North Village Independent Workshop is an art-practice platform where a group of people automatically organize experiments on thoughts and views. Since it established in November 2007,it has become a significant art organization in southwest, which held plenty of exhibitions, from "Turnout of Two Ribs"(2010) to " 2012 Site Creation"(2011), from "Forking Garden"(2010) to "Two Men on Board a Boat"(2012), each exhibition is an automatically organized conflicts and arrangement, constantly reflects its cultural logic and art structure.

"A Half Scene"----the 8th exhibition of North Village Independent Workshop is divided into two parts, two places, as well as two time and space. As an independent project in "SEE/SAW" exhibition of UCCA,"A Half Scene" has been conducted; Another "A Half Scene" Show will be held in XLYMoMA in Chengdu. The two shows are separated in different time and space. Firstly it is to show a brand new attitude toward exhibition: to object to the conventional "classic" system in contemporary art exhibition, and to object to a "complete" desire or attempt of subject by declaring the "incomplete" form of itself, therefore, it puts forward a "subject" issue of exhibition, and put a way of separated combination into its practice.

The works in the exhibition all conform to a dual structure: live and post-live. This intention is indicated or explained by the texts in some works. This is a reflection, which includes inter-textual meaning. The dual structure is the resonance and identity of one exhibition/work subject occurring between two objective environments, which hinder the becoming of cultural textures that are connected as well as distinctive. What kind of combination and consequence the dialogue between these two things will result in? It is a question worth expecting. An exhibition is an extension or attachment of another exhibition? Or two independent structure? Observing the exhibition in the perspective of two shows, it definitely will produce different experience and value. It is an issue waiting to be completed whether the inter-textual connection will be produced.
From the Preface Separated subject and nomadic spirit.

By Wei Yan, 4th May 2013

北村独立工场是一群成员并不固定的自我组织进行各种思想和观念实验的艺术实践平台。自2007年11月创办以来，已经成为西南一隅较有影响力的艺术组织。举办了多次展览：从“两肋岔道”（2010）到“2012场景创造”（2011），从“分岔的花园”（2010）到“二子乘舟”（2012），每一次展览都是一次自我组织的碰撞与梳理，不断显现着自身的文化逻辑和艺术轮廓。

1/2现场”——北村独立工场第8次季展分为两个部分、两个现场、两个时空进行。其中1/2现场于UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心“SEE/SAW”展览中作为一个独立项目已经实施；另一1/2现场在成都许燎源美术馆内进行。两个现场时空差异地分别进行。这样做，首先是一种全新的展览态度：对现有当代艺术展览习惯化的“经典”体制持有异议，并以公开宣称自身的“不完整”形态以对抗一种“完整”的主体欲求或企图，由此提出一个展览的“主体”问题，并用一种分割的组合方式予以自身的实践。

展览中的作品，都符合一种双重结构：现场和后现场。对这一意图部分参展作品加以文本进行了提示和说明。这是一种带有互文性含义的思考。双重结构是同一个展览/作品主体在两个不同的客体环境而发生的共振与相互认同,并生成即关联又存在着差异化的文化肌理。这种两者之间的对话会产生怎样的结合和结果？是一个值得期待的问题。一个展览只是另一个展览的时空衍生或附属？或者是两独立的结构？站在两个现场观测这个展览，都必然要产生它不同的经验及价值。能否生成互文性的关联，更是这次展览要完成的问题。

摘自展览前言《分割的主体和游牧的精神》一文.

 魏言  2013年5月4日

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