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Duration & Archive:The 3rd Nanjing contemporary animation art Documentation exhibition

Issuing time:2020-11-01 17:38
   
From Dream Studios to DreamWorks to…？
R&D for a New Aesthetic Education   
Season 1, Episode 1
Exhibition unit

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Duration & Archive: Nanjing Contemporary Animation Art Documentation Exhibition

Exhibition venue：
AMNUA Hall 4 + Conference Centre
Exhibition duration：
2020.11.3 -11.30

Organizer：
AMNUA
China Contemporary Animation Art Archive
Goethe-Institut China

Supported by：   
Interfilm’s International Children and Youth Film Festival Berlin.           
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS)   
   
Curator：
Xue Feng   
   Monica Koshka-Stein    Wang Xiaoxin   

Academic host :
Cao Kai   

Executive：
   Wang Sudong   



Curator’s statement

In the post global health emergency period, the industrial social order was alienated and reconstructed in the gaze of nature, and "usual" became a slice closed in the amber of time; In the conscious politics of depopulation, animation technology provides the most appropriate solution for the current cultural production. On the one hand, all digital raw material collection, distribution and cooperation, processing and output, dissemination and Realization of animation production have become the mainstream mode of social information landscape; On the other hand, the modality rhetoric of animation's super authenticity has gained wider legitimacy. It has been involved in culture and entertainment, economic consumption, consultation and communication, and documentary in daily society. It has become a media language between people and intelligent systems, and has been deeply involved in the discourse power of contemporary aesthetic interpretation.

This module is divided into two parts:


1. "Document site" section (exhibition hall 4)

Many artists' works created by animation are invited to participate in the exhibition, and a "live" space integrating creative manuscripts, images, devices and spatial experience is established at the art museum, so as to build a transcendental channel from reality to immersive assumption, so as to guide the audience to sink culture in the file and immerse in the image wonders, Take the senses as the horse to restart the examination of the current cultural aesthetics.



2. "Back to the theater" section (main lecture hall on the first floor)

In the way of traditional closed theater, a number of animated art works are displayed at a limited time and point. These works are from the latest award-winning and selected works of the famous Stuttgart International Animation Festival in Germany, "supported by Goethe Institute of German Cultural Center in Beijing (China)", the works of Chinese artists specially recommended by the Organizing Committee of Kuki Film Festival in Berlin, and some excellent works of international artists. This section allows the audience to continue the film viewing experience based on social mode - now this ordinary and popular entertainment mode has become a social activity full of sensitive associations in the post global health emergency period, and the work unit based on the mechanism of the world film festival will focus on the concrete interpretation of the diversity of the current cultural industry.




XUE FENG

                                                                                                                                                                                                 
About the curator and academic：
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Xue Feng
Professor / doctoral supervisor of Nanjing Institute of art. He has been widely involved in media, design and animation. He has long been engaged in professional teaching and cross media research in Colleges and universities, wrote six textbooks and monographs, and published various academic papers and comments; Over the years, he has promoted the expansion of creative and exchange activities related to new forms of image art. He once served as the curator of the fourth China Independent Animation Film Forum in 2015 and the 2018 Shenzhen independent animation Biennale. Since 2018, he has founded Nanjing contemporary animation art literature exhibition. His personal works have won important awards in various international and domestic competitions and performances, and successively won the main competition unit of the golden Jue award of Shanghai International Film Festival Various international film festivals such as the cannandiranlar Film Festival, tiaf Taichung International Animation Film Festival, Chania Film Festival, festival internocionflor Azul, Belarus Animation Film Festival, corodino Italian comprehensive Short Film Festival, cff8 Ukraine International Animation Film Festival were selected and nominated for awards.
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Monica Koshka-Stein
Kuki, art director of Berlin Youth International Short Film Festival, was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1969,. Monica koshka Stein has studied performance and sculpture and has been involved in various art, music and film activities. Since 1998, she has played various roles at interfilm in Berlin. In 2010, she became the artistic director of Kuki children's and youth Short Film Festival. Her focus is to encourage young people to participate in society and to think critically about film and art. She works closely with children and teenagers to find what they really want to see and how they want to express themselves in the film. For the film festival and the release of interfilm, Monica is always looking for wonderful and creative short films with novel style, original ideas, moving stories and cultural insight.
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Wang Xiaoxin
He now lives in southern Germany and graduated from the Department of Sinology of Heidelberg University. He is engaged in animation production and planning of several film excerpts. He is an adjunct professor at St. Martin University. In recent years, he has focused on promoting Chinese films and artists to the mainstream European market. He has worked in Shanghai Academy of drama, Beijing People's Art Theatre, the former Peking University drama Research Institute and other institutions.

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Cao Kai，Academic host
Cao Kai is a practitioner and researcher of media art and film. Live and work in Nanjing, China. His work includes the creation, writing and curatorial research of experimental films, video art, documentaries, new media art and other aspects. He is the main founder and organizer of CIFF (2003-2016); He is also the curator and academic director of many art or film projects; He has planned a number of exhibitions and screening activities related to Chinese independent films and Experimental Media Art overseas, and has served as the judge of the "golden Peng Award" international new media film and Television Animation Festival, the judge of the Macao International Film and Video Festival, and the chairman of the evaluation committee of the "Golden Horse stake Award" Xi'an university student image Festival; Since 2010, he has also appeared as a film producer or producer. A variety of academic texts have been published in a variety of academic journals and forum collections at home and abroad.

About the new aesthetic education project：

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From Dream Studios to DreamWorks to…？
R&D for a New Aesthetic Education   
Season 1, Episode 1

Not long ago, Murakami Takashi broke the news on social media: his company and team are on the verge of bankruptcy because of excessive investment in its cinema feature film and failure to successfully launch and premiere the film. Following the water test of Mulan by DreamWorks, legend of deification actually reaped the most successful cinema box office after the lifting of the ban, continuing the localization myth of DreamWorks. If we investigate the evolution of the art production system, what we see here again is still a transformation from the traditional artist studio to the modern and contemporary art collective factory. They are all about the production of creating "Dreams". This transformation can also be said to be the transformation from dream studio to dream factory. After the outbreak of global emergency health events, the problem of the production mechanism of the art world has become more and more obvious: galleries, artists, artists, art galleries and institutions as small and medium-sized enterprises or workshops, from striking labor to infrastructure, from suspended physical exhibitions, exhibitions and fairs to exhibitions filled with virtual and social media spaces Artists' Studio visits, zoom meetings and so on are entangled in this sudden suspension situation.

Starting from this series of current event phenomena about production, we can further explore and discuss a series of specific artistic problems: from individual practice to large-scale production; Higher art and aesthetic education; Kwai Mei's new aesthetic education and its media research and development: the tiktok and fast hand - the national mobile imaging, the public's touch and ingenuity; WeChat and jtiktok communicate with arts, labor and life, solidarity and mobilization, criticism and self criticism, and network community. Guessing reality, National Games, etc. We regard this series as a new aesthetic education, the R & D series of emotional education, and this series as an extension of the "sketch" series.

In the promotion of the first episode, the logic of our own special exhibition industrial mechanism temporarily brings us to the current framework and content: we invite curators and special projects to gradually touch the scene of the current higher animation art education and its industry, and install them into a more macro social production and consumption space to promote the overall project. "Time distance & Archives": the third contemporary animation art literature exhibition in Nanjing and its context constitute the basic archives of this episode. We will also continue to pay attention to the progress of this series of animation literature projects in Nanjing. At the same time, a series of special projects launched successively constitute an inlet and outlet port and catalytic interface, which link and guide to the follow-up of this season and even the next season.

Project Team：

Cao Kai、 Gao Ya、 Jiang Hanfei、 Di Zhengjie、 Monica Koshka-Stein、 Wang Yanjun+Zhou Juntong、Cedar Zhou 、 Wang Yamin、 Wang Sudong、 Xue Feng、 Yuan Jire   



Curated by：
Yamin Wang

About the organizers and supporters：

China Contemporary Animation Art Archive
CCAA, for short, is the first academic institution in China to pay special attention to contemporary and experimental animation art, focusing on the integration of contemporary animation art literature resources; Initiated by artist Liu Jian at the end of 2016, the museum is now established in Nanjing Institute of art. Its contents include holding animation art theme activities at home and abroad to present the latest face of contemporary animation art; It displays the works archives of famous animation artists at home and abroad all year round. At present, it has received donations from dozens of artists' works and collections, and established art archives (including works and Literature) to provide free research literature resources for animation researchers. All kinds of professional lectures, seminars and screening activities are held for public welfare all year round.

Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS)   
Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival, founded in 1982, has now become a major event of the International Animation Film Festival. It presents the audience with the full picture of today's animation film production from the aspects of visual effects, modeling, art, design, music and games. It focuses on animation art films and works with innovative, interactive and cross media characteristics, attaches great importance to the encouragement and funding of outstanding young talents, and also provides a platform for animation directors, producers and distribution companies to display films and cross media projects to the public and industry representatives. The total amount of prizes in various competitions held by it exceeds 150000 euros. May 2019 coincides with the election of the European Parliament. The 2019 Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival will display the winning works of the "European Animation Film Competition" with an award amount of up to 60000 euros. In addition to various competitions, the festival will also hold works exhibition, retrospective exhibition, lectures, workshops, cultural night, music and animation activities, parties and rich youth activities.

Interfilm’s International Children and Youth Film Festival Berlin.            
Every November, the Kuki Film Festival in Berlin shows about 100 short films for young people aged 4 to 18; During this period, various types of short films were shown: live action films, animated films, documentaries and experimental films. These films are interesting, dramatic, dynamic and thoughtful works. The original intention of Kuki Film Festival is to get together and celebrate through rich forms of film and television media, and show young audiences what they usually don't see on TV or in cinemas. In particular, look for fun, interesting or exciting films that bring diversity, thinking, empathy and different cultures to children and young audiences.


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