superreversal

一、展览主题：超级倒叙
二、展览地点：昆明ALAB实域艺术空间
三、展览日期：2005年5月14日星期六20：30
四、主办单位：ALAB实域艺术空间、丽江工作室
五、 展览策划：罗菲
六、参展艺术家：
向卫星，和丽斌&姚青生，Duskin Drum（美国）,Andrea Stelzner（德国）,Jay Brown（美国）,赵庆明，木玉明，林善文，严凌霄，罗菲，Yew Leong Lee（新加坡），Jean-Gabriel Périot（法国），Langás Kenneth（挪威），孙国娟&雷燕，姜静，郭鹏，黄佑华,刘恺。

七、展览主题释义

（一）、"超级倒叙"策划思路：

江湖通过前3次的活动拓展了艺术的展示方式，和公众产生了互动性的合作，让更多的群众自愿参与到了江湖中来，从而建立了江湖在云南本土人民群众中的广泛影响力。江湖艺术家的工作则是在高压强迫性的工作方式中展开。而这次大家将回到一个封闭的空间中来（ALAB实域艺术空间），通过更为强制性的身体要求(倒叙)来对时间意识进行全新身体体验。我希望大家能够以"倒叙"作为表达(或叙述的框架,展开一轮新的探索。真诚希望所有参展艺术家能够尽全力支持我们对于 "倒叙"这一表达方式的探索,并期待在展览中看到有超越"倒叙"这一框架的优秀作品出现。

（二）关于"超级倒叙"的说明：

鉴于我们已经有一个在经典叙述学（classical narratology）
中的"倒叙"（reversal）概念和方法，我们在此创造一个"后叙述学"中（post-narratology）的"超级倒叙" （supperreversal）的概念和方法，以此来区分经典叙述学中的倒叙。特此说明。有关更多关于"后叙述学"的信息，请参见《后叙述学的诞生》一文。

（三）、"超级倒叙"对艺术家的要求：

1．艺术家在展览现场中的所有行为动作必须是倒着进行的。倒叙原则：在我们的能力范围和作品范围以内，现场中所有有时间态的事件和动作都必须倒装后进行，因生理或自然法则问题而无法倒的除外。

2．每个艺术家在事先通知的时间前提交作品方案初稿。

3．艺术家必交方案：
A．每个艺术家提交3个以上的表演方案，表演内容不限：包括绘画，雕塑，声音表演，身体表演，魔术，杂技，口技等等，但表演本身必须是倒叙的。这些表演方案为"击鼓传花"活动做准备（相关信息见后面）。
B．录像一部或更多。录像提交制作完成的DVD(已经制作成"倒叙"的),同样限定的时间前提交，以便策展工作小组汇总编辑放映。

4．艺术家选交方案： 不限（如果您有更多的精力）。

（四）、现场设计（按时间顺序罗列）：

1．晚上8：30准时关闭展厅大门，展厅外由一台电视机通过安装在室内的摄像头实时传输展厅内的视频信号。展厅里边有一台倒计时器：从展览预计结束时间开始至"展览开幕"8：30。

2．闭幕式：由策展人倒着朗读中文闭幕词（致谢等等）。Jay倒着朗诵英文闭幕词。

3．曲目演奏：播放某著名高潮感觉的进行曲的倒装样式(事先录制编辑完成)。

4．集体表演击鼓传花。何为"击鼓传花"：艺术家围绕大桌子而坐，逆时针方向传递一朵"花"，旁边有一观众背对这群艺术家敲鼓，鼓点停下的同时"花"落在哪位艺术家手上，就由哪位艺术家出来表演一个节目。注：不能到达现场的艺术家在击鼓传花中仍占有一席之地，用相关设备代替，表演时通过网络实时传输表演视频或音频信号。

现场将有一台中国大鼓，由观众击鼓，击鼓传的"花"将在展览开始的时候告诉大家具体是什么替代物。桌子上的摆设：饮料、啤酒、红酒、果盘、花生瓜子、糖果、石膏像，花瓶等组成大型静物景观。

6．开幕式：原则同闭幕式。

7．酒会，开门。

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"Superreversal": Plan for the Jianghu April Exhibition
[Birth of post-narratology]

(by Luo Fei)

I、 Exhibition subject: Superreversal
II、 Locus:ALAB art space
III、 Date:20:30 14 May 2005
IV、 Constitutor:ALAB art space and lijiangstudio
V、 Curator: Luo Fei
VI、 Artists:
Xiang Weixing,He Libin&Yao Qingsheng,Guo Peng, Duskin Drum(USA), Andrea Stelzner(Germany), Jay Brown(USA), I.M.Iyon(USA),Xiao Xunlin,Zhao Qingming,Mu Yuming,Yang Jihui,Lin Shanwen,Yan Lingxiao, Luo Fei, Yew Leong Lee(Singapore), Jean-Gabriel Périot(France), Langás Kenneth(Norway),Sun Guojuan&Lei Yan,Jiang Jing,Lu Biao, Yin Wen, Jiang Jing,Liu Kai.
VII、 Exhibition subject paraphrase:
I) The idea behind superreversal:
Jianghu, by way of the previous three exhibitions, will have expanded both art and the ways in which art can be displayed; it will have produced an interactive style of cooperation with the audience; and thus we will have established within Yunnan&aposs local community a widespread influence. The work of Jianghu artists unfolds through coercive, high-pressure methods. For this (April) exhibition, we will enter a closed space (ALAB), and through powerfully restrictive (i.e., Reversed), physical requirements, engage bodily in new experiences of how we conceive of time. It is my aim here that everyone may make use of Reversal as a conceptual frame for expression (or narration) and thus open a new round of exploration. In all sincerity, I hope that each participating artist will do his or her best to create within this ephemeral exhibition space a set of excellent works whose quality transcends the artificial boundaries of the Superreversal framework in which they are presented.

II) Superreversal requirements for participating artists:
A) During the exhibition, all artists&aposbehavior and actions must be completed in reverse order. The Reversal Principle: Within the scope of our rights and our respective work, all aspects relating to time and action must be given the appearance of having been reversed (&aposappearance&aposbecause organic, or natural, principles cannot themselves be reversed).

B) All artists, prior to 30 Apirl 2005, must submit rough proposals of their pieces.
C) Proposal Materials:
1) Each participant must submit plans for at least three performance pieces; content is unrestricted; form is restricted only by the aforementioned requirements or Reversal. Said pieces are to be prepared for exhibition during the Drum-Flower activity (see below for details).
2) Submissions may also include one or more audio/visual pieces (not necessarily related to the performance pieces described above). Visual pieces may be in DVD format; audio pieces may be digital or otherwise (note of course that chicks dig vinyl). Said materials must be submitted by 30 April 2005 to allow for proper organization by the exhibition manager. Please be sure to have reversed the content of your work before submission.
3) Media choice for any additional submissions is left to the discretion of the artist.

III) Event Design:
A) Specific locations for static work may be selected on a first come first serve basis.

B) On the day of the event, at precisely 8.30pm, the exhibition hall&aposs main door will be shut and the lights turned on. There will be a television set outside the hall broadcasting the events transpiring within the hall live.

C) The event will be concluded by the exhibition manager reading, in reverse order, a concluding statement.

D) Music for the event will be comprised of climactic-style songs familiar to both Chinese and foreign listeners; the songs, of course, will be played in reverse.

E) Performance pieces will be carried out in a fashion following the Drum-Flower format. Artists will be seated round a large table; they will blithely pass between themselves a vase of flowers; behind them will be another few persons playing drums; when the rhythm halts, the artist holding the flowers must perform one of his or her prepared pieces. Note: those who cannot attend in person this activity may be represented at the table by the appropriate form of equipment.

F) First, the audio/visual pieces will be given audience.

G) The event will be opened in a manner akin to its closing.

H) Liquor party…and the doors open.

I) Now, in a reversed event, there will be a few logistical elements one simply cannot resist reversing. Those elements not detailed here may be worked out later according to the advice of participating artists.

**A Final Note: Because some complications cannot be prophesied or arranged for in advance, new developments in the exhibition plan will be relayed to all participants as expediently as can be arranged. Also, once submitted materials have been returned, please contact Luo Fei in order to keep the exhibition and its planning process running as smoothly as possible.

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