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Being 存

Theoria 在

4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art

Duration

2022.10.18 - 12.4

Location

Zhejiang Art Museum，

No.138 Nanshan Road，
Hangzhou

There is a "cosmotechnics" inherent in Mì/Sī (糸/纟), the radical for "silk" in the Chinese language, such as the archetypes in conceptions of "relation": clue (Xiànsuǒ / 线索), organization (Zǔzhī / 组织), web/network (Wǎngluò / 网络), system (Xìtǒng / 系统); the general name of colours: red / 红, green / 绿, purple / 紫, scarlet / 绯, crimson / 绛; and "Wén / 文(纹)", which means, together in one word, text, texture, culture, and civilization. These come from the form of silk since the time of ancient China, alert us that fiber/textile is the basic construction of the world, as well as the phenomenon of and universal metaphor for human thought.

Drawing inspirations from fiber/textile, the curatorial team of the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art propose the term "缓存在 (Huǎn Cún Zài)" to suggest a redefinition and a re-interpretation of "art": the way "art" occurs and exists is a kind of "theoria-being".

This is echoed in the English translation, "Being Theoria", which itself derives from Aristotle’s "theoria" (contemplation) from the time of ancient Greece. Poesis (techne) / praxis / theoria come from the "three activities" categorized by Aristotle. "Being Theoria" reacts to the divide between art emphasizing production (techne) and art emphasizing participation and intervention (praxis) today.

There is also an intertextuality between the Chinese and the English titles. "Huǎn Cún Zài / 缓存在" is a combination of two words: huǎncún / 缓存 (cache) and cúnzài / 存在 (being). Huǎn / 缓 (with the silk radical) means slow, moderate, or postponed; it belongs to the radical of Mì. Meanwhile cúnzài / 存在 is the equivalent of the philosophical term "being". Huǎn Cún Zài could be understood as "postponed-being" or "cached-being", and huǎncún is the translation of "cache" in computerese but could literally mean "storing / existing slowly", which is the daily life situation of the pandemic.

From the initial moment, the curatorial team has defined itself as "weavers", inviting artists and scholars to join in and establish connections, and form a network of Research Weavers responding to a reflective fiber-world. The triennial is not segmented but linked up through several "clues", viz. characters with the silk radical: "Wén / 文" (text / texture / culture / civilization), "Xù / 绪" (emotion / thought), "Xiàn / 线" (lines / trajectory), "Zhī / 织" (weave / labor), "Wǎng / 网" (net/web), "Jié / 结" (tying knots), and "Zōng / 综" (diversity / complexity). These clues are intertwined in space and are presented as a series of immersive "Theoria Space" for people to linger in and meditate.

Curatorial Statement

< Ten Thousand Things-Origins of Fiber >

Field Work: Ten Thousand Things-Origins of Fiber,2022.

< Text / Culture / Civilizatation >

Tong Wenmin: Flying the Wind,2016.

Tong Wenmin: Flicking,2022.

Shi Hui: Writing, Non-writing,2021.

Ann Hamilton: Lineament,2022.

Chen Zhe: You Are a Circle, Expanding (So Below),2021.

< Lines >

Ivana Franke: Knowledge of Fireflies,2022.

< Emotion / Intellection >

Inder Salim: Flag series from my terrace during Covid19 Pandemic,2019-.

Zilvinas Kempinas: FLUX,2009.

Zilvinas Kempinas: Live Transmission,2011.

Cai Yaling: August 21,2012.

Yang Chi-Chuan: Small House,2021.

< Composition >

Alice Kettle: Flight Lines,2022.

Annette Messager: Les Dépouilles (Skins),1997–1998.

Bi Rongrong: Re-encode—Pattern,2018-2022.

Huang Yan: In the Blink of an Eye,2022.

< Weaving >

Zhou Wenjing: Manufacturing / Symbol,2017.

Liu Yujia: The Silence of Hands,2021-2022.

< Net / Web >

Constanza Piña: Khipu: Electrotextile Prehispanic Computer,2018.

Nathalie Gebert: On Framing Textile Ambiguities,2019-2020.

Evan Roth: Landscapesm,2016-2020.

< Tying Knots >

Alice Kettle: Special Project: Stitch a Tree,2022.

Growing House Team: Special Project: Growing House,2022. 

Pure 净 

Reason 因

A Project of the 4th 

Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art

Duration

2022.9.30 -12.4

Location

Indoor and Outdoor Public Space

 of Hangzhou Museum，

2&18 Liangdao Hill, Hangzhou

Taking place from 30 September to 4 December 2022 at the Hangzhou Museum, as a special project of the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2022,"净因 | Pure Reason"invited 12 worldwide artists/groups to create works in the museum's open-air and indoor non-exhibition spaces around the Five Dynasties "Jingyin Temple" stone pagoda pedestal housed in the collection of the project partner Hangzhou Museum.

"净因 | Pure Reason" is a public project taking place in the museum, an urban project dedicated to Hangzhou, and an experimental project exploring the boundaries of the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art. It seeks to extend the theme of the Triennial, "缓存在/Being Theoria", by establishing the connection between the Buddhist doctrine "Jingyin" (literally means pure cause [hetu]) and Kant's "Pure Reason", and asking in a more focused way what "fiber" is an archetype of "thinking", especially the experience process from the concrete matters to the thought archetypal: "thin/fiber (纤, xian)", the thin silk; "dimension (维, wei)", the carriage cover; "thread (绪, xu)", the end of the silk; "memoriam (缅, mian)", micro silk; "deduct (绎, yi)", draw silk... The exchange and translation of meanings from different cultural traditions not only reflects the tolerance and connotation of Hangzhou, the Asian Games City, but also shows the experimental spirit of this edition's HTFA to break through the traditional definition of fiber art.

Yu Ji: Flesh in Stone-Green Hair Monster #1,2018.

Yu Ji: Flesh in Stone-Green Hair Monster #3,2019.

Liao Fe: Chanting till Disappearance,2022.

Wang Xu: Ecto-entad,2022. 

Wu Ding: People describe the world, yet the world remains as it is shown,2012-2022.

Nabuqi: A View Beyond Space No.4,2015.

Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader: Tables and Windows,2016.

Lantian Xie, Aarushi Surana, Aasma Tulika, Kaushal Sapre, Alla Semenovskaya: Placeholder for a whale's itch,2022.

Exhibition Director

Ying Jinfei

Artistic Director

Shi Hui

Chief Curator

Liu Tian

Co-curators

Liu Yihong, Ying Xinxun, Iris Long, Wang Hongzhe

Convener of Lecture & Forum

Liu Tian, Xu Jia

Assistant Curators

Xi Tianhao, Duan Xin, Zheng Linyixin, Ren Yue

Project Director

Huang Yan

Project Coordinators

Gu Wenjia, Wu Jiayu, Xu Xiaoxiao, Zhao Jin

List of artists

4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2022

Being Theoria, Zhejiang Art Museum

Bai Qingwen

Joseph Beuys

Bi Rongrong

Cai Yaling

Chen Chieh-jen

Chen Han

Chen Wie

Chen Zhe

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Ivana Franke

Gazetteer-novel Collective

Nathalie Gebert

Growing House Team

Guo Cheng

Guo Yaoxian

Ann Hamilton

Ho Rui An

Huang Yan

Zilvinas Kempinas

Alice Kettle

Li Haibing

Liao Fei

Lin Gang

Liu Guoqiang

Liu Jiajing

Liu Jun

Xin Liu

Liu Yujia

Assadour Markarov

Annette Messager

Peng Ke

Constanza Piña

Qin Dali

Raqs Media Collective

Kathrin von Rechenberg

Evan Roth

Ruan Yuelai

Inder Salim

Shi Hui

Shi Qing

Song Chunyang

Aiko Tezuka

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea

Tong Wenmin

Wang Lei

Weaving Jungle

Bignia Wehrli

Xin Qi

Yang Chi-Chuan

Yi Group

Zhao Yao

Zheng Bo

Zhou Wenjing

Pure Reason, Hangzhou Museum

Chen Chieh-jen

Chen Zhe

Christine Sun Kim & Thomas Mader

Li Weiyi

Liao Fei

Nabuqi

Inga Svala Thórsdóttir & Wu Shanzhuan

Ali Van

Lantian Xie / Aarushi Surana / Aasma Tulika / Kaushal Sapre / Alla Semenovskaya

Wang Xu

Wu Ding

Yu Ji

来源：杭州纤维艺术三年展

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