arthub | y2009

Participants: y2009

中国与印度之语境比较

7/16/09 - 7/16/09

专题讨论：中国与印度之语境比较
《印度现在》展组成部分
2009年7月16日（周四），下午3:30
上海当代艺术馆
与会者：
Jitish Kallat (视觉艺术家, 印度)
Alexander Keefe (策展人, 印度)
张颂仁 (策展人、画廊主, 香港)
Diana Freundl (《印度现在》策展人，上海)
Defne Ayas主持 (Arthub亚洲董事, 上海)

在过去的数年，中国和印度在艺术方面...

《龙头》，曼谷世界电影节展映作品

11/6/09 - 11/15/09

曼谷世界电影节旨在介绍世界范围内高品质的非主流电影，希望为从电影大师到新兴电影人才的独立电影和电影新作提供一个展示的舞台，以突显代际承接性这一电影工业发展的重要元素。
每年有超过80部世界电影在电影节上展映，具体包括来自欧盟电影节、拉丁美洲、亚洲和东南亚的电影作品以及短片、实验电影、纪录片和动画片这些电影工业领域的新焦点。
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‘Brave New Worlds’, CHINA (Beijing) – CONGO (Kinshasa)

3/1/10 - 7/1/10

Arthub is delighted to participate / provide support in ‘Brave New Worlds’, CHINA (Beijing) – CONGO (Kinshasa) - a research initiative of Theatre in Motion (TIM) in Beijing and Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) in Brussels.
This project focuses on the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) and The People’s Republic of China (Beijing) – and the mobility between [...]

40+4 and ZKM in Germany, residency

12/27/09 - 1/17/10

ZKM invited Arthub and Zhu Xiaowen to a residency in ZKM headquarters in Germany.
The result is a PanoramaScreen version of 40+4 is being produced in ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe by Berned Lintermann and Xiaowen Zhu.
PanoramaScreen is a special cylindrical projection environment for an innovative display system-PanoramaTechnology. It consists a specially [...]

The Secret Li(f)e of Chinese Contemporary Art, by Roberta Lombardi

“Culture” and “art” can no longer be simply extended to non-Western peoples and things. They can at worst be imposed, at best translated.
James Clifford It exists an education of the taste that have the gradual effect of masking, instilling arbitrary notions, the arbitraries of the notions instilled.
Pierre Bourdieu Civilization is just a chaotic jumble of rags [...]

Situating Socially Engaged Art in China

This text is based on the paper by Zheng Zhuangzhou given in the occasion of “Negotiating Difference Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context”, in Berlin, October 2009. Please click here for more information about the symposium.
Within the past few years, a number of socially engaged art projects have emerged in China. Let me give you [...]

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 [...]

The Head of the Dragon as part of World Film Festival of Bangkok

11/6/09 - 11/15/09

The objective of the World Film Festival of Bangkok is to introduce quality, non-mainstream films from all over the world. It aims to become a showcase for independent films and new work from rising talents to cinema masters to show the continuity from generation to generation as a vital component in the development of the [...]

Daring to fail. Qiu Zhijie’s consciousness for experimentation

“I believe that there are lots of secrets awaiting discovery. Man’s perceptive capabilities can be further raised.” Quote during a conversation with Wang Xingwei, 2007. After almost two years, the series of conversations I had with artists based in Shanghai and that led to the project 40+4, still come out to be a source of incredible inspiration. [...]

Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context

10/21/09 - 10/24/09

For all information and registration form please click here.
The Department of East Asian Art History of Freie Universität Berlin organizes the
International Graduate Conference
Negotiating Difference
Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context
October 22–24, 2009
The conference is realized in co-operation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
(HKW) that will host the event. It is [...]

‘Reversed Images’, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)

9/24/09 - 12/23/09

“Industrial perspectives before my eyes. Unforgiving architecture. The prospect of a future civilization made of metal structures covering the passageway to the world.” Arrival, 2008 by Davide Quadrio In September of 2009 the Museum of Contemporary Photography is opening an exhibition organized by Davide Quadrio entitled “Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material [...]

Dragons, Tigers and Lions: Contemporary Art in South East Asia and China

9/12/09 - 9/12/09

Please click on the image to see the program