2023.10.01 Sunday 19:00
Location
MACA Art Center
Curator: Jin Feng
Performer: CAO Shu, YU Guo, LIU Yujia, HE Zike, SHI Qing, WANG Hongzhe

MACA will host a special salon series “Vortex in Beijing - Five Moments at Nightfall” for five consecutive days from October 1st to 5th. As the Art Center’s satellite program in Shanghai, the “Vortex” special salon will take place primarily in the format of performance lectures. It invites artists and scholars to reorganize and present their nonstandard artistic practices or academic inputs, incorporating both research-based thinking and intuitive imagination. We have invited six performers, whose topics will encompass video game, field research, ruin exploration, family genealogy retrospection, fantasy and cultivation of immortality, UFO and science fiction, among others. They interweave and interplay geographical, psychological and historical spaces by using contrasting methods of working. “Vortex in Beijing - Five Moments at Nightfall” is scheduled to go on during the temporary closure of MACA, set to start at the dusk of each day. We have preserved the former structure and facilities of gallery space from previous exhibitions, which will serve as an old map waiting to be activated by performances, or as “ghosts” that dwell in the art museum, embracing a new hustle-bustle at each nightfall.
10/1 CAO Shu|Contains it like lines of a hand
10/2 YU Guo|Watershed
10/3 LIU Yujia|Travel Shooting and Writing – Encountering and Writing the Unknown
10/4 HE Zike|Dreams delivered, the fireplace is burning out
10/5 SHI Qing|Cultivation of Immortality on Transmission Tower: Capital and Infrastructure in Self-Cultivation
10/5 WANG Hongzhe|CRT, TV Towers, and UFOs
VORTEX, launched by the MACA in Shanghai in 2022, is an art and cultural salon in the form of lecture performances occurring once or twice every month. The programme calls for non-institutionalised artistic and academic production in which contemporary art practitioners and scholars get to explore cross-disciplinarily the issues of the macro or micro, the global or local, the collective or individual. VORTEX, hence, is where you spin in the whirlpool of spontaneous whims and intuitive approaches represented by individual research and enquiries. Being present here at VORTEX, you are experiencing versatile forms of lecture performances that experiment with new mechanisms and methodologies.