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16th May, 2009
Alart Salon: 14:00
Global art in motion: performance that travels Kara, Steffie, Kevin, Steffie, CUI Han, CHEN Ying, etc
Independent Movie: 19:00
-- 1. The very beginning
HAN Yuqi, MAO Guangju
Background:
Global art in motion: performance that travels
Steffie -Artist’s powerpoint -Dance performance Kara -Artist’s powerpoint of some sculptures and drawings -Performance -Afterwords/Q&A Kevin and Steffie -Artist’s (K’s) powerpoint
-Performance with banjo and dancing
Artist’s Statement Experimental Performance, Version Two, Shanghai
I’ve always been fascinated by anything that can inspire an almost unanimous reaction in a group of people who are outwardly very diverse but crucially linked by something so basic and often unnoticed. I consider this phenomenon to be like an invisible master key. I seek to exploit these ties and the eerie lack of difference by engaging with the audience and this performance.
I enjoy the concept of the audience being the performance. This is one of the reasons I do not like to explain what this performance consists of beforehand; I like my audience to be naive to the fact that not all acts consumed in leisure are safe. I want them to come not expecting anything because this act could be considered closer to sociology than art, and any prior explanation could taint the interaction. Though I’d suspect the previous isn’t true, I’d still like to maintain the same controls that I began with during the first version in Olympia, Washington. For in the future, I’d like to reperform this in another location, gaining more results to contrast to those previous. To do this, we all know that from a scientific standpoint one must keep the controls fixed. This introduction is already against the basic idea of the performance—preying on the unknown—for you are now the informed and the forewarned, but because this will be happening in a culture not of my own upbringing, I feel that it is respectful and fair to give at least the obligatory artist’s statement, regardless how vague.
-- 1. The very beginning
HAN Yuqi, MAO Guangju
Image Tunnel has 1001 pairs of drifting bottles, each with different numbers on the bottom. It is the symbol of dream.
210 The New Voyage; 77 Chinese Valentine’s Day; 19 The Flower Fairy; 9 The Perfume; 616 China’s Movie Industry; 38 The Smallest Cinema in Shanghai; 712 Perfection; 1001 Crystal Memory and Pure Dreams.
From 2002 to 2009, volunteers of Image Tunnel protected M50 area, promoted China's independent films and photographers. In 2009, we have 1001 crystal memory.
Thus speaks Image Tunnel You might not be able to enter the photographers’ heart But you can still share their dreams For we’ve experienced the same era What did we ignore in the flow of time? What are we searching for? What do we really need in our lives…
1001: Crystal Memory -- A Dream of Shanghai
It all starts from the “Left Bank of the Seine of the East”, a dream of an individual To the “New Voyage”, the dream of a young team Image Tunnel now has a collective dream of all intellectuals that is the Renaissance of Local Culture 1001 pairs of Image Tunnel Drifting Bottle begin their journey from No. 19 cabin beside Suzhou Creek, and the crystal memory starts…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A Dream of Shanghai~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2002-2008 the Memory
2002: A dream for the Better City -- the owner of Image Tunnel, Han Quqi protected M50 area; paid more attention to Suzhou Creek, the old Shanghai and Huangpu River 2003-2004: published book « Left Bank of the Seine of the East-- The Art Warehouses of Suzhou Creek »; 2005: “Image Tunnel” the Art festival on the theme of “the Reminiscence of Suzhou Creek”--14 activities on the theme of “Non-material cultural heritage”; 2006: Book «It all Started from Silence»; acted before the 2010 EXPO 2007: Image Tunnel’s New Voyage; began Saturday movie discussion-- showed 25 documentary films, 15 experimental movies, 16 fictional movies and so on, 59 movies in all; invited 51 directors and studios to meet the audience 2008: Independent Movies and Alart Salon; 1001 pairs of Drifting Bottles were created.