Para-Production photos

For those of you not in Beijing who want a peek at the show I just curated by Ni Haifeng, please check out my flickr. There are many 'in-process' photos and finished ones too though the real professional shots of finished work yet to be taken...

Para-Production by Ni Haifeng....in process

some in-process shots of Para-Production, Ni Haifeng's show at Joyart which opens this Saturday, Sept 27.

 

 

that is nearly 5 tons of shreds, still awaiting delivery of 10 more

 

part of the large wall hanging, about 170 square meters so far

Xijing Olympics

This is one of the most excellent shows I have seen in Beijing in awhile. Finally some humor! the three artists in this group - Chen Shaoxiong(China), Gim Hongsok (Korea) and Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Japan) - are known collectively as Xijing Men, and clearly, they are having way too much fun.

A few weeks ago during the real festivities they held their own Olympics of sorts at Boers-Li Gallery, using everyday materials and objects. Shown here: fencing (water calligraphy brushes used for morning exercises), Soccer (kicking watermelons around), three person ping-pong match and basketball. Competitions not shown here: the torch relay (a lit cigarette passed along and culminating in a lit chuanr barbeque), shotput (tossing an egg) and my personal favorite, weightlifting (beer bottlecaps affixed to either end of a chopstick and lifted with one finger)...oh the list goes on.

genius phone design

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family book collection

Some interesting new information just surfaced about my great grandfather's book collection that was donated to UBC (University of British Columbia) library some years ago. Very interesting, now I just wish I had time to get into that family history project I have always wanted to do...

a video show with no electricity

found these photos in my files and forgot that I wanted to post them. Close to a month ago I went to see a show over the new Legation Quarter, a new luxury complex along the lines of Shanghai's Three on the Bund--fancy shops, restaurants and of course, a top notch art gallery. It was their inaugural show called "Where are we?" with an impressive line up of artists so I went to see what the fuss was about. However, the whole complex is still under construction and we arrived to discover that the power was turned off. These spaces meant for video became eerie and a bit haunting, like something had spirited away the images...where are they?