The Future as Manufactured History: The Garden of Earthly Delights by Zhou Xiaohu – Advertisements

We are excited about the announcement The future as manufactured historythe fourteenth online show in Cosmos Cinema Educational film program as part of the 14th Shanghai Biennale. We present to you this week Garden of earthly delights (2016, 15 minutes), Film by Zhou Xiaohu It will be available until February 23 on the Cosmos Cinema website.

Having adopted computers as an artistic tool in the late 1990s, Zhou Xiaohu is a pioneering figure in Chinese contemporary art. His performances, installations, sculptures, photographs, videos and animations evoke a kind of bewilderment that is closely related to astonishment, forcing viewers to question their senses and re-examine their assumptions. With a recent focus on the interplay between moving images and physical objects, Chu examines how truth and history are manufactured in the digital age.

to Garden of earthly delights (2016), which was shown as part of the Time and Space section of the 14th Shanghai Biennale, Zhou collaborated with the puppet theater troupe from Taichun. Set between the picturesque landscapes of southern Zhejiang and its declining industrial areas, the film's voiceover adapts Zhuangzi's quotations, whose paradoxes prompt philosophical speculation. The marionette characters reference the Taoist legend of the Eight Immortals as well as the hellscape of the same name by Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch also lends a title to Ship of fools (2018), Chu's sculptural installation is on display at Power Station for the Arts alongside his film. The installation, which shows the Muppet characters on a boat, transports the eight immortals from Garden of earthly delights From cinematic space to museum space. The engine of the boat carrying them rocks as they cross the sea, though whether the passengers are in the grip of divine revelation, delirium, or madness is up to the viewer to decide.

Don't miss this magical action, it is available on cosmoscinema.art Until February 23.

the Cosmos Cinema The website is where the history of cinema excavated in weekly screenings at Power Station of Art meets the moving image works of artists represented in the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Each week, in alignment with one of the nine thematic sections that make up Cosmos Cinema, a selected moving image work by one of its artists is presented online with new contextual information. Cosmos Cinema features works by artists including Itziar Barrio, Yin-Ju Chen, Saudat Ismayilova, Dimantas Narkevicius, Liu Chen, Maha Mamoun, Agnieszka Polska, Raqs Media Collective, Hu Rui An, Liu Yujia, He Ziek, Giulietta Aranda, and Jacob. Štourač, Anna Lunakova and Zhou Xiaohu, among others.

Cosmos Cinema The online tutorial and platform are made possible by .ART Registry.

It is also co-sponsored by the AESOP and Humanities Research Center, Department of Arts and Humanities, and DKUNST Arts on Duke University's Kunshan Campus.