A Cultural Forum around Hostage

A Cultural Forum around Hostage：Wang Jianwei Solo Exhibition

Hostage is the grey area among science, history, society and hypothesis and a kind of imaginary relationship between potential knowledge and certain reality. Individual can be regarded as the hostage of history and knowledge, hijacked by the present and the future. Wang Jianwei continues his themes of placing people or object out of contexts.


Forum：What is possible?
A Forum examining the current and future directions possible for China's culture.

Presented by: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Venue of the Forum: Zendai MoMA Shanghai
Art Classroom, Second Floor, No. 28, Lane 199 Fangdian Road, Shanghai, China
Date of the Forum: 20 April，2008，10：00—18：00
Convener: Binghui Huangfu, Deputy Director of Zendai MoMA


This Forum will address a set of cultural and social issues by refocusing art theory and cultural theory upon a set of much broader philosophical questions concerning the role of art in culture. Its methodological innovation lies in its detailed focus on the processes of visual art as defined and developed within a network of (social and disciplinary) relationships and in its use of empirically grounded action-based research. The Forum enables us to examine the way in which art constructs relationships in a number of different registers (cultural, community and disciplinary).


Speakers: Dai Zhikang, Chairman and CEO, Zendai Group
Shen Qibin, Director of Shanghai Zendai MoMA
Marianne Brouwer, Curator from Holland
Andreas SchmidA Gift from Beijing to İstanbul


, Artist/Curator
Jérome Sans, Director of UCCA
Huang zhuan, Director of OCT
Shi Jian, Isreading Culture
Wang Hui, Researcher of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Geremie R. Barme, Australian Academy of Humanity
Wang Min'an, Philosopher/Critic
Jonathan, Scholar
Gary Carsley, curater

Hostage：Wang Jianwei Solo Exhibition

Hostage：Wang Jianwei Solo Exhibition

Presented by: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Dates: 19 April – 18 May 2008
Venue: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (No. 28, Lane 199
Fangdian Road, Shanghai, China)
Opening Reception: 19 April, 2008 (Saturday), 4pm
Artistic Director: Shen Qibin
Curator: Binghui Huangfu

Hostage is the grey area among science, history, society and
hypothesis and a kind of imaginary relationship between potential
knowledge and certain reality. Individual can be regarded as the
hostage of history and knowledge, hijacked by the present and the
future.

Wang Jianwei was the first Chinese mainland artist attending the 10th
Kassel Document, Germany. Afterwards, he attended the 50th Venice
Biennale, Italy, and the 25th St-Paul Biennale, Brazil. In February,
2008, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of contemporary art
(The prize was awarded by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, US.),
which made him the first and only Chinese artist winning the prize.
On 19, April, his new solo exhibition Hostage will be held in
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art.

Wang Jianwei continues his themes of placing people or object out of
contexts.

Forum：What is possible?
A Forum examining the current and future directions possible for
China's culture.

Presented by: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Venue of the Forum: Zendai MoMA Shanghai
Art Classroom, Second Floor, No. 28, Lane 199 Fangdian Road,
Shanghai, China
Date of the Forum: 20 April，2008，10：00—18：00
Convener: Binghui Huangfu, Deputy Director of Zendai MoMA

This Forum will address a set of cultural and social issues by
refocusing art theory and cultural theory upon a set of much broader
philosophical questions concerning the role of art in culture. Its
methodological innovation lies in its detailed focus on the processes
of visual art as defined and developed within a network of (social
and disciplinary) relationships and in its use of empirically
grounded action-based research. The Forum enables us to examine the
way in which art constructs relationships in a number of different
registers (cultural, community and disciplinary).

Speakers: Dai Zhikang, Chairman and CEO, Zendai Group
Shen Qibin, Director of Shanghai Zendai MoMA
Marianne Brouwer, Curator from Holland
Andreas Schmid, Artist/Curator
Jérome Sans, Director of UCCA
Huang zhuan, Director of OCT
Shi Jian, Isreading Culture
Wang Hui, Researcher of Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences
Geremie R. Barme, Australian Academy of Humanity
Wang Min'an, Philosopher/Critic
Jonathan, Scholar
Gary Carsley, curater

Shanghai this month

Artists: Ma Lina, Li Wei, Zhang Shanshan
Curator: Ding Yi
Academic Director: Zhao Li
Exhibition Period: Nov 30- December 30, 2007
Venue: South ShanXi Road,Shanghai
Thanks!
Cetus Gallery
Address: No.165 South Shanxi Road, Shanghai, China
Tel: 86-021-54653655
Fax: 86-021-54650675
www.cetusgallery.com

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Zhang Xian

As the director of the Downstream Garage (Xiahe Micang), which hosts
the annual Ideas Festival and the Downstream Garage Fringe Festival,
Zhang Xian is a key actor in the development of Shanghai's independent
theater scene. Zhang has received several fellowships abroad and has
sat on the judge's panel of the Zurich Festival and Cairo International
Experimental Arts Festival. He's worked as a director and a playwright
in the fields of dance, drama and film and has written and directed 19
works which have been shown in Shanghai, Beijing and abroad. His
physical theater work, Tongue's Memory of Home, won the grand prize at
the Zurich Festival.
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Exhibition: Soft Power: Asian Attutude
Organized by: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Chief Curator: Shen Qibin
Co-Curators: Binghui Huangfu Biljana Ciric
Dates: 17 November - 28 December 2007
Opening Reception: 17 November 2007, 4pm
Venue: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (No.28, Lane 199 Fangdian
Road, Shanghai, China)
Artist: Lida Abdul, Chen Chiehjen, Heri Dono, Shilpa Gupta, Ho Tzu
Nyen, Jin Feng, Jitish Kallat, Reena Kallat, Gulnara Kasmalieva &
Muratbek Djumaliev, Will Kwan, Lee Changwon, Owen Leong, leung Mee
Ping, Liu Guangyun, Yukinori Maeda & Yuki Kimura, Qiu Zhijie, Khaled
Sabsabi, Shen Shaomin, Vasan Sitthiket, Song Dong, Manit Sriwanichpoom,
Su Xinping, Kai Syng Tan, Nan See Tan, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Tseng
Yuchin, Wu Gaozhong, Mahmoud Yekta

【Special Event】Shadow Play from Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket

Event time: During the opening, November 17, 2007
Event Venue: Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art

The work itself takes a form of shadow puppets that are
representations of major political proponents in the world, which shows
an active political context. South East Asian countries are struggling
to find balance in its cultural identity. Like any theatrical
performance there is the surface interpretation and underlying message.
The audience is presented with an entertaining show, however, what they
walk away with is an interpretation of truth, which is difficult to
forget. Vasan Sitthiket combines aspects of traditional shadow puppet
culture with the contemporary cultural commentary of today. In reality
Vasan Sitthiket is using a long tradition of theater production to
comment on the human condition.