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亞生産——倪海峰個展
策展人：姚嘉善
開幕時間：2008年9月27日星期六下午4點
展覽時間：2008年9月28日－11月
展覽地點：卓越藝術，北京市朝陽區酒仙橋路4號798藝術D區
開放時間：週二至週日上午10點至下午6點
聯繫電話：010-5978 9788
電子郵箱：info@joyart-beijing.com
網 址：www.joyart-beijing.com
贊助：荷蘭王國駐華大使館
倪海峰的藝術實踐起源於對回歸、交換、語言和生産等文化系統的關注。他通過影像和裝置的方式，探索同時發生的意義的産生和消偃，提醒人們注意常常映射出殖民主義和全球化建構模式的人、産品以及商品的迴圈運動。倪海峰以打破現狀、對抗預先形成的藝術概念為目標，用藝術家的話表達是一種致力於達到“零度意義”的努力。在他的藝術實踐中，處處滲透著某種潛在的政治批判因素，這與他對“無用性觀念”的追求和以此抵消伴隨消費主義與資本主義而生的“有效生産”的渴望是分不開的。
生産和製造成為倪海峰藝術實踐中一再出現的主題。他在之前的作品中就已經將創作重心放在對材料生産和消費的關注上，如在荷蘭城市代菲特實施的、涉及中荷瓷器貿易的項目《離境與抵達》（2005年）；指涉不斷重復的再生産過程和原創性貧乏的《縮水10%》（2007年）；以及標識全球商品貿易標準化編碼機制的裝置項目《HS 0902.20, 0904.11 & 6911.10》。
《碎布的回歸》是倪海峰2007年于荷蘭萊頓市(Leiden)初展的一件作品。展覽于萊頓市市立萊肯哈爾博物館(the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal)舉行，作品以商品和材料的迴圈運轉為主題，“中國為西方生産”所帶來的，留在中國的那些西方所不願意要的哪些元素在作品中象徵性地回歸西方。作為“中國製造”現象的副産品，紡織品生産中産生的廢棄碎布條由浙江海運至萊頓，與一塊巨大的由碎布編織而成的挂件和記錄工廠環境以及著名品牌的影像構成作品的基礎。
此次《亞生産》于北京的展示中，倪海峰的興趣在於同樣受制于材料的生産模式，只不過此次的重點已經轉向藝術生産中的社會性生産，後者是通過其勞動的凸顯以及工人和個體的積極參與體現出來的。整個裝置由一塊巨大的由碎布編織成的挂件組成，懸挂在展覽空間的對角線方向，整塊布從天花板垂直垂下，帶著輕柔的曲線延展在地面之上。布面在地板上延展一段距離，最終引申到一組縫紉機前。布面就靠在第一排縫紉機上，好像仍未完成一樣。縫紉機上會有一些沒有縫好的碎布條，背景是一個巨大的碎布條堆。
《亞生産》將焦點從貿易和全球化轉移到生産的社會美學上，個體和工人因此被涵納于指向生産與消費、創造性與無用性的過程中。通過工人的集體努力，成衣工廠的廢棄碎布條被編織成一塊巨大的挂布，展覽場所也轉變成一處生産的空間，提出的疑問並非是這種“表徵”是如何顯現出來的，而是什麼東西正在被生産。在這樣一種社會關係的語境中，“織”與“被織”的概念象徵性地成為可視性和藝術生産的社會性元素。展覽中還將展示一個聲音裝置，倪海峰試圖在其中探索與發生在展覽現場的美學生産密切相關的多重敘事。通過材料的可視性及聲響語言，《碎布的回歸》試圖涵納的是深刻的寂靜和打破寂靜、勞動的痕跡和消失，視覺的現時性和它的歷史。
Para-Production: An Exhibition by Ni Haifeng
curator: Pauline J. Yao
Opening: 4pm, Saturday, September 27, 2008
Exhibition Dates: September 28 –November 2008
Venue: JoyArt, Zone D, 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxian Qiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Opening Hours: 10am – 6pm, Tuesday – Sunday
Tel: ＋86 10 59789788
Email: info@joyart-beijing.com
Website: www.joyart –beijing.com
Sponsor:Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ni Haifeng’s practice stems from an interest in cultural systems of return, exchange, language and production. Through photography, video and installations he explores the simultaneous creation and obliteration of meaning while drawing attention to the cyclical movements of people, products and goods that are often reflective of patterns of colonialism and globalization. Ni’s aims to subvert the status quo and counteract preconceived notions of art are, in the artist’s words, an effort towards reaching a ‘zero degree of meaning’. An underlying element of political critique permeates Ni’s practice, as defined through his engagement with the concept of uselessness and desire to offset ‘the production of the useful’ that accompanies consumerism and capitalism.
Aspects of manufacturing and production have formed recurring themes within Ni’s artistic practice. Previous projects have centered upon material production and consumption, from his Of the Departure and the Arrival (2005) project in Delft concerning the ceramic trade between China and the Netherlands; to Shrinkage 10% (2007) which references the repeated processes of reproduction and tenuousness towards originality; to the installation HS 0902.20, 0904.11 & 6911.10 (2007) that denotes the standardized coding systems for globally traded commodities.
Return of the Shreds is a work that Ni first exhibited in Leiden, the Netherlands in 2007. In its presentation at the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, the work centered on the cyclical movement of goods and materials and the symbolic return of unwanted elements resulting from production in China to the West. Shreds of discarded fabric—byproducts of the “Made in China” phenomenon—were shipped from Zhejiang to Leiden and formed the basis of the installation, along with a woven hanging and video component that documented the factory environment and name brands.
In Beijing Ni presents Para-Production, a large scale installation that references a mode of production mired in the material, with an emphasis that is shifted towards production of the social through its foregrounding of labor and the active participation of workers and individuals in the production of art. Piles of shreds, a gigantic piece of sewn cloth, and an array of sewing machines are positioned to create a workshop environment that is both collective and participatory.
By shifting trajectories from trade and globalism to the social aesthetics of making, Para-Production enmeshes individuals and workers in a process that references production and consumption, creativity and futility. As discarded scraps from clothing factories are woven into a giant tapestry through the collective effort of workers, the exhibition site is transformed into a place of production with the question being not one of how this ‘representation’ is manifested but of what is being produced. Here, in the context of social relations, the concepts of weaving and woven become symbolically tied to visibility and the social component of artistic production. Accompanying the main installation work will additional elements in which Ni explores a complex web of narratives that relate to the aesthetic production taking place in the site. Through a combination of the material visibility and verbal language, Para-Production is a work intended to contain both a profound silence and its interruption, the trace of labor and its disappearance, the presence of an image and its history.
About the artist
Ni Haifeng was born in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province in 1964. He currently lives in Amsterdam and works between Amsterdam and Beijing. A graduate of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou in 1986, Ni belongs to the early generation of experimental artists active in the mid 1980s in China. His work has been exhibited globally in solo and group exhibitions.
About the curator
Pauline J. Yao is an independent curator and writer based in Beijing and San Francisco. She worked previously as Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and as Senior Lecturer in the Graduate Program at California College of Arts, San Francisco. In 2006 she received a Fulbright Grant to research contemporary art in China and in 2007 was awarded inaugural CCAA (Contemporary Chinese Art Awards) Art Critic Award. Yao is also a co-founder of the alternative art space Arrow Factory in Beijing. She received her M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.
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