《对不起》
田栋梁 / 社会敏感性研究所
2017年10月5日－12月10日
尽管箭厂胡同的许多邻里商铺都被封墙清空，箭厂空间还是幸存了下来。我们特别荣幸地展出《对不起》，由田栋梁和社会敏感性研究所共同完成的视频作品。继续保留我们上一个展览（杨振中《栅栏》）窗户的框架结构，取掉原先的双面镜子代以透明玻璃，箭厂空间现存的窗洞成为通向田栋梁强烈的表演视频的入口。影片中他举起双手，握紧拳头，对一个关于叙利亚幼童的热点新闻照片进行了再表演——原图片中她惧怕地举起双手，认为摄影师的相机镜头是一件对着她的武器。田栋梁保持着这个姿势直到他无法忍受，于是挫败地松下双臂并走开。
标题《对不起》传达了一种对赎罪的需求。田栋梁有过动荡的童年——他回忆起六岁时因家人放高利贷而惹祸上身，在某个不安的下午，他放学回家发现所有东西都被清空，抢掠的人也包括自己的亲戚。从那以后，他跟随家人逃到陌生的城市，换过多所学校，做过各种零工。通过这些具有挑战性的个人经历，田栋梁对诈骗技巧的研究产生了某种兴趣和专业知识。他分析并审视不同的骗术; 这些发现塑造了他复杂而多层次世界观。在视频中，田栋梁对于屈服的再次扮演表达出对无奈的认同感。
田栋梁（1990年生于河南）在伯纳德公司的生产线上工作了一年，他的主要工作是操作工。
2011年李山在生产电动阀门执行器的北京伯纳德控制设备有限公司成立了一个艺术家驻留计划——社会敏感性研发部。该部门通过艺术家与伯纳德公司员工间的互动实现了众多特定场域的艺术项目。而近期社会敏感性研究所在与赵天汲的合作下开始鼓励员工进行自主的艺术创作。《对不起》是《干，活》系列在箭厂的第四个项目，由此把一些员工所萌生的想法从工厂车间带入胡同环境，试图模糊生产和生活、员工和艺术家、创作者和观众之间的边界。《干，活》系列项目试图激发创造性活动中“转化”的潜能，并探讨作者身份含义的替代性可能。
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I’m Sorry
Tian Dongliang / Social Sensibility Institute
Oct 5 – Dec 10, 2017
Despite the bricking and emptying of many neighborhood businesses on Jianchang Hutong, Arrow Factory endures. We are extremely pleased to present a new video work by Tian Dongliang and the Social Sensibility Institute entitled I’m Sorry. Re-purposing the window frame from our previous project, Yang Zhenzhong’s Fences, and swapping Yang’s mirror with clear glass, the Arrow Factory façade is now a portal into Tian’s tenacious video performance. Arms raised and fists clenched, Tian re-enacts a heavily shared news image of a Syrian toddler, who, hands raised in fear, believed that the photographer’s camera was a weapon turned upon her. Tian sustains the posture for as long as he can bear before dropping his arms in defeat and walking away.
The title, I’m Sorry, expresses a need for atonement. Tian had a tumultuous early childhood – at six years old he recalls the antics of his loan shark family members. One disquieting afternoon he returned from school to a house stripped clean of everything – his dodgy neighbors and relatives nowhere to be found. A particularly itinerant period during his youth saw him moving with his family to strange towns, switching multiple schools and holding numerous odd jobs. Through these challenging personal experiences, Tian developed a particular interest and expertise in the study of the craft of scams. He analyzes and scrutinizes different methods of deception; his findings informing his complex and layered worldview. Tian’s re-enactment of surrender in the video speaks to an acknowledged sense of helplessness from all sides.
Tian Dongliang (b. 1990, Henan Province) is in his first year working on the assembly line at Bernard Controls. He is a machine operator on the factory floor.
Since 2011 Alessandro Rolandi has facilitated the Social Sensibility Research and Development Department, an artist-in-residency program embedded at Bernard Controls, a manufacturer of electric actuators for valve automation. The department has realized numerous site-specific projects through interactions between artists and Bernard Control’s staff members. Now, collaborating with Tianji Zhao, the re-named Social Sensibility Institute has evolved to empower the company’s employees to make new, original creations. The Work, Live Series explores the transformative potential of creative processes and experiments with alternative definitions of authorship.
*Learn more about the Social Sensibility Research Institute at Bernard Controls at http://www.socialsensibility.org/ |
