展览期间，RAM团队将会向公众提供免费定时导览活动。本周六将由RAM资深策展人曾明俊带领大家参观群展“百物曲”，深入了解作品的创作背景以及艺术家的思考，解读作品背后的含义，欢迎参与。

2019年6月22日到8月25日，上海外滩美术馆与香港Para Site艺术空间很荣幸地共同策划和举办最新群展“百物曲”。本次展览呈现了53位挑战艺术与其他领域间明确边界的创作者，包括手艺人、治疗师、教师、研究者、电影制作人、舞蹈编导、活动家以及诗人。

“百物曲”以相异“歌剧”的历史为楔子，展开探讨表演、幻想、群体性奇观与其所栖居的环境之间的关系。透过观察世界舞台上不同的文化和知识系统，讨论殖民时代早已消亡的当下，一幕幕保护文化异质性的抗争如何仍在上演。展览所欲呈现的观点，在于检视与动物、自然等紧密相连的原始文化何以在现代性机构中再次显现，同时梳理相异文化与知识系统在互相渗透的过程中，如何产生变异以及想象新的可能性。展览自美术馆各楼层纵向延伸，带领观众在别样的“剧场环境”中对一系列相关主题展开探索。

Tours are held at 14:30 and are free for visitors with a valid ticket.

Guide: Billy Tang (Senior Curator)

Language: English

To join: meet at the Museum Lobby on the Ground Floor.

Installation view of “An Opera for Animals”, 2019, Rockbund Art Museum. Courtesy of Rockbund Art Museum

Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai and Para Site, Hong Kong are pleased to present the group exhibition An Opera for Animals, running from June 22, 2019 to 25 August 2019. The exhibition features 53 artists who challenge existing boundaries between art and other disciplines, including artisans, healers, teachers, researchers, filmmakers, choreographers, activists, and poets.

An Opera for Animals takes the history of different versions of opera as a departure point to explore both contemporary and traditional uses of performance, fantasy, and group spectacles in relationship to the environments that they inhabit. Despite the fact that colonization has seemingly ended in many parts of the world, the struggle to preserve indigenous forms of heterogeneity still lives itself out into the contemporary age today.  Our interest lies in how the medium inadvertently mutated into an expanded stage for other more unpredictable transitions between notions of animality and our humanity. The exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum will unfold throughout the different levels to offer a different operatic environment to explore these inter-related themes.

作者：上海外滩美术馆RAM