Co-Learning at CASO: Gu Ling: To chat with I

以聊天写自由职业者与艺术生态之观察 Writing about freelancers and the contemporary art ecology in the form of a chat

活动时间 Time
2024年5月19日16:00-18:00 May 19, 2024

活动地点 Event venue
南头古城if工厂一楼多功能厅 Nantou City Idea Factory 1/F if Hall

翻书会 Mini library
「驻深办」南头空间 Contemporary Art Shenzhen Office, Nantou
2024年5月19日-6月3日 May 19 – June 3, 2024

活动回顾链接

「驻深办」邀请写作者、策展人顾灵围绕她在2022-2023首届德英策展学者项目的读本《待续》中的双语写作《在艺术便利店聊天 | 在中国独立做当代艺术实践的求生套装》探讨自传性书写，并结合其长年机构内外的工作经验，分享她对当代艺术生态与工作者个体处境的观察。

德英策展学者项目总监凯伦·史密斯（Karen Smith）在《待续》的前言中介绍道：“顾灵选择了聊天的形式来写作，这让她能参与到对话中，从而引入她自己的视角，这一视角得缘于她曾在不同机构担任的各类职务，于是聊天让她能在个人的多重角色中向自己提问。此外，聊天亦是艺术机构幕后的常见场景，以此探讨其社群策略、出版计划等项目。由此，她基于聊天的创造性写作成为了一种巧妙的回应式答辩。”

在这篇中文五万余字、英文近四万词的结构化文本中，触碰到的概念包括但不限于城市化、劳动与对人的异化、价值创造、艺术工作与日常生活之间的关系、机构化、独立、社群等相关性的话题。顾灵将在活动上谈及其写作过程中的思考，并期待与现场来宾们展开由此引发的对话。

以活动开启的为期两周的翻书会，将在「驻深办」南头空间持续至2024年6月2日。顾灵选取了她存放于深圳家中的多本出版物、杂志、读本与册页，其中大部分由其参与编辑或写作。其中，「驻深办」特别支持了《得·体》系列zine的排版与印制。翻书会的书目如下：

• 《待续：德英策展研究项目2022-2023》
• 《A Man, A Village, A Museum》（李牧：仇庄计划）
• 《不建立、未建立：2008-2016年上海艺术机构实践》
• 《发梦》YISHU杂志国际版总第102期
• 《2019深港城市\建筑双城双年展盐田分展场》画册
• 《慢胸人》（esea contemporary支持制作）
• 《看那高高的布帘随风舞：克里斯托和珍妮-克劳德诞辰85周年纪念对谈实录节选》（一树Arbre支持制作）
• 《一树聊天室：张永基》
• 《得·体》（一套6册，与Art Ba Ba合作策划，由「驻深办」支持制作）
• 机构相关：蛇口博物馆小册子、设计互联开幕活动小册子、蛇口文化艺术季小册子
• 《About The Whitworth Art Gallery’s Collection》（Rosalie Schweiker）

CASO is thrilled to host writer and curator Gu Ling, whose unique bilingual piece, A Conversation at an Ordinary Art Shop | The Survival Kit of Arbre in a Glocal Contemporary Art Ecology in China in Future Projects, the reader of 2022-2023 inaugural De Ying Curatorial Research Fellowship, develops an autobiographical style, sharing her insights on the contemporary art ecology and the situation of the individual practitioner, and drawing from her extensive experience both within and outside of institutions.

Karen Smith, Head of the De Ying Curatorial Research Fellowship, introduced her writing in the reader’s foreword, saying,’Gu Ling chooses the mechanism of a conversation (for the following reasons). Firstly, it allows Ling to place herself in the discussion and, thereby, to reference the perspective she gained through her personal experience within various institutional roles. This discursive mechanism allows her to question herself within the context of individual roles. Second, this is a format that the founders of independent small spaces established as a mode for discussing its program for their audience, as part of their publication format. Thus, her approach makes a neatly reflective rejoinder.’

Join us for an engaging discussion as Gu Ling shares her thoughts on the process of writing in this structured text of more than 50,000 words in Chinese and nearly 40,000 words in English. The topics explored are diverse, including urbanization, labor, the alienation of the human being, the creation of value, the relationship between artwork and everyday life, institutionalization, independence, and community. We look forward to your active participation in this dialogue.

Gu Ling has also selected 13 copies of publications, magazines, and brochures as a set of archives to display in CASO Nantou for two weeks, most of which she has participated in editing or writing. Among them, CASO supported the layout and production of the “befitting” zine. Here’s the list of the displaying archives:

• Future Projects, De Ying Curatorial Research Fellowship 2022-2023
• A Man, A Village, A Museum
• Under Construction: A History of Shanghai Art Institutions, 2008-2016
• Issue 102, YISHU Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Fall/Winter 2021
• “City of Streams” Bi-City Biennale of Urbanisation \ Architecture Yantan Sub-venue
• The man-chest-er (with the support of esea contemporary)
• Look at the high curtains dancing with the wind (with the support of Arbre)
• Arbre Chat Room: Zhang Yongji
• “befitting” (in collaboration with Art Ba Ba, with the support of CASO)
• Institutional brochures: Shekou Museum, Design Society, Art Shekou
• About The Whitworth Art Gallery’s Collection by Rosalie Schweiker

关于「驻深办」

驻深办全称当代艺术驻深办，是深圳首个非营利艺术空间，对形成艺术家工作方法的想法、方案、不同类型的小型作品等作为展览内容，让艺术创作的原动力变成可见、可交流，给世界各地艺术家提供一个在深圳的展览和实践场所。艺术无形，人人可塑，驻深办是通过接受社会赞助的方式来支撑和运营的当代艺术空间。

The full name of the Resident Shenzhen Office is the Contemporary Art Shenzhen Office, which is the first non-profit art space in Shenzhen. It focuses on showcasing the ideas, plans, and various types of small-scale works that form the working methods of artists as exhibition content. This approach makes the original driving force behind artistic creation visible and communicable, providing artists from around the world with a venue for exhibition and practice in Shenzhen. Art is intangible, and everyone has the potential to shape it. The Resident Shenzhen Office operates as a contemporary art space supported and managed through social sponsorships.