The Transmutations of Time: A Retrospective Exhibition on Yang Zhichao's Performance Art

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Transmutations of Time: A Retrospective Exhibition on Yang Zhichao's Performance Art

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

For over three decades now, Yang Zhichao has been researching an equilibrium across the three dimensions of Performance Art—the body, the site, and time. In Yang’s art, the site asks questions on who we are: Do I belong here? Am I sane? How do we get to understand one another in society? The body asks questions on control: Whose body is this? Do I have the freedom to break arbitrary boundaries between life and art? How do pain and violence that I do not control become a gateway to the most elusive and quotidian thoughts? This exhibition focuses on the dimension of time in Yang Zhichao’s performance art, and particularly on the ways in which time turns into something else when a meditative connection between body and site is established. The body then becomes a vessel for the memory of what is meant to be forgotten—a tool to leave and receive traces of growth, alteration, loss, dislocation. Recording the occurrence of simple events also becomes a method for the sublimation and deposition of the substance of time. Hence, diaries, charts, and other methods of recording are important to Yang both as physical artifacts and as mnemonic tools to overcome the limits of the body and the site. The works of performance art that Yang Zhichao has created in his long artistic career are numerous and varied, and this retrospective exhibition does not aim at presenting an exhaustive or even representative selection of them. Instead, by showing a very small and focussed set of his most meaningful works, it aims to introduce the viewer to Yang’s distinctively subdued and anti-spectacular approach to time-based art.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Transmutations of Time: A Retrospective Exhibition on Yang Zhichao's Performance Art

Popis výsledku anglicky

For over three decades now, Yang Zhichao has been researching an equilibrium across the three dimensions of Performance Art—the body, the site, and time. In Yang’s art, the site asks questions on who we are: Do I belong here? Am I sane? How do we get to understand one another in society? The body asks questions on control: Whose body is this? Do I have the freedom to break arbitrary boundaries between life and art? How do pain and violence that I do not control become a gateway to the most elusive and quotidian thoughts? This exhibition focuses on the dimension of time in Yang Zhichao’s performance art, and particularly on the ways in which time turns into something else when a meditative connection between body and site is established. The body then becomes a vessel for the memory of what is meant to be forgotten—a tool to leave and receive traces of growth, alteration, loss, dislocation. Recording the occurrence of simple events also becomes a method for the sublimation and deposition of the substance of time. Hence, diaries, charts, and other methods of recording are important to Yang both as physical artifacts and as mnemonic tools to overcome the limits of the body and the site. The works of performance art that Yang Zhichao has created in his long artistic career are numerous and varied, and this retrospective exhibition does not aim at presenting an exhaustive or even representative selection of them. Instead, by showing a very small and focussed set of his most meaningful works, it aims to introduce the viewer to Yang’s distinctively subdued and anti-spectacular approach to time-based art.

Druh

E_nekrit - Výstava

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH22_010%2F0002593" target="_blank" >EH22_010/0002593: MSCA Fellowships na Univerzitě Palackého v Olomouci I.</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

Prague

Stát konání akce

CZ - Česká republika

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

1

Počet zahraničních účastníků

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Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

CST - Celostátní akce