Year: Tuesday June 30th, 2015

Guest: Lionel Marchetti, Soviet Pop, YAN Jun

Date: 2013-11-09  19:00 ~ 2013-11-09  20:30

Address: Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai

Artist: Lionel Marchetti, Soviet Pop, YAN Jun

Planned by BM Space, Subjam

Organized by Chronus Art Center

Special thanks to SCAC-IFC

Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chornusartcenter.org .

This concert will be performed jointly by three sound artists - Lionel Marchetti, Soviet Pop and YAN Jun.

About the Artists

Lionel Marchetti (French, tape machine, electroacoustic）

He is one of the representative musicians of electroacoustic music and improvisation. He is also a poet, visual artist, composer, improviser, author（He advocated essays regarding Michel Chion musical aesthetics）, sound artists and educator.

As the successor and innovator of the great traditional figurative music, he takes a profoundly different way and attitude from the academic seniors, to make it more open and energetic. He uses traditional tape machine, microphone (feedback), electromagnetic wave interference and varieties of small electronic equipments. He is also keen on field recording and have a long-term cooperation with Butoh performer Yoko Higashi.

Been active in the music festivals and concerts around the world, he has published more than 40 albums.

Soviet Pop (Chinese, synthesizer, electroacoustic）

Soviet Pop is based in Beijing. The group consists of LI Qing and Levis, who are also members of a well-know indie rock band.

They mainly use analog synthesizer and other electronic equipments like effector, underlining the experimental process of music. Their recent performances have been quiet, abstract and related to space.

They’re new activist of Chinese improvise music scene.

site.douban.com/sovietpop

YAN Jun (Chinese, electroacoustic)

YAN Jun is an improvised musician based in Beijing. He mainly uses electronic equipments to create feedback. The change of sound is derived from the balance and relationship between microphone, sound console and loudspeaker, space, environmental sound, airflow. Sometimes, he also does conceptual performance, and participates in sound art exhibition.

He always toured in music festivals around the world, and won nomination prize of Austrian Electronic Art Awards.

www.yanjun.org

Lionel Marchetti – 23 FORMES EN ELASTIQUE / Yan Jun – The Only Authentic Work
Book + CD; Chinese and English, 121 pages, 4-color print, hardcover; limited 500 copies; published by Subjam in November 2013.

Limited editions will be on sale after the show!

23 FORMES EN ELASTIQUE

Over 77minutes. 23 songs, all materials from the collection and creation from 1987 to 2011. It’s one of the most wonderful works of Lionel.

The Only Authentic Work

The response in text to “23 FORMES EN ELASTIQUE” . 23 parts, over 20 thousands of words. It’s a writing adventure in the way of music.

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Guest: VJ Emiko

Date: 2013-11-02  18:30 ~ 2013-11-02  19:30

Address: BLDG.18, No.50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai

Artist: VJ Emiko

Planner: LI Ningchun

Organized by Chronus Art Center and N-Minutes Video Arts Festival

Special thanks to Polish Embassy in Beijing and Consulate General of Poland in Shanghai

Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org

"Exosphere in Entalpia" videopoetry a/v project is created by VJ Emiko.

This experimental live cinema / video art performance oscillates around something unprecised, undefined, showing emotional states of human being.

Humans feel the lack of space, oxygen, time, sense of being and have a problem with identity - is located somewhere in/between.

video : https://vimeo.com/59512319

This project was presented live  in 2013 @ AVAV /Sao Paulo, Expanded Vjism Budapest Showcase ,  Electrovision Cinema in London , LPM Rome and Proyecto Hybrido in Barcelona

About the artist

VJ EMIKO / Emilia Gumańska - visual artist, photographer, video designer and producer from Poland.

The winner of VJ Torna Championship 2011 during Live Performers Meeting Mińsk edition, Pre-production and VJ Battle Category in Mexico City 2013 and winner of Modul8 video contest.

Vj and a/v sets are based on various video projects of her own authorship.
She experiments with light, self made scenography elements and stylisation.

Projects by VJ Emiko, connecting body motives and its movement with graphical analog elements in a rank of symbols, belong to the category of experimental video art. By expressing the emotional states of a human – the vessel, they create audiovisual show, which in connection with music enhances the inner feelings of the spectator.

vimeo: https://vimeo.com/vjemiko

Guest: YIN Yi

Date: 2013-10-26  19:30 ~ 2013-10-26  21:00

Address: Bldg 18, No. 50 Moganshan RD, Shanghai

Artist: YIN Yi

Organized by Chronus Art Center

Free for admission. Please make your reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org .

As a practitioner of field recording, YIN Yi has always been thinking about how the recordings like private sound diary can blend in public perception area, such as live music act. Meanwhile, he doesn’t treat these recordings as only materials as those concrete music composers do.

What’s the driving force that keeps the sound going forward on a timeline? Are these organized sounds really able to connect musicians and audience? Or just their imagination?

Listening · Awakening · Meeting will be a periodical response. This is also YIN Yi’s first solo concert.

About the Artist

Born in shanghai. Composer, sound artist, sound recorder, curator.

Founder of BM (www.bmspace.org) Art Institute and Shanghai Free Music Union.

Fields of Creation: live music performance, modern dance, physical theatre .His music works has often been used by “Zu He Niao” (Shanghai), Rubata Dance Team (Berlin), Guangzhou Modern Dance Company. He also had several performances in Europe.

Keeping a watchful eye on the sound from daily life and then recording them has been a natural part of YIN Yi’s life and work. He also does a related research about sound as medium, acknowledge approach, consumption pattern, behaviour model and aural aesthetic within his long-term field recording experience.

In addition, YIN Yi also makes his artistic creation by sound installation and image.

During the past 2 years , YIN Yi have been concentrating on experimental music and artistic environment of sound art, and organized several events include sound art exhibition “Formant”, experimental music exchange program “Sound transmission”, experimental music festival “Chorus” and so on . Currently, he is in charge of an experimental music program “SAVAKA : Asian Experimental Music Currents” in RockBund Art Museum in Shanghai.

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Guest: Edwin Van Der Heide

Date: 2013-10-25  18:30 ~ 2013-10-25  20:00

Address: ldg.18, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai

Speaker: Edwin Van Der Heide

Organized by Chronus Art Center, Electronic Music Week, Netherlands Consulate General in Shanghai

Free for admission. Please make your reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org .

Edwin Van Der Heide, the world-renowned Dutch sound artist, will highlight a number of his works, explain the underlying ideas and draw connections between the presented works. The focus will be on immersive, explorative and interactive environments; works where the audience is surrounded by, or inside, the work and asked to play an active role to discover and reveal the work.  At the same time, Edwin’s work “Pneumatic Sound Field” is now exhibited in Shanghai Concert Hall as a project of Shanghai Electronic Music Week.

About the Artist

Edwin van der Heide is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the work.

He has presented his work at renown museums and festivals as SMAK - Ghent, Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, V2_'s DEAF - Rotterdam, ICC - Tokyo, NAMOC - Beijing, Transmediale - Berlin, SONAR - Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SFMOMA, FILE - Brazil and SONAMBIENTE - Berlin. In the summer of 2013 he exhibited his installation “Spatial Sound” (100dB at 100km/h) at the K11 Art Space in Shanghai.

Beside’s running his own studio he is part-time assistant professor at Leiden University (LIACS / Media Technology MSc programme) and heading the Spatial Interaction Lab at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Arts Academy in The Hague. He was Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universit?tBerlin(2009) and won the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 for his entire body of work. Recently he was guest professor at Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain inFrancefor the year 2011- 2012.

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Guest: Marc Donnarumma, YAO Dajun

Date: 2013-10-24  18:30 ~ 2013-10-24  20:00

Address: ldg.18, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai

Artist: Marco Donnarumma

Curated by/Conversation with: YAO Dajun

Organized by Chronus Art Center, Sound Art China

Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chornusartcenter.org .

Marco Donnarumma is an outstanding Italian new media artist and performer. His live performances are mainly based on the action of muscle contraction in the physical world (original data source), and consequent production of electronic signals and sounds in the virtual world. He show sensory changes of his body; and it resonates with the audience when the muscle vibrations are converted to real sound and spreading out from his body to the ears, skins and muscle of the audience. The dimension of performer’s feeling is enlarged and influencing others’ bodies, in which case the intensity of muscle vibration becomes a vector.

About the Artist

Marco Donnarumma is a new media artist and performer of international renown, born in Italy but now based in London. 28-year old Marco represents the potential and vitality of the new generation of artists. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London. Marco also teaches regularly worldwide for academic institutions and media labs.

Marco has a wide range of creation, including sound, physical performance, Butoh and media theatre. In the past 3 years, Marco has performed and spoken in 50 countries including US and South America, Europe, India, China, South Korea and Australia. His works have been selected at leading art events (ISEA, Venice Biennale, WRO Biennale), specialized festivals and venues (FILE, Panorama, EMPAC, New York Electronic Arts Festival, Sonorities, Némo, Mapping, Piksel, Re-New, Laboral) and major academic conferences. He curated a comprehensive journal publication on biotech and performing arts entitled Biotechnological Performance Practice (eContact! 14.2).

Basically, his work explores the dimension of the human body in relation to outer space, real or virtual, investigating its sonic dimension, the sonic and expressive potential, either natural and in connection with technology. In 2012, he was awarded first prize in the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for Xth Sense.

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Guest: Huang Chien-Hung

Date: 2013-10-12  19:00 ~ 2013-10-12  21:00

Address: Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai

Speaker: Huang Chien-Hung

Language: Chinese

Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org .

The claim that the entity ‘the people’ exists advanced democratic government on the one hand, and on the other, afforded many people the opportunity to change their lives. However, it has not been agreed on what precisely ‘the people’ refers to, so that we may be justified in saying ‘the people’ has been a keyword in the sole possession of 20^th century media and intellectuals.

Despite the many criticisms of ‘the people’ in the last half-century, we have not settled on answers to the questions ‘who are ‘the people’, ‘who can use this word’, and ‘how is it to be used.’ Moreover, the noise of theory has muffled the real questions, and in the 21^st century present, when governments, under pressure from global structures, have intensified control of domestic scenes, understanding the ‘crowd’ and forming the ‘crowd’ have become issues we urgently need to confront.

Huang Chien-Hung holds a doctorate from the University of Paris VIII. His areas of research are the philosophy of images, aesthetics, and the film theory of Gilles Deleuze. He is currently Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Art at Taipei National University of Arts where he studies images and curating. His publications include An Independent Discourse (2010) and New Directions: Trans-Plex Weaving Platform Agenda (2011). He works in contemporary French theory and is a noted translator into Chinese of works by Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Rancière. He also writes criticism on the cinema, contemporary art, and performance.

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Guest: Tuomas A. Laitinen

Date: 2013-09-29  18:30 ~ 2013-09-29  20:00

Address: BLDG 18, No. 50 Moganshan RD, Shanghai

Organized by Chronus Art Center and N-Minutes Video Arts Festival

Planned by LI Ningchun

Free admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org

The first audio-visual event of N-Minutes III

The event includes two parts. Finnish artist Tuomas A. Laitinen will introduce several series of his recent artworks, and present a live sound performance together with his video work afterwards. We hope to share his unique audio-visual creation through the event (also his first in China). Limited signed posters will be handing out for free.

About the Artist

Born in Riihim?ki, Finland. Lives and works in Helsinki and San Francisco.

2004 – 2008 MFA, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of media art

Tuomas Laitinen is a visual artist who works with various media including light boxes, neon, video, printmaking and sound.

N-Minutes Video Arts Festival

N-Minutes Video Art Festival is a public art project, which aims to promote video art among the wide audience and urban spaces. N-Minutes was founded in 2011, and it would be held every year during September to October in Shanghai. With various art activities including screening, mapping, audio-visual performance, exhibition and lecture, N- Minutes weaves video arts into urban life and interacts with the audience, enabling a new possibility of public art.

N-Minutes Video Art festival crée un événement interactif, un dialogue urbain entre vidéo et usagers multiples de l’espace public. L’objectif est de libérer l’art, de le faire sortir du musée, en l'invitant dans la rue en encourageant ainsi le grand public à participer à des activités artistiques, pour aboutir à une multiplication des fonctions des espaces de la ville et donner une place à l’art dans la vie quotidienne.

Official website: www.n-minutes.org

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Guest: TANG Weijie, Terence Lloren, SHEN Yi, LU Chen

Date: 2013-09-15  17:00 ~ 2013-09-15  19:00

Address: Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai

Sound Grocery Series: Growing up with Shanghai

Organized by Chronus Art Center

Date: 17:00 – 19:00,September 15^th, 2013(Sunday)

Venue: BLDG.18, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai

Free for admission. Please make the reservation via:

info@chronusartcenter.org

5 years ago, shanghai-based American sound artist Terence LLoren launched “Growing Up with Shanghai”, a project including sound, text, photography, hand-drawn maps etc. Concept initiated by Terence, the image part was collaborated with Shen Yi, a Shanghai female photographer. In this project, Terence recorded a series of soundwalks with young Shanghainese (age 20 to 30), who were born and raised during the rapid modernization of their city, talking about their memories of a location in the Shanghai Municipality in Shanghai dialect. After the first recording, Shen Yi accompanied by Terence would follow the same route and take pictures in her own and unique perspective. Afterwards, the photos were editing with the text of walkers in chronological order, like the visual response rather than simply illustration to those sounds, and finally inspiring more dimensional and richer walking experiences and possibilities.

In December 2011, “Growing Up with Shanghai” participated in “Visions of Cities”, a new media art exhibition held by A+A Art Center, Italy. CCTV4 will be broadcasting a special program “Sound of Shanghai” about this project on 1pm September 15^th (Saturday), 2013. For more detailed information please go to the following website: http://soundcloud.com/bivouacrecording .

We’re honored to have Prof. Tang Weijie, a scholar focusing in urban cultural studies from Tongji University, to host this event. Tang will conduct a further interpretation and discussion about this project together with Terence, Shen Yi and Lu Chen (the lead singer of “Top Floor Circus”)from field recording, memory, sound and city, dialect and its artistic creation, and other perspectives.

About “Sound Grocery Series”

“Sound Grocery Series” is a project series of Chronus Art Center, initiated by Prof. Tang, aiming at underlining the connection between our life history and the Shanghai city as a sound field. We try to explore the city through this project. Does Shanghai have its own sound-acoustic mechanism? How to identify this “sense of place” by sound? How to imagine our life and history in the city from the dimension of sound? “Sound Grocery Series” not only treats sound as a distinct sign of urban stylization, but also a substantial part of urban life. The project is not creating a museum of sound, it cares about how the recorded sounds are used and how they re-enter the next circulation.

About the Guests

TANG Weijie

Scholar, Associate Professor of Faculty of Humanity, Tongji University, Master Tutor (Comparative Literature).Research orientation: Comparative Poetics, Modern Shanghai Urban Culture, Film History and Visual Cultural Studies.

Terence LLoren

Sound Artist, Field Recorder, Sound Designer. Based in Shanghai.

SHEN Yi

80’s Shanghainese. Cultural Journalist of Dongfang Daily. Poet, Photographer and Film Critics in sparetime.

LU Chen

70’s Shanghainese. Lead Singer of a Shanghai Dialect Band “Top Floor Circus”.

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Guest: Johannes Langkamp

Date: 2013-09-06  14:00 ~ 2013-09-06  18:30

Address: 2F, BLDG 11, No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai, China

CAC International Residency and Exchange Program

Open Studio - “Cessation”

Date:        Sep. 6^th 2013, 14:00 – 18:30

14:00 -18:00 Open Studio

18:00 – 18:30 Presentation by Artist

Venue: 2F, BLDG. 11, Moganshan RD., Shanghai

Organized by Chronus Art Center

Free for admission. Please make the reservation via: info@chronusartcenter.org

Introduction:

The first resident artist, Johannes Langkamp, recommended by V2_Insitute for Unstable Media, has been working on his art project from July 10^th 2013. In the open studio event, he is going to show his ideas, concepts and process by various ways, such as exhibits, drafts, interviews and installations.

Often fascinated by the element of movement, he turned his current research to the illusional movement of the sun and our relationship to this visual environment. In "Analog Sun Tracking" he wants to follow this optical movement through a 24 hours time-lapse video. A motion-controlled tripod allows him to track this movement. The axis is positioned parallel to the axis of our planet but it rotates into the opposite direction. After capturing 1frame per minute for a period of 24hours he will compile a moving image sequence of 60 seconds.

“From the point of our view，the star at the center of our solar system shifts every minute and we call it "rising" and "setting" even though we understand its actual nature. It strikes me to play with this daily illusion and to do a visual investigation.

My motivation for this work was its simplicity.

I think it is quite beautiful that you can put a camera into a certain situation, for a certain amount of time and a staged video-work evolves.

I am not influencing the scenery physically but just the camera's point of view; each minute 0.25degree. And through this tiny change you can turn the world upside down. ”

                                            —— Johannes Langkamp

About the Artist

Langkamp is a new media artist based in Rotterdam, Netherland. He received his bachelor of Fine Arts at the ArtEZ, AKI Academy of Visual Arts in 2011.

In 2012, he held his solo exhibitions in Stadthaus Gallery and also Kurhaus Kleve Museum in Germany. The same year he received the Werner Deutsch Reward from Kurhaus Kleve Museum and Saxion kunstopdracht Reward. From 2008, he participated in many exhibitions and arts festivals in Netherland, Germany, France and so on.

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