Nov 2004 to Jan 2006

Nov 2004 to Jan 2006

Guangzhou Triennial

January 5, 2006

The Second Guangzhou Triennial 
BEYOND:an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization

Exhibition : 18 November 2005-15 January 2006

Organizer: Guangdong Museum of Art
Artistic Director : Hou Hanru
Curated by Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Guo Xiaoyan
www.gztriennial.org

18 November 2005, as major exhibition centre, the grand ceremony and exhibition of 2nd Guangzhou Triennial has been held at Guangdong Museum of Art.
Beyond refers to various forms of special cultural and artistic phenomena and methods developed under new social and economic circumstances that are unique, flourishing and full of vitality. These phenomena and methods embody the exciting and complicated imprints of globalization; they represent those specific solutions and patterns created and adopted by China and other non-western countries in their own process of modernization; they are an ever-changing dynamic phenomenon.
An extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization takes the Pearl River Delta (PRD) as one of the typical developing regions to study the contemporary art within the extraordinary modernization framework that is full of possibilities and confusion. Pearl River Delta (PRD) stands for new space strategies, economic patterns and life styles. Regard this extraordinary space as a platform for artistic experimentation and practice. At the same time, this also evokes a unique and inventive experimental sample.

Therefore, the second Guangzhou Triennial focuses on the research and reflection on those extraordinary modern developments, and presents the extraordinary expression of artists, architects, and scholars. To achieve such a vision, they have established a new structure, the cross-space, cross-time, cross-cultural, and inter-disciplinary Delta Laboratory (D-Lab). It guarantees a platform for sustainable and evolving research, creation and cultural exchanges. Tens of international and Chinese artists, architects and cultural activists have been invited to the PRD area to carry out studies and exchanges, and further realize specific projects for the Triennial exhibition. As the core of the Triennial, D-Lab has already held 5 major labs with over 10 public presentations. The related documents will also be edited and published. This strategy emphasizes expansions and continuations in both time and space. It fundamentally subverts conventional exhibition curatorial models and allows the globalised contemporary art activities intimately fused with the local context and deeply influencing its future development. Thurs, this Triennial has become a process of creating new realities for the very locale itself.

Besides D-Lab, The second Guangzhou Triennial also consists of the Main Exhibition, Self Organization, and Special Projects. The event will last till Jan. 15th, 2006, while the D-Lab Project will go on at the same time.
The Structure of Second Guangzhou Triennial 1, D-Lab
Started on Nov. 28th, 2004, the D-Lab aims at providing a platform for academic dialogues, exchanges, and brain-storming. The time spans through Nov 2004 to Jan 2006. During the 3 years, the D-Lab session is held every 2-3 months.
Some D-Lab participants have been invited to exhibit their works at the second Guangzhou Triennial.

D-Lab Time Schedule
D-LAB 1: Nov. 28th 2004 Dec. 24th 2004
D-LAB 2: Mar. 4th 2005 Mar. 29th 2005
D-LAB 3: May. 31st 2005 Aug. 10th 2005
D-LAB 4: Sep. 4th 2005 Oct.2005
D-LAB 5: Nov. 19th 2005 Jan.2006

D-Lab Topics :
[1] The museum economy in the globalization context
[2] Individual voices
[3] Economy environment and public space
[4] Archiving – memory and envisioning
[5] Border migration and making of new urban world
[6] City Gaze
2, Main Exhibition
Hundreds of artists and architects from around the world meet in Guangzhou to create artistic works related to the local culture, and to raise issues of urban and cultural development. The Exhibition has six parts as follows:

[1] The Super City: between density and expansion
The City has been regarded as a newly-formed huge collective body that goes beyond the established concept of city. It is an extraordinary space and experiment field that covers all the issues and is free of time and space limit.
In the past two decades, the fast modernization of PRD had brought about the unprecedented, massive urbanization. From Guangzhou to Shenzhen to HK, Macau and Zhuhai, a collective body of City/Region has already taken shape. The process is unique in terms of the density and extent of urban expansion.
The Super City emphasizes on the artists vision, understanding, judgment and experience of the new regional social and economic patterns typical of PRD. This is not the self-contentment of localism, but one of many possibilities to discover uniqueness and diversity under the background of globalization.

[2] Tropical Memory and Alternative History
The extraordinary great city phenomenon of PRD is largely due to the geographic and historic features of this region. The tropical and sub-tropical climate is in accordance with the very open and diversified architectural and life styles in this region. The cultural and historical development of PRD region also deviates from the mainstream, and takes on certain features of Alternative History. All these factors make PRD region more confident and open in the exchanges with the outside world. Based on this historic narrative of tropical memory, artists will have larger space for artistic imagination and creation.

[3] Urban Survivor, along, facing the chaos
Modern urban life is tense and filled with noise. This brings everyone considerable pressure. However, this can also mean an opportunity for self-reflection and enjoying lonely moments.
Each person, especially artists, is able to conduct micro-observation of the modern urban life in such a complicated context, and interpret it in his/her own way.

[4] Facing Globalization: Migration and Borderline
In the globalization context, almost all the economies have been integrated into the global system. The borders have been blurred and redefined, and the population has been moved and relocated, especially in the PRD region. How to understand and judge these continuous changes? What does this newly generated space mean to us? In the process of massive movement and migration, what defines center and border? All these issues call for relevant solutions from the perspectives of art and culture.

[5] The Garden , Man-Made Nature
People always imagine things about utopia and pastoral life styles. This also includes city residents fantasy about the dislocation and transformation between public space and personal space. Man-made nature becomes the solution to peoples utopia imagination. In that sense, the modern Cantonese landscape design and construction worth further inspection by artists and architects.

[6] Fantasia
Personal fantasy and imagination always create artistic miracles. This topic concerns the personal reflection of artists. In the end, the background of the Great City is the perfect hotbed to give birth to art miracles.
Artist list
1. The Great City :between density and expansion
Justin Bennett (De Hague) – Thomas Bayrle(Frankfurt) – Yushi Uehara / Berlage Institute(Rotterdam) – Yung Ho Chang/Atelier FCJZ,Juan Du Students(Beijing) – Chen Shaoxiong (Guangzhou) – Didier Faustino (Paris) – Fischli & Weiss (Zürich) – Flying City (Seoul) – Huang Xiaopeng (Guangzhou) – Jiang Jun (Guangzhou) – Liang Juhui (Guangzhou) – Rem Koolhaas/Alain Fouraux (Rotterdam / Beijing) – Armin Linke(Milano) – Doreen Liu Heng(Guangzhou) – Leung Chi-Wo(Hong Kong) – Complete Art Experience Project He Yingyi, Li Zhenhua, Liu Ding, Liu Wei, Colin Chinnery, Qiu Zhijie, Shi Qing, Wang Wei, Wu Ershan, Zhang Hui (Beijing) – Ma Qingyun MADA(Shanghai) – Map Office (Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix) (Hong Kong) – MXDF/Titiana Bibao, etc.(Mexico) – Shi Yong (Shanghai) Urbanus (Shenzhen/Beijing) – Dynamic City Foundation (Beijing /Rotterdam) – Yang Zhenzhong (Shanghai) – Yuang Goang-Ming (Taipei) – Zhu Jia (Beijing)

2. Tropical Memory and Alternative History
Cao Fei (Guangzhou) – Lin Yilin (New York/Guangzhou) – Shen Yuan(Paris) – Rasq Media Collective (Dehli)

3 Urban Survivor,along,facing the chaos
Doug Aitken (Los Angeles) – Chen Xiaoyun (Hangzhou) – Chu Yun (Shenzhen) – David Diao (New York) – Lu Chunsheng (Shanghai) – JiangZhi (Shenzhen) – Yang Yong (Shenzhen)

4. Facing Globalisation :Migration and Borderline
Paul Chan (New York) – Liu Ding (Beijing) – Surasi Kusolwong (Bankok) – Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Tokyo) in collaboration with Chen Shaoxiong (Guangzhou) – Wu Shanzhuan (Shanghai/Hamburg) – Yang Jiechang (Paris) – Jennifer Allora& Guilermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rico) – Jimmie Durham (Berlin) – Fu Jie (Hong Kong/Beijing) – Multiplicity (Milano) – Ni Haifeng (Amsterdam) – Sun Xiaofeng (Guangzhou) – Wang Jianwei (Beijing) – Wong Hoycheong (Kuala Lumpur) – Yan Lei(Beijing/Hong Kong) Ai Weiwei (Beijing) – Zhou Hao/Ji Jianghong(Guangzhou)

5. The Garden,Man-Made Nature
Chen Zhen (Paris) – Dan Graham (New York) – Michael Lin Ming Hong (Taipei/Paris) – Gabriel Orozco(Mexico City/New York/Paris) – Zheng Guogu (Yangjiang)

6 Fantasia
Kan Xuan (Beijing) – Koo Jeong A (Paris) – Liu Wei(Beijing) – Rirkrit Tiravanija (New York/Chiangmai) Philippe Parreno (Paris) – Liang Yue(Beijing/Shanghai) – Xu Zheng (Shanghai) – Xu Tan (Shanghai/Guangzhou)
Main Venue : Guangdong Museum of Art
Address : 38 Yanyu Road, Er-sha Island, Guangzhou, China
Open hours :9 :00am-5 :00pm (closed on Monday)
Tel: 02087351468
Fax: 02087353773
Venue 2.: Guangzhou XinyiInternational Club
Address : 1 Xia Shi Zhi Street, Bai E Tan, Fangcun Avenue, Guangzhou , China
Open hours :9 :00am-5 :00pm (closed on Monday)
Tel: 02081802228
Fax: 02021572876
Venue 3. : Times Museum A Member of Guangdong Museum of Art
Address : Huang Bian Bei Road, Bai Yun Avenue, Guangzhou , China
Open hours :9 :00am-5 :00pm (closed on Monday)
Tel: 02086176688
Fax: 02086176171

Contact:
Office of Guangzhou Triennial : Guo Xiaoyan, Xi Bei, Dong Bingfeng, Wu Sikai
Press office: Liang Jie
Tel: 0086-20-87351261
Fax: 0086-20-87351261
e-mail: gztriennial@gdmoa.org
GUANGDONG MUSEUM OF ART
Er-sha Island,Guangzhou,China

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