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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 [...]

China and India in Context and Comparison

7/16/09 - 7/16/09

Panel Discussion: China and India in Context and Comparison
as part of Xianzai India exhibition
Thursday, July 16, 3.30 pm
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
with panelists:
Jitish Kallat (Visual artist, India), Alexander Keefe (Curator, India), Tsong-zung Chang (Curator and Gallery Owner, Hong Kong), Diana Freundl (India Xianzai curator, Shanghai) Moderated by Defne Ayas ( Director of Arthub Asia, [...]

Shanghai Futurism IV: Polyexpressive Symphonies with Mai Mai (aka Asthma Writers Union), Jun Yuan, and Xu Cheng of Torturing Nurse

6/6/09 - 6/6/09

Following the success of Inner Noise organized by Yan Jun, Arthub continued to provide promotional support to PERFORMA’s Futurism-related seminars in Shanghai, in collaboration with multitude venues. The following session took place at MoCa Artlab.
Polyexpressive Symphonies- A session of experiments in cinema and music.
Music performance by Mai Mai (aka Asthma Writers Union) and Jun Yuan. [...]

Shanghai Futurism III: Futurist Visions in Architecture for Shanghai

5/23/09 - 5/23/09

Featuring Shanghai Expo2010 Dutch Pavilion designer and artist John Körmeling; visual artist Alicia Framis; artist-architect collective Speedism; and architect Koon Wee.
A session on architecture, speed, motion, and urgency. We will get together to discuss dynamic ideas for a new kind of an architecture for the city of Shanghai. Playful, provocative, lively. Please join us!
Saturday, May [...]

Arthub’s Defne Ayas on Art and Design at Asia Art Archive, for ART HK 09

5/16/09 - 5/16/09

AAA presents a series of programmes with some of the leading experts and practitioners in the field. Backroom Conversations includes panel discussions and screenings that touch on a number of prevalent issues and offer a first-hand look into the contemporary art world today.
When: 14th - 17th May 2009
Where: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition [...]

Open Academy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2008-2009

4/1/09 - 5/30/09

Report from Ellen Pearlman Background
Through an invitation to research on the conditions in UB extended by Arts Council Mongolia (private org. originally initiated through SOROS fund) in 2005, a research and presentations trip was arranged in 2006, October with Davide Quadrio, Chu Yuan and Jay Koh as part of Compass project. Here they met organisations such [...]

Shanghai Futurism II: Inner Noise from New Asia

4/15/09 - 4/15/09

Following the success of the musical collaborations that ensued Christian Marclay’s Screenplay, Arthub has invited Yan Jun to curate an evening of noise in Shanghai.
The program titled “Inner Noise from New Asia” will use Luigi Russolo’s Futurist manifesto, “The Art of Noises,” as a historical reference point and feature new work by contemporary performers [...]

Shanghai Futurism I: Graphic Design and Typography in China - Then and Now

3/22/09 - 3/22/09

March 22, 3 pm, as part of Shanghai International Literary Festival 2009
What is the current state of graphic design and typographic experimentation in China? What is the extent of its influence on visual arts, and media, from books to (maga)zines, or album covers to movie credits to advertisements? How is it used in underground scenes [...]

Indonesian and Chinese animation season at Artissima Cinema

11/6/08 - 11/10/08

Not Only China, please!
Arthub’s Davide Quadrio invited Defne Ayas and Agung Kurniawan to curate a screening that presents animation artworks from China and Indonesia. Starting from the “metaphorical place” represented by China, country that symbolizes the inevitable new order of the world, the two programs present a selection of animation short videos that reveal different [...]

Screen Play by Christian Marclay in Shanghai - a PERFORMA production

10/22/08 - 10/22/08

Wednesday, October 22, 7:30 PM, At Xujiahui Park (Metro Line 1)
Performers: Elliott Sharp, Wu Na, Wang Li Chuan 王力川, Ben Houge, Yan Jun 颜峻, Bruce Gremo and Top Floor Circus 顶楼的马戏团 Presented as part of Final Cut of the Shanghai E-arts Festival 2008.
Screen Play is a video score by artist Christian Marclay in which found [...]

Q2008 by Feng Mengbo- video gaming performance first time in public

Presented as part of Final Cut of Shanghai eArts Festival 2008. Organized by Davide Quadrio in collaboration with Defne Ayas.
Based in Beijing, Feng Mengbo has been working on the blurred boundary between digital gaming and contemporary art by showcasing works that inhabit both spheres. Besides experimental modifications of commercial games and creating of his own, [...]

Participants: Defne Ayas

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

8/27/09 - 8/30/09

Models of Twenty-first Century Urbanism in Shanghai

8/18/09 - 8/18/09

China and India in Context and Comparison

7/16/09 - 7/16/09

Shanghai Futurism IV: Polyexpressive Symphonies with Mai Mai (aka Asthma Writers Union), Jun Yuan, and Xu Cheng of Torturing Nurse

6/6/09 - 6/6/09

Shanghai Futurism III: Futurist Visions in Architecture for Shanghai

5/23/09 - 5/23/09

Arthub’s Defne Ayas on Art and Design at Asia Art Archive, for ART HK 09

5/16/09 - 5/16/09

Open Academy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2008-2009

4/1/09 - 5/30/09

Shanghai Futurism II: Inner Noise from New Asia

4/15/09 - 4/15/09

Shanghai Futurism I: Graphic Design and Typography in China - Then and Now

3/22/09 - 3/22/09

Indonesian and Chinese animation season at Artissima Cinema

11/6/08 - 11/10/08

Screen Play by Christian Marclay in Shanghai - a PERFORMA production

10/22/08 - 10/22/08

Q2008 by Feng Mengbo- video gaming performance first time in public

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