主办单位：上海当代艺术博物馆，ARCH!CHOKE亚砌文化

开幕时间：2013年5月17日，18:00，星期五

展期：2013年5月18日 - 2013年7月18日

场馆：上海当代艺术馆3楼 | 亚砌文化飞行馆

策展人：章明，卜冰，张佳晶

参展艺术家：刘家琨

                        都市实践（刘晓都 / 王辉 / 孟岩）

                        原作设计（章明 / 张姿）

                        集合设计（卜冰）/ 柴涛

                        高目设计（张佳晶 / 黄巍）

                        哥伦比亚大学建筑规划与历史保护研究院中国大型城市实验室（杰弗瑞·约翰逊/卓·佛罗伦斯）+SLAB（杰佛瑞·约翰逊/吉尔·莱克纳）

                        俞挺

                        袁烽

                        致正建筑（张斌 / 周蔚）

                        阿克米星（庄慎）

                        冯路 + 刘宇扬

                        未知博物馆

                        沈忠海

 

博物馆建筑在呈现景象之余自身也往往成为城市的景象，这形成了一种复杂的观看与被观看的关系。景象在叠加中模糊并形成光晕，在饥渴消费景象的现代社会中，这些带着光晕的博物馆就不可避免成为被赋予神圣意义的物体而非场所而得到崇拜，建筑师也往往以博物馆建筑的设计机遇为荣。

 

与中国迅猛的城市发展速度同步，近年来博物馆建筑同样以令人难以置信的速度在各地被建造，其中不乏优秀之作。但正是这样一种近乎疯狂的规模与数量让我们感到难以在这里用一种传统的建筑展览方式去表现这个话题，我们或许可以通过模型，照片，图纸去呈现其中一鳞半爪，却不足以探讨这个宏大景象背后的深层问题：博物馆建造与使用、公共空间与私人领域、呈现与观察、事件性与日常性。。。

 

所以，在这次展览中，我们试图呈现而非再现，让十二组建筑师或艺术家以博物馆为题，用泛视觉艺术的方式，以自己的角度去重新表述博物馆建筑。

 

章明与张姿的大型模型装置作品直切展览主题，以两组截然不同的博物馆类型：“大的和小的”，并置呈现而建立张力体系，既反思其一端的圣殿情结，亦质疑另一端对个人表述的迷恋。

 

展览中有两组作品以本次展览的主场地--上海当代艺术博物馆为题材创作，张佳晶将博物馆建筑连续剖切以去除“建筑的傲慢”，卜冰与柴涛的视频组合装置则混合了博物馆内外多角度视角的录像与监控镜头，尝试反转博物馆参观中的看与被看关系。

 

冯路与刘宇扬通过网络平台向建筑师征集了大量未建成的博物馆建筑模型。线上与现场的同步展示，以及微博等网络媒体上的讨论回馈共同构成了这件作品。

 

建筑师都市实践与刘家琨在这次展览中都展示了各自的博物馆建筑作品。都市实践在展厅现场重构了他们所追求的“最大包容性的公共空间”；刘家琨则以循环播放的两段录影资料介绍了他的两个博物馆作品。

 

Jeffery Johnson领导的哥伦比亚大学中国大型城市实验室团队的作品直观展现了令人惊讶的建造规模与形态多样性，这幅作品来自于他们目前正在进行中的当代中国博物馆建筑的研究工作，他们以冷静的视角在中国疯狂的建造活动中寻找或许能够影响全球博物馆发展的新趋势或新榜样。

 

未知博物馆是一个对制度化博物馆持续展开批判与反思的艺术家团体，他们这次的作品借画计划讨论的是如何帮助艺术从博物馆走入私人空间领域。

 

袁烽的作品未来博物馆的全息蜃景讨论了时空维度的可能性，利用最前沿的全息投影技术尝试呈现多维空间存在的状态。俞挺以折射的镜面呈现出的扭曲景象质疑文化建构中所谓正见或偏见的不可避免的主观性。

 

沈忠海以职业摄影师身份记录了外滩美术馆的建设全过程，但在工作同时他也捕捉了美术馆内外各种鲜活的人物活动。在他看来对后者的记录与前者同样重要：不同阶层的活动共同构成了真实而矛盾的当代都市历史。

 

致正设计工作室与阿克米星建筑事务所的作品飞行馆一号是亚砌文化飞行建造计划的启动项目，也是本次展览中唯一一个外场作品。博物馆与公共空间行为的关系将是这个作品的核心看点。

 

我们期待透过这个展览能够引发更加积极深刻的批判态度，而不是对建造太快太多的简单肤浅的批评抱怨。我们承认高速大规模的建造活动对建筑师而言是挑战更是一种难得的创作机遇，同样，我们期待这样的大规模建造现象也能够给建筑师，知识界，以至广泛大众带来深度思考的机遇。透过这幅宏大绚丽的蜃景，让更多的人看到我们拥有着什么，将得到什么，这将是我们呈现这个展览的最大收获。

 

SPECTACLE

12 presentations of contemporary museum architecture in China

May 18th, 2013 - July 18th, 2013

 

Opening: May 17th, 2013, 18:00, Friday

Venue: 3/F, Power Station of Art | Archichoke Aviation Influenza

Artists: LIU Jiakun, Urbanus (LIU Xiaodu/WANG Hui/MENG Yan), Original Design (ZHANG Ming/ZHANG Zi), One Design (BU Bing)/CHAI Tao, GOM (ZHANG Jiajing/HUANG Wei), China Megacities Lab/GSAPP Columbia University (Jeffrey JOHNSON/Zoe FLORENCE)/SLAB Architecture (Jeffrey JOHNSON/Jill LECKNER), YU Ting, YUAN Feng, Atelier Z+ (ZHANG Bin/ZHOU Wei)/Archmixing (ZHUANG Shen), FENG Lu/LIU Yuyang, Museum of Unknown, SHEN Zhonghai

Curators: ZHANG Ming, BU Bing, ZHANG Jiajing

Organizers: Power Station of Art, Archichoke

 

Museum presents spectacle as well as being a spectacle in the city. This creates the intricate relationship of watching and being watched. Spectacles overlap and blur, creating the halo of the museum architecture. In modern society which is desperately eager to consume spectacle, museum as a haloed spectacle has increasingly become the object to be worshipped rather than a place for worshipping. Partly for this reason, Museum projects are also considered as most desired and proud of opportunity to architects.

 

In the past few years, new museums have been constructed all over China in an unprecedentedly quantity and scale. As excellent works are emerging, we found it a critical moment to reflect on such new museum architecture. However, the conventional way of architectural exhibition, with models, photographs, or drawings, can only display piecemeal vignettes of the selected works rather than their potential role in contemporary China. We now need to explore new methods to investigate the social, cultural, and political transformation underlying the quantitative expansion, such as construction and usage, public and private, representation and observation, event and daily life, etc.  

 

So we put together here presentations instead of representations in this exhibition. 12 architects/artists (groups) are invited to approach the topic of museum architecture in visual ways from a diversity of perspectives

 

ZHANG Ming and ZHANG Zi use a large-scale installation to present the tension and juxtaposition of two extreme trends of museum design: the “museum of largeness” to one end, and the "museum of smallness" to the other end. It reflects on the prevailing trends today to understand museum either as the “temple of art”, or as the “self-expression of artist”.

 

Both ZHANG Jiajing and BU Bing/CHAI Tao take the Shanghai Power Station of Art—the exhibition site itself—as the subject: ZHANG’s installation slides the museum into “9 Pieces” to eliminate the “proud of architecture”; whilst BU and CHAI’s video installation uses recorded videos and live monitor to reverse the relationship of watching and being watched in the museum.

 

FENG Lu and LIU Yuyang present a number of “unbuilt museums” collected from architects. The display is both on the exhibition site and on-line, with the discussions on Weibo and other network medias being an integral part of the work.

 

Urbanus’s Contemporary Art Center incarnates the idea of “Comprehensive Public Space” which they have been exploring in the past years; LIU Jiakun displays two of his design works via videos: the Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Museum (2002), and the Hu Huishan Memorial House (2009).

 

The China Megacities Lab led by Jeffery Johnson brings a portion of their current research on the Chinese museum projects. The work tends to show us the vast quantity of museums being constructed in China, as well as their astonishing scale, formal diversity and iconic ambition. It explores the new trends/models that might mark a paradigm shift in how the museum project is defined.

 

The Museum of Unknown is a group of artists who attempt to reflect on the conventional museum institution. Their work explores the possibility of extending artworks from museums to the more private spheres.

 

YUAN Feng’s work “Museum in the Future” adopts the Holographic Projection method to display the juxtaposition of multiple temporal-spatial dimensions in the hyperspace. YU Ting uses mirrors to create a set of distorted visions, revealing the inevitable personal prejudices that exist in judging the "right view” from the “deviated view”.

 

As a photographer, SHEN Zhonghai recorded the entire construction process of the Rockbund Art Museum. People’s behaviors and activities, both inside and outside the museum, form an integral part in the narrative, representing the very real, dynamic condition of the contemporary urban history. 

 

Atelier Z+ and ATELIER ARCHMIXING’s work AVIATION INFLUENZA is part of the AVIATION INFLUENZA project proposed by ARCH!CHOKE. It is the only exhibit that is placed outside the main exhibition site. The interrelationship between museum and public space is the highlight of the work.

 

The primary purpose of the exhibition is to stimulate more deep thoughts and critical reflections on the new museum architecture rather than repeating superficial complains about the over-speed or over-quantity. The large-scale construction activities in China today are both challenge and opportunity to the architects. It is also a critical moment for the architects, intellectuals, and the public to reconsider and re-assess architecture and urbanism. We do hope that the visitors can look through this gigantic and splendid mirage composed of any kind of spectacle shown in the exhibition, and start to think more about what we have had, and what we are pursuing.