Monster & The Nocturnal Pollinators
someone has been disarranging these roses
2023.9.9-2024.1.18
Group exhibition
Curator: yang naitian & liu lin
Someone Has Been Disarranging These Rosesdelves into the historical and present context of BMCA’s site –Beijige Mountain, and investigates the pivotal role it has played in the evolution of meteorological science in China.Departing from the spectral atmosphere of the museum's locus, the exhibition brings together about 20 artists,architects, and researchers from six countries to create a constellation of artworks engaging with this historicallineage andoffering different perspectives towards the omnipresent reality of climate crisis.
Hu Yun, Star, 2017-2018, Meteorite, 3D print, music box, acrylic box, 60×40×12 cm, Commission by OCAT Xi’an, Courtesy of the artist, HOW Art Museum and AIKE Gallery
Kadambari Baxi & Research Group,Air Drifts, 2016, HD video accompanied bydrawings, diagrams, and texts, Research group includes Janette Kim, Meg McLagan,David Schiminovich, and Mark Wasiuta, In collaboration with scientists at NASAGlobal Modeling and Assimilation Office, Maryland, US, Courtesy of the artist
Beijige serves as a point of convergence for the history and reality of Nanjing and China. It weaves together various elements, including ancient myths / Daoist traditions, solar terms / agricultural activities, modern meteorological science / intellectual individuals in China's modernization process (such as Zhu Kezhen, the founder of the Central Meteorological Observatory in Beijige), as well as civil defense projects / consumer spaces, collectively producing a complex, ambiguous, and romantic environment. The museum's existing spaces further consolidate this essence, blending together mountain terrain, air raid shelters, and the "white cube" gallery environment. The exhibition seeks to portray this compressed moment through image and sound, and to extract the dynamic imagery of wind, rain, cloud, etc. It evolves from the perception of such phenomenon to the intangible existence of data clouds, and ultimately to the cultural and political weather and climate at large.
Architect Naitian Yang’s choreography of the exhibition space creates an experience that negotiates with theexisting concrete structure and resonates with the oscillating cadence of weather itself. In a time when weather andclimate issues have transcended theoretical discourse and become an urgent reality, the exhibition endeavors tointegrate people and weather into the same fluid, precarious, and crucial state. The artworks within the exhibitionallude to what might conventionally be termed "bad weather", yet the binary idea of "good / bad" is no longerapplicable to our judgments of weather. Beyond a human-centered perspective, the synthesis of chaos emerges asthe norm of weather, where "good" and "bad" coalesce. It pervades every aspect of existence, whether living or not.
The participating artists in this exhibition include：Ben Rivers, Zike He, Yun Hu, James Benning, James Bridle,Kadambari Baxi & Research Group, Luo Li, Ke Lin, Philippe Rahm, Ling Wen, Zhen Xu, Ming Ya, Yang Yang,Yutaka Sone, Bo Zheng, and June Lee
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YANG NAITIAN
Curator
Yang Naitian is an architectural designer currently living and working in New York City, USA. Focusing on the sensory experiences provided by architectural structures and materials and the power relations behind their formal language, he explores the role of belief systems in the built environment. He has worked at AWP Architects in Paris and Jianmeng Studio in Beijing. At Guy Nordenson and Associates Structural Engineering Company in New York, he participated in the design and construction of a number of public cultural buildings and art projects, including Day's End, a sculpture commissioned by David Hammons for the Whitney Museum of Art, and Shenzhen in collaboration with Sou Fujimoto Architects. The Reform and Opening Up Pavilion, and the Emnauel Nine Memorial designed in conjunction with Handel Architects. His writing has been published in Karma International, Serving The People and other platforms.
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LIU LIN
Curator
Liu Lin, writer and curator, currently lives and works in Shanghai. Recently, I have focused on exhibition production and technical theory, and tried to discuss the issue of "co-working" through cooperation with creators in different fields. From 2013 to 2021, he worked as a curator at Sifang Contemporary Art Museum and initiated and implemented the "Topography" (2015-2019) project. Some of the planned exhibitions are: "Yanzhong Art Museum" (2016), "Unfinished" (2019) and "Must Dream of This Blue Tonight" (2020), etc.; he regards writing as a method of action and tries to use it in different ways. Experiments were carried out in the field of writing, and some articles were published in media such as ARTFORUM Chinese website, Art News Chinese version, Art-Ba-Ba, Wallpaper, and The Paper.