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Exploration and Hybridization:
Thomas Eller’s Experience and Practice of Embodiment
THOMAS ELLER in dialogue with HU JIEMING
19 JULY 2014
13:00 at MOMENTUM Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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19:00 at Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai
Time_Art_Impact Dialogue #3 takes place simultaneously via live-stream between the Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai and MOMENTUM,Berlin. Bringing together the two groundbreaking artists Hu Jieming and Thomas Eller, the discussion will be accompanied by the screening of Thomas Eller’s THE white male complex (endgames), and the newest addition to the MOMENTUM Collection, Thomas Eller’s The white male complex, #5 (lost), both premiered in 2014 at MOMENTUM and Chronus Art Center’s collaborative exhibition PANDAMONIUM: Media Art From Shanghai.
Thomas Eller (b. 1964) is a German visual artist, curator, and writer based in Berlin. In 2004 he founded the online magazine Artnet China, and in 2008 was the artistic director of the Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin. Thomas Eller is the curator of Die 8 der Wege, the exhibition of contemporary art from Beijing which took place in on Berlin 29 April – 13 July 2014.
Hu Jieming (b. 1957, Shanghai) is one of the foremost pioneers of digital media and visual installation art in China, and a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Hu graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Shanghai Light Industry College in 1984. Since the 1980s he has used emerging technologies to create works which deconstruct time, historical strata and contemporary elements of Chinese culture. One of his main focuses is the simultaneity of the old and the new: a theme that he constantly questions in a variety of media ranging from photography, video works and digital interactive technology in juxtaposition with musical comments. Through his work, Hu strives to reveal the interconnected nature of the digital universe, imagining, as he describes it, “a kind of socialism of the future”. Hu Jieming is one of the founders of CAC | Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, where he is currently exhibiting with renowned media artist, Jeffrey Shaw. Recent exhibitions of his work include a solo-show titled Spectacle at the K11 Art Mall, in Shanghai (2014) and two group exhibitions at ShanghART in Beijing, both in 2014.
Interpreter: Jinwen, Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Languages at Fudan University.
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