MANDARIN LECTURE SERIES | 藝術相聯中文線上講座 | Shawn He

Vancouver has one of the fastest growing Asian populations in the world. To better reflect the communities that we serve, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Institute of Asian Art presents Yishu Xianglian, a Mandarin-language virtual lecture series.

溫哥華是世界上亞洲人口增長最快的城市之一。為了響應社區同時考慮到由於全球大流行而造成的社交規定，溫哥華美術館亞洲藝術館推出了一系列的中文線上藝術講座『藝術相聯』。

Monday July 20 | 1:30 PM

Visual Literacy: Art Across Disciplines
Lecture: Shawn Xiang He

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Literary theorist and author Viktor Shklovsky once wrote, “art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make an object unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object; the object is not important.”

The Vancouver Art Gallery exists to provide a platform for reflection and to foster inter-cultural and inter-generational dialogue through imagery, sound and storytelling. Join artist and educator Shawn Xiang He as he looks back at past exhibitions shown at the Gallery and discusses how art translates experiences across space and time, affects our fundamental sense of self and impacts our perceptions and way of life.

圖像素養：從藝術中顛倒看世界
星期一 | 2020年7月20日 | 1:30PM

評論家和作家維克多‧什克洛夫斯基曾說過 “藝術之所以存在，就是為了使人恢復對生命的感知，就是為了使人感覺到事物，使石頭顯出石頭的質感。藝術的目的是賦予事物以感覺，以其如何被體會到的，而不是如何被知道的。藝術的技巧是讓一個常規物體“陌生化”，形式 “困難化”，通過增加難度和延長時間，認知過程自身變為美學行為。藝術是經驗一個事物藝術性的過程，事物本身反而不重要了。”

溫哥華美術館的存在，為大眾提供了一個平台，反思生命，孕育交流，促進來自不同文化背景、時代的人通過圖像、聲音和故事對話。

與我們一起，跟著藝術家和教育家何向一同來回顧美術館歷年的展覽。藝術給大眾提供多元機會，得以重新思考價值觀，探討理念如何通過跨時空體驗的方式影響著我們的自我意識。

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Shawn Xiang He has been a member of the Vancouver Art Gallery Institute of Asian Art’s Development Committee since 2015. He holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, and, in 1995, he founded the British Columbia Creative Center, an education studio that focuses on developing art, design and critical thinking skills for high school students.

Shawn He has held numbers solo exhibitions over the past decades in Canada, the United States, Australia, China and Switzerland. In 1995, he became one of the first 5 visual artists in the world to use the internet to exhibit art. His works have since been collected both nationally and internationally by state leaders, the Japanese royal family, the Royal Canadian Museum, the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, and private collectors.

畫家和教育家何向在2015年成為溫哥華亞洲藝術館（IAA）委員會委員。擁有薩斯喀徹溫省裡賈納大學美術碩士學位。1995年，基於教育客製化的理念創立了BC創意中心，專注於國高中學生發掘藝術、設計及思維性與表現力培養。

何向並在過去的幾十年中多次舉行個展，他的作品在加拿大、美國、澳大利亞、中國和瑞士都有展出。1995年擠身世界前五位在互聯網上展覽的視覺藝術家，也是首位華人藝術家。作品被國家領導人、日本王室、皇家博物館、麥肯茲美術館和私人收藏家收藏。