由英國總領事館文化教育處攜手歐洲GLSA Ltd.當代著名行為藝術策展人喬納斯?斯坦普(Jonas Stampe)共同主辦、雅庫藝術空間與深圳中學協辦的“深圳現場——中英行為藝術文化交流”活動將于2010年12月3、4日在深圳舉行。屆時將有英國當代獨具影響力的藝術家布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly）、約翰?考特（John Court）以及中國早期先鋒藝術家段英梅和北京新銳藝術家戈丫進行為期兩天的行為表演、講座、以及公眾互動討論等一系列活動。

近年行為藝術節不僅在全球的舉辦場次呈上升趨勢，在亞洲的不同國家地區情況亦然。不僅如此，行為藝術作為一個新穎的、正在逐步擴大影響力的藝術媒介，參與者的數目與日俱增，其中大多是年輕一代的藝術家，可謂是“屬于未來的藝術”。在這次中英行為藝術文化交流中，我們將為公眾帶來老一輩行為藝術家與年輕藝術家的碰撞，中國女性藝術家和西方男性藝術家的對話，極具學術性和教育意義。行為藝術將不僅僅是先鋒的，具有實驗性的邊緣新藝術，同時也能感染那些運用情感與理智去感受他們所看到的人們，點燃我們與我們對于時間與生命的詩意的理解與感悟。每一位藝術家的作品都是不可再生的，是當下的、短暫的、獨具態度的。

活動安排

第一部分：“深圳現場—中英行為藝術文化交流”藝術課堂與講座（深圳中學專場）

Ⅰ 藝術課堂

活動時間：2010年12月3日 10:00-11:00

活動地點：深圳中學

主講嘉賓：布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly）

Ⅱ 藝術家講座

活動時間：2010年12月3日 16:00-18:00

活動地點：深圳中學報告廳

主講嘉賓：布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly）、約翰?考特（John Court）

主持人：喬納斯?斯坦普(Jonas Stampe)

第二部分: “深圳現場—中英行為藝術文化交流”現場行為表演與公眾互動討論

活動時間：2010年12月4日 14:00-18:00

活動地點：深圳市華僑城雅庫藝術空間

藝術家：布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly）、約翰?考特（John Court）、段英梅、戈丫

互動討論主持：喬納斯?斯坦普(Jonas Stampe)

第三部分: 廣州現場行為藝術節

活動時間：2010年12月8-14日

活動地點：廣州53美術館

比爾莊蒙德作品Caught by the River

英國藝術家：布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly）、約翰?考特（John Court）、阿拉斯泰爾?麥克倫南(Alastatir MacLennan)、比爾?莊蒙德(Bill Drummond)

藝術家簡介

布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly），英國

布賴恩?康諾利（Brian Connolly）出生于1961年，一直在貝爾法斯特生活和工作。作為一名多媒體藝術家，他的作品常常涉及“地方”以及環境。他運用的藝術手段也是各式各樣的：其中包括表演、公共雕塑、裝置藝術以及其他合作項目。

目前他采用了兩種獨樹一幟的表演策略：一是運用市場攤位干預的形式吸引非“藝術”觀眾；其次，他還使用超現實式幽默拷問消費主義以及全球政治和社會倫理。他的其他現場作品通常與某個地方有關，并具有持續性。這些表演作品均被冠名為“裝置一行動”，往往通過視覺闡述并包含政治和精神上的隱喻。

約翰?考特（John Court），英國

約翰考特作品Genuine Fractals 5 USM 80

約翰?考特（John Court）于1969年出生于英國，并于1997年移居芬蘭。他創作了眾多大型繪畫、現場演出以及視頻作品，旨在反映與學習相關的問題。他的作品曾在英國、斯堪的納維亞以及柏林展出。同時，在著名的歐洲藝術盛事上可以看見他作品的身影，如包括威尼斯雙年展（2005）以及利物浦雙年展（2004）。

1999年，約翰?考特（John Court）根據八個小時工作日的傳統理念創造了一系列的作品。他利用他運動中的軀體表現其學習經歷的混亂。這一系列表演空間創造了將自我軀體、空白頁與未讀頁之間并置后的緊迫性。在日常生活中，人們總是將時間花費在各式各樣而又相互競爭的情緒和感覺中。時間是可以用來花費、捕獲、浪費、殺害、保存、遺失以及被發現的。而這一切，都在約翰?考特（John Court）的行為作品中毫無遺漏地呈現。

阿拉斯泰爾?麥克倫南（Alastair Maclennan）, 英國 (廣州站藝術家)

阿拉斯泰爾麥克倫南作品Wrap Wrap

阿拉斯泰爾?麥克倫南（Alastair Maclennan）是國際舞臺上最多產的表演藝術家之一。身為極富傳奇色彩的表演藝術團體Black Market的成員，麥克倫南被視為在當代藝術這一特定領域的核心人物。他目前擔任北愛爾蘭阿爾斯特大學(University of Ulster)美術專業的名譽教授。

比爾?莊蒙德(Bill Drummond), 英國 (廣州站藝術家)

比爾?莊蒙德(Bill Drummond)，出生于1953年，是一位蘇格蘭裔音樂家、媒體名人、唱片制作人、作家、藝術家。自1973年從利物浦藝術學院(Liverpool College of Art)畢業后，他便使用多種方式對文化環境進行探討和交流，包括寫作、流行音樂和行為藝術。

比爾最為人知的身份是80年代前衛流行音樂樂隊 “版權解放戰線（The KLF）”的聯合創始人。該組合在90年代轉化為前衛藝術媒體組織K Foundation。在該組織期間，他表演燃燒了一百萬英鎊(1994年)。比爾在英國各大展覽館里舉行過無數個人展覽。自1998年，比爾的所有作品都被收錄在Penkiln Burn的品牌下。他創作了各式各樣的概念藝術項目，并協助建立了藝術中心“鑄造廠（The Foundry）”，東倫敦的Shoreditch新文藝區。其著作有：《手冊》(1989)、《惡智慧》(1996)、《45》(2000)、《怎樣成為一名藝術家》(2002)以及《瘋狂的高速公路》(2005)。

段英梅，中國

段英梅作品-我愛電腦

中國藝術家段英梅的創作生涯始于作畫，九十年代她來到藝術家聚集地“北京東村”，接觸學習了當代藝術的先鋒群體。也是在那兒她參與創作了有名的行為藝術作品《為無名山增高一米》。1998年英梅踏上德國的土地，在布倫瑞克造型藝術學院師從瑪麗娜?阿布拉莫維奇（Marina Abramovic）、波爾吉特?海因（Birgit Hein）和克里斯多夫?施林格塞弗（Christoph Schlingensief）。

英梅作為行為藝術家在國內外參與了大量展覽、藝術節和工作坊。她的作品發生在特定場地，富有實驗精神。她常于室內或室外空間選定地點來實現創作，創造空間感是她的作品的重要部分。另外，時態擴展、自發性和觀眾參與也在其作品中占重要地位。為了讓作品與日常生活緊密相連，英梅熱愛與不同人工作，無論他們的年齡、生活領域和文化背景如何。

英梅的行為作品都取材自我們熟悉的環境，比如她的裝置會用紙、垃圾、家具等等。她用自己的身體來表達，于是事物之間不同尋常的聯系就被形象地建立起來了：有時嘲諷，有時悲劇，有時神秘。她通過使用噪音和光，營造出緊張的氛圍和情緒。

戈丫，中國

獨立藝術家，IAC國際藝術交流志愿者組織創建人。2005畢業于西安美術學院油畫專業，2006年研讀于中央美術學院壁畫系，現居住于中國北京。

戈丫的行為表演現場

戈丫于2008年后創作重點多為多媒體藝術，影像裝置，及行為表演藝術，2009年8月受墨西哥策展人Martin Renteria之邀，參展2009open國際行為藝術節十周年第八單元和2010年6月的 “III Bienal” Chile。

戈丫出生于1983年，是中國年輕一代的藝術家，創作角度關注中國不同社會背景下的個人成長及記憶，并從記憶的重組中整理出社會價值體系、物質世界對個人成長帶來的影響，并進行反思。她的作品以近似暴力的方式迫使觀眾（行為參與者）回顧時代 、成長、 玩樂 、性 、暴力、政治 、資本、社會事件、 時尚 、 物質等，最終以視覺暴力和聽覺暴力的方式呈現出物質化對個人的影響 ，同時討論個人記憶與公共審美記憶之間的分歧。

SHENZHEN ACTION: BRITISH CHINESE ACTION ART ENCOUNTERS

Shenzhen Action: British Chinese Action Art Encounters

Shenzhen Action: British Chinese Action Art Encounters, jointly brought about by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Consulate-General and the prestigious European contemporary arts curator Jonas Stampe, in partnership with Shenzhen Middle School and Ya Ku Art, is going to be held in Shenzhen on the 3rd and 4th of December 2010. The influential UK contemporary artists Bill Drummond and Brian Connolly, as well as the Chinese avant-garde artist Yingmei Duan and independent artist Ge Ya will bring to the public live performance, presentations and public discussion on a 2-day span.

In recent years the number of action art festivals is on apparent rise globally, and for that matter, it takes no prisoner in different countries in Asia. Nevertheless, action art has nowadays become a novel and influential arts medium that attracts more and more participants like a magnet. Among them, a large proportion of the population is a younger generation of artists who are into “the art belongs to the future”. On this occasion, this British Chinese Action Art Encounters could present to the public the interaction and comparison between ‘old’ and emerging action artists. The intellectual dialogue between Chinese female artists and western male artists are inspiring both on the academic and educational front. Action art is an avant-garde and experimental new form of art on the fringe and, what’s more, it appeals to people who understand it by seeing and feeling it emotionally and intellectually. It could also ignite and inspire our poetic understanding and learning about time and life. Every work of every artist presents in this event is non-renewable. It’s here and now. It’s ephemeral and special.

www.shenzhenaction.org

Programme

Part One: “Shenzhen Action: British Chinese Action Art Encounters” Lecture and Talk

I Art Lecture

Time: 10:00 – 11:00, 3rd December, 2010

Venue: Shenzhen Middle School

Speaker: Brian Connolly

II Artists Talk

Time: 16:00 – 18:00, 3 December 2010

Venue: Auditorium, Shenzhen Middle School

Speakers: Brian Connolly, John Court

Host: Jonas Stampe

Part Two：“Shenzhen Action: British Chinese Action Art Encounters” Live Performance and Public Discussion

Time: 14.00 – 18.00, 4 December, 2010

Venue: Outdoors of Ya Ku Library Art Space, Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town

Artists: Brian Connolly, John Court, Yingmei Duan, Ge Ya

Host for public discussion: Jonas Stampe

Part Three：Guangzhou Live 2010

Time: 8 – 14 December 2010

Venue: 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou

UK artists: Brian Connolly, John Court, Alastatir MacLennan and Bill Drummond

Artists Profile

Brian Connolly， UK

Born in 1961, living and working in Belfast, Brian Connolly is a multi-media artist who's works often relate to ‘place' or context. He employs a wide range of artistic processes, including Performance, Public Sculpture, Installation Art, and collaborative projects.

He currently employs two distinct Performance strategies: The first is geared to entice a non ‘art' audience and takes the form of Market Stall intervention. Surreal humor is employed to question aspects of consumerism and global political and social ethics.

His other live works are often both place-specific & durational. These Performance works, generically entitled "Install-actions", are often visually elaborate and contain both political and spiritual metaphors.

John Court, UK

John Court was born in the UK in 1969, and moved to Finland in 1997. Court creates large scale drawings, performance and video works that reflect issues related to learning. His work has been exhibited in the UK, Scandinavia and Berlin, and has been featured in several prestigious European events including the Venice Biennale [2005], and the Liverpool Biennale [2004].

In 1999 John court began a series of performances based on the ethics of the eight hour working day. Court uses his body in motion to express the disarrangement of his learning experience.

The performance space creates the immediacy of the juxtaposition between the self as body, the blank page and a page unread. In the everyday situation, time is invariably spent in flux between a variety of competing moods and emotions.

Time is spent, caught, wasted, killed, saved, lost, found; all these events are evident in performance works of John Court.

www.johncourt.info

Alastair Maclennan, UK (Guangzhou Live 2010)

Alastair MacLennan is one of the most prolific performance artists on the international scene. Being a member of the legendary performance art group Black Market International, MacLennan is further regarded as a central figure in this particular field of contemporary art. He is currently professor emeritus in Fíne Arts at the University of Ulster.

www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/maclennan

Bill Drummond, UK (Guangzhou Live 2010) Born in 1953, living and working in London, Bill Drummond is a Scottish musician, media personality, record producer, writer and artist. Since leaving Liverpool College of Art in 1973 he has used various ways to investigate and converse with the cultural landscape. These investigations and conversations have found expression via the written word, pop music and actions.

Bill Drummond is best known as a co-founder of late 1980s avant-garde "pop group" The KLF and its 1990s "avant-art" media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with which he burned a million pounds in 1994. He has had numerous one-man exhibitions in major UK regional galleries. Since 1998, all Drummond's work has been framed within the context of The Penkiln Burn. He produced a variety of different conceptual art projects, and helped to set-up The Foundry, an arts centre in Shoreditch, London.

His written words include the following books: The Manual (1989), Bad Wisdom (1996), 45 (2000), How To Be An Artist (2002), and The Wild Highway (2005).

www.penkilnburn.com

Yingmei Duan, China

Yingmei Duan begins as a painter in China. In the 90‘s she came to the "East Village", an Beijing artists' quarter and started to develop intimacy with the contemporary avant-garde. It was there and then that she attends the now famous performance "To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain". In 1998 Yingmei Duan moved to Germany, where she studied at the HBK Braunschweig with Marina Abramovic, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief.

As a performance artist, she has been involved in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals and workshops. Her work is experimental and site-specific. The artist often realizes her performances in found places in indoor and outdoor space or creates spatial situations that seem necessary for her work. The temporal extension, spontaneity, and the inclusion of the audience play an important role. To create a close connection to everyday life, Yingmei Duan loves to work together with people of different cultures, ages and from different areas of life.

Also, the materials used by her are objects of our familiar surroundings: she builds her installations of paper, garbage, furniture, etc. The artist works with her own body as a means of expression. In vivid images unusual connections are established between the things: sometimes ironic, sometimes tragic, or even mystical. By the use of noise and light, intense atmospheres and moods are created.

Yingmei Duan’s performative concepts convey visions between dream and reality, personal fears and desires. Focusing on cultural backgrounds, social constraints and social relationships, her performances raise a variety of questions, whilst without giving a definitive answer.

Geya,China

Independent artist, founder of the International Art Exchange (IAE) Volunteer Organisation. She graduated from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts and majored in oil painting in 2005. In 2006, she studied at the Mural Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts and is currently is living in Beijing, China. Soon after 2008, Ge Ya sought after the creation of multimedia arts, video installations, performing and performance arts. In August 2009, she was invited to feature in the eighth unit of the 10th anniversary of the 2009 Open International Performance Art Festival curated by the Mexican curator MARTIN RENTERIA, as well as in "III Biennial" Chile June 2010.

Born in 1983, Ge Ya belongs to the younger generation of artists. She is particularly interested with the trail of personal growth and memory under different Chinese social contexts and, from the reorganization of memories, she manages to sort out the social value system and the impact of the material world as oppose to the growth of individuals, subsequently reflect on it. In a way of quasi-violence, her works compel the audience (performance participants) to reflect on the era of generation, growth, fun, sex, violence, politics, capital, social events, fashion, material, and ultimately in the form of visual, as well as auditory violence to depict the impact of materialism onto individuals, whilst discussing the difference between individual and public aesthetic memory. In the meantime, As the founder of the International Art Exchange (IAE) Volunteer Organisation, she’s been working with a great number of active curators in China and getting involved in assisting a variety of curation works which include: the 10th anniversary of the OPEN International Performance Art Festival, "The Historical Transformation of China's New Art Documentary Exhibition 2001-2009 ", “2010 Get It Louder "and so on. In addition, she runs "IAC work shop --- Voluntary Cooperation and Share Plan" to encourage cross-disciplinary arts and artists cooperative projects in a voluntary way.