PSA 2017 Emerging Curators Project PSA青策计划2017
Curators: Housewife Squad (Mo Wanli, Deng Yuanye, Lin Lin)
Artists: Lyla Wu and Ye Funa, Yao Weiwei/Yin Shun and Hu Yinping, Qi Shanshan and Ma Qiusha, Ma Yuanrong and Han Xia, Zhou Jianjia/Li Danfeng and Zeng Burong/Deng Hanbin.
Venue：Power Station of Art Gallery 7 5F
Peep Stream stage installation view
About the Exhibition
By presenting the ambiguities related to labor division, intimate relationships, opposition, violence and their modern alternatives of women in domestic space, Home, Sweet Home discusses the historical construction of sweet home and demystifies such sweetness through spectator’s voyeuristic perspective. Capitalizing on the corresponding narrative and spatial structure, the exhibition also attempts to explore the relationship between the act of viewing and space as it is used to suggest and define viewing experience, exhibited objects and displaying methods.
The exhibition includes three parts: architectural and artistic work, document presentation and public participation. Six regularly-arranged Disciplinary Walls exhibit how “sweet home” is historically constructed in terms of labor division, intimate relations, opposition, violence, etc. With 158 pieces of historical materials, social events, spatial cases and models, first-hand research materials, original works and so on, the document exhibition indicates the evolution and solidification of domestic space and its core content, suggesting the dynamics and multiple clues of such process within a complex cultural background.
Five Cocoons wrapped by the Disciplinary walls- The Laboring Cocoon, The Ethical Cocoon, The Intimate Cocoon, The Therapeutic Cocoon, and The Non-Nuclear Family Cocoon – represents the inwardness and privacy of home, and also serves as spaces for artistic intervention. Five pairs of architects and artists are invited to collaborate and to express five spatial themes with their creations. They are: Lyla Wu and Ye Funa, Yao Weiwei/Yin Shun and Hu Yinping, Qi Shanshan and Ma Qiusha, Ma Yuanrong and Han Xia, Zhou Jianjia/Li Danfeng and Zeng Burong/Deng Hanbin. Various materials, structural forms, and presentational forms of artistic creations are engaged to suggest another possibility for the spatial theme. Layering openings through the Disciplinary Walls produce two Voyeuristic Cones, which allow spectator to peep into the Cocoons to participate in the deconstruction of Sweet Home and witness the collapse of such modern myths as public and privacy, production pattern, social discrepancy, claim and discourse, romantic relations, freedom and equality, etc.
About the Curatorial Team
Housewife Squad is a research (and wechat) group with a curiosity on women’s everyday life. The group was initiated by Mo Wanli, Deng Yuanye and Lin Lin, who are doctoral students at College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. As a curatorial and research group with multi-disciplinary backgrounds, Housewife Squad is interested in the trivial yet mysterious domestic life as well as agendas concerning female and space.
Mo Wanli received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and is interested in contemporary forms of life in relation to material and immaterial production. Deng Yuanye is currently in a joint doctoral program with MIT School of Architecture and Planning and she received her Master of Anthropology degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on urban and rural forms and their structural transformation. Lin Lin is a lecturer at Jiageng College, Xiamen University and she is interested in urban anthropology and historical preservation.
青策计划2017
地点：上海当代艺术博物馆5楼
策展人：家庭妇女讨论群（莫万莉、邓圆也、林琳）
家庭妇女讨论群是一个对女性日常生活具有好奇心的研究（闲聊）团体，由莫万莉、邓圆也、林琳发起，她们同为同济大学建筑学系博士生。作为一个具有跨学科背景的策展与研究团体，讨论群关心琐碎而神秘的家庭生活，以及女性和空间的议题。莫万莉为耶鲁大学建筑学硕士，关注当代生活方式和物质及非物质生产关系。邓圆也为MIT建筑学系联培博士生、香港中文大学人类学硕士，关注城乡形态与结构转型。林琳为厦门大学嘉庚学院建筑学系讲师，研究方向是都市人类学与历史遗产保护。
参展艺术家：吴迪、姚微微&尹舜、戚山山、周渐佳&李丹峰、马圆融、叶甫纳、胡尹萍、马秋莎、曾不容&邓涵彬、韩夏
“甜蜜的家”展览关注女性和家庭空间之间的多义关系，探讨了“家之甜蜜”的意象建构，并试图通过观看者的偷窥视角去解构这一历史建构意象。此外，展览试图借助本身的内容结构和空间关系，探讨观看的行为和展示空间之间的关系，以空间化的方式来对展品关系、展出形式、观众行为进行引导和限定。
展览从建筑装置、艺术作品和文献展示三条线索出发，六面规则排列的规训之墙以文献形式，从劳动分工、亲密关系、抵抗与暴力等不同侧面叙述“甜蜜的家”的意象建构。被规训之墙围裹的五个异形空间——“劳动之茧”、“伦理之茧”、“亲密之茧”、“非核心家庭之茧”、“疗愈之茧”，既象征着家庭的内向性和私域感，也是艺术介入的空间。
五个空间由吴迪、姚微微&尹舜、戚山山、周渐佳&李丹峰、马圆融五位/组建筑师设计，通过不同的材料意象和结构形式对主题进行诠释。五位/组艺术家——叶甫纳、胡尹萍、马秋莎、曾不容&邓涵彬、韩夏的作品则在五个茧中被呈现，通过影像、参与式表演、画作等多种形式来探讨涉及上述空间主题的另一种可能性。规训之墙的开口层层递进而形成的窥视之锥，使得观者能够参与并解构“甜蜜的家”的空间想象，见证正在家庭中崩盘的现代设定：公私分界、生产格局、权力话语、浪漫关系、自由平等博爱等神话。