2013策展與機構論壇系列五
2013 Curating Now and Institutions Forum Series 5
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《錄像局》 展期：08.23-09.08
08. 23(五) 開幕計畫：張培力、朱加選樣作品播映
時間：6:00-7:00 pm
08. 24（六）機構與藝術家講座
時間：1:00-4:30 pm
講座1：「錄像局」 1:00 -2:00 pm
主持人：鄭美雅
主講人：陳侗、方璐
講座2：藝術家講座 2:30-4:30 pm
主持人：王俊傑
主講人：張培力、朱加
《錄像局》
由台北當代藝術中心（TCAC）主辦的2013策展與機構論壇系列五，主題為中國的非營利機構-錄像局。特別邀請到錄像局主持人陳侗、方璐，以及本月加入錄像局資料庫的藝術家張培力、朱加（同為錄像局創始人）來台。
錄像局作為中國一個特殊的非營利機構案例，其動機及方法論異常簡單、明晰。亦即，建立一個以個別錄像藝術家為主體的檔案資料庫，開創一個影像研究、閱覽的公共空間，補足中國現今的當代藝術基礎研究環境與檔案資料的貧乏。自2012年3月開放至今，錄像局的檔案由一位藝術家逐漸積累至十七位，這個過程十分緩慢，但如同陳侗所言；「我們堅持的是一個乘法式的積累，一年收入兩百多件作品，…十年就有兩千多件作品了，那麼一百年呢…？」
在中國各式大小藝術機構興起的當下，錄像局作為一個私人發起開設的空間及機構（創始發起人為陳侗、方璐與朱加），資金來自單一個人的贊助，但其運作模式，在中國的當下脈絡，卻最為趨近於一個公共非營利機構的雛形。這個由藝術家發起主導所開創，以提供中國錄像藝術研究暨觀賞的「基礎設施服務」作為其宗旨目標，以建檔、研究、作品（暨論述）發表作為內容及營運方向的公共空間，完全與市場脫鉤，它將由最基本的1，隨時間累積，規律、緩慢而持續的發展為無限。這個由草根而生的驅力，以藝術社群的參與為關鍵的運作方式，或將成為未來中國非營利機構的雛形參考。
本系列包含了8月23日（週五）晚間開幕活動的張培力、朱加選樣作品放映（僅此一次！），以及8月24日（週六）下午的錄像局座談（陳侗、方璐）、張培力、朱加藝術家座談（由王俊傑主持），以及錄像局文件展覽（8月23-9月8日）。
藝術家簡歷
陳侗
1962年生於湖南，廣州美术学院中国画系教师，博爾赫
陳侗於1979—1983年間就讀於廣州美術學院國畫系
方 璐
1981年出生于廣州，現工作生活於北京。
她於2005年在美國紐約視覺藝術學院獲平面設計學士學
張培力
1957年生於中國杭州。1984年畢業於杭州浙江美術
80年代末、90年代初，張培力創作了一系列具有開創性
張培力早期的作品帶有沉悶美學的色彩，用社會及政治控制
朱加
1963年生於北京，1988年畢業於中央美術學院。生
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《Video Bureau》 Exhibition：2013.08.23-09.08
08.23 (Fri.) 6:00-7:00 pm
Opening Event: Screening of selected works by ZHANG Peili and ZHU Jia
8. 24（Sat.） 1:00-4:30 pm
Institution and Artists’ Talks
Lecture 1 : Video Bureau 1:00-2:00 pm
Host: Meiya CHENG
Speakers: CHEN Tong, FANG Lu
Lecture 2 : Artists’ Talks 2:30-4:30 pm
Host: WANG Jun-Jieh
Speakers: ZHANG Peili, ZHU Jia
《Video Bureau》
The fifth series of TCAC’s 2013 Curating Now and Institutions Forum is dedicated to introducing a non-profit organization in China—Video Bureau. We are joined by hosts of Video Bureau, CHEN Tong and FANG Lu, also two artists who were recent additions to the Video Bureau database- ZHANG Peili and ZHU Jia.
As an exceptional case for non-profits, Video Bureau has an astonishingly simple and clear motive and method behind its workings—to create a database focused primarily on Video artists, to create a public space for video research and browsing, and to contribute to a better research environment and a more comprehensive collection of documents for Contemporary art in China.
Since it began in March 2012, the Video Bureau database has expanded from 1 to 17 artists. The enlargement process has been slow, but just as CHEN Tong said in Art Forum (CN), “We have faith in a multiplicative accumulation of efforts, if we receive about 200 pieces of art a year …and that translates into 2000 pieces in 10 years, then after 100 years?”
Just as a myriad of art institutions big and small appear and rise to their peaks, Video Bureau stands among them as a privately initiated space and organization (the founders being CHEN Tong, FANG Lu and ZHU Jia) and financially supported by individuals. Under the current context of China, its operational model resembles a public non-profit organization.
With providing “services and infrastructure” related to the research and viewing of Contemporary video art in China as its objective, this public space founded by artists is not in any way affiliated with the market. Starting from the basics, through regular, slow and continuous development, it will reach its infinite potential. The grassroots motivated organization maintains its operations through the essential participation of the art community may possibly an archetype for the future non-profits of China.
The series will include an opening night event on 8/23 (Fri.), the one and only screening of selected works of ZHANG Peili and ZHU Jia! And on 8/24 (Sat.) afternoon, there will be the Video Bureau panel (CHEN Tong and FANG Lu), Artists panel (hosted by WANG Jun-Jieh) and the Video Bureau Exhibition will be held from 8/23-9/8.
（翻譯/Translation : 周思婷/ Christine Szu-Ting Chou）
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About Artists
Chen Tong was born in Hunan Province in 1962. He’s a teacher of Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. The founder of Libreria Borges Bookshop and Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art in Guangzhou. Chen Tong is also a co-founded Video Bureau (Guangzhou, Beijing).
Chen Tong studied in the Chinese Painting department of Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy from 1979-1983, where he has continued to teach since 1986. In 1992, he launched the 「Encyclopedia of Experimental Art (EALS)」, which includes contemporary art, film, photography, theories, etc. In 1994, he established 「Libreria Borges 」, where he organised events of contemporary art and culture. In 1998, he co-established a publishing studio with Lu Yi and curated “Collection Minuit.” He translated and introduced works from a French publishing house, Les Éditions de Minuit (Midnight Press), esp. works of the nouveau roman. In 2007, he established Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art. His works include: “One’s Own World: French Life and Art” (2002), “About Croquis: An Aesthetic Attitude of life” (2003), “Manet’s Railway” (2005). Received Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from French Ministère de la culture (2009).
Fang Lu born in Guangzhou China in 1981. Now lives and works in Beijing.
She received her BFA from Graphic Design department at School of Visual Art in New York in 2005, and MFA from the New Genres department at the San Francisco Arts Institute in 2007. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Space Station, Beijing (2010), Borges Libreria Institute of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou (2011); and in group exhibitions such as the On/Off exhibition in Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, the Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial (2012), CAFAM Future Exhibition (2012), and in Museu do Oriente in Lisbon (2011), Walter & Mcbean Gallery in San Francisco (2008), Contemporary Artist Center in Massachusetts (2004) and other places. She is co-founder of Video Bureau, an independent video archive resource in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Zhang Peili was born in 1957 in Hangzhou, China. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1984 with a degree in oil painting. In the 1980s, he was a founding member of the artists’ collective“Pond Society,” and acted as a cornerstone of the avant-garde movement in Hangzhou.
Considered the father of video art in China because of his groundbreaking work in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Many of his works are collected by international art institutions, such as The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris). He is currently the dean of the New Media Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. In the first years of this century, he devoted much of his attentions to art education in China, and counts numerous important video, photography, and new media artists among his former students. In the past several years he has returned to a more intensive artistic practice.
His earlier works experimented with an aesthetics of boredom and have treated themes of social and political control. Zhang Peili’s work is always implicitly political, and he is infamous for his incisive use of irony that maintains a consistently mocking tone without descending into satire. His more recent work interrogates viewing conventions, perceptions of time, and notions of progress through the remixing and editing of found footage; it also challenges the boundaries ofmedia art, having focused on complex video installations for the past ten years.
Zhu Jia, born in 1963, Beijing. Graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988. He lives and works in Beijing. Selected exhibitions include ZERO-ZHU Jia Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing (2012); The Face of Facebook, Zhu Jia Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing (2011); Not Only Time, Zhang Peili and Zhu Jia, REDCAT, Los Angeles, U.S.A.(2010); We Are Perfect-Zhu Jia Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2008); Trans Local Motion—7th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Musuem, Shanghai (2008); 10th International Istanbul Biennial-Not only Possible, But also Necessary-Optimism in the Age of Global War, Istanbul, Turkey (2007); Zooming into Focus (NAMOC)-Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, National Art Museum Of China, Beijing (2005); 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale-Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice, Italy (2003); Tempo, the Works Show of Contemporary Art in 20th, The Museum of Moden Art (MOMA), New York, U.S.A. (2002); Living in Time-29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany (2001); Every Day-11th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art etc., Sydney, Australia (1998); Another Long March-Chinese Conceptual Art in the nineties, Chasse Kazerne, Fundament Foundation, Breda, The Netherlands (1997).
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《錄像局》
2013策展與機構論壇系列即將進入尾聲，台北當代藝術
錄像局為中國特殊的非營利機構，成立個別錄像藝術家的交
