[lang_en]Wei Weng — Antimapping: An Experiment of Cultural Synesthesia[/lang_en][lang_zh]翁维——反映像：艺术通感实验[/lang_zh]
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1 — 30 April 2009
Labour Day Closing Event: 1 May 2009
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Antimapping Press Release
CPU:798 is delighted to present artist Wei Weng’s Antimapping Project in the Gallery through April.
Due to the nature of Antimapping, there will be no Opening, but the Gallery space will be open to the public from 1 to 30 April and a brief performance will take place on Labour Day, 1 May 2009.
ANTIMAPPING PROJECT
The concept of Antimapping has played a major part in Wei Weng’s output to date, representing a theoretical structure as well as a narrative theme for her works: Antimapping is a working through and against the structures within which she finds herself.
Antimapping—as a methodology—addresses the gallery space as an interaction between the artist and the immediate surroundings (the public, the environment) by physically affixing a series of installations over the negotiated one month period. The artist embodies the intentions of curatorial mapping by imposing physical negotiations to investigate the scope of Antimapping.
The exhibition begins with an empty space, and the process of installation becomes incorporated into the viewing. On Labour Day the Gallery will shut its doors following the performance, Closing Event. Until the Closing Event performance the artist will present and analyse her past and future works on-site, and even in consultation with the audience, simultaneously developing the theme of Antimapping throughout the Gallery space.
The exhibition is complimented by an artist-designed brochure, featuring a brief text by critic and curator David Spalding. Based on a limited understanding of the exhibition—a visit to the empty gallery, talks with the artist and gallerist—Spalding’s text may be used by the artist in her ongoing explorations of mapping and anti-mapping.
ART AS DAILY EVENT
Antimapping’s first manifestation is through the website antimapping.com (produced with the support of CPU:798), which presents a collection of the artist’s photographs. Her writings (digital audios) are presented simultaneously with these, and form an evocative space for reflection on the intangible workings between text and image.
The artist’s experiments span through text, paper cut-outs and drawings. The ephemeral quality of Antimapping taps into an intentional-theoretical universe populated by objects, fictional characters and events. According to the artist ‘the absurd drive of human syndromes’ run parallel to and presage reality. This population vary their forms dramatically as the viewer’s relationships with them change throughout the show. Real and fictional attributes are characterized in a tense relation. Curator becomes writer, writer becomes gallerist, artist becomes audience, creative writing becomes press release, and cut-outs become clothing. Antimapping forecasts the site of display by presenting a much more radical perception contrary to curatorial logic: in the universe conforming to the precepts of Antimapping, all roles bleed into one other.
Gallery Opening Hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 13:00–18:00 (closed Monday)
(or by appointment)
Contact
Edward Sanderson
Tel/Fax: +86 13621078560
Email: cpu798@gmail.com
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2009年4月1日至30日 开放画廊现场
2009年5月1日，五一劳动节举行《闭幕式》
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CPU:798画廊很荣幸推出艺术家翁维的《反映像》项目。
根据《反映像》的特质，此展览不举行开幕式。画廊空间自4月1日至30日向公众开放《反映像》装置的演变过程。 5月1日国际劳动节当天将进行《闭幕式》的表演。
反映像项目
反映像观念在翁维的作品中扮演着至关重要的角色，既展现了一种理论构架，同时也是作品叙事主题：反映像是通过发现自我构架的体现，同时又与这一构架相背离。
作为一种方向，《反映像》项目通过经历的改变、妥协、创新、思考等变革， 在一个月的期限内附加一系列装置制作，从而使画廊空间充当了艺术家与当下周遭环境（公众、环境）之间的互动空间。通过与真实环境的相互适应，进而探索反映像的范围，从而将策展式的映像思维方式及物理变化更具体地表现出来。
展览始于一个空荡荡的空间，而装置制作的过程逐渐进入人们的视线。五一劳动节当天，画廊将在《闭幕式》表演后关门。在《闭幕世》表演之前，艺术家将现场展示并分析她过去和未来的作品，甚至与观众进行沟通和思维的较量，同时在整个画廊空间中对《反映像》主题进行探讨。
艺术家设计的小册子里收录了批评家和策展人丁达韦的一篇短文。 在造访一个空荡荡的画廊后，与艺术家和画廊主管短暂的交谈，丁达韦的个人映像将赋予艺术家更多绘制和反映像的线索。
作为日常活动的艺术
《反映像》项目早先通过antimapping.com这个网站（CPU:798支持制作）展示了一组摄影作品。网页上，与图片同步播放的叙事（以数字音频形式）建立了一个令人遐想的空间，折射出文本与绘制之间难以捉摸的复杂关系。
艺术家的实验活动跨越了文本、剪纸和绘画制作。《反映像》项目里昙花一现的种种迹象，其蓄意性和理论性通过作品、虚构人物和活动本身并发。按照艺术家的想法，“人类综合症里的那种荒诞的驱动力”与现实相并行，并且尝试着预示未来生活。观众无法捕捉每次装置空间的演变。真实和虚构的属性总是在一种紧张关系中被描绘出来。策展人成为作家，作家成为画廊主管，而艺术家则成为观众，创意写作变成了新闻稿，剪纸则成为衣装。《反映像》预示了在展览现场，有一种更为激进的洞察力和策展逻辑形成对立：在反映像的空间里，所有的角色重叠如一。
画廊开放时间
星期二——星期日
1点——6点
(或预约)
联系
Edward Sanderson
电话: +86 13621078560
邮件: cpu798@gmail.com
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