<nettime-ann> [event] TimeLapse Exhibit National Art Museum of China

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The National Art Museum of China is pleased to announce the opening of  
the exhibition Timelapse curated by Zhang Ga. The first installment of  
this Chinese and Swiss media art exhibition will open on November 25,  
2009, in Beijing and will travel to Biel, Switzerland, in March 2010.

In the summer of 2008, the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)  
successfully staged Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008,  
International New Media Art Exhibition. The exhibition showcased the  
latest trends in global media art development, establishing Beijing as  
a platform for international dialogue in the field of new media art  
and providing an opportunity for a Chinese audience to recognize and  
appreciate rich and multifaceted artistic visions of the twenty-first  
century. Timelapse is the result of NAMOC’s continued commitment to  
exhibit media art.

Time-lapse describes a cinematographic technique in which pictures are  
taken with long intervals between each frame. Time-lapse as a process  
of delaying or prolongation constructs an obviously accelerated  
artificial effect when synchronized at a twenty-four-frame-per-second  
playback speed, which typically creates the illusion of real-time  
movement in human visual perception. Time-lapse therefore manipulates  
an illusionary reality to achieve yet another level of syntheticity –  
a virtual reality as opposed to the “reality” arrived at by simulation.

Time represents itself by movement, which is the continuous covering  
of space. In space where movement unfolds, abound the actions and  
happenings of distinct progression, that of heterogeneity. In time- 
lapse, through the drastic slowing down of speed in space, in between  
the delays and elongation for the finale of speediness and continuity,  
elasticity metamorphoses into virtuality, transcending ordinary  
perception of the temporal and the spatial, creating memory in a  
succession of variations.

By metaphorically invoking photographic terminology in the spirit of  
Bergsonian / Deleuzian time-movement interpretation as inspiration,  
the exhibition Timelapse in which a dozen artists from both  
Switzerland and China will participate, attempts to examine the  
fundamental constituent of digital media: the concept of time and its  
embodiment in space, its evocation of passage and memory, its movement  
of differentiation and its state of representation in diverse formal  
grammars to reveal the social implications of the fast in the disguise  
of the slow, the multiplicity in temporality, and disparity in  
spatiality, both psychologically and geographically. The exhibition  
scrutinizes the nuances and ramifications of cultural being within the  
disparate frameworks of time in distance and space in locality, and  
the potential collapse of a time-space duality.

Participating artists:
Peter Aerschmann, Cao Fei, Chen Shaoxiong, Arthur Clay, Hervé Graumann,
Alexander Hahn, Hu Jieming, Jin Jiangbo, Timo Loosli, Qiu Zhijie,  
Valentina Vuksic, Zhang Peili, Daniel Werder

The exhibition is a project of NAMOC’s Media Art China 2009, co- 
organized by the National Art Museum of China and CentrePasquArt (Biel  
Contemporary Art Museum) in Switzerland, and in partnership with Pro  
Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, as part of the exchange and  
cooperation program "Swiss Chinese Cultural Explorations" , which aims  
to support a rapprochement between the two countries on a cultural  
level, placing importance on establishing long-term relationships  
between artists and institutions from Switzerland and China. The  
exhibition is also supported by Presence Switzerland and Swissnex  
Shanghai, Switzerlands’s Outpost for Science, Technology and Culture  
in China.


National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
November 25, 2009 – December 19, 2009

CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
March 28, 2010 – May 30, 2010

Catalogue designed by: Project Projects, New York

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