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Participants: Defne Ayas

I’m Not There, a satellite publication for Gwangju Biennale at Basel 2010

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is proud to announce the publication of I’m Not There, a sourcebook edited by Biennale Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni with advisors Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio of ArtHub Asia. With 572 pages and more than 400 color reproductions, I’m Not There brings together the work of 190 artists from Asia, making it [...]

With Charles Esche on China

A collaborative encounter between the Van Abbemuseum and Arthub Asia, Double Infinity took place at the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, parallel to the World Expo 2010. Comprising of an exhibition, a performance series, a lecture programme and a publication, Double Infinity marked the first time that a museum opened itself and its permanent collection [...]

Points of Encounter- a Timeline to be Completed

Prepared by Defne Ayas for the occasion of Double Infinity book. TIMELINE 1852
Stichting van de eerste school waar
door jezuïeten westerse schilderkunst
wordt gedoceerd: het Tushanwan
Arts and Crafts Centre (Tushanwan
huaguan).
Founding of the first Jesuit school
teaching Western painting by
Jesuits – the Tushanwan Arts and
Crafts Centre (Tushanwan huaguan)
耶稣会创立第一所教授西方绘画的学
校...

Double Infinity: The Last Two Decades Revisited in Shanghai

5/15/10 - 5/16/10

Double Infinity: “The Last Two Decades Revisited”
SATURDAY, May 15, 2010
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Cracking Open Once Again: The Timeline of Chinese Art History. Part 1 1979-1995 (approx) Participants: Song Haidong (artist), Chen Tong (artist/publisher), Dr. Paul Gladston (art historian), moderated by Carol Yinghua Lu.
Is there ever an agreed history? What are the possible [...]

‘Double Infinity’, A collaborative encounter between Van Abbemuseum and Arthub Asia -Shanghai

4/29/10 - 5/23/10

Opens April 29th, 4 pm at 800 ChangDe Lu in Shanghai. Press preview at 3 pm, please RSVP to press@arthubasia.org.
Press Release
“Today, tomorrow, but not too far”
Double Infinity
Shanghai 29/04 – 23/05/2010
On the 29th of April Double Infinity, a joint initiative by the Van Abbemuseum and Arthub Asia, will open at the Dutch Culture Centre [...]

Golden Ghost (Double happiness comes to the door) by Surasi Kusolwong- Shanghai

5/16/10 - 5/16/10

May 16, 2010 at 800 ChangDe Lu in Shanghai
Thai artist, Surasi Kusolwong installs a whole room full of waste thread material in which a golden necklace is hid every week and can be found by lucky visitors. The finder is able to keep the necklace, making the “game” a truly worthwhile experience, playing with the extremes [...]

The Party Camp Project by Zhou Xiaohu in Shanghai

4/29/10 - 4/29/10

The Party Camp Project by Zhou Xiaohu
During the opening of the exhibition Double Infinity, April 29th, 5 pm at 800 ChangDe Lu in Shanghai, Zhou Xiaohu invites all local and international guests as well as party waiters and technical staff to join the opening, if they follow a series of orders made by the artist.
Double [...]

Arthub Commission: Ho Tzu Nyen’s new short film at Tate Modern, NSFS

Ho Tzu Nyen was invited by Arthub directors Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio to create a new artwork during the Arthub Summit: The Making of the New Silk Roads symposium in Bangkok. This film will be on view at Tate Modern’s No Soul for Sale.
Here below is what Ho says about this experience:
“With The Making of the [...]

Arthub at Art Rotterdam

2/3/10 - 2/3/10

In occasion of the Art Rotterdam, Arthub Director Defne Ayas has been invited to speak at the Art Rotterdam. For press release and more info please visit the site of the fair.

RMB City Opera by Cao Fei (Turin), Artissima 2009

11/1/09

Utopia of Utopias: The Pleasure of Rewriting Realities
Introduction by Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio
As part of the Artissima 16 Theatre Project “Blinding the Ears”, Arthub has invited the artist Cao Fei to create a live piece based on her RMB City project- an experimental city and community in the internet-based virtual world of Second [...]

Arthub Summit: The Making of the New Silk Roads (Bangkok)

8/27/09 - 8/30/09

To see the video clip (8.50 min) of the event in Vimeo, click here. Prologue: before the symposium
More than thirty renowned scholars, artists, and practitioners in visual arts, performance, and other cultural fields from around the world will gather in Bangkok to discuss and reflect on the dynamic, ongoing echoes of the ancient trading route Silk Road [...]

Models of Twenty-first Century Urbanism in Shanghai

8/18/09 - 8/18/09

Architectural Association School of Architecture’s Shanghai Summer School 2009
Symposium
Tuesday 18 August, 2009, 16:00 - 18:00
Hosted at the University of Hong Kong
Faculty of Architecture Study Centre, Shanghai
No. 298 North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Perhaps no other city than Shanghai better represents the unique ambitions of China to model its expanding cities as having concurrently specific Chinese [...]