Arthub is producing a series of new collaborative artworks for Shanghai eArt festival and Transart. This workshop brought together Aaajiao (multi media artist) and B6 (musicians/electronic composers), Nunu and Ling Xi and Alizia Borsari (actress and perfomer).
These workshops went on all summer in three steps..
The first one saw the artists working together from May 23 to May 30th in BizArt, Shanghai.
The second one was done in June in Shanghai Conservatory. The artists worked n the Conservatory thanks to the support of eArt Festival. At the end of the 3 days work-shop, the artists made a full rehearsal in H Space for two nights.
The third one just finished in preparation for the first presentation on 19 October 2008, 8.30pm on the stage created for the occasion in Xujiahui park.
Images of the lively park and the first steps of this performance are here below.
Footage of this preview will be available soon next week.
忍而为人 “Patience for the Man” is born, following a number of workshops to explore the possibility of an open creative interdisciplinary production, where the single “actors” could, through the work in progress, know each other and generate new artistic content, meaning and directions.
Alizia Borsari introduced a new dramaturgy to the dancers. Select visual artists were asked to go beyond their medium and to experience new techniques of expressions more affiliated to “decontextualized emotions”.The result is a multi media presentation, a live performance within a musicscape. Both B6 and Aaajiao perform live together with the dancers on a stage created by the architect duo Wang Zhenfei and Wang Luming- a presentation that still advocates a possible declination of a work in progress, a temporary result that will be further developed in future presentations.
This collaborative way of working in a multi disciplinary context is fairly new in China. Only few experiences like this one where usefully put in place in the last decade or so. As Els Silvrants of Theatre in Motion writes: “In this respect this program, will create a localized partnership with artists from various disciplines that traditionally are not communicating enough at a creative level. The projects presented are interested in creating, through a work in progress, connections and clusters in China that are able to go beyond themselves to the public in other places. […]
Working with the right partners, in a collaborative effort, establishing in effect a network based on artistic integrity, quality standards and an equal sense of professionalism provides artists, curators and the audience in China and Europe with an important point of reference. It allows for a “context” to grow in China while events and exhibitions in Europe on China can draw upon a solid knowledge framework rooted in the local scene, providing a more in-depth image of the China situation than we unfortunately often come across in big China festivals and exhibits in Europe. “
Participants:
B6, music composer/ Alizia Borsari, art director/performer, Beijing/ Aaajiao, new media artist and computer programming, Shanghai/ Nunu, dancer, Shanghai/ Ling Xi, Dancer, Shanghai /Wang Zhenfei and Wang Luming, architect and concept designer, the Netherlands/ He Yiming, graphic designer, Shanghai
B6 music compositions:
