on reality. The project was born out of the pervasive epidemic from 2020 to the present, and began with a collaboration with Los Angeles-based Bridge Projects, which captured the stories of 17 Americans through Zoom video conversations. During the exhibition, people interested in the project can also send their stories to the artist for a postcard by interviewing them, writing them down on the spot and putting them in the mailbox or sending them by email.

参与者（participants）:Linnéa Neuss/Vicki Smith/Michel Wright/Xuesong Zhou/Bonita Helmer/Antonio McAfee/Karen Shefield/Lara Salmon/Steven Homestead/ Kate Ingold/Cara Lewis/wendy Adams /Leonor Jurado/Gray Brewer/Aline Mare/Megan Counolly /Josie Brown