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赖香伶｜上海外滩美术馆馆长
近半世纪以来，博物馆面临与日俱增的社会互动要求，不断重新思考其使命及角色；与此同时，博物馆的运营也已经反映出信息社会的特质，透过展览与教育功能拓展其公众面向，以积极响应全球化的趋势和终身学习的需求。新世纪的博物馆强调集体智慧以及共同参与的理念，注重社会凝聚、文化多样性以及公众价值的体现。因此，博物馆不仅为知识传输的场所，同时也是社会关系形塑及发生的地方。
身处于上海这一文化艺术蓬勃发展的国际大都会，上海外滩美术馆期许自身能承续固有的文化底蕴，进而发展成为具有开放性的当代美术馆。这一开放性在于美术馆是否具有足够的涵量和能力，接受并呈现当代艺术丰富多元的表达形式，并引导观众领会创作的灵感和理念。它也在于运营者能否突破有限的物理空间，将艺术的推广结合城市区域再造，使美术馆成为揉合时代文化、社会现实以及城市生活的新文化生活基地。最后，美术馆的开放性更在于它如何有效地扮演知识传递的角色，构建信息交流以及创意分享的平台，从而启动观众与自我生活环境、社会以及世界的连结，乃至对其的观察与思考。
“日以继夜，或美术馆可为之若干事”是上海外滩美术馆开馆展览系列的压轴，也是本馆所举办的首次国际性联展。我们非常欣慰能和侯瀚如先生一起完成这项美好的合作，并在过程中共同分享了对于当代艺术发展以及当代美术馆定位的思考。作为一名活动力旺盛的国际策展人，侯瀚如先生视展览为重要的“社会现实和文化未来的实验场”。多年来他所策划的展览对于美术馆的社会责任以及艺术家的社会角色所进行的探讨，具有发人深省的重要意义。我们衷心感谢侯瀚如先生与本馆的合作，以及在此过程中所给予我们的思考和启示。通过策展人的邀请，我们也很荣幸能获得来自不同地域的艺术家崔正化、涂维政、山姆·萨摩尔、孙逊、沙兹亚·西莰达、杜韵、聂德科·索拉科夫、周铁海、以及彼得罗·加布理塔·莱斯等人的合作与支持，为美术馆创作兼具艺术性和启发性的新作。我们在此向他们致以最高的敬意和由衷的谢忱。
除了白天的展览之外，本馆更与策展人一起，共同规划了丰富多彩的“艺术夜生活”，在周末夜间对民众开放。这一系列的项目包括了由讲座、表演、工作坊等活动组成的“夜校计划”，以及以影片观摩活动为主的“电影节”，希望籍此能具体演绎出当代城市文化生活的新的可能性，并从而探讨美术馆以及艺术的社会功能。我们衷心期许这项计划能够将美术馆营造成为民众亲近文化、参与艺术的开放性空间。“夜校计划”的办理获得了中国美术学院开放媒体工作室、《艺术世界》杂志、《艺术当代》杂志、瑞象馆、习艺堂、以及英国伯明翰设计学院等文化与媒体机构的协助，在此向所有参与者表达诚挚的谢意。
此外，我特别感激美术馆董事会主席欧亚平先生对于美术馆的信任和指导，让我们能兢兢业业地在专业运营的道路上续迈一步。而洛克·外滩源各部门同仁给予我们的支持，更是本展能够顺利完成的重要助力。最后，我更要感谢上海外滩美术馆全体专业与敬业的同仁，他们的专业质地和坚定毅力将陪伴着这座年轻的美术馆永续成长。
Preface
LAI HSIANGLING|DIRECTOR, ROCKBUND ART MUSEUM
For over half a century, museums have been facing increasing demands for social interaction while constantly involved in discussions of their own missions and purposes; meanwhile, museum operations reflect the features of an information society and through exhibitions and educational functions, these institutions are expanding their interface with the public, responding actively to globalization as well as to needs for lifelong learning. Museums in the new century emphasize collective wisdom and shared experience. They focus on social coherence, cultural diversity and public value. Today’s museums are clearly more than arcades for transfer of knowledge. They are where social relations take place and take shape.
In the metropolitan city of Shanghai, where culture and art sprouts and blossoms, Rockbund Art Museum, in keeping with its cultural tradition, has become a contemporary art space that continues to uphold an operational philosophy of openness. That is, the museum is encouraging and capable to embrace and present multifaceted expressions of contemporary art and to help guide the audience as they explore the inspirations and concepts behind the works. Further, the operators are interested in extending the physicality of museum space in order to introduce and promote art as a part of urban reengineering so that museums assume a new identity as an underlying platform for contemporary culture, social reality, and city life. Ultimately, the openness of museums lies in how the system delivers knowledge in the most effective way—how it builds up forums for information exchange and creativity so to enable a connection for the audience, together with any observation and reflection thereon, between individuality, environment, society and the world at large.
As the first international group exhibition at Rockbund Art Museum, By Day, By Night, or some (special) things a museum can do is the finale in a series of exhibitions that celebrate the museum’s inauguration. It has been our great pleasure to work with Mr. Hou Hanru on this project, during which time we have shared insights on contemporary art development and the positioning of contemporary art museums. As an internationally renowned and active curator, Hou sees our exhibitions as “important sites of experiment for social reality and the future of culture.” His curatorial achievements over the years have been highly influential to current discourses on art museums’ social responsibilities and artists’ social roles. We are deeply indebted to Hou Hanru for his collaboration, and for all of his inspirations and brilliant ideas. Through the efforts of the curator, we were also able to commission artists from diverse backgrounds—such as Choi Jeong-Hwa, Tu Weicheng, Sam Samore, Sun Xun, Shahzia Sikander, Du Yun, Nedko Solakov, Zhou Tiehai, and Pedro Cabrita Reis—to whom we give our highest regards and most sincere gratitude.
In addition to what constitute a typical daytime exhibition, the museum team, in collaboration with the curator, presents By Night @ RAM, a project which is open to the public on evenings and on weekends. It features a night school program highlighted by lectures, performances, workshops, and a “film festival” that is largely dedicated to the viewing experience. The events unfold in an effort to explore new alternatives for contemporary city life, leading to conversation about the social functions of museums and art. Our objective for this program is to transform the museum into an open space where the public may get closer to and participate in art. The night school program enjoyed the support from Open Media Lab at China Academy of Art, Art World Magazine, Art China Magazine, Ray Art Center, Xiyi Tang, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, among other cultural and media institutions. Our sincere appreciation goes to all the participants.
In particular, I would like to thank Mr. Thomas Ou, chairman of Rockbund Art Museum, for his trust and guidance, which fundamentally enabled us to pursue this project with a highly dedicated mind. The support from our Rockbund staff further provided important impetus for the success of the project. Finally, I would like to thank all the colleagues at Rockbund Art Museum, whose professionalism, commitment and perseverance will accompany our young museum as it springs up for sustained growth.（文章来源：《日以继夜，或美术馆可为之若干事》）
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