Back to Stage

Participating artists：Xavier Cha / Daniel Kok & Luke George / Dreaming Julie / Er Gao / Future Host (Tingying Ma & Kang Kang) / Grass Stage / Hou Ying / Jan Lauwers & Needcompany / Jin Feng / Marco Donnarumma & Nunu Kong / Patrick Tresset / Post-Sense Sensibility Group / Sarina Scheidegger & Jimena Croceri / Lane Shi Otayonii / Shi Qing / Siedl/Cao / Social Sensibility R&D Department / Sundasi & SHENQIXIANXING / Total Art Studio / Hiroaki Umeda / Wen Hui / Sunteck Yao / Zhang Yunfeng & Li Haiguang / Zhihao / Zhou Tao

Project rooms: McaM Office, Book on Performing, Screening Project, Backstage Hack performance installation, Community Room, The Butterfly Dream of Sub-Human: Persona Tales Collection

Director: Qiu Zhijie
Curator: Sam Shiyi Qian

Curatorial team: Tsai Yunting, Tang Ziqin

Organizer: Ming Yuan Group, Ming Contemporary Art Museum
Producer: Li Songjian, Ling Feifei

Back to Stage is a review, revisit and summoning back. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Ming Contemporary Art Museum, the museum looks back upon the history of itself through reactivation, to inspire dialogues and interactions with threads generated from our past programs and projects through publication, exhibition, screening and a series of experimental workshops, and to produce methods of interpretation that correspond better to the contemporary context and more possibilities for continuous discussions. Celebrations of the fifth anniversary of McaM will be officially launched on November 13 and last three months, during which the museum will present one exhibition, three screening projects, six project spaces and a series of themed performances and workshops, trying to look for a reference point for the former-factory art museum from the historical context to enhance the possibilities for dialogues among different fields.

The overall historical and geographic backgrounds of the establishment of McaM have laid a foundation for the fundamental values of the institute: to search for possibilities and room for further experimentation within the realm that is traditionally considered non-mainstream and not at a core position but where the clues could be found in the depth of history. Such constitutes the vision and position of McaM: a site for avant-garde visual art, performance art or the intersection of the two. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the museum, this vision has been proposed and stressed again as we continue to further our exploration into the hybridization of experimental visual and performance arts. By placing performances as the core element of the celebration season, we summon back “stages” on various dimensions to see the chemistry and interplay among them. Moreover, from curatorial perspective, the museum adopts an inclusive stance, collaborating with a variety of self-organized platforms and independent institutes with different focal points and voices in the hope to foster better and more organic synergy and cooperation within the art scene and to grow together within the changing environment.