[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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