HOW 新展预告丨秦思源：园音

昊美术馆（上海）荣幸地宣布将于2021年9月11日呈现秦思源的艺术项目展览: “园音”。

 参与“园音”艺术项目的音乐人（按姓名首字母排序）：

关于艺术家

秦思源是一个在北京工作的艺术家与策展人。秦思源于1997年毕业于伦敦大学亚非学院的中国语言与文明专业。1998年到2002年,他工作于大英图书馆的国际敦煌学项目。这个项目致力于促进关于在敦煌发现大量的古代文献的收集和研究,并在中国国家图书馆建立项目的北京办事处。

2002年，秦思源搬到中国,开始作为一个艺术家广泛地在中国、欧洲和美国举行展览。他正在创作一个新项目叫《声音总站》，一个多元化的长期项目包括探索历史中的声音、网络互动以及声音艺术，近期与合伙人洪峰开始筹备一个实体机构，全面探索声音与人之间的关系。

秦思源2009－2010年任ShContemporary上海艺术博览会国际当代艺术展“上海当代”总监。他2006－2008年担任尤伦斯当代艺术中心(UCCA)副馆长兼首席策展人，是该美术馆的核心筹划人之一。2003－2006年任英国大使馆文化教育处艺术经理，策划过一系列试验剧场、声音艺术和当代艺术项目，使更广泛的观众得以接触实验艺术。秦思源撰写大量关于当代艺术的文章，是Frieze杂志特约编辑。

HOW Art Museumis pleased to announce that the exhibition of Colin Siyuan Chinnery’s art project Voluntary Garden will be on view from September 11, 2021.

“Voluntary Garden” production process

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Photo Credit: Song Xiaohui

From October 17 to 24, 2019, in a Suzhou-style garden next to the Forbidden City, 39 musicians played, one by one, on a small platform in the middle of a pool surrounded by scholar’s rocks and exquisite plants. There were musicians of all kinds, some representative of Chinese classical or folk music, others veterans of Beijing’s rock scene. Many used traditional Chinese instruments to play contemporary music, while others used computers or electronic hardware to make their soundscapes and compositions. There were guitarists and drummers of all kinds, jazz virtuosos and hardcore feedback visionaries. Over the course of eight days, each musician was filmed and recorded saturating the garden with their own unique voice. Colin Siyuan Chinnery then took this disparate collection of music and turned it into one coherent 19-minute work in the form of a 4-channel video installation. Musicians appear on different screens simultaneously, forming musical interactions. As the musicians replace each other, over and over again, the music constantly changes and yet, somehow, remains strangely consistent.  Unintentional musical dialogues weaved together into an intricate sound space where styles, cultures, and eras cometogether, defying convention. The music becomes a narrative in which each musician unconsciously contributes to a plot that they themselves are unaware of, allowing separate worlds to effortlessly coexist.

“Voluntary Garden” production process

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Photo Credit: Song Xiaohui

Colin Siyuan Chinnery’s Voluntary Garden was first shown at Fusion Art Center, where the work was filmed, from 10 November to 9 December 2019 to be later exhibited at UCCA between December 12 and March 1, 2020. Voluntary Garden is a collaboration between UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Fusion Art Center, Modern Sky’s BADHEAD Records, and COART. 39 musicians participated in the recording process on the invitation of curators Zhang Xiaozhou and You Yang.

“Voluntary Garden” production process

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Photo Credit: Song Xiaohui

 Participating Musicians (in alphabetical order)

“Voluntary Garden” production process

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Photo Credit: Song Xiaohui

ABOUT ARTIST

Photo: Zhang Chi

 Colin Siyuan Chinnery 

Colin Siyuan Chinnery is an artist and curator based in Beijing. Chinnery graduated in Chinese Language and Civilisation at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1997. From 1998 to 2002 he worked at the British Library's International Dunhuang Project, a project dedicated to facilitating international research of the voluminous collection of ancient manuscripts discovered in Dunhuang, setting up the project’s Beijing office at the National Library of China.

In 2002 Chinnery moved to China and began exhibiting widely as an artist in China, Europe and the US. Recently he started developing a major project titled Sound Terminus, a multi-faceted undertaking including a history of social sounds, sound art, online social engagement, and collaborative projects, and this is being developed into an institution that will open to the public in 2022.

Chinnery was Director in 2009 and 2010 of ShContemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, and between 2006-2008 he was Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, playing a central role in setting up China’s first major contemporary art institution. Between 2003 and 2006, as Arts Manager for the British Council in Beijing, he initiated major projects inexperimental theatre, live art, sound art, and visual arts, bringing a wider public into contact with experimental practice. Chinnery writes regularly about contemporary art and is contributing editor for Frieze magazine.