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HOW Upcoming | DISEMBEDDING: From Digital Native to Metaverse DISEMBEDDING HOW Upcoming Artists Wies Borkowski Bricker Jun Ivan Pengsen 崇真艺客

DISEMBEDDING:

From Digital Native to Metaverse

Duration：2021/08/06 - 2021/10/31

Artists：Wiesław Borkowski, Celyn Bricker, Fei Jun, Andreas Ivan, Jia Pengsen, Dissa Kamajaya, Kian Khabian, Li Yang, Tzu Huan Lin, Liu Jiaying, Miao Xiaochun, Crazy Monkey, Pablo Castaño Norkus, Bagus Pandega, REVA, Giusepple Lo Schiavo, Song Ting & RCT & Alice.ai, Tian Xiaolei, Wang Xing, Andreas Wannerstedt, Xue Lei, Zhang Ju

Curator：Gu Zhenqing

Venue：No.1, East Jiangbin Road, Wenzhou (ONEHOME H.S ART HOTEL)

Organizer：HOW Art Museum

Support：SERVER ART

HOW Art Museum (Wenzhou) is pleased to announce its upcoming group exhibition “DISEMBEDDING: From Digital Native to Metaverse”, which opens on August 6, 2021.

Disembedding, referring to the lifting out of the social activities from physical time-space, marks one of the fundamental traits of the mechanism of network chain world. It greatly frees human activities from the constraints of the objective world and geographical locations. The virtual social networking of the digital natives has fundamentally extended the boundaries of human activities.

“Disembedding” is originally a sociological concept. Coined by English sociologist Anthony Giddens, it firstly appeared in his The Consequences of Modernity. Giddens defines disembedding as “the 'lifting out' of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their restructuring across indefinite spans of time-space”①. In traditional societies, the productive relations of human beings are interlinked and embedded within geographical regions and social spaces. However, with the development of science and technology, the “disembedding” mechanism innate to information technology manages to break through the homogenous and continuous space-time of the industrial age. Everything is therefore deconstructed and restructured. The surge of blockchain technology, in particular, enables digital art to be disembedded from the physical time and space, opening up a new age for the inherent time stream of crypto art. With the disembedding from any particular and physical time-space, digital twin, derivation and mapping of the physical world on different dimensions have been elevated to a world of fluidity.

Launched in 2017, Cryptokitties, an NFT-based blockchain game, heralds the arrival of the crypto art that is unique, indelible and unrewritable in the field of blockchain. 2021 marks a critical timing point to reflect upon the past and reshape the future. Crypto art with a digital nature creates a new trend in the network chain through brand new cultural transmission and social experience. The arrival of the “renaissance” of digital crypto art indicates another paradigm shift in the history of human civilization. Digital native art nudges its way from the marginal to the center of the stage with the use of NFTs and becomes a phenomenal cultural craze, demonstrating the accelerationist rhythm of the blockchain world. Jürgen Habermas’ study on the communicative rationality in the online and virtual world in 1979②; Friedrich Von Hayek’s critique on credit currency’s monopoly over issuing money; and Giddens’ expounding on the key role disembedding mechanism played in the context of modernity, all these arguments have, to our great surprise, predicted the emergence and development of today’s encrypted economics and digital crypto art. The modern society in the network chain world is a virtual world operating throughout the whole chain, disembedded from local contexts of interaction and their restructuring across indefinite spans of time-space, making it possible for a digitally encrypted person to person social relation to develop in an infinitely extending digital space. The inherent time stream modeled by timestamp of digital crypto art turns into a disembedded and sustainable digital presence. From this point on, artists can detach themselves from the specific time and space of everyday life, and present and promote a kind of never offline encrypted digital artwork on the chain in an open and transparent manner, allowing people to cross the indefinite spans of time-space to restructure social relations and spiritual civilization on the chain.

Note ①: Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, translated by Tian He, Phoenix Publishing Group, Yilin Press, 2011, p18

Note ②: On June 19, 2019, Jürgen Habermas who just celebrated his 90th birthday one day earlier gave an introduction of his new book Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie: Band 1, to be published in September 2019 by Suhrkamp, during the lecture “Noch einmal: Zum Verhältnis von Moralität und Sittlichkeit: Vortrag” at the University of Frankfurt. He talked about his study on the communicative actions of people in the virtual world. Chinese artist Xue Lei was present at the lecture.

Note ③: Friedrich Von Hayek, Denationalization of Money, translated by Yao Zhongyi, New Start Press, 2007.8.

Note ④: Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, translated by Tian He, Phoenix Publishing Group, Yilin Press, 2011, p17

Text | Gu Zhenqing

ABOUT THE CURATOR

HOW Upcoming | DISEMBEDDING: From Digital Native to Metaverse DISEMBEDDING HOW Upcoming Artists Wies Borkowski Bricker Jun Ivan Pengsen 崇真艺客

Gu Zhenqing

Born in Shanghai, China in 1964. Graduated from the History Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1987. Worked as the chief-curator of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art from 2003 to 2005 and the director of 2004 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards in 2004. Worked as the as the assistant professor of the Fine Art Department of Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan in 2005. Worked as the chief-curator and executive director of Zhu Qizhan Art Museum from 2006 to 2007, and chief–editor of art magazine Visual Production from 2007 to 2008. Work as jury member of Taixin Art Award and guest professor of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China in 2008. Worked as art director of White Box Museum of Art, 798, Beijing, China from 2009 to 2011. Worked as artistic director of Li-space Culture & Arts Center, Beijing, China from 2009 to 2016. Worked as academic director of Jia Pingwa Museum of Culture & Arts, Xi’an, China in from 2014 to 2016. Worked as academic director of More Art Museum, Xiamen, China from 2017 to 2018. Work as a guest associate professor of the sculpture department of National Taiwan Art University, Taipei, Taiwan from 2018 to 2020. Worked as artistic director of Server Art Foundation, China. Currently lives and works in Beijing as a curator.

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HOW Upcoming | DISEMBEDDING: From Digital Native to Metaverse DISEMBEDDING HOW Upcoming Artists Wies Borkowski Bricker Jun Ivan Pengsen 崇真艺客

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HOW Art Museum (Wenzhou) is also operating “Night Art Museum”, also the first “Night Art Museum” in Zhejiang Province, opening from 1 to 10pm regularly. During this special period, opening time is from 1 to 8pm (Tuesday to Sunday). HOW Art Museum (Wenzhou) will continue to present a variety of public education and outdoor art projects for the public, leading a new lifestyle that integrates art, design, and technology.

Venue:

HOW Art Museum (Wenzhou) | No.1, East Jiangbin Road, Wenzhou (ONEHOME H.S ART HOTEL)

Opening Hours:

Tuesday to Sunday: 13:00-20:00（Closed on Monday）

HOW ART MUSEUM (SHANGHAI)

HOW Upcoming | DISEMBEDDING: From Digital Native to Metaverse DISEMBEDDING HOW Upcoming Artists Wies Borkowski Bricker Jun Ivan Pengsen 崇真艺客

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HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), as a brand-new cultural institution which boasts multiple functions including contemporary art collection, exhibition, research and education located in Pudong New District of Shanghai, opened to public in September, 2017. HOW Art Museum pioneers to create a new model of operating a “Night Art Museum” for the convenience of the public, opening from 1 to 10pm regularly, and 10am to 10pm on the weekends and holidays. During this special period, opening time is from 11am to 6pm (Tuesday to Sunday). Meanwhile, HOW Art Museum also carries out international exchange programs and outdoor public activities, such as the International Curatorial Residency Program, Outdoor Film Festival and Sculpture Park to establish a brand-new art complex and cultural landmark in Shanghai.

Opening Hours:

Tuesday to Sunday: 12:00-20:30（Closed on Monday）

Weekends and holidays: 10:00-20:30

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