REPETITION AS A GESTURE TOWARDS DEEP LISTEING

The first Trans—Southeast Asia Triennial research exhibition series #I
Host: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Organizers: Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts / Research Center for New Art Museum Studies, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Collaboration with: Womanifesto, The Factory Contemporary Arts Center
Special Thanks: Asia Art Archive
Duration of project: One year
Stage I: March 8 to May 10, 2021 ( Exhibition preview: March 8 to 25, 2021); Stage II: End of 2021 (Final date TBD)
Opening: 25 March, 2021
Venue: Exhibition Hall 5 and Hall 6, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, University Town, Panyu District

Artistic Directors: Wang Huangsheng, Hu Bin and Chen Xiaoyang
Curator: Biljana Ciric
Assistant Curators: Hu Chao and Claude Chan
Project Coordinator：Stephanie Sipei Lu
Visual Design: Yang Liu and Toby Tam
Exhibition Production: Li Tiejun, He Quan and Huang Xingbiao
Public Programme: Wang Xiuyuan,  Liu Ziyuan，Yu Shuang and Yang Liu
Exhibition Assistants: Yuer Zhang, Zhaohong Chen, Winnie Wen, Alex Zhao, Zhuopeng Jiang，Guorong Jian

The workshop of the “friendship portrait” conducted by the department of communication and education of University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and Tactileye , which were organized to draw a portrait with aids of interactions between different people and to convey different stories by the sense of touch. This event is the extension of the Womanifesto which help us create a friendly space where we have freedom of expression…no rules, after that it become a very strong friendship.

This event aims to build a bond between different objects and the sense perception apart from visual sense. In this activity, different people used personal items having different materials to touch as their inspiration to describe the feeling brought by their friends. Youyu used wool gloves to express her friend who makes her feel warm. Yangrou thought her friend gives her feelings of both warm and conflict as similar as the sense of touch of sand paper. Leilei used eye drops to express the friend who made her cry. During this process, people made their abstract sentimental experiences vivid and further explore the relationship with friends. Even they can find an echo in their hearts from others’ stories and thus connected stories from different people into a story.