EXHIBITIONSBeing Information

没有信息是中立的

2017.07.15-2017.09.09

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EXHIBITION INFORMATION

Located in CAMP 3399 in Xuhui District, Shanghai, SSSSTART, a contemporary art project space, kicks off an on-going research exhibition project named BEING INFORMATION, which aims to present a unique perspective through a serious of theme- driven experimental exhibitions.

Documenta, born in 1955 in Kassel, Germany, can be regarded as one of the most important origins where we began to talk about the issue of “art archive”. The significance of art archive in art system is reflected in many aspects. Firstly, as a carrier of art, archive liberates art from the conventional aesthetics, implying its vanguard character. The success of Documenta, on the other hand, meets the cultural and political needs of post-war Germany (and even the divided Europe) back to the world stage. Moreover, contemporary artists are now faced with the demand of the archival documentation of the artworks. As the academic art system very often uses “archives” as a way of reading and understanding (for example many institutions such as art museum, and curators of various biennale), whether the artists are sensitive to their surroundings, and whether they are disciplined or self-disciplined according to the surroundings and amend their artworks into “archives”. In fact, the form of art has gone through some major changes along its history, which are all strongly related to the changes of the way of how art system processes.

There had been many discussion over the proposition of “art archive” in the last century. Now, using “archive” is rather a “norm” that has been accepted than something worth questioning. Although the way these archives are compiled is still very much questionable, a brand new world is revealed to us: the explosion of data, the acceleration of communication, the expansion of information sources caused by globalization, the enhancement of document editing capability made possible by modern computers, re-coding is more and more easy, plural and fast”, the continuous acceleration of the enhancement of data editing capability scatters the old problems into shreds and throw them into air, becoming “information”.

Information becomes the power system of our time, growing rapidly and difficult to judge. And there is no neutral information. By unlocking of “medium as information”, Nietsche’s “will to power” and Foucault’s “knowledge-power”, artists demonstrate how to transform art-making as a new tool of information-processing, in other words, as a way to become information. Information might become the new vehicle of art? And becomes one of the new “historical problem”. What’s the medium of it, and how does it encode and de-code itself? How can we use information, a new art and political language, to return to the world? Is the new art consumption a kind of information? Is art work a form of information in this fragmented age? The value of artist’s work lies in its ability to demonstrate that art is a skill to cope with difficulties in real life. Thus, it is the artist’s responsibility to show how to solve these problems. The new form of relationship between human and information has been established, then how shall we live, love and howl? How shall we play or fight? And how shall we re-construct ourselves?

About the Artist

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Gao Jie

Guo Xi

Miao Ying

Liu Chuang

Li Tingwei

Liu Xinyi

Wang Jianwei

Wang Xin

Xu Bing

Yao Qingmei

Tong Yixin

Zhuang Hui

About the Curator

Chao Jiaxing

birth in Shanghai ,October 31,1984
Current Position: Curator/Managing Director ，V Art Center
[Founded by Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA)]

Education
2007.09 – 2010.06 College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University MA Curation Supervisor: Pu Jie
2003.09 – 2007.06 College of Fine Arts, Shanghai University BA Fine Arts
2000.09 – 2003.06 The High School Affiliated to College of Fine Arts,Shanghai UniversityDiploma Fine Arts

Curatorial Experience
2013 “ART that hells-ELLE*ARTS”-ELLE 25 Anniversary special project,
V Art Center (Space 1), M50, Shanghai
2013 “Machine Vision” V Art Center (Space 1&Space 2), M50, Shanghai
2012 “Sensation” V Art Center (Space 1), M50, Shanghai
2012 “The Halo Effect”, V Art Center (Space 1), M50, Shanghai
2012 “Chi Qun | Fang Liefeng | Zhang Xinjun-Group Exhibition”,
V Art Center Space 2, M50, Shanghai
2011 “Video Art Festival of Rennes in France (China exhibition)”,
V Art Center Space 2, M50, Shanghai,
Orgnized by École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie
2011 “Shanghai－I bought you flower”, V Art Center Sp2 ,M50, Shanghai
2011 “Learning Methods－Hands on No.4″，V Art CenterSp1，M50, Shanghai
2011 “Practice to Get Lost ” ,AM Art Space, Shanghai
2010 “Onion” Chivalrous Cantaloup Commune, 696 Weihai Road, Shanghai
2009 “Eat”－group exhibition,the rear of f4，Building 7,M50,Shanghai
2009 “Everyone’s Own Business” 4 in show,+1.5 Art Gallery,M50, Shanghai
2009 “Unpolished Introspection”－Xu Zhaobin solo exhibition,
Zhuqizhan Art Museum Organizing and Coordinating

Organizer
2013 “The Sun” V Art Center (Space 1&Space 2), M50, Shanghai

2011 “The Solar Plexus”－MyPeople Project (Shanghai exhibition),
V Art Center, M50
2010 “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder-Hands No.3” DDMwarehouse,Shanghai

Activities
2012.5.17 Talk about sound art :Bao Dong, Sun Dongdong, Cai Bingqiao,
Zhao Chuan, Yan Jun etc V Art Center
2012.6.3 Lecture “Begin with Network”, Rockbund Art Museum,
Supported by V Art Center
2011.11.13 Art talk “Video Art in the New Decade Seminar”，
Rockbund Art Museum, Supported by V Art Center
2009.9.12 Shanghai Fresh Artists Exhibition (Fresh Artists Program) by Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Tests
“What is Asian?”，text ,Art ,P154-156, Numero 35,2013
“Foundation Events embedded Biennale”, Reviews ,Randian-Online,2013
“Lost in Berlin – city of museums”, tests ,life ,4P, FORTUNE ART ,No.32,2013
Zhang Enli*Tang Dixin ,” diffidence&challenge”, Question&Interview ,art ,P154-156, Numero 32, 2013
IGNITE THE LIGHT Lv Shengzhong ，Interview ，LIFE MAGAZINE ,6P May,2013
Wu Ding “Aesthetic perception of time-space” : Art ,P88-89, Numero 28, 2013
Duan Jianyu ,”Etiquette” : volume ,P24-27, Numero 27, 2013
“Airport”exhibition event,The state of things,LEAPApril,2013
Zhang Lehua: Love In A Golden Bowl, volume, LEAP April,2013
‘Lucy’- Ye Funa,Test,”Action…Cut! Liu Xinyi, Wang Taocheng, Ye Funa Joint Exhibition.” by Yuz Foundation , 2.28—4.28,2013
Tof Art Cannel-Interviews ,SEE \ SAW creative practice, UCCA, 2012,
“A Change To Talk About Rules ” a436a in V Art Center of Shanghai biennale exhibition”volume, volume, P86-87, Art China ,1th, 2013
“fountain of youth “, Test ,Zhang Tianjun solo exhibition By Yitai Space, 2012
“Rules Of Game” Test ,Pan Xiaorong solo exhibition Curated By Ding Yi ,M Gallery, 2012
“greater than the solar plexus” Solar Plexus in V Art Center,
P92-93,Art China, 9th, 2012,
“20 square meters of “white box” – from “, Test, ZUZHI Woodcraft in
V Art Center ,2012

Selected Media Exposure
“Sensation”，Airport8,P038《LEAP Oct》&CAPA-CITY－SHANGHAI BENNALP31,《LEAPOct》,2012
“Sensation”,INFO，P308,《BAZA ART Sep》
“More than the solar plexus in the exhibition”, Art China,Iss9,2012
“The Hallo Effect”, Issue 5, P19, Art China 3,2012
Building Networks Between Europe and Asia,Tesxted by An Xiao, HYPERALLERGIC
Characters,Recommended by Ding yi: Chi Qun,Liu Xinyi,Yu Ji ,Pan Xiaorong ,P124-127 L’OFFICAILART
Learning Method, Tested by LuJing ,Artforum,2011
Chi Qun|Fang Liefeng|Zhang Xinjun，Tested by Din dang mao ,Art-Ba-Ba
The Hallo Effect， Tested by Din dang mao , Art-Ba-Ba,
“The Halo Effect”,Tested by Cemei Wang，Randian-online