Arthub Favorite: Week 102
Chongming Contemporary Art Park “Summer Night Screening”
On May 27, Quxiang Park in Chongming Island will open. MadeIn Company will host an art party at night for a summer get away. Screening of important video archive will be presented with food.
Itinerary
18:00-20:00 Screening:
documentary of “Shanghai Contemporary Art Archive Research Project After 1998”
16:00-20:00
BBQ Party (the park closes at 21:00)
Venue: 100m to the southwest of Liuyaogang, Chongming District
Contact: Chen Jiaying 18650393792, Yang Yang 18573978885
By Shuttle bus (optional):
May 27, 13:30, gather at Jinjiang Hotel on Changle Road (No.161).
RSVP (submit before 25th 17:00)
Click here, send your name + telephone number to the backstage.
About the screening:
“Shanghai Contemporary Art Archive Research Project After 1998” as a not-for-profit archival project, has gathered a whole generation of artists’ memory and history vision. The documentary is consists of 3 chapters: BizArt Center, artists’ curatorial practice, and Art-Ba-Ba, focusing on the topic of “contemporary art eco-system after 1998”. It illustrates this very important, yet not very often mentioned history, rethink the development of Shanghai and China contemporary art. This screening is its first time been presented after Guggenheim NYC and Bilbao.
Interviewees in the documentary (partial):
Alexander Brandt (Fei Pingguo), Chen Xiaoyun, Guan Chaoqun, He An, Lorenz Helbing, Huang Kui, Huang Yuanqing, Jin Feng, Jin Liping, Li Xuehui, Liu Wei, Lu Jie, Lu Mingjun, Davide Quadrio, Colin Chinnery, Shen Weiwei, Shi Yong, Philip Tinari, Wang Jianwei, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Zhao Yao, Zhu Yu, Zhou Zixi.
Other videos of the screening program (partial):
1998 No.310 Jinyuan Road
1999 Supermarket
2004 Courier 62761232
2006 38 solo exhibitions
About Quxiang Park
It is a park of contemporary art, located in the Xianghua Town in the northest of Chongming Island. The park was established by Xu Zhen, Fang Wei and Yin Ru, will be opened to the public on May 27, 2018. The park occupies more than 100,000 meter squared, with lake, wet land, horse ranch, and exhibition areas.