主办：联合国开发计划署
协办：联合国艾滋病规划署，联合国教科文组织，英国玛丽斯特普国际组织，英国国际发展部
策展人：张冰
Opening: 3pm, Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Date: November 30th, 2010 - January 03rd, 2011
参展艺术家：陈航峰，邓华＋傅真，高磊，顾叶丽＋Raquel Fernandez，李一凡，林哲乐，刘任，缪晓春， Michael Ziming Ouyang，沈少民，史金凇，宋冬，王韬程，吴俊勇，向京，严超，朱发东
距离是一个绝对具有相对性的词语，在不断对于距离相对性的探求中，我们只能无限可能地接近绝对。
此次展览，是一份对于中国农村艾滋病现状的社会调查报告。它包含两个部分，一部分以照片日记的方式纪录了策展人、艺术家、医务工作者、志愿者、心理专家和记者在广西、云南和山西农村的生活经历。通过对当地历史文化、地理位置、气候特点、人口分布和风俗习惯的了解，我们更加接近艾滋病感染者所处的社会环境；通过对当地政治经济发展变化的了解，我们更加清楚艾滋病在本地发生发展的变迁脉络。当艾滋病患者以坦然的态度接纳“我们”的时候，“我们”得到被接纳后的释然。平等自然的方式缩短了我们与艾滋病感染者的距离。在灶头、在田间、在山路上，在我们与艾滋病感染者共同生活和劳作的过程中，我们得以近距离的进入他们的情感与私人空间。除却疾病所带来的健康问题之外，艾滋病象一张试纸，测试了人与人的社会关系、家庭关系、血缘关系、族群关系，以及这些人际关系中人情、亲情、友情和爱情的底线。我们看到支持、理解、爱与包容，我们同时也看到自私、残酷、背叛和冷漠。我们再次面对对自我的认知与评判，对人性的认知与反省。
展览的第二部分展现了艺术家的创作部分。在和患者相处前后大约一个月的时间里，我们不仅了解到艾滋病对患者个体生活的影响，我们也从一些侧面了解到中国农村的社会现状。水土流失，地下水的过度使用，药物的安全检测，农民的医疗保障，在农村向城市化发展过程中中国传统文化的流逝，社会价值取向的变化，成为比艾滋病更加严峻的社会现实。在《绝对距离》中，对于艾滋病的社会调查不仅仅成为我们认知艾滋病的一种方式，也成为“我们”认知“我们”自身的一种有效途径，成为面对各种社会现实问题与不同文化差异时我们心理状态的一种测试。Absolute distance | ABSOLUTE DISTANCE2010-11-21 9:09:16 Source: Heritage Network
Organizer: United Nations Development Programme
Co: UNAIDS, UNESCO, the United Kingdom Marie Stopes International, United Kingdom Department for International Development
Curator: Zhang Bing
Opening: 3pm, Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Date: November 30th, 2010 - January 03rd, 2011
Artists: Chen Hangfeng, Deng Hua + Fu true, Gao Lei, Gu Ye Li + Raquel Fernandez, Li Yifan, Lin Che-Lok, Liu Ren, Miao Xiaochun, Michael Ziming Ouyang, Shen Shaomin, Shi Song, Song Dong, Wang Tao Cheng Wu, to Beijing, Yan Chao, Zhu Fadong
Distance is a relative and absolute terms, in the continuous quest for the relative distance, we can only possibilities close to absolute.
The exhibition is a situation of AIDS in rural China for the social investigation report. It consists of two parts, the photo diary documenting the curators, artists, health workers, volunteers, psychologists and journalists in Guangxi, Yunnan and Shanxi rural life experiences. On local history and culture, geography, climate, population distribution and customs of the understanding, we are more close to people living with HIV in which the social environment; by changes in political and economic development of local knowledge, we more clearly the development of AIDS in local Changes in context. When the AIDS patients to openly accept the attitude of "we" when "we" have been relieved after acceptance. Equal the natural way we shorten the distance between people living with HIV. In the stove, in the field, in the mountain, with people living with HIV in our common life and labor in the process, we were able to close into their feelings and personal space. Apart from health problems caused by diseases other than AIDS, as a test paper, test the people's social relations, family relations, kinship, ethnic relations, and their human relationships, family, friendship and love of the bottom line. We see support, understanding, love and tolerance, we also see the selfishness, cruelty, betrayal and indifference. Once again, we face perception and evaluation of self, perception and reflection of human nature.
The second part of the exhibition show the artist's part. And patients together in about a month before and after, we learned that AIDS is not only the impact on the lives of individual patients, we also learned from some of the side of the social status of rural China. Soil erosion, overuse of groundwater, drug safety testing, medical care for farmers, rural-urban development in the course of the passage of Chinese traditional culture, social values change, become more severe than the social reality of AIDS. In the "absolute distance", for AIDS is not only our social survey as a way of AIDS awareness, has become "our" knowledge "we" itself is an effective way to become the face of various social problems and cultural differences of different mental state when we as a test.
