11.05國際新書發表會–Who Cares？亞洲策展的十六個面向 7pm
Host_Michael Lee
編輯：Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya 與 Michael Lee
作者：Yeung Yang, Cao Weijun, Cédric Maridet, Erin Gleeson, Lee Weng Choy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fang, Hu Yuanxing, Hou Hanru and Carolee Thea, Jens Hoffmann, Russ ell Storer, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Magnus Renfrew, Norman Ford, June Yap, Philip Yenawine, Héctor Rodríguez, Valerie C. Doran
出版社：Para/Site藝術空間、Bibliothèque工作室、seed | projects
活動時間地點：2010年11月5日7pm 台北當代藝術中心
Para/Site藝術空間很榮幸舉辦本次國際新書發表會–Who Cares? 亞洲策展的十六個面象。本活動由香港Para/Site藝術空間與上海Arthub – OV畫廊、台北當代藝術中心及蘇富比美術學院新加坡分校合作主辦。
Who Cares? 亞洲策展的十六個面象一書為十六篇關於亞洲藝術策展的選集，分為四大方面來探討：
主要針對藝術批評理論中當今的策展評論，例如：(1) 展覽的政治議題：策展人之角色及藝術家們跨越時代的作品；(2) 當代策展的成功指標; (3)如何運用先進的旅遊與科技達成藝術全球化(4)觀眾亦為積極的創作者。
編輯介紹：
Alvaro Rodriguez FOMINAYA
專業經歷遍及香港倫敦與西班牙
香港Para/Site 藝術空間之現任總監與館長
西班牙大西洋當代藝術中心(CAAM)主要策展人
當代藝術演講者與作家
Michael LEE
新加坡藝術家及策展人
他的研究主要闡述關於建築環境，特別是其背景和意義所失去的元素。將藝術方面的觀察，主要轉化為物件、圖表、狀態、策展，或論文的形式。
參與的展覽與藝術節：
2010年的第八屆上海雙年展
2008年的第三屆廣州三年展
2005年世界博覽會名古屋的新加坡展館
1997年的電影與錄影帶大賞暨電影節
策展企劃：2007年在新加坡藝術館的Between, Beside,
Beyond （Daniel Libeskind的作品Reflections and Key Works 1989-2014）
獲獎：
2005年授與新加坡國家藝術協會的青年藝術獎（視覺藝術）
關於出版社：
Para/Site 藝術空間是1996年成立於香港的當代藝術空間。主辦各式展覽、錄相、座談會等活動，以期將香港的藝術工作者推廣到世界舞台；進而提昇香港藝術家的能見度，並加速中西方的文化交流。另有一主打青年藝術家的作品的衛星空間–漢雅軒畫廊。
Para/Site 藝術空間籌劃了2003年的香港雙年展與2009年的威尼斯雙年展，亦參與過光州雙年展、廣州三年展等。其展覽及計畫遍及德國，泰國，韓國，台灣，美國
英國，新加坡和澳洲。目前由董事會管轄的總監、經理、節目策劃、教育與發展專員共四位人員共同經營，並由其主要的贊助者與基金會、以及香港藝術發展協會共同支助。
Bibliothèque工作室加速了製作、寫作、策展與出版方面的實驗。目前有一系列名為Things Artists Do的企劃，聚焦於人類、消費者與藝術家活動中關於學術研究及作品主題之間的鴻溝。
seed | projects是SEED分公司的資源與企劃管理；亦為新加坡藝術家Brendan Goh的靈感之源與工作場域，培育了藝術與設計的創意過程。SEED公司是萌發創意並與其他創意交互激盪，喜與志同道和的個人或團體們自在合作。
(翻譯/李榕菁)
International Book Launch:
Who Cares? 16 Essays On Curating In Asia
Edited by Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya and MichaelLee. Contributed by Yeung Yang, Cao Weijun, Cédric Maridet, Erin Gleeson, Lee Weng Choy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fang, Hu Yuanxing, Hou Hanru and Carolee Thea, Jens Hoffmann, Russ ell Storer, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Magnus Renfrew, Norman Ford, June Yap, Philip Yenawine, Héctor Rodríguez, Valerie C. Doran
Publishers:
Para/Site Art Space, Studio Bibliothèque
and seed | projects
Launch Platforms and Dates:
Friday 5 November, 2010, 7pm. Taipei
Contemporary Art Center. Taipei
Para/Site Art Space is pleased to announce the international book launch of Who Cares? 16 Essays on Curating in Asia. For these events the Hong Kong based organisation has teamed up with Arthub – OV Gallery (Shanghai), Taipei Contemporary Art Center (Taipei) and Sotheby’s Institute of Art (Singapore) as launch platforms in Asia.
Who Cares? is an anthology that compiles 16 essays on curating art in and of Asia. One of the themes addresses the politics of care, commonly understood as the basic role of curators, with regards to art and artists, across time and contexts. Another theme revolves around markers of success in the realm of contemporary curating. A third recurring theme deals with curating in the globalised art world of advanced travel and communication technologies. A fourth theme reconsiders the audience as active producers in a curated experience. Through a variety of perspectives and literary styles, these texts constitute primary notes towards ‘curatorial criticism,’ a subfield of art criticism that identifies the new in curating today.
About the Editors
Alvaro Rodriguez FOMINAYA is Executive Director/Curator at Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong). He has developed his professional career in Hong Kong, London and Spain. He was Chief Curator at Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Spain, where he curated exhibitions like Scrabble: Video, Language and Abstraction; Weather Report: Climate Change and Visual Arts, and Viva la Muerte! Art and Death in Latin America or Catherine Yass. Filmography. At Para/Site Art Space, he has organized projects with Shahzia Sikander, Surasi Kusolwong, Tatsumi Orimoto, Ai Weiwei+Acconci Studio, Tsang Kin-Wah and the Gao Brothers, among others. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on contemporary art.
Michael LEE is an artist and curator based in Singapore. His research addresses representations of the built environment, especially the contexts and implications of its lost elements. His observations are mainly transformed into objects, diagrams, situations, curations or essays. His exhibition/festival participations include The 8th Shanghai Biennale 2010 (Shanghai Art Museum), The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial 2008 (Independent Projects section; Guangdong Museum of Art), The 2005 World Exposition(SingaporePavilion;Nagoya) and International Film & Video Association Film Award & Festival 1997 (Winner, Experimental Category; Texas). His curatorial projects include Between, Beside, Beyond: Daniel Libeskind’s Reflections and Key Works 1989-2014 (Singapore Art Museum, 2007). His accolades include the Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) 2005, conferred by the National Arts Council, Singapore.
About the Publishers
Para/Site Art Space
Para/Site Art Space is a contemporary art space located in Hong Kong Island and founded in 1996. We host an ambitious programme of exhibitions, screenings, talks and events that bring into Hong Kong some of the leading practitioners in the international arena, encourage the visibility of artists from Hong Kong, and facilitate East-West dialogue. We have a satellite venue located at Hanart TZ Gallery which showcases a younger generation of artists.
Para/Site Art Space has organized the official representation of Hong Kong in Venice Biennial in years 2003 and 2009, has also participated in Gwangju Biennial, Guangzhou Triennial, among others. Para/Site Art Space exhibitions and programmes have traveled to Germany, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Singapore and Australia.
Para/Site Art Space is run by a Executive Director/Curator, a Manager, a Programme Coordinator and an Education and Development Officer and governed by a board of directors. Para/Site is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as well as vital contributions from patrons and Founding Friends of Para/Site.
Studio Bibliothèque
Studio Bibliothèque facilitates experiments in making, writing, curating and publishing. The studio has an ongoing project series Things Artists Do, which addresses the gap amidst the onslaught of survey, thematic art projects by focusing on the being, consumption and activities of artists.
seed | projects
seed | projects is the resource and project management branch of SEED, the thinking and working space of Singapore-based artist Brendan Goh, created to incubate creative processes between art and design. SEED is about sowing ideas wherever they might sprout, catalysing their germination into better things, and welcomes collaborations between like-minded individuals and groups working in any discipline.
Launch Platforms
About ArtHub Asia Founded in 2007, ArtHub Asia (link to www.arthubasia.org) is a multi-disciplinary organization devoted to contemporary art creation in China and rest of Asia. In collaboration with museums and other public / private spaces and institutions, it initiates and delivers ambitious art projects through a sustained dialogue with visual, performance, and new media artists. Directors: Davide Quadrio, Defne Ayas, Qiu Zhijie. ArtHub Asia is a Network Partner of the Prince Claus Fund 2008-2010.
About OV Gallery
Established in 2006, OV offers a diverse program of thematic exhibitions which target issues in contemporary China often using history as a point of reference and analysis. OV works with a broad spectrum of emerging contemporary Chinese artists and foreign aritists living in Shanghai along with more established contemporary Chinese and foreign artists. We take great pride in creating a real dialogue and supplement our exhibition program with curatorial tours, art workshops and talks artist and experts in Chinese contemporary art.
About Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC)
Founded by a group of artists, curators, scholars and cultural activists, the mission of the Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC) has been to provide a platform for public discourse where diverse voices can be heard in discussions about aesthetics and art production, and the issues related to the formation of a public culture — including cultural policies, museums, artistic organizations; as well as issues such as the relationship between art and the community, public spaces, the city, or social movements. For media contact, please contact:
Dominique Chiu
Email: dominique@para-site.org.hk
Tel: +852 2517 4620
