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\u201cAugmented Senses: a China-France Media Art Exhibition,\u201d with various artists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OCT Suhe Creek Gallery <\/strong><\/a>(1016 North Suzhou Road, Shanghai) Jun 28 \u2013 Jul 31, 2011, Opening: Tuesday, June 28, 6 pm to 8 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 28, the Shanghai scene turned out for warm canap\u00e9s and skimpy glasses of Freixinet and gossiped while the legions of lingdaos<\/em> appeared on the stage to welcome us to the Suzhou Creek Art Gallery. Not to be confused with the now-defunct Creek Art a few blocks away, the Suzhou Creek Art Gallery opened with little fanfare in December of last year and is an offshoot of the fairly well-respected OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the English name bears the word \u201cgallery,\u201d the Chinese name is \u201cSuzhou Creek Bend Art Museum.\u201d This little discrepancy in naming, though probably unintentional, highlights the lack of distinction between \u201cgallery\u201d and \u201cmuseum\u201d in China. Funded by the real estate company OCT Land, the Gallery will occasionally share programming with its Shenzhen sister; given their inconsistent programming to date, we hope they do this more often. The museum is housed in the former China Industrial Bank, an Art Deco building along the north bank of the Suzhou Creek. The space is not yet fully renovated and the exhibition was held on the bottom floor, but the museum has plans to have 10,000 sqm of exhibition space in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAugmented Senses\u201d is the second exhibition; the first, \u201cHistory and Creation,\u201d seems like an unenlightening government propaganda show about city planning and history while the third, \u201cThe Legend of Luo Xu<\/a>\u201d (\u7f57\u65ed), will feature the somewhat cheesy paintings of said artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAugmented Senses: A China-France Media Art Exhibition<\/a>,\u201d curated by Charles Carcopino and Yan Xiaodong, is part of the Croissements Festival \u2014 a yearly arts fest dedicated to Sino-French artistic collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show featured a number of works by Chinese media art personalities: Hu Jieming, Du Zhenjun and aaajiao (Xu Wenkai), plus a number of French video artists. Standout works included \u201cAkousmaflore\u201d by French collective Scenoscosme \u2014 a series of seemingly innocent-looking hanging plants which, when touched by visitors, would emit a series of digital blips and bleeps; and also Lin Jun-Ting\u2019s \u201cPage II,\u201d a light installation which, using projections and copious amounts of dry ice, created the effect of walking into a vortex \u2014 a work that just in terms of pure thrills, leaves the hokey Bund Tourist Tunnel in the dust. Overall the show offered some very strong pieces (Pierre-Laurent Cassi\u00e8re\u2019s \u201cVent Tendu\u201d a long steel cable which emitted audible vibrations, for instance), but lacked coherence, treating the artists more as technicians, with many of the wall texts largely devoted to explaining the mechanics of the artworks rather than the ideas behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only because media art is so relatively new\u00a0can curators\u00a0get away with doing a random \u201cMedia Art Show.\u201d For comparison, just try replacing \u201cMedia Art\u201d with \u201cPainting Show.\u201d We need to overcome our fascination with the flashing lights and learn to think critically\u00a0about curating media art as art, not just as a separate medium on it\u2019s own\u00a0\u2014\u00a0ghettoized like a little side show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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