地点：北京/尤伦斯当代艺术中心
时间：2010年3月——4月

    自1979年以第一届“星星美展”为标志性起点的中国大陆现代艺术再次复苏（1987台湾解严）以来，随着几代艺术家们的不懈创造和艺术批评体系的逐渐建立，尤其是进入新世纪之后，人们经常用“当代艺术”（从1992年开始用于艺术批评）来表述的中国新艺术在全球视野中逐渐成为热点，近年艺术的市场化进一步确认和扩展了中国当代艺术的发展和社会影响力。当然，也不可避免地产生了负面效应。现在看来，2000—2009年这十年的当代艺术不仅受到了外部形势与条件的改造，同时它也在确立其文化的主体意识、争取“合法性”身份、自由表达等方面改造着自身的历史。事实上，中国新艺术及其历史都处在不断的“改造”之中，尤其是在2008年开始的全球经济危机这个背景下，“改造”正在剧烈地发生着。

    随着时间的推移，新世纪第一个十年的当代艺术现象已经作为一个课题被提上了日程。我们必须跟随时间的步伐，及时地对流逝中的现象给予选择、分析、阐释与判断。历史从来就不存在着一个本质主义的标准，历史也从来就没有一个被埋藏在无意识或者集体无意识深渊的绝对真理等待着我们去发掘，历史仅仅存在于理性的判断与实际的书写之中。基于这样的看法，我们决定对大量的资料进行选择和判断，组织这次“改造历史  2000—2009年的中国新艺术”展览和与之有历史上下文联系的“特别文献展”及“中国青年新艺术邀请展”。这就是说，我们希望通过展览，来与大家讨论什么是新世纪第一个十年里值得记录的新艺术及其现象。在一个看上去纷乱但充满可能性的时期，我们想从宏观和实证的角度对这十年的艺术发展进行考察和辨析，梳理一条历史的线索，通过对新世纪里的艺术现象进行“抽样分析”，巩固和完善大多数批评家已经开启的历史判断，进一步彰显和总结当代艺术的成果，并且，为以后更多的艺术史家（包括批评家）提供参考文献和讨论的空间，也为艺术家们的创作以及未来中国艺术的走向编撰一部具有参考价值的“历史文本”。

    任何历史的书写与判断有其局限与偏见，但是每种书写与判断都为人们提供一种认识历史与现实的视角。我们也希望这不仅是一个展览，更是一个有众多人士参与批评、讨论与研究的公共平台。因此，我们决定借此展览组织一系列的学术活动，并邀请文学、哲学、符号学等领域的专家学者来演讲，并与艺术界形成有趣的对话，我们希望跨学科、跨领域的对话能为中国新艺术的批评与研究提供更多可能性。我们也组织邀请了多位有思想的青年艺术批评家参与“新艺术的立场”及“新艺术史写作”等专题的研究与讨论。出于对过去艺术史更接近客观判断想法，我们也特别邀请了改革开放以来对中国新艺术做出特别贡献的一代批评家，对这三十年的重要艺术与艺术家进行判断与书写。对此，我们将做大量的工作，并期待活动成功。由此形成的学术成果，我们将结集出版。
在此，我们对于参与关注此次展览及相关系列学术活动的专家学者、机构媒体表示诚挚的谢意！

策展人：吕澎  朱朱  高千惠
2010年3月

Preface
Since the recovery (martial law was lifted in Taiwan in 1987) of modern art on Mainland China’s symbolized by the first “Stars Art Exhibition” held in 1979, and along with tireless creation of several generations of artists and the gradually set up artistic critical system, Chinese new art which is usually formulated, especially in the new century with the term ‘contemporary art’ (this term was used in artistic critique from 1992), has become a hot spot globally, and the marketization of art further confirmed and expanded the development of Chinese contemporary art as well as its social influential power. However, negative effect emerged together naturally. Now we could see that the decade from 2000 to 2009 not only received transformation from external circumstances and conditions, it is also reshaping its own history in establishing cultural subjective consciousness, fighting for legitimized identity and freedom of expression. In fact, Chinese new art and its history is experiencing constant ‘reshaping’, especially against the background of the global economic crises started from 2008, this ‘reshaping’ is taking place dramatically.
As time passes by, the contemporary art phenomena of the first decade of 21st century has been put on the agenda as an issue. We must follow the pace of time closely and do timely selection, analysis, explanation and judgment on the phenomena passing away. There had never been a essentialist criteria in history, neither there had been any absolute truth buried in unconsciousness or collective unconsciousness in history for us to explore. History only exists in rational judgment and actual writings. Based on such a view, we decided to select and measure the numerous materials and organize a comprehensive exhibition. In another word, we hope to discuss with everyone about what new art and phenomena value records in the first decade of 21st century. In such a period chaotic yet full of possibilities, we hope to make observation and analysis on the artistic development of this decade from a macroscopic and positivist perspective, comb out a historical clue and consolidate as well as complete the historical judgment which has been opened by most critics through ‘sampling analysis’ of the artistic phenomena of the new century. Thus we could manifest and summarize the existing achievement of contemporary art and provide richer materials and wider space of discussion for the further more artists and art historians (including critics) . Moreover, we would provide a ‘historical document’ with reference value for the creation of artists and the direction of Chinese art in the coming future.
Any writing and judgment of history has its own limitation and bias, which, however, will provide an angle of view for learning about the history and reality. We hope it is not only an exhibition, but a common platform by which a large number of people can participate in the criticism, discussion and research. Thus, we decide to take this exhibition to organize a series of academic activities, and invite experts in the fields of literature, philosophy, semiotics and others to deliver speeches and have interesting dialogs with the art circles. We hope the interdisciplinary and cross-domain dialogs can provide more possibilities for criticism and research on China’s new art. In addition, many young thoughtful arts critics have also been invited to participate in the research and discussion on subjects including “Stance of New Art” and “Writings of New Art History”. To make judgment on the past art history closer to the objective facts, the critics, who have made special contribution to China’s new art since China’s reforming and opening up, have also been specially invited to judge and write on  important art and artists during these three decades. Therefore, we will do a lot of work and hope the activities will achieve great success. Relevant academic achievements would be collected and published.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to experts and scholars, agencies and media participating in and paying attention to our exhibition and relevant series of academic activities!
Curators: Lv Peng Zhu Zhu Gao Qianhui
March 2010

第一单元：视觉文化演讲与对话
时间说明（合计2小时）
1．演讲1小时
2．点评15分钟
3．对话30分钟
4．与听众互动15分钟

1.主题：从“新艺术史”到“图像霸权”——视觉文化研究在中国
主讲嘉宾：罗  岗
主持、评议：郭晓彦
对话嘉宾：刘悦笛，赵松
时间：2010年3月20日10：30-12：30

2.主题：从符号学看什么是艺术？再看当代艺术有没有危机？
主讲嘉宾：赵毅衡
主持、评议：殷双喜
对话嘉宾：高建平， 陈岸瑛
时间：2010年3月20日16：00-18：00

第二单元：当代艺术史讲堂
时间说明（合计2小时）
1．演讲1小时
2．点评15分钟
3．对话30分钟
4．与听众互动15分钟

3.主题：我们需要一个当代艺术图书馆吗？——图书、知识与艺术
主讲嘉宾：黄专
主持、评议：杨卫
对话嘉宾：朱青生，张小涛
时间：2010年3月26日14：00-16：00

4.主题：地域性与全球化的混搭景观——进入21世纪的港台当代艺术之文化生态与美学空间
主讲嘉宾：高千惠
主持、评议：朱朱
对话嘉宾：陈  明, 王春辰
时间：2010年3月27日10：30-12：30

第三单元：中青年批评家对话
时间说明（合计2小时）
1．主讲嘉宾各演讲30分钟
2．点评15分钟
3．对话30分钟
4．与听众互动15分钟

5.主题：当代艺术史的写作与观念
主讲嘉宾：邹跃进 VS何桂彦
主持、评议：朱青生
时间： 2010年4月10日10：30-12：30

6.主题：当代艺术的语言学转向与形式主义反思
主讲嘉宾：沈语冰VS鲍  栋
主持、评议：王南溟
时间：2010年4月10日下午15：30-17：30

第四单元：青年批评家与艺术家对话
时间说明（合计2小时）
1．主讲嘉宾各演讲30分钟
2．点评15分钟
3．对话30分钟
4．与听众互动15分钟

7.主题：图像时代的当代艺术与社会视野
主讲嘉宾：刘礼宾，卢缓
主持、评议：鲁明军
对话嘉宾：梁  硕，金江波
时间：2010年4月16日10：30-12：30

8.主题：当代艺术的物质性话语与修辞转向
主讲嘉宾：段  君，盛  葳
主持、评议：杜曦云
对话嘉宾：宋鬼聿， 卓  凡
时间：2010年4月16日14：00-16：00

Reshaping History Chinart from 2000 to 2009
UCCA Series of Academic lectures and dialogs

Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Duration: March to April, 2010

Section I  Speeches and Dialogue on Visual Culture
Time explaination (totally 2 hours)
1.Speech  1 hour
2.Comment 15 minutes
3.Dialogue 30 minutes
4.Interaction with audiences 15 minutes

Issue: From  "New History of Art" to "Image Hegemony" ——Visual Culture Research in China
Guest Speaker: Luo Gang
Moderator and Conferee: Guo Xiaoyan
Dialogue Guests: Liu Yuedi, Zhao Song
Duration: 10:30-12:30 on 20 March, 2010

Issue: What’s Art in the View of Image Semiotics？Are there any crisis exist in contemporary art?
Guest Speaker: Zhao Yiheng
Moderator and Conferee: Yin Shuangxi
Dialogue Guests: Gao Jianping, Chen Anying
Duration: 16:00-18:00 on 20 March, 2010

Section II  Lecture on the History of Contemporary Art
Time explanation (totally 2 hours)
1.Speech  1 hour
2.Comment 15 minutes
3.Dialogue 30 minutes
4.Interaction with audiences 15 minutes

Issue: Do we need a library of contemporary art? ——Books, knowledge and art
Guest Speaker: Huang Zhuan
Moderator and Conferee: Yang Wei
Dialogue Guests: LaoZhu, Zhang Xiaotao
Duration: 14:00-16:00 on 26 March, 2010

Issue: Mix and Match landscape of Locality and Globalization—— Ecological and Aesthetic space of Contemporary Art in Taiwan and Hong Kong since 21st century
Guest Speaker: Gao Qianhui
Moderator and Conferee: Zhu ZHu
Dialogue Guests: Chen Ming， Wang Chunchen
Duration: 10:30-12:30 on 27 March, 2010

Section III  Dialogs between the Young and the Middle-aged Critics
Time explanation (totally 2 hours)
1. Speech 30 minutes for each guest speaker
2. Comment 15 minutes
3. Dialogue 30 minutes
4. Interaction with audiences 15 minutes

Issue: Writing and Concept of the History of Contemporary Art
Guest Speaker: Zou Yuejin VS He Guiyan
Moderator and Conferee: LaoZhu
Duration: 10:30-12:30 on 10 April, 2010

Issue: The Linguistic Turn and Formalism Reflection in Contemporary Art
Guest Speaker: Shen Yubing VS Bao Dong
Moderator and Conferee: Wang Nanming
Duration: 15:30-17:30 on 10 April, 2010

Section IV  Dialogs between Young Critics and Artists
Time explanation (totally 2 hours)
1. Speech 30 minutes for each guest speaker
2. Comment 15 minutes
3. Dialogue 30 minutes
4. Interaction with audiences 15 minutes

Issue: Contemporary Art and Social Eyesight in Image Era
Guest Speakers: Liu Libin, Lu Huan
Moderator and Conferee: Lu Mingjun
Dialogue Guests: Liang Shuo, Jin Jiangbo
Duration: 10:30-12:30 on 16 April, 2010

Issue: Material Discourse and Rhetoric Turn in Contemporary Art
Guest Speaker: Duan Jun, Sheng Wei
Moderator and Conferee: Du Xiyun
Dialogue Guests: Song Guiyu, Zhuo Fan
Duration: 14：00-16：00 on 16 April, 2010