Exhibition Dates: 2016.08.14 - 08.21

Exhibition Location:UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Lab, Beijing

Exhibited Works: Live performance, Drawing, Video, artistic installation, Painting.

Live performance

Video

37'14", PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

类型 Type

剧场／单频道录像 Theatre / Single-channel video

视频版本 Video File Version

展览版本 Exhibition Copy

系列 Series

美术馆剧场计划 Museum-Theatre Project

作品陈述

这个作品以对戏剧思考为切入点，其内容包括了戏剧文本、故事高潮点、边⻆料处理，展示前期宣传的文字、图片资料，展示物料清单、自述、前期排练、展览搭建场景的图像和现场演出的并置，展示灯光的经典节奏技巧，展示关于一个舞台场景设计的故事，还展示了在肯定的指令背后所对应的是内容的无效。由这些被处理的展示内容呈现对于剧场本体的追问和对个体在美术馆、展览机制下所显现的被裹挟的影响和焦虑。

Work Statement

This work began with my rethinking of the concept of drama. It reflects on elements of drama, such as the script, the climax of the story, the trivia, the promotional materials, the plots, the self-statement, and the rehearsal; images of the stage setting are used as the backdrop for the performance, which is about the classic techniques of stage lighting and stage design. With a series of affirmative orders that point to meaningless content, the work represents investigations of the essence of drama and the influence and anxiety that museums and exhibition institutions may impose upon artistic individuals. (Text courtesy of the artist.)

展览陈述

展览围绕艺术家创立的妈妈拉艺术基金会展开，妈妈拉艺术基金会以生产当代艺术家及当代艺术作品为核心，赞助被制造的艺术家，进行学术性的展览和讨论。生产的艺术家成为这个剧场中的演员，同时他们又进行艺术作品的生产。到目前为止，该机构生产了六位艺术家，他们是陈奇曲、Dai Jaro、戴陈连、付根利、山本连连、Werner Heisenberg 。这次展出30余件作品，包含绘画、录像、装置及现场演出。

戴陈连的工作虚构了一个庞大的剧场，它是实实在在存在着、发生着的。他的工作同时呈现了一种新的艺术生产方式，他将自己虚拟化，抑或说他将虚拟的艺术家真实化了。在这里，艺术家的创作不再展现形式完好的中心思想，而是展现表演动作。这些动作使得现实世界与剧场演出之间的确定界限消失不见。在这个庞大的艺术剧场中，策展人既是独立的展览策划者，同时也成为艺术家创作中的一部分。策展人试图与艺术家一起，打破既定的规则，并将逐渐僵化的“当代艺术”体系、展览机制、艺术与资本以及艺术家创作中的种种问题提示出来。

Exhibition Work Statement

The exhibition revolves around the artist-founded Mama La Art Foundation, which produces contemporary artists and contemporary art. The core of the theatre is the artwork, which sponsors the produced artists for academic exhibitions and discussions. The produced artists become the actors of this theater, and they also produce artworks. So far, the organization has produced six artists: Chen Qiqu, Dai Jaro, Dai Zhenlian, Fu Genli, and Yamamoto Lianlian, Werner Heisenberg. Lianli Yamamoto, Werner Heisenberg. The exhibition includes more than 30 works of art including paintings, videos, installations and live performances.

Dai Chenlian's work creates a vast fictional theatre that is both real and happening. His work also presents a new mode of artistic production, in which he virtualizes himself, or rather he realizes the virtual artist. Here, the artist's work no longer presents a central idea in its complete form, but a performative action. These make the clear boundaries between the real world and the theatrical performance disappear. In this vast art theatre, the curator is both an independent exhibition curator and a part of the artist's creation. Together with artists, the curator tries to break the established rules and to expose problems of the progressively rigid system of "contemporary art", the mechanisms of exhibition, art and capital, and creations.

Exhibition Dates: 2016.09.10-2016.10.31

Exhibition Location:Space Local, Beijing

Exhibited Works: Live performance, Drawing, artistic installation, Painting.

Live performance

Opening：4:30PM I : 10th Sept, 2016 II : 30th Sept, 2016 III : 30th Oct, 2016

Video

I : 40'50", PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

II : 10'30", PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

III : 14'48", PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

类型 Type

剧场／单频道录像 Theatre / Single-channel video

视频版本 Video File Version

展览版本 Exhibition Copy

系列 Series

画廊剧场计划 Gallery-Theatre Project

作品陈述

个展分为三次开幕，由三次表演展开的平行架构，邀请了专业舞者、艺术家、藏家、画廊负责人及画廊从业人员参加表演。这是一场关于时间、展览、剧场的展示，是艺术家为龙口空间定制的展览。

艺术家从戏剧《仲夏夜之梦》切入，将若干视频版本中的转场灯效、演员走位，剧本中文字描述的转场灯效、演员走位经过编排组合在一起，结合排练中所出现的错误，结合关于这次展览前期准备所作的图文资料共同来展开关于画廊负责人的叙述和想象。

Work Statement

The three opening events of this solo exhibition were three performances in parallel structure. The performers included professional dancers, artists, art collectors, a gallerist, and the gallery’s staff. The exhibition was made specifically for the venue, Space Local, and it explores issues of time, exhibition per se, and theatre.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the main reference of the exhibition. From various versions of the play, Dai studied how the transitional lighting effects and blocking were actually realized and compared them with how they are instructed in the script. These elements, together with materials about the preparation of this exhibition, became the core contents of the three performances, which attempted to open up a narration and an imagination about the gallerist herself.

Exhibition Dates: 2016.05.29

Exhibition Location:Space Radical, Shanghai

Exhibited Works: Live performance, Drawing, artistic installation, Painting.

Live performance

30'00", Opening 14:00 - 16:00

Video

28'59", PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

类型 Type

剧场／单频道录像 Theatre / Single-channel video

语言 Language

普通话对话，中文/英文字幕 Mandarin dialogue, Chinese/English subtitles

视频版本 Video File Version

展览版本 Exhibition Copy

系列 Series

画廊剧场计划 Gallery-Theatre Project

作品陈述

我以实地采集的方式，收集了包括录音、文字、图像、照片、录像等资料，从中提取出一个经典的排练模式。在这个基础之上，我把排练中的边角料截取出来作为表演的所有内容。表演分为三段（一段15分钟），每段的后5分钟被我设置成“未知时间”（表演者完全不知道表演的具体内容）。还有各种物件的挪移、搬运和被分割的人声、鸣笛声，以及静态照片结合场地墙面图像的投影，由这些因素构成表演的最终形态。这样的现场不是“被欣赏”、 不是制造消费主义景观式样的演出，而是一场时间、语言和剧场本身的自然的展示。

连接这个展示的则是一个历史文化名城——绍兴，我的家乡。在这里所有的历史图像和记忆都还原为直接暴虐的身体动作和忽隐忽现幽幽暗暗的光影倒错，在重叠的影像和由物件所构成的现场中直接呈现出庞大臃肿的绍兴地方史和因此连带出来的模糊不清语焉不详却血肉清晰的个人史。

Work Statement

I collected a set of raw materials, such as sounds, texts, images, photos, and videos with fieldworks. With these materials, I invented a rehearsal based on the classic rehearsal method. Then I took the minor elements that appeared in those rehearsals to form the contents of the actual performance. The performance is divided into three sections, 15 minutes each. The last 5 minutes of each section is set to be the “anonymous moments”, in which the performers do not know how they are supposed to act. The major elements of the performance are the constant moving of objects, fragments of human voices and sirens, and still images projected on the wall. The situation is not meant to be “enjoyed” — it is against the model of consumerist spectacle. Rather, it is a naturalistic representation of time, language, and theatre.

The theme of the entire project is Shaoxing, a historic city and my hometown. Here, historic materials and memories are represented as brutal body movements and obscure and inverted light and shadow. With overlapping images and a certain juxtaposition of objects, I hope to display the tremendous volume of Shaoxing’s local history as well as a personal history that is obscure, unelaborated, yet authentic.

Exhibition Dates: 2016.12.08 - 12.11

Exhibition Location:Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

Exhibited Works: Live performance, Drawing, artistic installation, Painting.

Live performance

30'00"

Video

02'08", PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

类型 Type

剧场／单频道录像 Theatre / Single-channel video

视频版本 Video File Version

展览版本 Exhibition Copy

系列 Series

美术馆剧场计划 Museum-Theatre Project

作品陈述

以艺术家母亲为线索，调查母亲几十年中曾经工作的经历，收集图文影音资料，结合母亲的口述录音，按照平时的常规排练技巧生成一个标准的表演作品，然后将表演这个作品的剩余物作为最后的演出效果呈现。以操作物件和被迫行动的身体来串起三段关于母亲视频的记忆和历史片段。

Work Statement

Take the artist's mother as a clue, investigate the experiences of his mother's work over the decades, collect graphic and audio-visual materials, and combine them with her oral narrative. Recordings are made a standard performance piece is generated according to normal regular rehearsal techniques, and then the remainder of the performance of this piece is used as the final .The performance effect is presented. The manipulation of objects and the forced movement of the body are used to string together three memory and historical fragments of the mother video.

Exhibition Dates: 2016. 04.03

Exhibition Location:He Xun's studio, Beijing

Exhibited Works: Live performance, Drawing, Painting.

Live performance

40'00"

Video

03‘48’‘, PAL, 1920 x 1080, 有声 sound, 彩色 color

类型 Type

剧场／三频道录像 Theatre / Three-channel video

视频版本 Video File Version

展览版本 Exhibition Copy

系列 Series

家庭剧场计划 Family-Theatre Project

作品陈述

一江春水向东流 V 是家庭剧场计划的第五回，在艺术家贺勋的工作室中展开，以诗歌、剧场为出发进行创作，以诗歌中的音律（平仄发声与单音节）作为表演的切入点，除了词语性质和单音音质的展现，现场还展示了表演与实时影像的并置，为呈现多重、局部时间的观看提供了可能。顺由这些枝枝节节延展开来的则是关于时代截面下小人物的英雄梦想。

Work Statement

The Spring River Flows East (V) is the fifth time of family theater project, presented in the studio of the artist Hexun, based on poetry and theatre, takes the rhyme of poetry (vocal tones and monosyllabic) as a starting point to show, beside the nature and quality of monosyllabic and words, the theater also shows the juxtaposition of performance and real-time imaging, provides more possibilities to watch the multiple and partial time. Along by this digressive stretches is the heroic dream from nobodies who are under time sections.