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放映ICA(Boston) Thomas Hirschhorn 展覽特製專輯+分享

Screening ofThomas Hirschhorn's
UTOPIA,
UTOPIA = ONE WORLD, ONE WAR, ONE ARMY, ONE DRESS

The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston) Documentary DVD 16 minutes

mMK invites you to this private art-reflection (conduct in Cantonese) sharing at Habitus
21st April 2006 Friday night, 7pm.


"Thomas Hirschhorn's energetic new installation explores the current world situation through the metaphor of military camouflage, which has been adapted from battlefield uniform to street fashion. Featuring footage of Hirschhorn in his Paris studio and commentary from philosopher Marcus Steinweg and ICA Chief Curator Nicholas Baume, the video uncovers an artist of unrelenting intensity, revealing the working methods and philosophies that underpins his work."
- dvd cover

What does it mean when a cotume of war becomes a look or a style? Does it imply that conflict has become fasionable, or does it simply indicate mass indifference? – Nichloas Baume & Ralph Rugoff

… if we take the historical lessons of camouflage seriously – from Thayer to Caillois to Picasso – we see its fashionable iteration as just another decoy, a crude (because apparently frivolous) diversionary tactic in the world's arsenal of perpetual voilence. – Pamela M. Lee

湯瑪士.歇斯漢(Thomas Hirschhorn，1957-)，在九十年代成為世界藝術界側目的駐居巴黎的瑞士前衛藝術家，尤以一系列哲學家的公共紀念站(如Bataille Monument, Documenta 11, 2002; 24 heures Foucault, Palais de Tokyo, 2004)而被廣受注目，先後得Prix Marcel Duchamp (2000), Joseph-Beuys-Preis (2004)等獎項。歇斯漢在art basel 2003，更宣佈由於一名極右政見人仕當上瑞士上議會成員，而決定不再在瑞士展出。其針對同一事件的巴黎Centre culturel suisse展覽Swiss-Swiss democracy，更惹來瑞士國會削減Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland組織經費的政治風波。原來授學於瑞士蘇黎世的設計學院(Schule fuer Gestaltung)的歇斯漢，強調自己為「形式主義者」，其創作口號，「我不搞政治藝術，而是政治地搞藝術」，反映出一種獨特的藝術-政治觀。是這次放映的為其於波士頓ICA及三藩市Wattis Institute的UTOPIA, UTOPIA = ONE WORLD, ONE WAR, ONE ARMY, ONE DRESS展覽所出版的錄像特輯。
Jaspar將同場分享一些其搜集關於歇斯漢的參考資料。