2024.11.08 Friday 19:30
Location
GNS, 6F K11, No.300 Huaihai Middle Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Speaker: Wang Ximan
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In this installation of the Vortex project, artist Wang Ximan presents a self “adjustment” through an immersive space of sound, image, and performance. By embedding industrial and medical materials into her own body, Wang ignites a non-figurative state during physical movement. Simultaneously, live film recordings projected onto digital screens challenge the very concept of presence in a performance. She extracts fragments of charged rhetoric from historical revolutionary speeches, manipulating these audio-synced vocabularies into a cacophony of low-frequency noise. Deconstructing language into a mere tool for information transmission, she transforms the performance site into a “non-place,” where new skeletal forms take shape in this carefully orchestrated chaos.
Ximan Wang (b.1990, Shenyang, Liaoning) is a performance artist active in China and
Europe. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy in 2016, and currently
lives and works in Shanghai. Her creations have the core of a spirit of resistance, focusing on and exploring identity, gender fluidity, society inequality, and disability... In her practice, she elaborates a live performance method that transcends media characteristics, using
images, sounds and installations to questions the art medium and explores the relationship between space, body and audience.
VORTEX, launched by the MACA in Shanghai in 2022, is an art and cultural salon in the form of lecture performances occurring once or twice every month. The programme calls for non-institutionalised artistic and academic production in which contemporary art practitioners and scholars get to explore cross-disciplinarily the issues of the macro or micro, the global or local, the collective or individual. VORTEX, hence, is where you spin in the whirlpool of spontaneous whims and intuitive approaches represented by individual research and enquiries. Being present here at VORTEX, you are experiencing versatile forms of lecture performances that experiment with new mechanisms and methodologies.
