<![CDATA[BaoBlog]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/PJBlog22009-10-26T17:19:51+08:00<![CDATA[Emporium - opening November 4, 6PM]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2009-10-26T17:19:51+08:002009-10-26T17:19:51+08:00
Curated by: Beatrice Leanza
November 5 – December 8, 2009 Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo Da Vinci Via San Vittore 21, Milano - Italy
Opening for Press and Invited Guests - November 4, 2009, 6:00 PM
Presented for the first time in Milan, the exhibition Emporium - A New Common Sense of Space features the works of 27 artists from China, Japan and South Korea by framing a critical analysis of the materials, places and processes of representation shaping specific uses and interpretations of the ‘contemporary’.
The different material, sonic, architectural and performative explorations here presented intend to encourage both an historical and aesthetic understanding of the social, urban and technological phenomena informing the present of specific cultural regions, and the way they outline a form of radically open, polycentric sense of internationalism.
EMPORIUM draws itself onto a cultural territory that defies notions of regionalism and nation-based entitlements, by privileging instead the impression of a mobile, productively unstable experience of identity, which signals the emergence of aesthetic strategies and subjective orders of yet specific cultural provenience. The exhibition therefore sets forth an investigation of multidisciplinary artistic practices which implicate new formal and conceptual relationships with the space of the contemporary and the habitat of the everyday, by introducing a heterogeneous group of artists, art collectives and independently-run art spaces with backgrounds in art, design, music and architecture. The projects included in this exhibition manifest an intrinsic connection with the spatial and social conventions of their original contexts, and intend to provide an understanding of the way younger generations are formulating new ways to deal with the space of art and social action by assuming a position of open, dynamic marginality.
The tentative, incomplete quality of these, for the large part, installation-based works (featuring photography, video, drawing, architectural interventions, publications, performances, sculpture) comes into being as a product of intimate negotiation and continuous readjustment with the immediate environment and its social implications by forging aesthetic assemblages that subtend re-invented symbolisms and meanings for the contemporary. The aesthetic order framed within this exhibition inhabits the episodic nature of reality by reconnecting to its fragmented, scattered, precarious objects via subtle strategies of self-design, where fragile materials of everyday use and familiar forms are reassembled into new spatial relationships.
The abandoned, discarded and cheap materials which are often employed in these works are recollected and brought into new relations of force, so to expand the field of vision beyond their contingent materiality. In this sense the relationship kindled between the viewer and the work is ever reformulated onto an ambiguous, non-deterministic territory, where consciousness and recognition are negated a manifest environment and rather accommodated in an unstable, non-representational space enforced by a rhetoric of the unexpressed.
The term Emporium, which literally translates as “a city of travelling goods and people”, is here employed as an allusive expression for the visual ramifications of the different works exhibited, the mundane and functional quality of their stylistic languages and materials, as well as the explicit cultural interconnections among the geographical realities represented. More ambiguously, it plays with the “exhibition” intended as a discursive model foregrounding a certain ‘ordering of experience’, and its self-implications with the economics of global art (delocalization, differentiation, spectacle, etc).
Developed by Milan-based dotdotdot studio (www.dotdotdot.it) in collaboration with the curator, the special exhibition design for EMPORIUM orchestrates the works in a graded environment of platforms, bights and staircases, deployed as architectural reminiscences of ancient ports and voyages stretched between permanence and repetition. The newly commissioned and site-specific works by Doojin Ahn, Naihan Li, Megumi Matsubara, Satoshi Hashimoto and Yotaro Niwa are juxtaposed in site of the show so to create zones of pause and flight.
Two performances – Moon Shadow, by Satoshi Hashimoto and Homeshop Hawking by Elaine W. Ho - will be presented for the first 2 days of the show during the museum opening hours. Played out in the transiting area leading to, and inside, the exhibition room, both performances intervene in the processes of observation and participation grounding the relationship between spectacle and audience, subject and object, by subverting their consumptive orders. The relevant installations will be on view for the entire duration of the show. Among others, alternative artistic collectives/spaces based in China (Homeshop, Arrow Factory) have been invited to contribute to the exhibition, as they themselves emplace critical action ‘spaces’ which enter into a specific material relation of use with the place of the local.
A 130 pages catalogue accompanies the show, with texts by the curator and the artists, images of all the works, drawings and pictures of the site-specific installations included.
Artists and Projects:
Ahn Doojin, An Jungju, Ahn Kanghyun, Bae Young Whan, Birdshead (Song Tao & Ji Weiyu), Gao Shiqiang, Hashimoto Satoshi, Ho Elaine W./Homeshop, Jung Yeondoo, Kim Gisoo , Kim Sangdon, Lee Wooyeon, Li Naihan, Liang Shuo, Matsubara Megumi, Min Ji Ae, Ni Haifeng/Arrow Factory, Niwa Yotaro, Young Jung Siren Eun, Qiu Xiaofei, Tanaka Koki, Michikazu Matsune/The Shop, Xijing Men (Gimhongsok, Chen Shaoxiong & Ozawa Tsuyoshi), Yan Jun, Yang Jun, Kimura Yuki, Kimura Taiyo.
organized and produced by: BAO Atelier HK ltd. (Beijing/Hong Kong) Graphic Project and Catalogue: BAO Atelier HK ltd. (Beijing/Hong Kong) Exhibition Design: dotdotdot, Milano
Supported by: Regione Lombardia With the support of: BMP Sas (Milano), The Nomura Cultural Foundation (Tokyo), Unione del Commercio, del Turismo, dei Servizi e delle Professioni della Provincia di Milano. Technical Sponsor: Hantarex, Electronic Systems, Milano.
Supported by: The General Consulate of Japan in Milano, The General Consulate of the Republic of Korea, Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Milano.
]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=25<![CDATA[Preparing EMPORIUM - A New Common Sense of Space]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2009-04-20T20:05:14+08:002009-04-20T20:05:14+08:00
In progress:
Currently in Milano for Salone del Mobile 2009, we are preparing a new exhibition project (see introduction hereunder), comprising more than 30 artists from China, Korea and Japan. Specific exhibition dates and opening times will come soon.
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EMPORIUM - A New Common Sense of Space
curated by: Beatrice Leanza
This exhibition project investigates multidisciplinary artistic practices from East Asia - China, Japan and South Korea - which implicate new formal and conceptual relationships with the space of the contemporary and the habitat of the everyday. Emporium draws itself onto a cultural territory that defies notions of regionalism and nation-based entitlements, by privileging instead the impression of a mobile, productively unstable experience of identity, which signals the emergence of aesthetic strategies and subjective orders of yet specific cultural provenience. These artistic practices resort to a sense of identity, specificity or locality that no longer claims for legitimate signs of ideological or historical authority; new patterns of identification have nowadays retreated from the grand narratives of transnational critique that often referenced the effects of expansive globality, and rather migrated into the expedient contingency of the quotidian and its material expressions, by instituting a new logic of coexistence with its differential and perpetual character. The new aesthetic order framed within this exhibition, inhabits the episodic nature of reality by reconnecting to its fragmented, scattered, precarious objects via subtle strategies of self-design, where fragile materials of everyday use and familiar forms are reassembled into new spatial relationships.
The projects included in this exhibition manifest an intrinsic connection with the spatial and social conventions of their original contexts, and intend to provide an understanding of the way new processes of artistic production and representation extend themselves into the community by forging aesthetic assemblages that subtend re-invented symbolisms and meanings for the contemporary. The term Emporium, which literally translates as “a city of travelling goods and people”, is here employed as an allusive expression for the visual ramifications of the different works exhibited, the mundane and functional quality of their stylistic languages and materials, as well as the explicit cultural interconnections among the geographical realities represented. Introducing an heterogeneous group of more than 30 among artists, art collectives and independent-run art spaces with backgrounds in art, design, music and architecture, the show is conceived both as a visual experience and a critical analysis of the way younger generations are formulating new ways to deal with the space of art and social action by assuming a position of open, dynamic marginality. The tentative, incomplete quality of these, for the large part, installation-based works (featuring photography, video, drawing, architectural interventions, publications, performances, sculpture) comes into being as a product of intimate negotiation and continuous readjustment with the immediate environment and its social implications.
The abandoned, discarded and cheap materials which are often employed in these works are recollected and brought into new relations of force, so to expand the field of vision beyond their contingent materiality. In this sense the relationship kindled between the viewer and the work is ever reformulated onto an ambiguous, non-deterministic territory, where consciousness and recognition are negated a manifest environment and rather accommodated in an unstable, non-representational space enforced by a rhetoric of the unexpressed. Between the facts of life and the fiction of art the visual experience that constitutes these works is the very place of artistic agency, where what is to be seen is not in the document of the represented image but in the logic tension it denotes in revealing itself as an object of interior consumption. Among others, alternative artistic collectives based in China (Homeshop, Arrow Factory) have been invited to contribute to the exhibition, as they themselves emplace critical action ‘spaces’ which enter into a specific material relation of use with the space of the local.
Designed as a special architectural intervention, Emporium includes also commissioned works by Doojin Ahn, Koki Tanaka, Naihan Li, Megumi Matsubara, Satoshi Hashimoto and Yotaro Niwa, together with a special project organized in collaboration with The Shop/Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing. They extricate the semantic layers upon which the show is constructed, and expose the transversal actions negotiated between stylistic contingency and self-process. All of these works are juxtaposed in site of the exhibition in the guise of performative ‘moments’ so that the connection between everyday objects and their symbolic weight is continuously delayed and interrupted, and their visual literature casted in a shifting, ephemeral site, somewhere in-between real, perceptual space and psychological experience.
Artists and Projects by:: Ahn Doojin, An Jungju, Bae Young Whan, Birdhead (Song Tao & Ji Weiyu), Gao Shiqiang, Hashimoto Satoshi, Ho Elaine W./Homeshop, Jung Yeondoo, Kim Gisoo , Kim Sangdon, Lee Wooyeon, Li Naihan, Liang Shuo, Matsubara Megumi, Min Ji Ae, Moon Sungsic, Ni Haifeng/Arrow Factory, Niwa Yotaro, Young Jung Siren Eun, Qiu Xiaofei, Tanaka Koki, The Shop (featuring works and publications by: Yang Jun, Zheng Guogu, Duan Jianyu,Yang Jiang Group, Pak Sheung-chuen, Lee Kit, Heman Chong, Cao Fei, Xu Tan, Hu Fang, Yan Jun), Xijing Men (Gimhongsok, Chen Shaoxiong & Ozawa Tsuyoshi), Yan Jun, Yang Jun, Kimura Yuki, Kimura Taiyo. ]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=24<![CDATA[11th Istanbul Biennale Curators Talk @ UCCA ]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2009-03-16T14:15:03+08:002009-03-16T14:15:03+08:00“What Keeps Mankind Alive?” 11th International Istanbul Biennale Curators in Beijing.
The 11th International Istanbul Biennial will take place between 12 September - 8 November 2009 and takes its title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” from the closing song of the second act of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, written 80 years ago. The curators of the upcoming Istanbul Biennial are the members of What, How & for Whom / WHW, a collective made up of four women: Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic, Sabina Sabolovic and Ivet Curlin. Join us at UCCA on Wednesday, March 18 from 5 to 7 pm, for a presentation and open discussion with curators Ana Devic and Ivet Curlin about their ongoing practice and the critical framework behind the 2009 Istanbul Biennial.
The curatorial research of WHW in China is graciously sponsored by ArtHub, a non-profit foundation supporting contemporary art creation in China and rest of Asia. WHW’s Beijing research is organized in collaboration with Beatrice Leanza/毕月 from BAO Atelier and is generously supported by UCCA and 3plus1bedrooms.
[img][/img][img][/img][img][/img]]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=23<![CDATA[BAO Office - Opening Party! Friday February 1]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2008-01-31T01:09:41+08:002008-01-31T01:09:41+08:00
For those of you than can reach us, Friday February 1 from 6 PM at new BAO premises. Dashanzi Art District - Hongyuan Apartments Block B, Apt 301. See you soon! Bea and JJ And thanks to Kikka for spicing the pictures! Here some more...
Head of Curatorial Team for Intrude - Biljana Ciric, has invited us to realize a site-specific edition of Borderline for this coming summer. We are working on concept framework and program already, more specific news will follow soon! Went down to Shanghai for meetings and reserach, here follow some snapshots taken around town, in Ma Qingyun's office, Bizart, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Contrast Design Gallery, Zendai Museum, Mogashan District (East Link Gallery). (in Ma's office I eventually found the infamous catalogue of the II Shenzhen Biennale, a pink box with loose newspaper-like folios tracing the discursive crescendo of the Biennale's Guerriglia Forums. A latere, moleskine-bites of Dialogues, indexed by topic over the past few months' encounters.
Contrast Gallery
]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=21<![CDATA[Intrude: Art and Life | 介入：艺术生活366天]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2008-01-24T19:27:51+08:002008-01-24T19:27:51+08:00
"Intrude/介入" is an year long program initiated by the Shanghai based Zendai Museum of Modern Art. It is "an interdisciplinary project that connects culture and daily life in many forms and through different media. With a total of 366 events happening throughout the year, the events will be very diverse and will come from different cultural fields – exhibitions, site-specific installations, performances, concerts, film screenings, debates, etc. The aim is to narrow the gap between culture and everyday life, making art more accessible to a broader public. In order to present their work differently, artists will explore new concepts and venture out into the public sphere." (from the official Press Release) Intrude produces also a monthly publication to chronicle the various project and provide a conceptual platform for discussion pertinent to artistic practices in public spaces, a theoretical environment still embryonic in state, within the local context.
www.zendaiart.com and www.intrude366.com
]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=20<![CDATA[New! BAO Office! ]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2008-01-13T16:22:54+08:002008-01-13T16:22:54+08:00
New year, fresh start. We have eventually moved out of Caochangdi premises and found new home in 798 art district. Find out our new addres and all about 'one year and more' of BAO at: www.thebao.com Come around, the door is always open. Happy 2008,
BAO Atelier People
]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=17<![CDATA[DEADEND 总站 :: DAY TWO]]>xiaohehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2007-12-09T18:27:34+08:002007-12-09T18:27:34+08:00 Apparently, there was not enough manpower to guard the 2nd exit of the C6 building where we were stationed, so the door was kept closed, keeping visitors from seeing the DEADEND station. The strategy for day two, then, was to make the station mobile as well. For those visiting the Biennale this week, please find the DEADEND pedicab stop near the first entrance to building C6, just across from the City on Bicycles station.
A daring young participant of Song Kun's pedicab piece finds herself unable to handle the pedicab, and nearly runs over people at the City on Bicycles station. It's much harder than it looks!
Artist Varvara Shavrova and a friend view The Yellow Line by Patrick Tuttofuoco.
A steady stream of visitors keeps our pedicab drivers busy throughout the day.
Biennale participating artist Neville Mars from Dynamic City Foundation and Annemarie Montulet from the Dutch Embassy are on an urban mission. Pedicab work by PROGRAM architectural initiative.]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=14<![CDATA[DEADEND 总站 :: DAY ONE]]>xiaohehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2007-12-08T21:24:05+08:002007-12-08T21:24:05+08:00 The DEADEND stop is located just outside the exit of the C6 building of the Biennale.
Curious visitors read about the five different works presented in order to choose which one they want to ride!
A passenger gets ready to hear participating artist Hong Qile's Shenzhen soundscape.
Our driver calls the secret line to activate the work from architectural initiative PROGRAM.
Beijing-based artist Song Kun's piece involves the passenger switching places with the driver. ]]>http://www.thebao.com/Blog/default.asp?id=13<![CDATA[5 Women - Our Drivers!]]>BeaBiYuehttp://www.thebao.com/Blog/2007-12-08T19:08:25+08:002007-12-08T19:08:25+08:00
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