展览名称：另一种讲述—中国新十年影像录
艺 术 家：曹斐 陈熹 韩五洲 黄奎 李明 李牧 梁玥 楼南立 B6 宋涛 苏文祥 孙逊 徐渠 徐震 张炜 周滔 张鼎 祖伟民
策 展 人：Raul zamudio，Annie
开幕酒会：2011.11.5, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
展览时间：2011.11.5 - 2011.12. 20
展览地点：其他画廊 - 上海空间 - 上海市普陀区莫干山路50号9号楼101
“另一种讲述”是中国艺术家的一次影像艺术展览，这些艺术家在众多途径中拓展了这一艺术类型。这次展览也许被同时看做是一场当下的评定和对历史的回顾。同样地，这只是这种艺术形式的某部分历史，也是其他中国艺术家正在做的其他艺术形式的异种实践，比如油画，雕塑，行为和摄影。没有一种主流风格或是绘画美学可以被定性为“中国的”，中国绘画集合了所有的国际性艺术实践，它的国际化特质正说明了这一点。同样地，中国的影像艺术和在英国，美国或是其他国家一样多元化。这次展览的副标题也需要一些解释：它暗示了对中国的影像艺术的迅速发展的惊讶和吃惊；这个副标题不仅仅在形容影像艺术的多样化，也是在形容中国艺术家们的高水平作品。 展览名称“另一种讲述”说得很明白,中国的影像艺术是一个特别多元的范畴，它在极其迅速的成长，变得更加复杂和精巧。这次展览中精心挑选的作品强有力地证明了这一点。艺术家们正在扩展影像艺术形式和观念的语言，他们方法只说是令人惊叹，或者不可思议。
Alternative Narrative is an exhibition of video art by Chinese artists who have expanded the genre in numerous ways. And though the exhibition may seem as both an up-to-date assessment as well as looking back to its emergence, by the same token, it is only a fractured historiography for this art form is as much a heterogeneous practice as other genres that Chinese artists are working in today including painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, for example. There is not one dominant style or painting aesthetic that can be characterized as Chinese, for the global nature of Chinese painting underscores this as it rubs up against all forms of international practices. Similarly, then, the state of Chinese video art is as diversified as any of its counterparts in the UK, US, or any other country. The subtitle of the exhibition also needs some clarification as well: it alludes to nothing short of astonishment if not unimaginable how quickly video art in China has exponentially advanced; and the subtitle is not only descriptive for the sheer diversity of video as well as the high level of accomplishment of its Chinese practitioners. As the exhibition Alternative Narrative makes quite clear, Chinese video art is an extremely diversified field that is only exponentially growing and subsequently getting more complex and sophisticated. The selected, albeit strong, examples presented in this exhibition underscore this. Already artists are working and expanding the formal and conceptual vocabularies of video art in ways that can only be characterized as astonishing if not…well…unimaginable.
作 品 Works
曹斐
给我一个吻 录像 3分钟 2002年
Give me a kiss , Video , 3 ', 2002
谢谢你，观看我，给你一个吻，给你一个吻……
Thank you, take a look at me, give you, a kisses …… to you, a kisses ……
陈熹
至远星 动画 4分44秒 2011年
To the Stars , animation video , 4'44'' , 2011
这是一个与之前创作的绘画有所关联的影像，地球在人类的威胁下 再适合居住，艺术家描绘 那些离开之前的情景：体能训练、用意念控制环境的训练、人们不断被装入各种航天载具，然而强烈的希望通常转变成一种强烈的不安。片末出现一个身穿宇航服的独孤身影，伴随着“Twinkle,Twinkle,Little Star”的微弱歌声，反映出对现实的失望、恐惧及无可奈何。
This work is related to the painting made by the artist earlier. The earth is no longer a heaven for man as it has been heavily polluted by its residents. Artist depicts the scene before man’s departure for an outer space destination: physical training, and man being loaded to all sorts of spacecrafts. But the strong hope turns into a harassing unrest. The lonely sight of an astronaut in space suit appears in the end of the work. When the familiar melody of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star goes on, everyone can feel the cause of “leaving in jet”: the disappointment, fear and helplessness in the everyday world.
韩五洲
国歌 数字影像 1分19秒 2011年
March on , Digital video , 1'19'' , 2011
国歌
在城乡结合部不起眼的角落演奏一首国歌，演奏时不加入更多的主观情绪；就是这样一个环境这样一个时间演奏了这样一首歌；路人往复穿流各安其事，演奏者和大家谁也没有造成多大的干扰；国歌本身所带有的各种负荷超载的信息，会使整个场景在影像里变得很微妙；静静的弱弱的，甚至没有存在过发生过一样。我想拍摄这种模棱两可的感觉。
National Anthem
The idea is to play national anthem in a humble corner in the outskirts of the town. The anthem is coupled with audience’s reaction.It is in such an environment and time that a song is played.The passersby just walk pass, not seem to be bothered by the performance.The national anthem is charged with excessive meanings and information, making the whole image tricky and subtle.Quietly and weakly, nothing seems to have happened.This is the ambiguity I want to convey.
黄奎
优秀市民奖 行为/录像 2007
Outstanding Citizen Award , Performance/Video , 2007
给闯红灯的同志颁发“优秀市民奖”，除奖状外还有奖金。艺术家亲自参与整个行动，用诙谐、调侃的语言给我们上演 一出滑稽戏，男女老少之过路行人都被艺术家带入角色，真实却又荒谬，芸芸众生之相令观者感慨。
Awarding “Excellent Citizen Prize” and bonus for those who run red lights, the artist directs the whole performance, staging a parody for us with humorous and mocking language. All the passersby, man, woman, elderly and young, are brought into play by the artist, real, yet absurd. The behavior of the people triggers thinking of all the spectators.
李明
《武侠之 哈哈哈哈哈》 单视频录像 03分27秒 2011年
Swordsman: Hahahahaha , Single Channel Video , 3'27'' , 2011
《武侠之 哈哈哈哈哈》是“武侠”系列中的一部单视频录像。“武侠”指向是香港邵氏武侠电影。具体是邵氏电影的美学风格。“喇叭”，在录像厅盛行80年代，是一个掩盖器，它在城镇乡村的公众区域用简单粗暴的方式传递出江湖的刀枪棍棒，腥风血雨，它也是烟雾缭绕的录像厅中风月片的最佳障眼法，它能代表录像厅的时间，也能将记忆拉回到80年代。“哈哈哈哈哈”是对录像厅播放武侠电影最清晰的记忆，它是电影中武林角色最常见的一种态度，笑声的大小和音调通常是配合着角色的正邪立场的。视频《哈哈哈哈哈》中的喇叭和笑声便是对各种侠士的扮演。
Hahahahaha is a single channel video in Swordsman series. By “Swordsman” I am referring to those movies made by Shaw Brothers, especially their unique style.Loudspeakers were used to cover the real events going on in the video club in the 1980’s. They on one hand gave a hint with the rough and violent sound of fighting scenes of what was being played inside the video club, and on the other hand covered up the movies that were sometimes played which were not supposed to be shown publicly. They are icons of the heydays of video club, pulling us back to the 1980’s.“Hahahahaha”, the sound of laughter, is what we remember most about showing swordsman movie in video clubs. In various scenes the roles in the movie would laugh, the volume and tone of which is determined by the side those roles take. The loudspeaker and laughers indicate the actor’s performance as knights and warriors
李牧
禅之漫步 影像 4分钟 2011年
Zen for Walking , video , 4' , 2011
2011年，我在上海虹口区的一条街道上重新表演了白南准（ Nam June Paik）的《禅之漫步》。我牵着一只小提琴在街上漫步，提琴发出摩擦地面的噪音，混杂在街道的喧嚣声中。整个过程中，很少有人注意到并观看我的表演，大家都在忙碌着 ，买菜、赶路。只有一只小狗对我吼了几声，算是对我的表演表示关注。
I rehearsed Nam June Paik’s Zen for Walking in a street in Hongkou District, Shanghai. I walked in the street, pulling a violin behind. The noise of violin rubbing the ground could not be heard in the din of the street. I was hardly noticed throughout the performance. Everyone was busy walking to work or shopping. The only spectator was a dog; it barked at me, in order to show me its attention.
梁玥
楼上的幽灵 视频 | 单路 1分钟 2001年
The ghost upstairs , Video | Single channel , 1' , 2001
这是一个连艺术家本人都会忍俊的作品，她惊讶于早年的这段对生活状态最原生态的记录，这是出现在无数同年龄女孩心中的“幽灵”——对这个干枯贫乏的世界最惯性的认知，只是它被不加修饰地纪录，显得粗俗却又直白。
This is an artwork that would even amuse the artist herself. She is amazed by this raw recording of her early life. This is the phantom that appears in the minds of girls of the same age, a simple and natural recognition of this plain and barren world. The only thing that makes it vulgar and blatant is its unmediated style.
楼南立B6
城市之音 录象视频 5.1 环境电子音乐
Sound Of The City , Video + 5.1 Electronic Ambient Music
Sound Of The City是一个的关于城市声音与视觉景观的系列新媒体作品，是一个不断进行与扩大中的长期艺术项目。
上海与杭州部分完成于2010年秋天。其中所有声音源都来自于对现实环境的实地录音，通过电子音乐后期手段将这些具象素材“抽象/音乐”化，并用多声道发声源来呈现；视觉部分则通过拍摄相同场景中不同长短时间段中的写实影像素材，经后期剪辑、重叠、合成，以多屏幕方式呈现。
作品通过对于不同城市的视觉与声音采集、解构与再合成来诠释城市外部与内部的景观，以及在“城市”这个区域单位里，主观“第一人称视/听觉”的社会价值观的取舍。
‘Sound Of The City’ is a series of new media art pieces about city sound and landscape, which is also an on-going project.
Artist finished parts of Shanghai and Hangzhou in 2010 Fall. all the sound clips were gathered from field recording, B6 used the technology of electronic music production to abstract the clips, and present the result with multi-channels; the video materials were edited, overlapped, composed, and presented by multi-screens.
'sound of the city' tried to deconstruct the sound and visual materials, and to interpret landscape of the city, B6 also wants to present how we accept or reject our own listening and viewing.
宋涛
4.7G系列之三-四国 视频 | 单路 6分钟 2007年
4.7G-03-Four Countries , Video | Single channel , 6' , 2007
这是4.7G项目的第三个作品。《四国》就是一帮青年在玩翻牌游戏的纪录，其日常程度足以让大家忽略这种生活的存在，但这却是我们生活的常态：嬉、笑、怒、骂，游戏人生，如此而已。在B6创作的背景音乐中，五个年轻人一边下军棋，一边聊天、抽烟、毫无顾忌地嬉笑打闹,展现出一种游戏的、市井化的生活。
This is the third work by 4.7G. Four Kingdoms is a plain record of a bunch of young man playing chess game. This scene is so normal that we tend to neglect them; yet it represents our everyday life: bantering, laughing, feeling angry and abusing. In the background music played by B6, five young men play chess game, chatting, smoking, and bantering. This is the life of game and life in the city.
苏文祥
减速 录像 4分48秒 彩色16：9 有声循环 2010
Slow Down，Video, 4'48", Color, 16:9, Sound Loop，2010
京包铁路13公里处，用一根线拦着铁路，一端由我拽着，让飞驰来京的火车速度降下来。慢下来，慢下来……
13 kilometers away from the starting point of Beijing-Baotou railway, I fix a thread to one side of the rail, and hold the end on the other, trying to block the train, or at least lower its speed a little, just a little …
孙逊
黑色咒语 视频 | 单路 7分56秒 2008年
Coal Spell, Video , 7’56’’, 2008
有关《黑色咒语》：
当我们沉睡时，一切都成为历史。
这是一个有关煤炭工业城市－阜新的兴衰的叙述。艺术家通过对家乡的记忆和感怀，进行着对历史和权利的质疑……
一 座神秘的黑暗之城，风暴肆虐，黄沙漫天。城市中心，几座巨大的建筑冲向天际，喷出滚滚浓烟，遮天避日，终日不见阳光。一种主义的声响日以夜继，千日不绝， 用以驱逐人们对这个世界的种种好奇与揣测！这是一间囚禁着历史的巨大的监牢，亦是一头性情凶残暴戾而且喜怒无常的怪兽，直到有一天，人们驱动着发出撕心裂 肺吼叫的苏联挖掘机，粗暴掀开巨大的地皮，渐渐接近这个城市的心脏......甚至可以窥视历史的变幻！
人民的货币，图案便是插图......
Coal Spell, inspired by this old five Yuan RMB note, is an account of the rise and fall of Fuxin, an old industrial coal city located in northeastern China. As a result of the experiences and nostalgia of his upbringing, the artist began to question both History and Power:
徐 渠
行为录像《逆水行舟 》 版数：2/3 14分58秒 彩色标清 2011年
Upstream , Edition:2/3 , 14'58'' , Color , 2011
影像纪录的是艺术家与一位好友用一条皮筏艇从北京一条叫做亮马河（艺术家居住地门口）的臭水沟逆流而上的划行过程，以此行动到达北京市区，艺术家企图牵引出某种思考。这个行为可能一方面是滑稽无聊的，但其中却值得玩味，我们感到了无法挣脱的乏力感，以及艺术家对大都市的认知等等。
This video records the artist and his fiend’s boat adventure in a stink creek called Liangmahe River near his residence. They made to downtown area Beijing in boat. The artist tries to trigger certain thinking with such performance, which could appear boring, yet is full of signification. In this work we see a pervasive boredom, and the artist’s perception of the world.
徐震
巡回演出 视频 | 多路 2000年
Road show , 3 channel video installation , 2000
徐震将自己装扮成一个说唱乐手，三个屏幕同时播放着他台上举着麦克风奋力表演的场景。而在这一煽动人心的视觉画面之外，观众听到的却是他低 弱的模仿性爱的声音。伴随着高潮的到来，台下观众的情绪被充分调动，尖叫和口哨声也渐趋热烈，似乎达到了一种互动。而事实上，屏幕中至始至终没有出现台下 欢呼的观众。
Xu Zhen plays rap singer; the three screens simultaneously show the scenes of him singing hard with microphone in his hand. However, outside the hot scenes being shown, audience hears Xu imitating the sound of having sex. As the performance in screens arrive at the climax, the audience’s whistle and exclaim could be heard, as if responding to Xu’s performance. But in fact the cheering audience never appears in the screen.
张炜
我梦见你在一亿年后的黑暗苍穹下 动画影象 5分钟 2011年
I dream you in the dark sky after 100 million years , Animation , 5' , 2011
短片以叙事的方式，把一种自身的感受，体验和幻想在一个特定的时空里展开，在现实的困境和超现实的梦境中游离，在个体无休止的挣扎中，试图寻找自己早已遗失的古老躯壳。
Short film in a narrative way, put an own feeling, experience and imagination in a specific time and space launch, in the realistic predicament and surreal dream free, in the individual the endless struggle, trying to find his lost ancient shell.
周滔
互助练习 单屏录像 10分54秒 2009年
Mutual Exercise , Single channel video, 10'545'' , 2009
我和朋友在公共空间中进行种种需要一起配合的活动。我们支撑对方的身体，然后一起往前移动，或者用同样的方式，在各种平凡有趣的场景中进行日常的活动。如果我们不动，看起来就和正常的人没有两样。
Mutual exercise is some practices and experiences in a mutual way between my friend and me in the public space. We provide each other with our bodies to move forward mutually and to rehearse different kinds of common actions, according to the unostentatious and interesting scenes and objects. When we are still, it seems that we were just the same as all those ordinary people around.
张鼎
大时代 摄影 102.0 * 153.0 cm (40" * 60") 2007年
Great Era , Photo , 102.0 * 153.0 cm (40" * 60"), 2007
张鼎的作品“大时代”（2007年）是一部以上海作为舞台背景的超现实主义费里尼式的短片。主角在背景音乐的陪伴下，独自骑着他的马头自行车游走。
Zhang Ding’s latest work The Great Era (2007) is a Fellini-style surrealist short movie, taking Shanghai as the background of the stage. Accompanied by the background music, the hero wanders in the street on a bicycle, which is decorated with a horse head mask.
祖伟民
厕所 影像 5分30秒 2002年
Toilet , video , 5'30'' , 2002
典型的电影默片时代气质，很普通却是极中国国情的一个切入点，取景于艺术家上大学时校园外的一个城中村。简单有效的情节，极具感染力的音乐，赋予作品黑色幽默的气息，流畅轻松，年轻人的恶作剧，令人忍俊不禁。
The work has a typical quality of silent movie, very normal, yet provides a window to the reality in China. Made in an urban village outside the college campus where the artist attended, the work features simple plot, impressive music, and an air of black humor. The smooth narrative of young men’s prank throws the audience into laughter.
Alternative Narrative is an exhibition of video art by Chinese artists who have expanded the genre in numerous ways. And though the exhibition may seem as both an up-to-date assessment as well as looking back to its emergence, by the same token, it is only a fractured historiography for this art form is as much a heterogeneous practice as other genres that Chinese artists are working in today including painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, for example. There is not one dominant style or painting aesthetic that can be characterized as Chinese, for the global nature of Chinese painting underscores this as it rubs up against all forms of international practices. Similarly, then, the state of Chinese video art is as diversified as any of its counterparts in the UK, US, or any other country. The subtitle of the exhibition also needs some clarification as well: it alludes to nothing short of astonishment if not unimaginable how quickly video art in China has exponentially advanced; and the subtitle is not only descriptive for the sheer diversity of video as well as the high level of accomplishment of its Chinese practitioners. As the exhibition Alternative Narrative makes quite clear, Chinese video art is an extremely diversified field that is only exponentially growing and subsequently getting more complex and sophisticated. The selected, albeit strong, examples presented in this exhibition underscore this. Already artists are working and expanding the formal and conceptual vocabularies of video art in ways that can only be characterized as astonishing if not…well…unimaginable.
