Departing from the theme Asia Time, the curatorial team invited 47 artists and artists groups to participate in the first edition of the Asia Biennial / fifth edition of the Guangzhou Triennial.
In a world dominated by a global "World Time" awareness, Asia Time focuses on a local understanding of Asian time. Firstly, it intends to give an impetus to a topical way of thinking about time that comes from the arts. But at the same time, the historical and current context of Guangzhou will be involved as a starting point for searching alternative models and multiple perspectives able to better articulate the notion of "Asia Time." Subsequently, new modes of thinking about Asia will emerge going beyond geographically and historically defined concepts.
Curatorial Team:
Luo Yiping: Chairman, Director of Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Henk Slager: Chief Curator, Dean of MaHKU and Research Professor, HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Zhang Qing: Chief Curator, Head of the Curatorial and Research Department of the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Kim Hong-Hee: Curator, Director of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Ute Meta Bauer: Curator of Performance Program, Founding Director of CCA, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sarah Wilson: Curator of Academic Program, Professor of Courtauld Institute, London, UK
Sun Ge: Curator of Academic Program, Researcher, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Selected artists:
Adel Abidin (Iraq/Finland); Airan Kang (Korea); Anya Zholud (Russia); Armin Linke (Italy/Germany) and XML (The Netherlands); Bani Haykal (Singapore); Bei Douxing (China); Body Group (Saara Hannula in collaboration with Tommi Antero, Robert Allen, Rachel Fain and Carmen Wong - Finland/USA); Bu Bing (China); Chiharu Shiota (Japan); Ella Raidel (Austria); Esther Shalev-Gerz (France); Fu Wenjun (China); Geumhyung Jeong (Korea); ½ Q Theatre (China, Taiwan); Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore); Hongjohn Lin (China, Taiwan); Hu Xiangcheng (China); Jalal Toufic and Graziella Rizkallah Toufic (Lebanon); Jan Kaila and Japo Knuutila (Finland); Indieguerillas (Indonesia); Jan Simon (Poland); Job Koelewijn (The Netherlands); Kyungah Ham (Korea); Leung Mee Ping (China,Hongkong); Liu Yue (China); Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia); Ming Wong (Singapore); Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Affrassiabi (Iran/The Netherlands); Natascha Sadr Haghihian (Germany); NC Group (China); Omer Fast (Israel/Germany); Pei Yongmei (China); Praneet Soi (India/The Netherlands); Rayyane Tabet (Lebanon); Sara van der Heide (Korea/The Netherlands) in collaboration with a.o. Liu Ding, Dongyoung Lee, Chan-Kyong Park, Johannes Schwartz; Saleem Arif (India/UK); Sarah Sze (USA); Siren Eun Young Jung (Korea); Susan Pui San Lok (UK); Tiong Ang (The Netherlands) in collaboration with Alejandro Ramirez, Dongyoung Lee, Louwrens Duhen, Sinta Wullur, Robert Wittendorp, Heekyung Ryu, Ingrid Edwards, Hiroomi Horiuchi and Atone Niane; Wang Wei (China); Yu Xuhong (China); Yuan Gong (China); Yamashiro Chikako (Japan); Yue Minjun (China); Zhang Xiaotao (China); and Zhou Tao (China).
主题为“亚洲时间”的首届亚洲双年展暨第五届广州三年展将于2015年12月11日在广东美术馆开幕。此次展览策展团队由广东美术馆馆长罗一平、乌特勒支视觉艺术与设计研究生院院长汉克•斯拉格、中国美术馆研究与策划部主任张晴等7位成员组成。参展艺术家来自韩国、印度、伊拉克、黎巴嫩、以色列、俄罗斯、奥地利、意大利、德国、美国等20个国家，共计47名/组。出展作品涵盖装置、影像、绘画、摄影等多个创作领域。
策展人汉克•斯拉格对“亚洲时间”这一主题进行了阐释：“‘亚洲时间’可延伸为‘一种合时宜的考察’，它容纳了中西方的悖论，试图探讨悖论的具象化重现，包含着矛盾、冲突、共存意义以及必要的竞争关系，正是这些因素塑造了亚洲对于时间的理解和感知。”可以说，这一主题是对2013年亚洲美术策展人论坛 “亚洲意识与亚洲经验”的拓展与延伸，进一步深度聚焦和探讨全球视野下亚洲艺术的发展。艺术家们将围绕“亚洲时间”这一主题，共同讨论亚洲历史、文化、贸易，当代亚洲面临的挑战以及亚洲时间与世界时间的辨证关系、时间与空间等多个重要论题。
本次展览将集中探讨矛盾的两个立面：一是西方的、全球角度的“世界时间”(包括：加速、急速、可见性、枯竭、超越/进步的现代性、超资本主义、知识生产和经济等)，二是与之相对的亚洲时间(包括：平静、思考、专注、多样的现代性以及对价值观和智慧的重视)。由于东西方的内在冲突及相互依存性，东西矛盾或许也带来了一种必需的竞争性刺激，而这塑造、或是重塑了当今亚洲对时间的发现与感知。
