无独有偶 | 陈丹笛子 | 新世纪当代艺术基金会

"Polyphonic Strategies" is grounds on the "hypothesis" that the art of moving image is a point of departure for the artists in this exhibition. In Rosalind Krauss's iteration of the "expanded field," sculpture in the postmodern context has achieved a "reversal" on the "periphery" of the field. Thus, it emerged from the shadow of modernism to become a medium that can "integrate" all other elements, which transcends media boundaries. This conclusion, enforced by the "post-medium" theory Krauss later proposed, further established the legitimacy of the artist's cross-media practice. While in that process, the moving-image, a "new media" of the time, was receptive to such impact. Hence, is there a possibility of exploring the expanded field based on video art in the present? In this exhibition, we will examine this hypothesis through the works of five artists. In their practices, the relationship between the moving-image and other media has always been a subtle and intimate one, involving various external forms, materials, and processing methods, pointing to complex ontological entanglements within the medium. Of course, "Polyphonic Strategies" does not attempt to verify this argument but rather provide a new perspective on the artist's specific work and the efforts behind inter-media logic.

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