由英国总领事馆文化教育处携手欧洲GLSA Ltd.当代著名行为艺术策展人乔纳斯•斯坦普(Jonas Stampe)共同主办、雅库艺术空间与深圳中学协办的“深圳现场——中英行为艺术文化交流”活动将于2010年12月3、4日在深圳举行。届时将有英国当代独具影响力的艺术家布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly）、约翰•考特（John Court）以及中国早期先锋艺术家段英梅和北京新锐艺术家戈丫进行为期两天的行为表演、讲座、以及公众互动讨论等一系列活动。

近年行为艺术节不仅在全球的举办场次呈上升趋势，在亚洲的不同国家地区情况亦然。不仅如此，行为艺术作为一个新颖的、正在逐步扩大影响力的艺术媒介，参与者的数目与日俱增，其中大多是年轻一代的艺术家，可谓是“属于未来的艺术”。在这次中英行为艺术文化交流中，我们将为公众带来老一辈行为艺术家与年轻艺术家的碰撞，中国女性艺术家和西方男性艺术家的对话，极具学术性和教育意义。行为艺术将不仅仅是先锋的，具有实验性的边缘新艺术，同时也能感染那些运用情感与理智去感受他们所看到的人们，点燃我们与我们对于时间与生命的诗意的理解与感悟。每一位艺术家的作品都是不可再生的，是当下的、短暂的、独具态度的。

活动安排

第一部分：“深圳现场—中英行为艺术文化交流”艺术课堂与讲座（深圳中学专场）

Ⅰ 艺术课堂

活动时间：2010年12月3日 10:00-11:00

活动地点：深圳中学

主讲嘉宾：布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly）

Ⅱ 艺术家讲座

活动时间：2010年12月3日 16:00-18:00

活动地点：深圳中学报告厅

主讲嘉宾：布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly）、约翰•考特（John Court）

主持人：乔纳斯•斯坦普(Jonas Stampe)

第二部分: “深圳现场—中英行为艺术文化交流”现场行为表演与公众互动讨论

活动时间：2010年12月4日 14:00-18:00

活动地点：深圳市华侨城雅库艺术空间

艺术家：布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly）、约翰•考特（John Court）、段英梅、戈丫

互动讨论主持：乔纳斯•斯坦普(Jonas Stampe)

第三部分: 广州现场行为艺术节

活动时间：2010年12月8-14日

活动地点：广州53美术馆

比尔庄蒙德作品Caught by the River

英国艺术家：布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly）、约翰•考特（John Court）、阿拉斯泰尔•麦克伦南(Alastatir MacLennan)、比尔•庄蒙德(Bill Drummond)

艺术家简介

布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly），英国

布赖恩•康诺利（Brian Connolly）出生于1961年，一直在贝尔法斯特生活和工作。作为一名多媒体艺术家，他的作品常常涉及“地方”以及环境。他运用的艺术手段也是各式各样的：其中包括表演、公共雕塑、装置艺术以及其他合作项目。

目前他采用了两种独树一帜的表演策略：一是运用市场摊位干预的形式吸引非“艺术”观众；其次，他还使用超现实式幽默拷问消费主义以及全球政治和社会伦理。他的其他现场作品通常与某个地方有关，并具有持续性。这些表演作品均被冠名为“装置一行动”，往往通过视觉阐述并包含政治和精神上的隐喻。

约翰•考特（John Court），英国

约翰考特作品Genuine Fractals 5 USM 80

约翰•考特（John Court）于1969年出生于英国，并于1997年移居芬兰。他创作了众多大型绘画、现场演出以及视频作品，旨在反映与学习相关的问题。他的作品曾在英国、斯堪的纳维亚以及柏林展出。同时，在著名的欧洲艺术盛事上可以看见他作品的身影，如包括威尼斯双年展（2005）以及利物浦双年展（2004）。

1999年，约翰•考特（John Court）根据八个小时工作日的传统理念创造了一系列的作品。他利用他运动中的躯体表现其学习经历的混乱。这一系列表演空间创造了将自我躯体、空白页与未读页之间并置后的紧迫性。在日常生活中，人们总是将时间花费在各式各样而又相互竞争的情绪和感觉中。时间是可以用来花费、捕获、浪费、杀害、保存、遗失以及被发现的。而这一切，都在约翰•考特（John Court）的行为作品中毫无遗漏地呈现。

阿拉斯泰尔•麦克伦南（Alastair Maclennan）, 英国 (广州站艺术家)

阿拉斯泰尔麦克伦南作品Wrap Wrap

阿拉斯泰尔•麦克伦南（Alastair Maclennan）是国际舞台上最多产的表演艺术家之一。身为极富传奇色彩的表演艺术团体Black Market的成员，麦克伦南被视为在当代艺术这一特定领域的核心人物。他目前担任北爱尔兰阿尔斯特大学(University of Ulster)美术专业的名誉教授。

比尔•庄蒙德(Bill Drummond), 英国 (广州站艺术家)

比尔•庄蒙德(Bill Drummond)，出生于1953年，是一位苏格兰裔音乐家、媒体名人、唱片制作人、作家、艺术家。自1973年从利物浦艺术学院(Liverpool College of Art)毕业后，他便使用多种方式对文化环境进行探讨和交流，包括写作、流行音乐和行为艺术。

比尔最为人知的身份是80年代前卫流行音乐乐队 “版权解放战线（The KLF）”的联合创始人。该组合在90年代转化为前卫艺术媒体组织K Foundation。在该组织期间，他表演燃烧了一百万英镑(1994年)。比尔在英国各大展览馆里举行过无数个人展览。自1998年，比尔的所有作品都被收录在Penkiln Burn的品牌下。他创作了各式各样的概念艺术项目，并协助建立了艺术中心“铸造厂（The Foundry）”，东伦敦的Shoreditch新文艺区。其著作有：《手册》(1989)、《恶智慧》(1996)、《45》(2000)、《怎样成为一名艺术家》(2002)以及《疯狂的高速公路》(2005)。

段英梅，中国

段英梅作品-我爱电脑

中国艺术家段英梅的创作生涯始于作画，九十年代她来到艺术家聚集地“北京东村”，接触学习了当代艺术的先锋群体。也是在那儿她参与创作了有名的行为艺术作品《为无名山增高一米》。1998年英梅踏上德国的土地，在布伦瑞克造型艺术学院师从玛丽娜•阿布拉莫维奇（Marina Abramovic）、波尔吉特•海因（Birgit Hein）和克里斯多夫•施林格塞弗（Christoph Schlingensief）。

英梅作为行为艺术家在国内外参与了大量展览、艺术节和工作坊。她的作品发生在特定场地，富有实验精神。她常于室内或室外空间选定地点来实现创作，创造空间感是她的作品的重要部分。另外，时态扩展、自发性和观众参与也在其作品中占重要地位。为了让作品与日常生活紧密相连，英梅热爱与不同人工作，无论他们的年龄、生活领域和文化背景如何。

英梅的行为作品都取材自我们熟悉的环境，比如她的装置会用纸、垃圾、家具等等。她用自己的身体来表达，于是事物之间不同寻常的联系就被形象地建立起来了：有时嘲讽，有时悲剧，有时神秘。她通过使用噪音和光，营造出紧张的氛围和情绪。

戈丫，中国

独立艺术家，IAC国际艺术交流志愿者组织创建人。2005毕业于西安美术学院油画专业，2006年研读于中央美术学院壁画系，现居住于中国北京。

戈丫的行为表演现场

戈丫于2008年后创作重点多为多媒体艺术，影像装置，及行为表演艺术，2009年8月受墨西哥策展人Martin Renteria之邀，参展2009open国际行为艺术节十周年第八单元和2010年6月的 “III Bienal” Chile。

戈丫出生于1983年，是中国年轻一代的艺术家，创作角度关注中国不同社会背景下的个人成长及记忆，并从记忆的重组中整理出社会价值体系、物质世界对个人成长带来的影响，并进行反思。她的作品以近似暴力的方式迫使观众（行为参与者）回顾时代 、成长、 玩乐 、性 、暴力、政治 、资本、社会事件、 时尚 、 物质等，最终以视觉暴力和听觉暴力的方式呈现出物质化对个人的影响 ，同时讨论个人记忆与公共审美记忆之间的分歧。

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.