CAC·联合制作 | 异体：组态（ALIA: ZǓ TÀI）艺术家驻留

新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）很荣幸迎来艺术家马可·多纳鲁马（Marco Donnarumma）和吴艳丹（Nunu Kong）。两位艺术家于6月19日至7月6日期间，在CAC合作开展项目“异体：组态（ALIA: Zǔ TàI）”的制作与排练。同时，泠伶作为ALIA制作组公开招募的第三位表演者，获选加入团队。

艺术项目“异体：组态（ALIA: Zǔ TàI）”由CAC与柏林CTM艺术节联合制作，并获得2017-2018歌德学院“国际联合制作基金”支持。该项目将在上海与柏林两地分别完成，意旨根植于本土社会文化，探究人类身体与自动化系统之自主性的复杂关系。

“异体：组态”项目组将于6月30日在上海歌德学院举行一场讲座，介绍该项目的合作契机、当前阶段性成果等相关内容；7月6日在上海新时线媒体艺术中心举行项目阶段性预演。“异体：组态”欧洲首演将于2018年11月24日在柏林世界文化宫举行；上海首演的详细信息即将发布。

马可·多纳鲁马（Marco Donnarumma）和吴艳丹（Nunu Kong）面试第三位表演者。

ALIA表演者马可·多纳鲁马（Marco Donnarumma）、吴艳丹（Nunu Kong）及泠伶排演中。

活动日程

2018.06.30

讲座

上海歌德学院

2018.07.06

“异体：组态”预演

新时线媒体艺术中心

2018.11.24

“异体：组态”首演

柏林世界文化宫

上海首演

即将发布

 关于项目 

“异体：组态（ALIA: Zǔ TàI）”项目名称由拉丁文“alia”（意为“它者”）与中文词汇“组态”构成，其将呈现为一场包含舞蹈和互动音乐的表演，旨在探究由当前日益流行的人工智能与自动化技术所引发的新型复合身份问题。

当下人类的行为、身体及人际关系，不论就社会亦或个体层面，都愈来愈受智能算法和自动化系统的调控。“智能”程序、身体传感器和自动化系统，实际远非被动的商品，它们极大地影响了人类生命的生理、体验、心理以及文化基础。项目制作将在德国与中国展开，以探讨在两国不同语境下人工智能与自动化技术如何影响我们理解、分类以及辨识人类之身体？德国与中国文化存在哪些差异？何种身体可被归类为“正常”？原因何在？

三位表演者身上穿戴三个智能义肢。这些义肢装载有自动化程序，其行为具有自主性。人类表演者与机器经由此种交互和冲突开启对自我与它者的新发现。作品将身体运动、感官、光和声音等元素融入编舞，为观众带来一场发人深省且富有诗意的表演。

“异体：组态”的实现由一个跨学科团队支持，包括：人工智能科学专家曼弗雷德·希尔特教授（德国），巴普蒂斯特·卡拉米奥博士（法国），互动音乐作曲家阿尔伯特·德·康普（德国），以及设计师安娜·拉伊塞维奇（英国/德国）。

以下机构为“异体：组态”提供额外支持：柏林艺术大学研究生院（德国），神经机器人学研究实验室（德国），巴尔坦实验室（荷兰），拉茨尼亚当代艺术中心（波兰），共振艺术节（丹麦）。

关于艺术家

马可·多纳鲁马（柏林）

马可·多纳鲁马的独特创作结合了当代表演与媒体艺术。他对新兴技术的使用令人感到亲切有力，既梦幻又坚定，同时具有强烈的感官冲突。多纳鲁马在其表演中擅于营造令人不安的紧张感，并以其对声音之物理性探索而令人印象深刻。其论文写作范围涉及身体、音乐、科技与表演研究等方面，曾由MIT出版社、牛津大学出版社、Routledge和Springer等多家出版社出版。多纳鲁马自2004年开始投入艺术生涯，迄今他已辗转于全球六十多个国家开展巡演，并获得多个奖项，其中包括林茨电子艺术节之声音艺术优胜奖（奥地利，2017年）、CYNETARI计算机艺术比赛一等奖（德国，2014年）以及格斯曼新型音乐工具比赛（美国，2012年）等。多纳鲁马目前于柏林艺术大学担任研究员，并与柏林博伊特应用科学大学神经机器人学研究实验室合作项目。

吴艳丹(上海)

吴艳丹(aka: Nunu Kong)，独立编舞家，制作人及表演艺术家。2007年Nunu Kong创建了自己的“不乱扭独立制作”项目，作为中国舞蹈界少有的实验性表演交流平台之一，她制作并策划了一系列高质量且别具一格地舞蹈专场发布，工作坊及演讲，并推广本土其它优秀的独立表演艺术家在国际艺术节中的展示交流。Nunu独特的艺术表达特征来自于她多类别的实验性创作，她的作品无论从视觉纬度或是从剧作层面，都微妙地显现出与时空和错觉交织玩耍的诗意性，然而观众总能从中嗅到她幽默而倔强地天然气质。她的最新作品包括《倒置于空中的喇叭》（一些列行为表演），她将自己倒置于不同高度的特定环境并试图把一把小号吹响，以测试她身体的极限和对声音物理的重新评估。Nunu Kong是荷兰Doen基金会于2007年北京草场地青年编舞家创作发展奖金的获得者，2008年上海文化发展基金会文艺人才奖金获得者；她于2011年和2013年两度获得美国Gluck艺术及教育奖金，2014年获得ACC(亚洲文化协会)赴美为期6个月的艺术研究基金，她亦是2016年获得瑞士文化基金会支持的中国驻留艺术家。

http://nunu.we23.org

泠伶（上海）

泠伶（Lingling Chen），戏剧演员，涉猎舞蹈剧场、肢体剧、木偶表演、即兴戏剧、街头表演、浸没式戏剧和镜头前表演。商业空间戏剧作品导演，与醒山民宿合作出品都市心灵剧《下潜》，与纽约大学上海合作导演VR作品《超空间》。她创办了泠ling艺术沙龙，致力于针对职业演员和非职的即兴戏剧的推广和普及，研发系列企业培训戏剧课程，在全球举办沙龙和工作坊超过60次，已服务500人次。她是国际性非赢利课程Incubator戏剧孵化营联合创办人，已服务学员200人次。

www.Incubatoractor.com

新时线媒体艺术中心（上海）

新时线媒体艺术中心（CAC）系国内首家致力于媒体艺术之展示、研究/创作及学术交流的非营利性艺术机构。 通过展览、驻留、奖学金、讲座、工作坊及相关文献的梳理与出版， CAC为媒体艺术在全球语境中的论述、生产及传播开拓了一个多样化且富有活力的平台。CAC以批判地介入不断改变进而重塑当代经验的媒体技术来推动艺术创新及文化认知，回应当下媒体社会中即刻生发的挑战与机遇，并将日益迫近的后人本（post-human）现实及其所昭示的社会与政治蕴意带入公众意识。

www.chronusartcenter.org

CTM艺术节 (柏林)

CTM艺术节（Festival for Adventurous Music and Art）是世界领先的国际艺术节之一，致力于推广当代流行电子音乐与实验音乐。CTM成立于1999年，它与transmediale艺术节（festival for digital art & culture）之间合作紧密，并且涵盖内容广泛，包括声音、音乐实践以及丰富多样的跨领域项目，将音乐、表演和视觉艺术与数字艺术、批评实践与新技术相结合。

http://www.ctm-festival.de

关于歌德学院国际联合制作基金

国际联合制作体现了一种包含合作与对话的艺术合作形式。歌德学院于2016年夏季创立了一项联合制作基金，以鼓励开展具有国际文化交流意义的新型合作过程和创新性制作，并在全球范围内推动新型合作网络与路径，探索跨文化合作的新形式。

https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/mus/ikf.html

“异体：组态”歌德学院网站链接：

https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/mus/ikf/ali.html

CAC·Co-production | ALIA: Zǔ TàI —— Artists Residency Announcement

Chronus Art Center warmly welcomes artists Marco Donnarumma and Nunu Kong, who start the production of collaborative project ALIA: Zǔ TàI from 19th of June to 6th of July at CAC. Meanwhile, the candidate of ALIA's open call Lingling Chen is selected to join the production team as the third perfomer.

Co-produced by CAC and CTM Festival under the support of 2017-2018 Goethe-Institute's International Coproduction Fund, the project ALIA: Zǔ TàI  is created across China and Germany. It intends to investigate the complex relations between human bodies and robotics based on the local social-cultural context. 

ALIA team will give a talk at Goethe Institute on 30th of June to introduce the starting point of collaborative production and the team achievement at current stage. On 6th of July, ALIA: Zǔ TàI preview will be showcased at Shanghai Chronus Art Center. It will then travel to Berlin and premier at Haus der Kulturen der Welt on 24th of November 2018. More information about the premier at Shanghai will be released very soon.

Event Schedule

30.06.2018 

Talk 

Goethe Institute

06.07.2018

“ALIA: Zǔ TàI” Preview

Chronus Art Center

24.11.2018

“ALIA: Zǔ TàI” Premier

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Premier at Shanghai

more details will be released soon...

About the Project

Taking its title from the Latin “alia” – the other – and the Chinese “zǔ tài” – configuration, ALIA: Zǔ TàI will be an experimental dance/theater and interactive music performance that aims to explore new hybrid identities emerging from the increasing use of artificial intelligence and robotics.

More and more, artificially intelligent (AI) algorithms and robots regulate human behavior, human bodies and their relations, both at a social and personal level. Far from being passive commodities, “intelligent” software, body sensors, and robots drastically affect the physiological, experiential, psychological, and cultural basis of human life. Produced in Germany and China, the piece will explore how those technologies influence the way we understand, categorise and discriminate human bodies, what differs in German and Chinese culture and what kind of body is “normal”, why and where.

Three dancers wear three intelligent robots on their bodies. The robots are like prostheses, but behave according to their own agencies. The dancers and the machines thus engage in a re-discovery of the self and the other, transporting the audience into a thought-provoking, stirring, and poetic choreography of movement, sound, and light.

The realisation of ALIA: Zǔ TàI will be supported by an interdisciplinary team including: AI scientists Prof. Manfred Hild (DE) and Dr. Baptiste Caramiaux (FR), interactive music composer Prof. Alberto de Campo (DE), and designer Ana Rajcevic (UK/DE).

ALIA: Zǔ TàI is additionally supported by Graduiertenschule, UdK Berlin (DE), Neurorobotics Research Laboratory (DE), Baltan Laboratories (NL), Center for Contemporary Art “Laznia” (PL), and Resonans Festival (DK).

 About Artists 

Marco Donnarumma's performance work inhabits an uncommon aesthetic space between contemporary performance and media art. He distinguishes himself by his use of emerging technology to deliver performances that are at once intimate and powerful, oneiric and uncompromising, sensual and confrontational. He is reknown for the unsettling intensity of his shows, as well as for his physical use of sound. Writing regularly on body, music, technology and performance studies, he is published by MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge and Springer. Donnarumma began his career in 2004, and since then his performances toured over 60 countries worldwide collecting several prizes across the years, most notably Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in Sound Art (AT, 2017), 1st prize Cynetart Award for Computer Based Art (DE, 2014) and Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition (US, 2012). Donnarumma is currently Research Fellow at the Berlin University of the Arts (DE) in partnership with the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Beuth Hochschule.

http://marcodonnarumma.com

Nunu Kong began her choreographic career in Shanghai in 2005. She has established her own independent dance project “BrandNuDance”, which has become one of China’s most innovative experimental performing arts exchange platforms. Promoting experimental dance as a new and vital medium in contemporary art, she has produced numerous international dance productions, commissions, workshops, lectures and presents Chinese independent performing artist’s work beyond the underground. Through her work, Kong develops a characteristic form of expression, playing with time and space in poetic and illusionary dimensions at both visual and dramaturgy levels, with a particular sense of humor instinctively blended into her choreography. She is the recipient of several international awards, including  Dutch Doen Foundation “Young Choreographer Project” (NL, 2007),  Theatrical Talent Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation (CN, 2008), two Gluck Art Foundation Grants (2011 and 2012, US) and the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (2015-2016).

http://nunu.we23.org 

Lingling Chen, actress working in dance theater, physical theater, Puppeteer, Improv, street performance, immersive theater. Director works includes immersive theater  “Lobster ”, VR work “ hyperspace ”. She founded Lingling Art Salon in 2014 which has organized more than 60 workshops in the world and helps more than 500 people to get access to Improv and Acting. She is the co-director of the international nonprofit acting course “Incubator Acting”, incubated more than 200 actors worldwide.

www.Incubatoractor.com

About the Co-production Partners

Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research, creation, and scholarship of media art. Through exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lecture, and workshop programs, and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, CAC creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for discourse, production, and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

www.chronusartcenter.org

CTM Festival (Berlin, DE) is one of the world’s leading international festivals dedicated to contemporary electronic and experimental music. Founded in 1999 and running in close synergy with transmediale – festival for digital art & culture, CTM covers a wide range of sonic and music practices, and interdisciplinary projects that combine music, performance, and visual arts with digital culture, critical theory, and new technologies.

http://www.ctm-festival.de

About the Goethe-Institut’s International Coproduction Fund

International co-productions epitomize a form of artistic collaboration involving partnership and dialogue. Aiming to encourage new collaborative working processes and innovative productions involving international cultural exchange, the Goethe-Institut set up a new co-production fund in the summer of 2016 to promote new working networks and approaches within a global context, and to explore new forms of intercultural collaboration.

https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/mus/ikf.html

ALIA: Zǔ TàI on the Goethe-Institut’s website:

https://www.goethe.de/en/uun/auf/mus/ikf/ali.html