Symposium : moved, mutated and disturbed identities

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Aug 12, 2010

Symposium : moved, mutated and disturbed identities

Workshop leaders: Blocher Sylvie, di Felice Paul

Curatorial coordinators: Ciric Biljana and Bernardini Fabienne

As a follow-up of the 7th Asia-Europe Art Camp – Art Workshop for Visual Arts 2009/2010, taking place at Casino Luxembourg – Forum of contemporary art in Luxembourg in July 2009, the second part of this residency programme for young Asian and European artists – realised in the framework of the official cultural programme of the Luxembourg Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai – takes place in Shanghai at ddm warehouse during 2 weeks. Responding to the lectures given by European speakers that were held in Luxembourg, the Asian lecturers, during this symposium, will share with the artists and the public their view on identities and might constitute a starting point with regards to content for the works of art that will be produced by the 10 artists throughout the duration of their Shanghai stay. The results will be shown during the exhibition moved, mutated and disturbed identities at ddm warehouse, the opening takes place on 7 September 2010, 18.00.

Format of the seminar:

11:00-11:30 Introduction:

Introduction of the seminar and his guests by Biljana Ciric

History of the Art Workshop by Paul di Felice

Introduction of last year’s workshop and seminar and their continuity and relation with the seminar and other activities in Shanghai by Fabienne Bernardini

11:30-13:00 First session:

Presentation of the 10 participating artists and their project by the artists themselves

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 Second session (moderated by Sylvie Blocher and Fabienne Bernardini)

Lecture by Manray Hsu (14.00-15.00)

Talk by Xu Tan (15.00-16.00)

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-18:30 Third session (moderated by Paul di Felice and Biljana Ciric)

Lecture by Rich Streitmatter-Tran (16.30-17.30)

Talk by Zhang Da (17.30-18.30)

18:30-19:30 Discussion

19:30-late Dinner

Information about the theme and the speakers

Theme:

Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities has been set as topic to challenge European and Asian artists to realities and identities in both China and Luxembourg.

Movement, in the context of identity, suggests geographic displacements of a voluntary, involuntary or even forced kind. But it can also evoke distance, itinerary, gaps, and instances of the inexpressible that our own self has to confront in the face of cultures or moral codes distinct from our own. The thematic association of identity and mutation gives rise to a series of hybrid concepts. It enables the building of new identities, helped along by technological means of communication that render the threshold between inner and outer world, between subject and object, between representation and reality, transparent. Disturbance evokes an interruption in the linear development of identities. It carries along inevitable social and political changes—the consequences of which can be multiple, positive and/or negative—in the process of identity-shaping. It can also, in a figurative or psychological sense, bear witness to so-called disorders. In all these cases, probability is high that disturbed identities give way to new, sometimes knotty, relationships with the Other.

In general, the representation of identities is complex. Only parts are visible, because presentable. Reading between the lines, looking behind the façade is made difficult. Whereas represented, thus simplified, identities create fronts and barriers, disturbed ones may open up spaces for negotiation, change, infiltration, segmentation, transformation, alienation, discovery, re-appropriation, …

Movement, mutation, disturbance of identities can happen at micro and macro scales. Individuals, groups, communities, citizens, cities, states etc can be the subjects or objects concerned by these acts and affected to become constructed identities, changing identities, fake identities, multiple identities, lost identities, split identities, refuted identities, hidden identities, repressed identities etc.

*The symposium will be held in English and Chinese with simultaneous translation.

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Pauline J. Yao 姚嘉善
Independent curator and scholar 独立策展人
www.arrowfactory.org.cn

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