▲Exhibition view: "Philippe Parreno: A Time Coloured Space" at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, 2017. Photo: © Andrea Rossetti.

　　This summer,Rockbund Art Museumis seeking a group oftalented individuals with musical experiencefor a unique opportunity to be part of an excellent exhibition. The world's leading and most innovative artist, Philippe Parreno, will have his first solo exhibition in China at Rockbund Art Museum. In this project, a team of performers will interact with visitors in various ways.

　　You don’t need to be a professional musician or musical performer, what we need is your passion and unique understanding. Join us now, to be the soul of the exhibition!

　　“Philippe Parreno brings the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to life in a brilliant use of public space.”

　　-Evening Standard, Ben Luke, October 2016

　　“Philippe Parreno’s Turbine Hall review – mesmerising and unmissable.”

　　-The Guardian, Adrian Searle, October 2016

　　What is the exhibition and performance?

　　▲Installation view of Hyundai Commission 2016: "Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, " 2016. Photo© Tate Photography

　　Over the past twenty years, Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition going experience by exploring its possibilities as a medium in its own right. Realised in dialogue with the physicality and functionality of the museum’s architecture, the exhibition will alter the building’s current existence through an unexpected use of time, space, light, and sound to become asemi-automated puppet, a perpetual motion of events in which Parreno subverts the conventions of the gallery space.

　　For the very first time, Parrenowith dramaturge Asad will work with ‘dalang’ performer to operate the exhibition. A ‘Dalang’ refers to the puppeteer in an Indonesian Wayang performance; traditionally controlling the white screen and lighting that together create the shadow puppets that make up the performance.In this exhibition, ‘dalang’ performers will interact with visitors to the museum in various ways. They will help to set in motion the exhibition's components, from installation, sound, film, to moving elements, and will also have conversations with visitors as well as other dramaturgical elements.

　　Casting Criteria

With musical experience, deeply interested in music, i.e. playing a musical instrument, singing and composing.

No gender preference, aged over 18 years old

No need of any performance related backgrounds!!!

Bilingual (preferred)

Good voice (preferred)

Working Time: The participation is highly flexible over the three months from July 7th to September 17th but will be requiring for 12-16 hours per week on average (Museum closed on Mondays).

The participant should be charismatic and would enjoy the interaction with the audience.

　　Time Line and Payment

　　Interview Schedule:2017 / 06 / 27 – 2017 / 06 / 29.The artists are assembling this team beginning with meetings in late June.

　　The participation is over the three months from

　　2017 / 07 / 07 to 2017 / 09 / 17

　　Payment: 100 RMB/ per hour, 30 RMB lunch allowance /per day.

　　How to register:

　　Please Visit our website, click "press" and download the form.

　　Insert your photo and send it to RAM email address before 6.20.

　　Application by email or by EMS is acceptable. We will contact you for interview accordingly.

　　Tel:021 33109985 7101

　　Address: Rockbund Art Museum, No.20 Huqiu Road, HuangpuDistrict, Shanghai.

　　Consignee: Ms. Jin

　　Email: Info@rockbundartmuseum.org

　　Email title:“Dalang”Performance + Your Name

Who is the world's leading artist?

Philippe Parreno

　　A key artist of his generation, Philippe Parreno radically redefined the exhibition experience by taking it as a medium, placing its construction at the heart of his process.Working in a diverse range of media including film, sculpture, drawing, and text, Parreno conceives his exhibitions as a ed space where a series of events unfold. He seeks to transform the exhibition visit into a singular experience that plays with spatial and temporal boundaries and the sensory experience of the visitor, who is guided through the space by the orchestration of sound and image.

　　For the artist, the exhibition is less a total work of art than a necessary interdependence that offers an ongoing series of open possibilities.

　　▲Installation view of Hyundai Commission 2016: "Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, " 2016. Photo © Tate Photography

　　Based in Paris, France, Parreno has exhibited and published internationally. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Grenoblefrom 1983 - 1988 and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en arts plastiques atthe Palais de Tokyo, Paris from 1988 -1989.

　　▲Installation view of Hyundai Commission 2016: "Philippe Parreno: Anywhen, " 2016. Photo © Tate Photography

　　Parreno was awarded the prestigious 2016 Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, titled Anywhen the commission received international acclaim. Parreno was also the first artist to take over the entire 22,000 square metre gallery space at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris with his exhibition Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the Worldwhich opened in October 2013. Major exhibitions of Parreno’s work include: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2017); ACMI, Melbourne (2016/17); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2015), Park Avenue Armory, New York (2015), CAC Malaga (2014), The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2013); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2013); Fondation Beyeler (2012); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2012); The Serpentine Gallery, London (2010); Witte de With (2010); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009); Kunsthalle Zurich (2009); CCA Kitakyoshu, Japan (2006); Kunsthalle Zürich (2006); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2003); Musée D’Art Moderne de le Ville de Paris (2002), and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2001).

　　Who is the creative dramaturge?

Asad Raza

　　Asad Raza (b. 1974, USA) is an artist and producer whose recent projects include Root sequence. Mother tongue at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the home show at his apartment in New York, and installations at Frieze Projects (London, 2015), and the Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial (2015). He served as a dramaturge for Philippe Parreno’s H{N)YPN(Y}OSIS at Park Avenue Armory, (New York, 2015), and the group shows A stroll through a fun palace (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014), and Solaris Chronicles (LUMA Arles, 2014). Raza also recently co-curated the exhibitions Mondialité with Hans Ulrich Obrist (2017) and Decor with Tino Sehgal and Dorothea von Hantelmann (2016) at the Villa Empain in Brussels.

　　About ROCKBUND ARTMUSEUM

　　For over 7 years RAM has been at the forefront of the growing contemporary art scene in China, presenting world-class programmes in a unique museum setting. A boutique Museum of the upmost quality, RAM holds a unique position within Shanghai’s continually expanding cultural scene. The Museum is located within the Bund district and housed in an exquisite heritage Art Deco building, which was renovated by architect David Chipperfield before opening in 2010.

　　The museum’s exemplary curatorial, education and research programmes showcase acclaimed and emerging Chinese and international artists, responding to and reflecting on present and urgent challenges of society locally and internationally. RAM presents a bold and pioneering programme of 3 exhibitions and a special project “RAM HIGHLIGHT” per year; exploring and realising artists’ most ambitious projects and working with them to tailor exhibitions to the Museum and to the Shanghai context, often with a large proportion of works being new commissions. RAM devises, produces andcurates its programme in-house, in conjunction with carefully selected international collaborations of the highest quality.

　　For more information, please visit: www.rockbundartmuseum.org