“人是自然界的仆役和解释者，因此他所能做的和所能了解的，就是他在事实上和思想上，对于自然过程所见到的那么多。”弗朗西斯·培根认为世界是不以人的意志为转移的客观存在，人对世界的认识，只有通过感性的经验从客观的外界中获得。客观外界的事物只有通过人的感官，才能被人们所感知。感官，就好像是理智的入口和门户。当科技几乎是当代人的第二层皮肤，感官的可能性被**释放，甚至创造了新形的感官系统，开发了官能和感知不可预知的领域。

 

艺术家对未知和不能触及的领域拥有不能自己的好奇，企图以电子科技的媒体**属性，运用跨界的手法来解放这些不可视、听不到的存在现象。带领观者感官的核心，解开某种既已固定的观点位置。

 

上海明当代美术馆新媒体艺术群展——“感官边界”以两组、四个紧扣的题目组成，带来8位艺术家的9件作品。自然形态 (Form of Nature) 和 动作形态 (Form of Motion) 所呈现的是艺术家们尝试以不同形式包括动态装置、灯光等，将大自然 (Nature) 和 姿态、形态 (Motion) 重塑或解拆，让观者看到来自大自然和人体动作的看不见的形态。构造自然 (Form the Nature) 和 构造动作 (Form the Motion) 进一步把对世界各种存在的想像伸延，以混合方式合并成一种新的形态，呈现一种普遍认知以外的超自然感知。

 

Sensory Canvas

 

“MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything”: according to Francis Bacon, the universe is an objective being which cannot be transformed through human will. One’s cognition of the world can only be obtained though perceptual experience from the objective outwards. Objects can be perceived only by human sensation. Therefore, sensation plays the role as the entry to reason. When technology, on the other hand, acts almost like another skin on contemporary people, the possibility of sensation can be released endlessly into an infinite sphere or even serve to create a new sensory system, and exploit the unpredictable reign of sense and sensation.

 

With an indefinable curiosity towards intangible and unknowable fields, artists often try to liberate all potential possibilities of imperceptible phenomenon from their stereotypes through cross-media practice and unique media types, guiding the audience to unlock their fixed preconceptions of the invisible and the inaudible.

 

Ming Contemporary Art Museum’s new media group exhibition “Sensory Canvas” is composed of two sets of topics in four categories, made up of 9 works from 8 artists. Form of Nature and Form of Motion show how artists visualize the invisible in nature and motion, through different media approaches such as kinetic installations, light pieces, simulation, and more, showcasing another perspective by reconstructing or deconstructing the existing. Stepping further towards extending imagination to all kinds of existence in the universe, Form the Nature and Form the Motion present a trans-nature sensation beyond general cognition by composing original formats into a hybrid status.

 

Sensory Canvas

Exhibition Period:

25 May - 4 Aug, 2019

 

Chief Curator: Qiu Zhijie

 

Curator: Keith Lam, Olivia Ding

 

Artists：

James Tapscott, Karina Smigla-Bobinski, Gaybird, Keith Lam, Hiroaki Umeda, Norimichi Hirakawa, Tobias Gremmler, WOW

 

Organizer: Ming Yuan Group, Ming Contemporary Art Museum

 

Producer: Li Songjian, Ling Feifei

 

Support by: The Japan Foundation, Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai

 

Address & Opening Hours:

 

McaM: No. 436, East Yonghe Rd, Jing’an District, Shanghai

TUE - SUN 10am - 6pm