【OCAT上海馆｜作品介绍】角色 Cosplayers by 曹斐 Cao Fei
角色 （2004）
Cosplayers
单屏彩色有声影像，8分00秒
作品由艺术家和维他命艺术空间提供
Single-channel video installation, sound, color, 8'00''
Courtesy the artist and Vitamin Creative Space
《角色》塑造了一个幻想着生活于虚拟世界的青年群体，他们在极度真实的城市中不断地试图挣扎和逃离。影像跟踪了一群喜爱日本漫画的粉丝们如何在喧嚣的城市环境中装扮成自己喜爱的角色。这些扮演者穿着斗篷，戴着金属盔甲，挥舞着“带有魔力的武器”，时而在城市间昂首阔步，时而进行着追逐和打斗。影像里的年轻人变成了成天无所事事的游荡者，与欣欣向荣、绚丽的城市景观格格不入。角色扮演者的打斗看似有些荒诞无稽，实则揭露年轻人徘徊、迷失于虚拟网络与现实世界混淆的现代城市生活。他们试图创作一个暂时性的、虚拟与现实混杂的空间，以抵抗这个日渐陌生的现实生活。“抵抗的力量”成为《角色》及曹斐其他作品的原始动力。面对科技和中国城市化的飞速发展所造成人与人之间的疏离感，《角色》呈现年轻人持以一种沉浸于虚拟、幻想的处世方式，并以此展现出他们对日常生活进行的抵抗。
Cosplayers (Costume players) follows a group of adolescents dressed as their favorite game characters from Japanese Manga-comics. As they wander through the city, the players engage in real-world combat against one another, finding a new sense of community. For these youths, the material and imagined worlds intertwine to create a hybrid space where they can momentarily escape. There, they find support and comfort from their daily struggles of growing up in a society that left them behind in the midst of rapid economic development.
关于艺术家/About Artist
曹斐，1987年出生于中国广州。2001年毕业于中国广州美术学院，获学士学位。近期的个展和群展，包括纽约古根汉姆美术馆（2017-2018）；巴黎路易威登基金会（2016）；以色列特拉维夫当代艺术中心（2016）；纽约当代艺术中心PS1（2016）；上海当代艺术博物馆（2014）。
曹斐的作品生动地反映了全球化相关的图像，生活方式、文化和身份的变化。受亚洲流行文化和新技术特殊形式的启发，她的主要作品涉及了多样的媒介，包括影像装置，表演、摄影、互联网上的角色扮演、社交活动和行动主义。曹斐将真实与虚拟，梦想与现实融为一体，对中国社会近期的变化提供了超现实的评述。
Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1978. She earned a BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China in 2001. Recent solo and group exhibitions have been presented at the Guggenheim R. Museum, New York, United States (2017–18); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2016); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2016); MoMA PS1, New York, United States (2016), and the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2014).
Cao Fei’s work vividly reflects the changes in image production, lifestyle, culture, and identity in relation to globalization. Inspired by specific forms of Asian pop culture and new technology, Cao’s large body of work covers a wide variety of media–from immersive video installation, performance, photography, and role-plays to the internet, social engagement, and activism. By collapsing the real and virtual, dreams, and reality into one, her work provides surreal commentaries on the recent changes in China’s society.
卡蒂斯特艺术基金会（巴黎/旧金山）
KADIST (Paris/San Francisco)
吴作人国际美术基金会
Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts (WIFA)
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