BBCT (I)

BBCT (I) is the very first of a series of exhibitions on an experimental art project put together by a group of young artists living in the Black Bridge Art Zone and its surrounding areas. As a long-term project, artists (artworks), art institutions, art critics, their behaviors and creations will all be re-employed as art material for further creations. Here, all art-related activities will become opportunities for exhibitions. From there unfolds the discussion on “art criticism,” on the act of creating art, and on art viewership as a behavior.

This art project is an inspection on approaches: with regard to the various manners that artists work, the gallery system, and the art evaluation apparatus. The artists will be creating independent works that dialogue either in parallel or in association with each other, thereby engaging in discussions about processes and contents of art. Multiple creations will be blended, with no common goals, nor rigid requirements to stick to the relationship between objects, or to a set theme or association by meaning. We are not interested in provocation, or prejudice, or the spreading of rumors; rather it is meant to be an esoteric experience based on logic, knowledge, and perspectives, a match between areas of the known and the unknown. This is our original and most precious intention.

The subject of this first exhibition will be commentaries on the work of the young artist LIN Ke. Lin Ke has just done a solo exhibition entitled “Link” at Gallery Yang. He and his work will be employed as material by eleven young artists, including the artist himself.

Artists

DAI Chenlian

HE Xun

LIN Ke

NIE Shiwei

YANG Jian

YANG Xinguang

YAO Wei

XU Boxin

ZHANG Xiaodi

ZHANG Xinjun

ZENG Hong

Address / Forest Lane II, #8, Black Bridge Village, Cuigezhuang, Chaoyang District

Time / 2014.9.28 14: 00-20: 00

Co-produced by BBCT and MAMALA Contemporary Art Center

BBCT:

BBCT, or Black Bridge Criticism Team, is composed of a group of freely associated young artists that could increase or decrease in number. It is a creative non-group that focuses specifically on all aspects of the artistic process, including work processes, systems of collaboration, and art criticism, and aims to look at viewership and criticism in a holistic manner, and employs criticism as the basis and the opportunity to create parallel works of art in order to promote further discussions and dialogue. It was formally constituted in September, 2014, and will regularly implement critical projects on artists and their artworks, art institutions, art agents, art critics, auction houses, in order to promote deep or shallow, effective or ineffective exchanges between these actors, all the while allowing for the possibility of failure.

MAMALA Contemporary Art Center (MAMALA):

MAMALA is an independent and non-profit art organization that aims to serve the public. It was officially launched in 2013, and regularly organizes critical exhibitions and diverse public projects that aspire to promote the development of Chinese contemporary art and further international exchanges and dialogue.