Arthub Favorite: Week 70

When Shanghai is in its silent month of art scene, Beijing is now busy with openings and event. Arthub would like to introduce you the Third Edition of Independent Art Space. From August 26 to September 9, you will experience all kinds of art events, including art performance, opening, exhibition, workshop, lecture, or even KTV in Beijing.

About IAS

The curatorial premise for the 3rd Independent Art Spaces is part feeling, part idea: Periods of change hold distinctive creative potential. When it comes to the city of Beijing, it is a morphing environment whose only constant is its inevitable transformation. The question for artists, curators, cultural practitioners then is: To what extent do we see art as merely reflective, illustrative, or representative of its specific cultural and sociopolitical context, rather than endowed with the capacity to transcend difference and engage critically with change, re-adapt, redesign, or influence change?

Warped, fragmented and endlessly repeated. Responses to the urban experience have ranged from unbridled enthusiasm for these vibrant hubs of glittering prosperity to examinations of the psychological shadows of city living: alienation, anxiety, tension and fear. The current status of global cities is marked by new geographies and social relations molded by advancing technologies and economic systems. How do contemporary artists respond to these conditions?

Organized by:
I: project space and the IAS network

Special thanks to:
Sasha Fominskaya, LAVA Design Beijing and Sun Chang

Schedule

8.26

I:Project Space | 4:00-18:00
Get your poesters & programs at the IAS headquarters

8.27

Institute for Provocation
IFP | 16:30
The “Tetris Project” Initiative: Restaging the Decameron/

Minority Space | 17:00
Treadmorph, 2017 – Z Factory

8.28

I:Project Space | 19:00-21:00
Poster Party

8.29