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[field] SEEN AND THE UNSEEN INVESTIGATING CHINESE

[2015-10-31 20:08:55]

【现场】“已观与未见”丹麦艺术家安亚的"调查中国的空间"展在上苑艺术馆

[field] SEEN AND THE UNSEEN

INVESTIGATING CHINESE SPACES

ANJA MARGRETHE BACHE

DANISH INSTALLATION AND VIDEOARTIST

安雅·玛格丽特·巴克

丹麦装置和影像艺术家

MFA ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SCHOOL OF VISUAL ART

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MASTER OF SCIENCE ENGINEER

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丹麦皇家艺术学院视觉艺术系艺术创作硕士

建筑学博士

工程理学硕士

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PRESENT:

呈现：

“THE SOUND OF CHINA”- A VIDEOINSTALLATION

“BEHIND THE WALLS”- INSTALLATION IN PRIVATE HOMES IN SHAYOUKOU VILLAGE

“CERAMIC ENTROPY”- MUSEUM INSTALLATION ONE

“PATTERNS OF MEMORIES” – MUSEUM INSTALLATION TWO

“中国之声”——影像装置

“墙之后”——沙峪口村私人住家中的装置作品

“瓷熵”——艺术馆装置作品一

“记忆的模式”——艺术馆装置作品二

AT: shangyuan art museum

26. october 2015 - BEIJING - CHINA

地点：上苑艺术馆

2015年10月26日 – 中国·北京

WITH合作者

SEUNGJAE LEE

KOREAN ART PHOTOGRAPHER

AS COLLABORATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER IN THE PROJECT

”BEHIND THE WALLS” AND

VIDEO-RECORDER IN ”THE SOUND OF CHINA”

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李承宰

韩国艺术摄影家

作为合作摄影师参与项目

“墙之后”并且

在“中国之声”中录制影像

MA XIN

CHINESE PAINTER AND PERFORMER

AS VIDEOPERFORMER IN ”THE SOUND OF CHINA”

马鑫

中国画家和表演者

作为影像表演者参与“中国之声”

LIN WANG

CHINESE COMPOSER

AS COMPOSER OF VIDEOMUSIC USED

IN THE VIDEO ”THE SOUND OF CHINA”

王琳

中国作曲家

为“中国之声”作曲

THE ART PROJECT IS FUNDED BY

the danish art council - PRODUCTION FOUNDATION

THE DANISH ART COUNCIL - ART FOUNDATION

the DANISH CENTRAL BANK ANNIVERSARY FOUNDATION OF 1968

Grosserer J.L. Foghts FoUndATION

THANKS A LOT

该艺术项目由以下机构资助：

丹麦艺术委员会 – 制作基金会

丹麦艺术委员会 – 艺术基金会

丹麦中央银行1968年周年纪念基金会

GROSSERER J.L. FOGHTS 基金会

SEEN AND THE UNSEEN

INVESTIGATING CHINESE SPACES –INTRODUCTION

anja margrethe bache

已观与未见

调查中国的空间

安雅·玛格丽特·巴克

We turn clay to make vessel, but it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends. We piece doors and windows to make a house; And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends. Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize what is not. Dao De Jing, a fourth century BCE of Laozi, (Waley,1958).

In 2015 I was selected for an artist in residency program at Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing China.

Here I wanted to investigate present Chinese ceramic spaces as layers of telling from the dynasties, the culture revolution and present. My focus HAS been on the Chinese tradition of architecture, ceramic and wooden furniture for which China is world famous.

The Shangyuan Art Musem is placed in Huairou District in Shayoukou Village. It is in the countryside more than 2 hours with bus from Beijing Center and close to the mountains and Mongolian border.

Here I met a Chinese farmer and village culture very close to the earth, the fruit and vegetables they grow, the cheeps and chickens they raise and their family complexes behind tall enclosing walls. The earth is represented in the bricks and the wood, that make the frames for the villagers life’s being stacked in bundles all over for later use or reuse. These ever changing accumulations of materials is not as a part of an overall design-program. their beautiful colors, textures materiality, and combinatorics patterns is just based on pure functional approach. It is from this landscape of present ceramic and wood culture, mixed with the fascination of the pasts Chinese tradition of the architectural ground plan, wooden interior window frames and furniture that the projects

THE SOUND OF CHINA- A VIDEOINSTALLATION

BEHIND THE WALLS- INSTALLATION IN PRIVATE HOMES IN SHAYOUKOU VILLAGE

CERAMIC ENTROPY- MUSEUMSINSTALLATION ONE

PATTERNS OF MEMORIES - MUSEUMSINSTALLATION TWO

take its starting point. It is with the admiration for the Chinese tradition of craft and art, as well as with the curiosity of knowing more about China today, that these art works are unfolded.

The space I investigate is the physical one based on materials, light and sound, but also the non physical space, the perception of atmospheres.

At Shangyuan Art Musaeum I was happy to meet the Korean Art Photographer Seungjae Lee, the Chinese painter and performer Ma Xin and the Chinese composer Lin Wang.

They are all a part of this project and this exhibition, contributing not only with specific works as for Seungjae, as videorecorder for the video and taking many of the photos for the home installations, , Ma Xin as performer in the video, they have also been a very important support and good friends all through the residency program.

THANKS TO SEUNGJAE LEE AND MA XIN AND TO LIN WANG FOR LETTING ME USE HER MUSIC.

The Danish Art Council the Central Danish Bank Anniversary Foundation of 1968 and Grosserer J.L.Foghts Foundation has supported my Artist In Residency At Shangyuan Art Museum, thanks to them for making it possible.

And thanks to Shangyan Art Muesum for inviting me.

Anja Margrethe Bache, Shangyan Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2015

A LITTLE ABOUT THE WORKS:

“CERAMIC ENTROPY”

MUSEUMIN TALLATION ONE

The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics

dealing with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change.

http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/entropy

UNFIRED STONEWARE AND BRICKS

INSTALLATION, VIDEO AND PHOTOS

ANJA MARGRTHE BACHE

PATTERNS OF MEMORIES

MUSEUM INSTALLATION TWO

WOOD-BRICKS AND PAINTING

THE SOUND OF CHINA

BY ANJA MARGRETHE BACHE

WITH

Videorecorder: Seungjae Lee

Videoperformer: Ma Xin

AND MUSIC:LIN WANG

BEHIND THE WALLS

FOUR PRIVATE HOMES IN SHAYOUKOU VILLAGE - THREE POSITIONS EACH PLACE

THE URBAN SPACE - THE GATE

THE SEMI PRIVATE SPACE - THE COURYARD

THE PRIVATE SPACE -THE LIVING ROOM;

THE HOUSES CHOSEN WAS THOSE FOUR HOUSES THAT FIRST OPENED UP THEIR HOMES AND WELCOMED THE ARTPROJECT.

INSTALLATION ART IS COMMONLY DONE IN RELATION TO AND WITH A KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPECIFIC SPACE IT IS GOING TO BE INSTALLED IN. I DIDNT KNOW THE HOMES BEFORE INSTALLING MY ARTWORK.

AFTER A SHORT GLANCE OF FEW MINUTES I STARTED UP INSTALLTING THE ARTWORKS AND

SEUNGJAE LEE AND I TOOK THE PHOTOS SHOWN IN THIS PRESENTATION WHILE MA XIN WAS OUR CONTACT TO THE FAMILIES.

THE ARTWORK CONSIST OF CERAMIC AND WOOD OBJECTS. THEY ARE FORMED IN RELATION TO THE BRICK AND THE CHINESE ANCIENT WOODEN INTERIORS AS FURNITURE, WINDOWFRAMES AND ROOF-CONSTRUNTIONS, TRYING IN THAT WAY TO OBTAIN A DIALOQUE WITH TIME SPACE AND CONTEXT.

THANKS TO THE FAMILIES THAT INVITED IN THE PROJECT.

INSTALLATIONS

ANJA MARGRETHE BACHE

PHOTOS:

ANJA MARGRETHE BACHE AND SEUNGJAE LEE