[spectre] (fwd) exh. Timelapse, National Art Museum of China,
Beijing
Andreas Broeckmann
ab at mikro.in-berlin.de
Wed Nov 18 08:12:20 CET 2009
From: z <zhangga at namoc.org>
Subject: TImelapse Opening at the National Art Museum of China, Nov. 24 2009
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:20:50 +0800
For immediate release
The National Art Museum of China is pleased to
announce the opening of the exhibition Timelapse
curated by Zhang Ga. The first installment of
this Chinese and Swiss media art exhibition will
open on November 25, 2009, in Beijing and will
travel to Biel, Switzerland, in March 2010.
In the summer of 2008, the National Art Museum of
China (NAMOC) successfully staged Synthetic
Times: Media Art China 2008, International New
Media Art Exhibition. The exhibition showcased
the latest trends in global media art
development, establishing Beijing as a platform
for international dialogue in the field of new
media art and providing an opportunity for a
Chinese audience to recognize and appreciate rich
and multifaceted artistic visions of the
twenty-first century. Timelapse is the result of
NAMOC's continued commitment to exhibit media art.
Time-lapse describes a cinematographic technique
in which pictures are taken with long intervals
between each frame. Time-lapse as a process of
delaying or prolongation constructs an obviously
accelerated artificial effect when synchronized
at a twenty-four-frame-per-second playback speed,
which typically creates the illusion of real-time
movement in human visual perception. Time-lapse
therefore manipulates an illusionary reality to
achieve yet another level of syntheticity - a
virtual reality as opposed to the "reality"
arrived at by simulation.
Time represents itself by movement, which is the
continuous covering of space. In space where
movement unfolds, abound the actions and
happenings of distinct progression, that of
heterogeneity. In time-lapse, through the drastic
slowing down of speed in space, in between the
delays and elongation for the finale of
speediness and continuity, elasticity
metamorphoses into virtuality, transcending
ordinary perception of the temporal and the
spatial, creating memory in a succession of
variations.
By metaphorically invoking photographic
terminology in the spirit of Bergsonian /
Deleuzian time-movement interpretation as
inspiration, the exhibition Timelapse in which a
dozen artists from both Switzerland and China
will participate, attempts to examine the
fundamental constituent of digital media: the
concept of time and its embodiment in space, its
evocation of passage and memory, its movement of
differentiation and its state of representation
in diverse formal grammars to reveal the social
implications of the fast in the disguise of the
slow, the multiplicity in temporality, and
disparity in spatiality, both psychologically and
geographically. The exhibition scrutinizes the
nuances and ramifications of cultural being
within the disparate frameworks of time in
distance and space in locality, and the potential
collapse of a time-space duality.
Participating artists:
Peter Aerschmann, Cao Fei, Chen Shaoxiong, Arthur Clay, Hervé Graumann,
Alexander Hahn, Hu Jieming, Jin Jiangbo, Timo
Loosli, Qiu Zhijie, Valentina Vuksic, Zhang
Peili, Daniel Werder
The exhibition is a project of NAMOC's Media Art
China 2009, co-organized by the National Art
Museum of China and CentrePasquArt (Biel
Contemporary Art Museum) in Switzerland, and in
partnership with Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts
Council, as part of the exchange and cooperation
program "Swiss Chinese Cultural Explorations" ,
which aims to support a rapprochement between the
two countries on a cultural level, placing
importance on establishing long-term
relationships between artists and institutions
from Switzerland and China. The exhibition is
also supported by Presence Switzerland and
Swissnex Shanghai, Switzerlands's Outpost for
Science, Technology and Culture in China.
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
November 25, 2009 - December 19, 2009
CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
March 28, 2010 - May 30, 2010
Catalogue designed by: Project Projects, New York
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