注意！这是一个展览 Caution! This Is An Exhibition 王茗一 Mingyi Wang

 Caution! This Is An Exhibition 

 展览导语 Introduction 

“注意”代表着有事件发生或者将要发生，而“这是一个展览”标明了一个地点的事件特征——展览，一个需要你注意的地方，一个有事件发生的地方。“注意”是一种“普遍的和无条件的能力”，它不产生实体，而是主动构成一个新的对象。注意，意味着我有一个身体，我居于世界，我的意识向其开放。注意，是我与这个世界沟通的显性方式，是展览的主题和内容，是只有当有观众走进来时才得以成立的作品。

本次展览将交通设施从日常生活场景中带入画廊，它们是“注意”的视觉和功能性产物，规定了一种身体与空间的交流模式。艺术家试图通过装置和行为，与观众一同构建一个无效的空间。探讨身体、空间、场所、事件以及无意识之间的关系。空间不再是容器，而是可以被理解为一种姿态、一个事件、一个活动。

作品《展览区域，禁止占用》取消画廊用于展览的功能性，使其成为一个场地，这个场地在展览期间除了用于展览可以做任何用途；作品《绕行》使用障碍物占据了一个区域，其中没有任何事件发生，但你只能围着它绕行；《彳彳彳彳亍彳彳亍亍》，《当心脚下，小心头上》和《一个姿势，一个地点》打破身体与空间的固定交流模式；《如何构建一个无效空间》是一项需要观众参与的行为艺术。在展览当日，观众需要挑选一张警示标语，将其贴在画廊的某个位置，使其与原有的空间规则和指向信息失效。

“Caution!” signifies that something has happened or is about to happen, while “This is an exhibition” identifies the eventful character of a place – an exhibition, a place requiring your attention, a place where something is happening. Attention is “a general and unconditioned power” that produces nothing but actively constitutes a new object. To pay attention means that I have a body, I inhabit the world and my consciousness is open to it. Caution is the explicit way in which I communicate with the world. It is the subject and content of the exhibition, an artwork that can only be established when a visitor walks in.

The exhibition brings traffic facilities into the gallery from the scenes of day-to-day living, they are the visual and functional product of “Caution,” specifying a mode of communication between body and space. Through installation and performance, the artist seeks to create an invalid space with the visitor. Exploring the relationship between body, space, place, event and the unconscious. Space is no longer a container, but can be understood as a gesture, an event, an activity.

The work Exhibition Area, Do Not Occupy removes the functionality of the gallery for exhibition purposes, making it a site that can be used for anything but exhibition during the exhibition; the work Detour occupies an area with barriers in which no event occurs but you can only walk around it; Chi Chi Chi Chi Chu Chi Chi Chu Chu, Warning! There Are Warnings Above and Below, and A Gesture, a Site break the fixed pattern of communication between body and space; How to Create an Invalid Space is a performance art that requires visitors to participate. On the opening day, visitors are asked to pick a warning sign and post it somewhere in the gallery, invalidating it from the original spatial rules and guidance information.

 关于艺术家 About the Artist 

https://www.wangmingyiart.com

王茗一，布莱顿大学艺术博士在读，研究生毕业于格拉斯哥艺术学院，现工作生活于伦敦。作品以绘画、装置和实践项目为主，通过创造性实践探讨视觉化潜意识空间的方法。关注现象学、精神分析学和非表征理论在实践中的应用，探索身体与空间在日常生活中的无意识交流。

她的作品强调过程和参与，将熟悉的场景去日常性。日常性不过是集体重复的经验将某个事物看作理所应当的，这种有秩序的集体性是事实性而不是真实性。去日常性可以作为一种实践方法重新思考身体与空间的关系。空间的边界不再是物理的边界，而是感知的，运动的，意识的和无意识的边界。

Mingyi Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Fine Art at the University of Brighton, she graduated from Glasgow School of Art as a postgraduate and now lives and works in London. Her works are based on drawings, installations, and practical projects, exploring approaches to visualizing unconscious space through creative practice. She focuses on the application of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and non-representational theory in practice, exploring the unconscious communication between body and space in day-to-day living.

Her work emphasizes process and participation, and the de-everydayness of familiar scenes. Everydayness is nothing more than the collective repetition of an experience that takes something for granted, an ordered collectivity that is factual rather than real. De-everydayness can be used as a practical method to reconsider the relationship between body and space. The boundaries of space are no longer physical boundaries but perceptual, motor, conscious, and unconscious boundaries.

 部分展览作品 Selected Works 

如何构建一个无效空间

How to Create an Invalid Space

行为 Performance

2021

 作品互动参与指南 

1. 请于2021年12月12日下午5点前往无题空间。

2. 在展厅入口处选择一个警示标语。

3. 在展厅中寻找一个合适的位置（墙面，地面，天花板，物品，展品，人）贴上标语，使标语原有的含义失效，从而制造一个荒诞的，无效的空间（比如将“小心地滑”贴在天花板上）。

4. 如有必要可以使用梯子等设施。

5. 你为什么要把它贴在这里？和其他人分享你的想法。

6. 整个行为过程将被监控拍摄下来。

 Instructions for Participation 

1. Please come to Untitled Space before 5 pm on 12 December 2021.

2. Please pick a warning sign at the entrance of the gallery.

3. Please post the warning sign in a suitable place in the gallery (e.g. walls, floors, ceilings, objects, exhibits, people), invalidating its original meaning and thus creating an absurd, invalid space (e.g. post the “Caution Wet Floor” on the ceiling).

4. Use facilities such as ladders if necessary.

5. Why do you post it here? Sharing your ideas with others.

6. The process will be monitored and filmed.

当心脚下，小心头上

Warning! There Are Warnings Above and Below

塑料，隔离带 Plastic, isolation belt

120×11.5cm

2021

“我们不可能改变根本的感知动机和思考方式，但是我们可以让自己警觉它们的存在”

—— 阿尔瓦·诺伊《奇特的工具：艺术与人性》

“It isn’t possible to alter our basic perceptual motivations and ways of thinking. But it is possible to alert us to their existence.”

—— Alva Noë, Strange Tools: Art and human nature 

一个姿势，一个场所 A Gesture, a Site

红外线测温仪 Infrared thermometer

15×11.7x10cm

2021

红外线测温仪暗示了身体姿势和空间规则。当你看到它，就意味着需要做出一个特定的姿势（抬起手腕）来进入一个特定的地点（需要检测体温的场所）。本次展览中测温仪被固定在非常高的墙面上，任何人都无法触及它。它在警示观众，这是一个需要检测体温的场所，但你无法与其交互。

The infrared thermometer implies gestures and spatial rules. When you see it, it means that you need to make a specific gesture (e.g. raise your wrist) to enter a specific place (a place where temperature measuring is required). In this exhibition, the infrared thermometer is fixed to a very high wall, where no one can reach it. It warns the visitor that this is a place that requires measurement, but you cannot interact with it.

彳彳彳彳亍彳彳亍亍 Chi Chi Chi Chi Chu Chi Chi Chu Chu

PVC

尺寸可变 Dimensions variable

2021

绕行 Detour

铁，水泥，塑料，隔离带 Steel, cement, plastic, isolation belt

200x200cm

2021

遇到障碍物，我们不需要复杂的推理过程就知道应该立刻停下来或者绕行，身体无意识地适应了一种约定成俗的空间规则。本次展览通过强调障碍物的存在，事件的缺席和交互的不可能, 使作为背景的身体，无意识的身体，前反思的身体，习惯的身体暴露出来.

When we encounter an obstacle, we know that we should immediately stop or go around it without a complex reasoning process; the body unconsciously adapts to an agreed-upon spatial rule. Through emphasizing the presence of obstacles, the absence of events, the impossibility of interaction, this exhibition exposes the body as a background, unconscious, pre-reflective, and habitual.

参考文献：*「法」莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂：《知觉现象学》，北京：商务印书馆2001：51-52。