Shirley Tse:
Stakeholders,
Hong Kong in Venice

謝淑妮:
與事者,
香港在威尼斯

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Optic Nerves, plastic, beige, cream, adjustable stand

‘Optic Nerves’, 2016, plastic sheet and metal stand, height adjustable × 94 × 61 cm

Optic Nerves, plastic, beige, cream, adjustable stand

Optic Nerves》,2016年,塑膠片、金屬支架,高度可調節 × 94 × 61厘米

People

人物

Artist

Shirley Tse

Los Angeles–based Hong Kong artist Shirley Tse works in the media of sculpture, installation, photography, and text. She at once deconstructs the world of synthetic objects that carry paradoxical meanings and constructs models in which differences might come together. To visualise heterogeneity, Tse conflates different scales, fuses the organic with the industrial, moves between the literal and the metaphorical, merges narratives, and collapses the subject and object relationship.

Tse received a Master of Fine Arts degree from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2004/2017); Osage, Hong Kong (2010/2011); K11, Hong Kong (2009); Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge (2009); the Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk (2006); the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (2005); Para Site, Hong Kong (2000/2005); the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (2003); the Art Gallery of Ontario (2002); the Bienal Ceará América, Fortaleza (2002); the Biennale of Sydney (2002); Capp Street Project, San Francisco (2002); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2002); MoMA PS1 (2002); the New Museum (2002); Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini (2002); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2001); TENT, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam (2001); and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2000). Her work is featured in many articles, catalogues, and other publications including ‘Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life’ (2015) and ‘Sculpture Today’ (2007).

Tse received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009 and has been on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts since 2001, where she is the Robert Fitzpatrick Chair in Art.

藝術家

謝淑妮

現居洛杉磯的香港藝術家謝淑妮,其創作涉及雕塑、裝置、攝影、文字等媒介。她一邊解構帶有矛盾意義的合成物的世界,一邊建構各種令差異並存的模型。為了形象地呈現異質性,謝淑妮混合不同比例,融會有機物件與工業製品,遊走於字面義與隱喻義之間,合併多種論述,並瓦解主體與客體的關係。

謝淑妮於香港中文大學藝術系取得藝術系文學士學位,後於加州帕薩迪納藝術中心設計學院取得藝術碩士學位。她的作品曾於各地展出,包括帕薩迪納加州藝術博物館 (2004年,2017年);香港奧沙畫廊(2010年,2011年);香港K11藝術空間(2009年);劍橋大學Kettle’s Yard畫廊(2009年);明斯克當代藝術博物館(2006年);康奈爾大學Herbert F. Johnson藝術博物館(2005年);香港Para Site藝術空間(2000年,2005年);高雄市立美術館(2003年);安大略美術館(2002年);巴西福塔萊薩美洲塞阿臘雙年展(2002年);悉尼雙年展(2002年);三藩市Capp Street Project實驗藝術空間(2002年);波士頓當代美術館(2002年);紐約現代藝術博物館PS1當代藝術中心(2002年);新當代藝術博物館(2002年);里米尼Palazzo dell’Arengo2002年);舊金山現代藝術博物館(2001年);鹿特丹視覺藝術中心TENT2001年);以及紐西蘭新普利茅斯Govett-Brewster Art Gallery2000年)。其作品也曾見於各大文章、圖錄及刊物,如《Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life》(2015年)和《Sculpture Today》(2007年)。

謝淑妮於2009年獲古根漢獎學金。自2001年起於加州藝術學院(CalArts)任教,現為該學院羅伯特・菲茲派翠克的講座教授。

Bleacher, glass, eyes, heads, colour

‘The Vehicle Series’, installation view, 2016

Bleacher, glass, eyes, heads, colour

The Vehicle Series》展出現場,2016

Curator

Christina Li

Christina Li is a curator working between Hong Kong and Amsterdam. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a degree in Fine Arts (Art History) and Comparative Literature, and completed De Appel Curatorial Programme in 2009. She was the Curator-at-Large at Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, where she served as the Director between 2015 and 2017. At Spring, she curated, among other projects, ‘A Collective Present’ (2017), ‘Wu Tsang: Duilian’ (2016), ‘Wong Wai Yin: Without Trying’ (2016), ‘Days push off into nights’ (2015), and ‘Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor’ (2015). She curated ‘Dismantling the Scaffold’ (2018), the inaugural exhibition at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.

Li previously worked as a curator at Para Site in Hong Kong from 2005 to 2008, and was the Assistant Curator of ‘Making (Perfect) World: Harbour, Hong Kong, Alienated Cities and Dreams’, Hong Kong’s participation in the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, in 2009. Her other projects include ‘The Goethe-Institut’s Pyongyang Reading Room: Between Object and Shadow’ (Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, 2013); ‘A Map of Misreading’ (TENT, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, 2012); ‘Spacecraft Icarus 13: Cinematic Narratives from Elsewhere’ (BAK, Utrecht, 2011); ‘Prologue – Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility’ (SKOR and various locations, Amsterdam, 2010); ‘Not Yesterday, Not Tomorrow’ (Cable Factory, Helsinki, 2009); and ‘Weak Signals, Wild Cards’ (De Appel, Amsterdam, 2009). As a writer, she has contributed to publications including ‘Artforum’, ‘Art Review Asia’, ‘LEAP’, ‘Parkett’, ‘Spike’, and ‘Yishu Journal of Contemporary Art’.

策展人

李綺敏

李綺敏是在香港和阿姆斯特丹兩地工作的策展人。她畢業於香港大學,獲得美術(藝術史)和比較文學學位,並於2009年完成De Appel藝術中心策展課程。她是香港Spring工作室的總策展人,並於2015至2017年間擔任該機構總監。她在Spring工作室策劃的多個項目包括:「共存」(2017年)、「曾吳:對聯/對練」(2016年)、「黃慧妍:不要太努力讓事情發生」(2016年),「日夜雙生」(2015年)及「Des hôtes──人,外人,外來人」(2015年)。她為大館當代美術館策劃了首個展覽「拆棚」(2018年)。

李綺敏曾於20052008年間擔任Para Site藝術空間(香港)策展人,以及第53屆威尼斯雙年展香港參展項目「製造(完美的)世界:海洋、香港、異邦的城市和夢」的助理策展人。她參與的其他計劃包括:「平壤閱讀室──物件與陰影之間」(阿姆斯特丹歌德學院,2013年);「誤讀地圖」(鹿特丹TENT,2012年);「伊卡洛斯13號航天器──來自他方的電影敘事」(烏特勒BAK,2011年);「序言──對禮節文明構成的猜想」(阿姆斯特丹SKOR等多個場所,2010年);「非昨天,非明天」(赫爾辛基Cable Factory,2009年);及「弱信號,外卡」(阿姆斯特丹De Appel,2009年)。她的文字作品曾刊登於《Artforum》、《Art Review Asia》、《藝術界》、《Parkett》、《Spike》和《典藏國際版》等。

playcourt, heads, zip tie

‘Playcourt’, 2019, work in progress, artist’s studio

sand bag, badminton, racket, tripod

Playcourt》,2019年,製作過程,謝淑妮工作室

Co-presenters
主辦機構
About M+

M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

To find out more about M+, please visit www.westkowloon.hk/mplus.

有關M+

M+是嶄新的博物館,致力於收藏、展示與詮釋二十及二十一世紀的視覺藝術、設計及建築、流動影像,以及香港視覺文化。位於香港西九文化區的M+正在興建,建成後其規模可媲美世界知名的現當代視覺文化博物館,矢志於躋身世界頂尖文化機構之列。我們冀以香港中西薈萃的歷史特色為基礎,從身處的斯時此地出發,為二十一世紀亞洲創立一座別樹一幟的新型博物館。

了解更多有關M+的詳細資料,請瀏覽 www.westkowloon.hk/mplus

About West Kowloon Cultural District

The West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest and most ambitious cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong on forty hectares of reclaimed land located alongside Victoria Harbour. With a varied mix of theatres, performance spaces, and museums, the West Kowloon Cultural District will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, providing twenty-three hectares of public open space, including a two-kilometre waterfront promenade.

To find out more about West Kowloon Cultural District, please visit www.westkowloon.hk.

有關西九文化區

西九文化區是全球規模最大的文化項目之一,願景是為香港在濱臨維多利亞港、佔地40公頃的填海土地上,創造一個多姿多彩的新文化地帶。文化區內設有製作及舉辦世界級展覽、表演節目和文化藝術活動的各類劇場、演出空間和博物館;並有佔地23公頃的公共空間,包括長達兩公里的海濱長廊。

了解更多有關西九文化區的詳細資料,請瀏覽 www.westkowloon.hk

About Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Established in 1995, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) is a statutory body set up by the Government to support the broad development of the arts in Hong Kong. Its major roles include grant allocation, policy and planning, advocacy, promotion and development, and programme planning. The mission of HKADC is to plan, promote and support the broad development of the arts including literary arts, performing arts, visual arts as well as film and media arts in Hong Kong. Aiming to foster a thriving arts environment and enhancing the quality of life of the public, HKADC is also committed to facilitating community-wide participation in the arts and arts education, encouraging arts criticism, raising the standard of arts administration and strengthening the work on policy research.

To achieve the three major goals of fostering the development of arts groups, raising the level of artistic standards and exploring development opportunities for artists, the following development strategies are formulated:

  • Supporting promising artists and arts groups in the pursuit of excellence
  • Promoting arts administration to improve the management of arts groups
  • Focusing on the arts environment and proposing policy recommendations
  • Enhancing public participation and exploring arts space
  • Fostering strategic partnerships and bringing arts resources together

HKADC has taken part in the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia since 2001, with an aim to enhance exchange and communication between Hong Kong and other countries in the world. About 662,000 people have visited the past nine exhibitions.

To find out more about HKADC, please visit www.hkadc.org.hk.

有關香港藝術發展局

香港藝術發展局(藝發局)於1995年成立,是政府指定全方位發展香港藝術的法定機構。藝發局的角色包括資助、政策及策劃、倡議、推廣及發展、策劃活動等。藝發局的使命為策劃、推廣及支持包括文學、表演藝術、視覺藝術、電影及媒體藝術之發展,促進和改善藝術的參與和教育、鼓勵藝術評論、提升藝術行政之水平及加強政策研究工作,務求藉藝術發展提高社會的生活質素。

為達至推動藝術圈發展、提升藝術水平、開拓藝術家的發展空間之三大目標,本局制訂以下發展策略:

  • 扶植具潛質的藝術家/藝團,培育卓越發展
  • 推動藝術行政,提升藝團的管理能力
  • 關注藝術環境,提出政策建議
  • 擴闊參與群眾,開拓藝術空間
  • 締結策略伙伴,凝聚藝術資源

藝發局自2001年起參與威尼斯視藝雙年展,旨在促進香港和全球其它國家之間的交流。過去的九次展覽至今已共有約66萬名觀眾參觀。

了解更多有關藝發局的詳細資料,請瀏覽 www.hkadc.org.hk.

orange, plastic, glass

‘Bamboo Extension’, 2016, glass, bamboo, and plastic, 228.6 × 43.2 × 17.8 cm

orange, plastic, glass, bamboo

Bamboo Extension》,2016年,玻璃、竹、塑膠,228.6 × 43.2 × 17.8厘米

Acknowledgements

Co-Commissioners
Victor Lo Chung-wing, Chairman, M+ Board,
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority

Wilfred Wong Ying-wai, Chairman, Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Project Team of M+, West Kowloon Cultural District

Curator
Christina Li, Guest Curator

Consulting Curator
Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator

With
Olivia Chow, Assistant Curator
Maggie Yim, Curatorial Assistant

Supported by
Veronica Castillo, Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibition
Keri Towler, Senior Registrar
Olatz Irijalba Claramunt, Registrar, Exhibitions
Moody Tang, Associate Registrar

Project Team of
Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Winsome Chow, Chief Executive
Queenie Lau, Arts Development Director
Hilda Ho, Arts Development Manager
Kay Wong, Arts Development Officer

The Working Group of Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Chairman
Chris Chan

Members
Caroline Cheng
Andy Hei
Indy Lee
Kevin Leung
Ellen Pau
Paulo Pong
Sara Wong

Coordinator in Venice
PDG Arte Communications

Design
Geoff Han &
Julie Peeters
with Immanuel Yang

Website
Arthur Haegeman

鳴謝

主辦機構
西九文化區管理局M+董事局主席
羅仲榮

香港藝術發展局主席
王英偉

西九文化區M+項目團隊

策展人
客席策展人 李綺敏

顧問策展人
副總監及總策展人
鄭道鍊


助理策展人周宛昀
策展助理 嚴嘉琪

協力
副總監(藏品及展覧)Veronica Castillo
資深藏品管理主任
Keri Towler
藏品管理專員(展覽)Olatz Irijalba Claramunt
副藏品管理專員 鄧夢茵

香港藝術發展局項目團隊

行政總裁 周蕙心
藝術發展總監 劉慧寧
藝術發展經理 何敏婷
藝術發展主任 黃展麒

香港藝術發展局工作小組

主席
陳錦成

成員
鄭禕
黑國強
李俊亮
梁崇任
鮑藹倫
龐建貽
黃志恆

威尼斯統籌
PDG Arte Communications

設計
Geoff Han &
Julie Peeters
Immanuel Yang

網站設計
Arthur Haegeman

wood, joints, installation, rhizome, flow, 3d prints

‘Negotiated Differences’ (detail), 2019, carved wood and 3D-printed forms in wood, metal, and plastic, dimensions variable

wood, joints, installation, rhizome, flow, 3d prints

Negotiated Differences》局部,2019年,雕刻木件、3D打印木件、金屬件、塑膠件,尺寸不定

Exhibition

展覽

Introduction

The mechanisms behind the manufacture, consumption, and circulation of objects—as well as the individual and collective relationships they impart—are fundamental touchstones that define socio-economic relations and subjectivities. They are also the raw and reference materials in Shirley Tse’s two-decade- long exploration into contemporary society through her expansive practice. These elements predominately concern consumer plastics and polymers such as polystyrene or styrofoam, which she worked with in the 1990s through the early 2000s. She takes their polymerous uses as entry points to decipher the world, deconstructing their entanglements. Her rigorous investigation into what she calls ‘multiplicities’ within these generic elements engenders ‘a form of materialism which calls for the ability to think fluidly, to understand complexity and to negotiate conflict’1, culminating in poetic and unexpected sculptural amalgams of common materials.

For Hong Kong’s 58th Venice Biennale site-responsive presentation entitled ‘Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice’, Tse juxtaposes plastics with raw materials, namely wood, and readymades including studio and sports equipment to unravel the histories, imaginations, applications, and technologies embedded within them; the two installations on view, ‘Negotiated Differences’ and ‘Playcourt’ (both 2019), look at individuals as stakeholders in the production, use, and meanings of objects. The individual as producer and user of objects, and most importantly as citizen, is thoroughly articulated through techniques that are new to the artist, namely in ‘Negotiated Differences’, such as woodturning and digital technology. The work, which traipses through the interior space, is a diagrammatic hybrid of constructed wooden forms and found everyday articles such as balusters, baseball bats, prosthetic limbs, and handrails linked together by 3D-printed and hand-carved metal and plastic joints. Each wooden and synthetic articular joint is dynamically counterbalanced in space as determined by multidirectional connectors and gravity. The sprawling display perambulates the room’s surfaces in this former wood storage site. Tse plays with shapes and production in using deliberately erratic 3D-printed articulations based on open-source designs and woodturned reproductions mined from an index of musical instruments, sports equipment, and furniture. Apart from the counterweight of material, form, and craft in the installation, negotiation acquires an added reading. Working with a rotary lathe—an archaic apparatus considered the point of origin for machine tools—the hand becomes intermediary between machine and matter. In the turning process, Tse works with, rather than against, the grain; turning here could be understood as a tactile manifestation of conflict negotiation. The work is an exercise in improvisation where form and composition are in the process of making, a constant process of extemporary negotiation with old and new elements and actors.

The agility of form and function, and the themes of agency, unpremeditated action, and exchange are synchronously addressed in the courtyard installation ‘Playcourt’. The work engages with the domestic function of a cloister with sculptures perched on tripods directing the viewer’s gaze skyward to the alignment of residential laundry lines above. Taking a cue from the makeshift badminton courts of her childhood in Hong Kong, where street furniture stood in for nets, existing works appear alongside new anthropomorphic sculptures on stands and working antennas. They are arranged in two converging lines resembling nets, thus transforming the site into a potential field of play actuated through physical negotiation and imagination. Aside from plastic, other material and personal narratives explored in Tse’s oeuvre—such as her family’s link to colonial trade probed in ‘Quantum Shirley Series’ (2009–ongoing), plastic, technology, and the body— are synthesised and translated into shuttlecocks made out of vanilla beans and rubber. The overlay of site-responsive histories takes on another layer as Tse incorporates amateur radio equipment, forerunner to digital communications, into the presentation. The antennas are designed to pick up non-commercial frequencies and recreational broadcasting, thus making audible flows of communication in proximity to the courtyard, amplifying the cacophonic articulations assembling and negotiating. The playful choreography of Tse’s subjectivities among the sculptures in an organic movement of encounters activates the sculptures as place markers, shaping the potential interactions that unfold within the contested field of action.

Tse works against conventions of protocol and efficiency at the core of productivity-driven mechanisations of contemporary society. The artist rigorously unpacked this early on in her practice, and in ‘Stakeholders’, as an antithetical gesture, espouses slowness. In this transgressive contrarian space of affect, empathy, and ethics, the two-part presentation gives form to turbulent societies circumscribed by individual decisions and the failure of consensus politics. If things are the tools Tse uses to decipher the guiding mechanisms and forces behind them, they are also objects that through activation bring out into the open how they shape societies and those who live in them. Tse’s meticulous approach to objects and process helps visualise dynamics and ethical codes in interactions. The Venice Biennale presentation implicates the public as stakeholders in improvised negotiation, and the manifold processes and materials delicately counterbalanced in ‘Negotiated Differences’ and the imaginary polyphonies conjured by ‘Playcourt’ invite the viewer to consider coexistence in affirming each other’s agency at the core of a shared heterogeneous society. Through her unique sculptural practice, Tse carefully considers what individuals can learn from ubiquitous materials, processes, and structures that shape a pluralistic world.

Christina Li
Guest Curator

1 Shirley Tse, ‘Technology, Plastic, and Art’, Art and Technology Symposium, International Association For Philosophy and Literature 22nd Annual Conference, University of California, Irvine, May 1998, revised May 2003.

簡介

物件的生產、消耗和流通背後的機制,以及由它們賦予的個人或集體關係,都是定義各種社會經濟關係和主體性的基本標準。二十年來,謝淑妮藉着廣泛的藝術實踐來深入探索當代社會,而物件就是她創作的原材料和參照材料。這些元素主要是塑膠消費品塑膠和諸如聚苯乙烯或發泡膠之類的聚合物。自1990年代至2000年代初,她一直以這些物料創作,以這些事物繁多的用途為切入點,解讀世界中種種蔽而不彰的糾葛。謝淑妮嚴謹地研究這些常見元素中的所謂「多樣性」,由此產生「一種物質主義的形態,而當中需要靈活思考、理解複雜性和協商矛盾的能力」1,把尋常物料化為滿有詩意、出人意表的雕塑混合物。

在第58屆威尼斯雙年展中,香港將舉辦題為「謝淑妮:與事者,香港在威尼斯」的展覽。這個回應展出場地空間特質的展覽中,謝淑妮把塑膠和多種原材料並置,包括木材及攝影棚設備、運動器材等現成物,從而揭開深藏其中的歷史、想像、應用和相關技術。兩件展出的裝置作品《Negotiated Differences》和《Playcourt》都是2019年的新作,它們均把個人視為物件生產、使用和意義生成過程中的與事者(Stakeholders)。謝淑妮在《Negotiated Differences》中採用一些全新的技巧,包括木車工和數碼技術,個人作為物件的製造者和使用者,還有最重要的是身為公民的角色,這在該作品中得到了充分闡述。這件作品在整個室內空間中盤桓,是一組圖解式的混合物,由各種形態的木製品和日常物品組成,例如欄杆、棒球棍、人體「義肢」般的物件和扶手。它們以3D打印和手工製作的金屬和塑膠連接組件相連。每件以木和合成物料製成的接合節點,在由多向的連接組件和重力所決定的空間中,以動態方式相互平衡。這件貼地蔓生的展品,在曾用作貯木倉庫的展館內徜徉遊走。謝淑妮在創作中嘗試新的形態和手法,刻意採用3D打印時出錯的接合裝置(檔案來自互聯網的開放源碼網站),並以一系列樂器、運動器材和家具為依據,以木車工製造出複製品。除了物料、形態和工藝的平衡展示,協商還需要另一層解讀。車床是一種古老的工具,被視為各種機器工具之源。在旋動的車床上作業時,人的手即變成機器與物質的中介。在車製過程中,謝淑妮要順應木材的紋理,與之合作而非對抗,這可以看作協商矛盾的觸感式呈現。這件作品是一次即興的創作活動,作品的形態和佈局,是在新舊元素和參與者不斷即席協商的過程中生成。

形體與功能的靈動性,以及能動性、非預謀行為和互換等題材,也同時呈現於《Playcourt》之中。這件設在庭院中的裝置作品利用具日常生活氣息的迴廊,以三腳架把各種雕塑高高架起,藉此把參觀者的視線引向高處排列整齊的家居晾衣線。謝淑妮參照她兒時在香港所見、用各種街邊物件充當球網的臨時羽毛球場,將一系列舊作,連同豎立在支架上新做的擬人形態雕塑,以及具接收功能的天線同場展出。這些雕塑排成兩行,猶如兩張球網,再交會在一起,透過對物質的協商和想像,將展場化身成可以玩耍的場地。除了塑膠,謝淑妮在作品中曾探索的其他物料和個人論述,如《量子淑妮系列》(2009年至今)中曾觸及的家庭與殖民地貿易的聯繫,還有塑膠、技術和身體等題材,也被合成和轉化為以香草豆莢和橡膠製成的羽毛球中。這些場域持定的歷史故事也增添了另一層深意。業餘無線電器材是現今數碼通訊的先軀。謝淑妮將之納入其裝置中,裝設天線用於接收非商用頻率和休閒娛樂性質的廣播,庭院周遭可耳聞的溝通交談,把正在不斷聚攏和協商的喧譁沓雜聲音放大。謝淑妮在這些雕塑之間,以趣味盎然的方式編排了眾多主體性共舞,形成一場自然而然的邂逅相遇運動,令雕塑化成標記,在行動與不和諧的相爭場域中,形塑可能出現的互動。

當代社會着眼於生產力而追求機械化,謝淑妮的創作跟此中所講求的程序與效率背道而馳。她在早期作品中已極力顯露這種做法,並在「謝淑妮:與事者」中崇尚緩慢,藉以表現出分庭抗禮的姿態。這個由情感、同理心和倫理道德組成的空間悖離於常軌,反其道而行,這個由兩部分組成的展覽,為因個人決定和共識政治失靈而陷入動盪的社會賦予形態。如果事物是謝淑妮用以破解社會指導機制及其背後力量的工具,那麼這些物件在激活後,也能揭示它們是如何形塑社會和生活於其中的人。謝淑妮以一絲不苟的手法處理物件和過程,有助以視覺化方式呈現互動中的動態變化和道德規範。這次參與威尼斯雙年展的展覽令公眾也參與其中,成為即興協商中的「與事者」。在《Negotiated Differences》中,多種多樣的工序和物料巧妙地相互平衡;而《Playcourt》則呈現出想像的複調聲音,邀請參觀者對共存加以思考,明白共有的異質化社會的核心,在於承認彼此的能動性。謝淑妮藉着獨特的雕塑實踐再三思忖,從塑造多元化世界的那些處處可見的物料、工序和結構中,個人究竟可得到何種領悟。

李綺敏
客席策展人

1謝淑妮,〈Technology, Plastic, and Art〉(演講,Art and Technology SymposiumInternational Association For Philosophy and Literature 22nd Annual Conference,加州大學爾灣分校,1998年5月,20035月修訂)。

Exhibition Documentation

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Catalogue

“Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice”
Authors: Christina Li, Evelyn Char, Chris Kraus, Miwon Kwon, Shirley Tse
Publisher: MPLUS MUSEUM LIMITED

ISBN: 978-988-78130-0-2
Languages: English and Chinese
Retail Price: HKD280
No. of Pages: 260

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圖錄

《謝淑妮:與事者,香港在威尼斯》
作者: 李綺敏、 查映嵐、Chris Kraus、權美媛、謝淑妮
出版: MPLUS MUSEUM LIMITED

ISBN: 978-988-78130-0-2
語言: 英語及中文
價格: 港幣280
頁數: 260

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In Venice

威尼斯

Visit

Exhibition period 

11 May – 24 November 2019
10am – 6pm

Closed on Mondays (except 13 May, 2 September, 18 November 2019)

Due to the exceptionally high tide in Venice which caused serious flooding, the exhibition “Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice” has closed as of 19 November 2019. We regret any inconvenience caused.

Location

Campo della Tana, Castello 2126, 30122, Venice, Italy
(In front of the main entrance of Arsenale)

Vaporetto Stops: Arsenale or Giardini
Line: 1, 2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 or 5.2

到訪威尼斯

開放時間

2019511日至1124
上午10時至下午6

逢星期一休息
(2019513日、92日及1118日除外)

由於威尼斯水位大幅上漲而造成嚴重水浸,「謝淑妮:與事者,香港在威尼斯」展覽已於11月19日結束。不便之處,敬請原諒。

地點

意大利威尼斯卡斯泰洛區Campo della Tana
(Arsenale的主入口對面)

Vaporetto 水上巴士站ArsenaleGiardini
線路:124.14.25.15.2號線

Blog

As part of its commitment to nurturing local talent interested in working in the visual art field, M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council have launched an internship programme for the 58th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, offering interns the chance to gain unique insight into the workings of the world’s oldest and most renowned international art exhibition. The programme will begin in May, and will be arranged in two divisions, inviting two technical and ten exhibition interns to join the M+ team.

Meet our interns and learn about their experiences while they work with us in Venice through their blog posts.

網誌

M+及香港藝術發展局一直重視培育本地藝術人材,這項實習計劃為有志者提供參與大型國際藝術展覽的寶貴機會。我們現正籌辦第58屆威尼斯雙年展的實習計劃,提供實習生一個獨有的機會親身體驗並參與這歷史悠久的著名國際藝術展。此計劃將於五月起分兩個組別舉行,2位技術及10位展覽實習員將與M+團隊緊密合作,籌劃在威尼斯舉行的展覽。

實習生將會定期更新此網誌,分享他們於威尼斯實習的經歷及所見所聞

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale, founded in 1895, has been one of the most important cultural institutions in the world. Covering a wide range of disciplines, including art, architecture, cinema, dance, music and theatre, it aims to promote new artistic trends in contemporary arts. The documentation of its main activities is contained in its own ‘Contemporary Arts Archive’, which is a key point of reference for the study of contemporary arts.

For more information, please visit www.labiennale.org.

關於威尼斯雙年展

成立於1895年的威尼斯雙年展是全球最重要的文化機構之一,涵蓋的範疇非常廣泛,包括了藝術、建築、電影、舞蹈、音樂和劇場,旨在促進及推廣各類型當代藝術的嶄新趨勢。其「當代藝術檔案庫」(Contemporary Arts Archive)對雙年展主要活動的記錄更是研究當代藝術的關鍵素材。

更多資訊,請瀏覽 www.labiennale.org

Past Exhibitions

Since Hong Kong’s debut in 2001, the goal has always been to use the Venice Biennale as a platform to promote Hong Kong artists on the global stage. The past participating visual art artists include Samson Young, Tsang Kin-wah, Lee Kit, Kwok Mang-ho (Frog King), Pak Sheung Chuen, MAP Office, Hiram To, Amy Cheung, anothermountainman, Chan Yuk-keung, Para/Site Collective, Ho Siu-kee, Leung Chi-wo and Ellen Pau.

The 58th Venice Biennale is the fourth collaboration between M+ and ADC, following the acclaimed reviews for ‘Lee Kit – You (you)’. in 2013, ‘Tsang Kin-wah: The Infinite Nothing’ in 2015, and ‘Samson Young: Song for Disaster Relief’ in 2017 on this representation of Hong Kong contemporary art at one of the most important international platforms.

Links for past exhibitions

2018Vertical Fabric: density in landscape
2017Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief
2016Stratagems in Architecture
2015Tsang Kin-wah: The Infinite Nothing
2014Fundamentally Hong Kong? Delta Four 1984 – 2044
2013‘You (you).’ – Lee Kit
2012Inter Cities / Intra Cities: Ghostwriting the Future
2011Frogtopia. Hongkornucopia
2010Quotidian Architectures
2009Making (Perfect) World: Harbour, Hong Kong, Alienated Cities and Dreams
2008Re-making Hong Kong
2007STAR FAIRY
2006VICE VERSA: displacing acts, lives & thresholds of a hyper city
2005investigation of a journey to the west by micro + polo

過往參展經驗

2001年於威尼斯雙年展首度亮相以來,我們一直以來的目標都是透過雙年展來向國際藝壇展示香港藝術家的優秀作品。歷來曾經參與威尼斯雙年展的香港藝術家,包括楊嘉輝、曾建華、李傑、郭孟浩(蛙王)、白雙全、MAP Office、杜子卿、張韻雯、又一山人、陳育強、Para/Site Collective、何兆基、梁志和及鮑藹倫。

58屆威尼斯雙年展是M+及香港藝術發展局於2013年、2015年及2017年合辦「你 (你)。」-李傑、「曾建華:無盡虛無」和「楊嘉輝的賑災專輯」後的第四次合作,於這國際舞台呈現香港當代藝術。

過往參展連結

2018垂直肌理:密度的地景
2017楊嘉輝的賑災專輯
2016建築兵法
2015曾建華:無盡虛無
2014建基香港 三角四方
2013「你 (你)。」-李傑
2012城間/城內:魅筆生城
2011蛙托邦.鴻港浩搞筆鴉
2010衣食住行
2009製造 (完美的) 世界: 海洋、香港、異邦的城市與夢
2008重塑香港
2007星神僊
2006反之亦燃 城市越位
2005紅白藍西遊記

wood, joints, installation, rhizome, flow, 3d prints

‘Negotiated Differences’ (detail), 2019, carved wood and 3D-printed forms in wood, metal, and plastic, dimensions variable

wood, joints, installation, rhizome, flow, 3d prints

Negotiated Differences》局部,2019年,雕刻木件、3D打印木件、金屬件、塑膠件,尺寸不定

In Hong Kong

香港

Hong Kong Talk Series
香港講座系列
Artist Educators: The Interface between Artistic Practice and Pedagogy

Date
Saturday 31 August 2019
2pm – 4pm

Venue
‘Maggie’ Function Room, 2/F
Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Kowloon

Speakers
Leung Mee Ping, Phoebe Man Ching Ying, Shirley Tse, and Doris Wong Wai Yin

Moderator
Clara Cheung

Language
Cantonese, with simultaneous interpretation in English

Registration
Free admission. Limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis

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Some of the most celebrated and respected artists are also committed teachers. Do artists who teach see education as part of their artistic practices? How do artists bring the values they affirm to bear upon their pedagogies? Conceived as a platform for exchange between peers, this panel brings together four Hong Kong installation/mixed-media artists from different generations and backgrounds to share their approaches to teaching. As an attempt to draw relationships between pedagogy, art, discourse, and practice, this discussion explores how artistic knowledge can be produced, transmitted, and enacted in the classroom, in the studio, and beyond.

藝術家教育工作者:藝術實踐與教學法的交會

日期
2019831日(星期六)
下午二時至四時

地點
九龍彌敦道380
香港逸東酒店2樓「玉」宴會廳

講者
梁美萍、文晶瑩、謝淑妮、黃慧妍

主持人
張嘉莉

語言
粵語,設英語即時傳譯

報名
免費入場,先到先得。需先作網上登記。

立即報名

不少赫赫有名和備受尊崇的藝術家都同時是滿腔熱忱的老師。這些身兼教職的藝術家會否把教育視為其藝術實踐的一環藝術家如何把他們堅信的價值融會到教學之中這場座談會是藝術家兼教育工作者與同行交流的平台,會集了香港四位不同年代與背景的裝置/混合媒體藝術家,分享他們各自的教學方法,探討藝術知識如何在課堂、工作室或其他地方生成、傳遞與演繹,嘗試由此勾勒出教學法、藝術、論述和創作實踐之間的關係。

About the speakers

Leung Mee Ping is Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Head of the academy’s Centre for Research and Development in Visual Arts. Her research interests include globalisation and museum development in Asia, public art, community art, the creative industry, and the intangible preservation of traditional Hong Kong craft.

Phoebe Man Ching Ying is a multimedia artist, independent curator, and Associate Professor of the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She specialises in socially engaged art and has extensive experience in engaging audiences in her work. Her animations, videos, and installations have been shown at over 180 exhibitions and festivals worldwide.

 

 

Doris Wong Wai Yin is an artist who works in a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, collage, installation, and photography. Highly conceptual, her work deals with autobiographical narratives, episodic memory, and playful intervention with art history. Her recent solo exhibitions include ‘A place never been seen is not a place.’ at Oi!, Hong Kong (2017), and ‘Without Trying’ at Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2016).

About the moderator

Clara Cheung is an artist and co-founder of the art space C&G Artpartment in Hong Kong. She is art director of Art Together, a core member of the art group Project 226, and a part-time lecturer. In her practice, she often finds inspiration in her daughter’s toys.

有關講者

梁美萍
梁美萍為香港浸會大學視覺藝術院教授及視覺藝術研究與發展中心主管。研究興趣包括亞洲的全球化現象與博物館發展、公共藝術、社區藝術、創意產業和香港傳統工藝的非物質文化保育。

文晶瑩
文晶瑩是多媒體藝術家、獨立策展人、香港城市大學創意媒體學院副教授。她專門研究社會交往式藝術,其創作尤為重視觀眾參與。她的動畫、錄像和裝置作品曾於逾180個展覽和影展展出及放映。

 

 

黃慧妍
藝術家黃慧妍善於運用不同媒介創作,包括繪畫、雕塑、拼貼、裝置和攝影。她的作品極具概念性,包含自傳式敍事、片段回憶和以戲謔手法處理藝術史。近年個展為「如果沒有被你看見,這個地方根本不存在。」(香港「油街實現」,2017年)和「不要太努力讓事情發生」(香港Spring工作室,2016年)。

有關主持人

張嘉莉
藝術家張嘉莉是香港藝術空間「C&G藝術單位」的聯合創辦人,身兼「藝術到家」藝術總監、藝術團體「二二六工程」核心成員及大學兼任講師。她經常從女兒的玩具中汲取創作靈感。

 

Proceedings: Four Iterations of Hong Kong in Venice
 

Date
Friday 30 August 2019
7pm – 9pm

Venue
Miller Theatre, Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Speakers
Doryun Chong, Stella Fong, Christina Li, Yung Ma, Shirley Tse, and Samson Young

Moderator
John Tain

Language
English, with simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese

Registration
Free admission. Limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis

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‘Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice’ marks nearly two decades of Hong Kong’s participation in La Biennale di Venezia (also known as the Venice Biennale), as well as the fourth edition that M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, has curated and co-presented with the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. This is an opportunity for critical reflection on the representation of Hong Kong contemporary art internationally in recent years. Together, curators and artists from the last four editions of the Biennale discuss the artistic approaches, curatorial strategies, and challenges of the biennial format by considering past and present iterations of Hong Kong’s exhibition in Venice and also the future of the contemporary art scene in Hong Kong and its standing in the world.

歷程:香港四度參與威尼斯雙年展

日期
2019830日(星期五)
晚上七時至九時

地點
金鐘正義道9號亞洲協會香港中心麥禮賢劇場

講者
鄭道鍊、方詠甄、李綺敏、馬容元、謝淑妮、楊嘉輝

主持人
譚鴻鈞

語言
英語,設粵語即時傳譯

報名
免費入場,先到先得。需先作網上登記。

立即報名

「謝淑妮:與事者,香港在威尼斯」標誌着香港參與威尼斯雙年展已近20年,也是西九文化區M+與香港藝術發展局第四度攜手合作策劃的展覽。這場座談會是反思近年香港如何在國際舞台上展現當代藝術的機會,四屆雙年展香港展的策展人和藝術家齊聚一堂,回顧歷屆參與的展覽,探討藝術創作手法、展覽策展策略和雙年展模式帶來的挑戰,並展望香港當代藝術的前景乃至其立足全球的位置。

About the speakers

Doryun Chong is Deputy Director, Curatorial, and Chief Curator of M+. He oversees all curatorial activities and programmes, including acquisitions, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, and digital initiatives. M+ exhibitions he has curated or co-curated include ‘Mobile M+: Live Art’ (2015), ‘Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint’ (2018), and three editions of the Hong Kong exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia (2015, 2017, and 2019).

Stella Fong is Lead Curator, Learning and Interpretation, at M+. She joined M+ in 2011 and has led learning initiatives and programmes aimed at shaping practices of non-formal learning through collaborative, experimental, and research-based pedagogy. She co-curated the solo exhibition of Tsang Kin-Wah for Hong Kong’s participation at La Biennale di Venezia in 2015.

Yung Ma is Curator in the Department of Contemporary and Prospective Creation at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, in Paris, a role that was created in collaboration with the K11 Art Foundation. Formerly Associate Curator, Moving Image, at M+, he was co-curator of the Hong Kong exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia in 2009 and 2013.

 

 

Multidisciplinary artist Samson Young was trained as a composer and works between image and sound to examine cross-cultural encounters of the past, present, and future—and their reverberations. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, where he represented Hong Kong; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, and elsewhere.

About the moderator

John Tain is Head of Research at Asia Art Archive. His writings have appeared in ‘Artforum’, ‘Art Review Asia’, and elsewhere, and he is an editor for Afterall’s ‘Exhibition Histories’ series. Previously, he was a curator at the Getty Research Institute, where he curated an exhibition for Pacific Standard Time. In 2018, he co-curated ‘Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago’ as part of Art Design Chicago initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

有關講者

鄭道鍊
鄭道鍊現為M+副總監及總策展人,負責各項與策展有關的工作,包括購藏、展覽、教學及公眾活動,以及數碼項目。他曾策劃或聯合策劃多個M+展覽,包括「M+ 進行:藝活」(2015年)、「對位變奏:野口勇之於傅丹」(2018年),以及三屆香港參與威尼斯雙年展的展覽(2015年、2017年、2019年)。

方詠甄
方詠甄現為M+教學及詮釋主策展人,她於2011年加入M+,曾策劃多個學習計劃及活動,致力利用協作式、實驗性和研究為本的教學法,形塑非正規學習的模式。2015年,她擔任第56届威尼斯雙年展香港展的聯合策展人,策劃藝術家曾建華的個展。

馬容元
馬容元現為巴黎龐比度中心當代及新視野創作部策展人,該職位由龐比度與K11藝術基金會共同創設。他曾擔任M+流動影像副策展人,並於2009年及2013年擔任威尼斯雙年展香港展的聯合策展人。

 

楊嘉輝
跨領域藝術家楊嘉輝曾受作曲訓練,作品以影像和聲音探究過去、現在和未來的跨文化交會,以及由此造成的迴響。他曾於世界各地舉辦多個個展,包括德國Kunsthalle Düsseldorf美術館和芝加哥SMART美術館等,並代表香港參與第57屆威尼斯雙年展。

有關主持人

譚鴻鈞
譚鴻鈞現為亞洲藝術文獻庫研究總監,文章見於《Artforum》、《ArtReview Asia》等刊物,並曾為研究出版機構Afterall編輯《Exhibition Histories》系列叢書。他過去擔任過Getty Research Institute的策展人,期間曾為Pacific Standard Time項目策劃展覽。2018年,他聯合策劃的展覽「Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago」是Terra Foundation for American Art發起的Art Design Chicago展覽項目之一。

From Plastic to Plasticity; Multiplicities to Negotiation
 

Date
Thursday 28 February 2019
7pm – 9pm

Venue
Miller Theatre, Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Speaker
Shirley Tse, Artist

Moderator
Christina Li, Guest Curator

Language
Talk – English, with simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese
Discussion – Cantonese, with simultaneous interpretation in English

Over the past two decades, Shirley Tse has addressed the multiple meanings and possible interpretations of material things with an intricate, refined body of work. In her early career, she framed plastics as the prime signifier of globalisation through the mechanisms of circulation, standardisation, and industrialisation. Her recent work considers plastic as an adjective, and the resonance of plasticity, fluidity, movement, and multiplicity in contemporary society. Central to her work is the enigma that plastic—synthetic polymer—is essentially a formula without a fixed identity, yet it produces conflict and complex ethical debates.

In this talk, Tse discusses central concepts in her practice from the past twenty years. She is then joined in conversation by Christina Li, offering the audience a first glimpse of the Venice exhibition.

從塑膠到可塑性;從多樣性到協商

日期
2019228日(星期四)
晚上7時至9時

地點
金鐘正義道9號亞洲協會香港中心麥禮賢劇場

講者
藝術家謝淑妮

主持人
客席策展人李綺敏

語言
講座︰ 英語,設粵語即時傳譯
對談︰粵語,設英語即時傳譯

過去二十年以來,謝淑妮一直以複雜精細的作品,探究物質事物的多重意義,以及對之可以提出的不同詮釋。在其早期創作生涯中,謝淑妮藉着流通、標準化和工業化生產的種種機制,把塑膠表述為全球化的首要意符。她的近作則視塑膠為形容詞,是呼應現代社會中的可塑性、流動性、動態及多樣性而產生的反響。其作品重點在指出塑料是一則化學方程式,本質上是一種沒有固定本質的人工合成物,卻能引發爭議和複雜的倫理辯論。

在本次講座中,謝淑妮將論及她過去二十年創作實踐的核心概念,並於與李綺敏對談中,讓觀眾率先一窺威尼斯展覽的鱗爪。

Press

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