Guest: Zhu Xiaowen, Hu Weiyi
Date: 2014-06-01 14:00 ~ 2014-06-01 16:00
Address: Chronus Art Center ( Bldg.18,No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai)
Time: 14.00-16.00, June 1st (SUN), 2014
Venue: Chronus Art Center ( Bldg.18,No.50 Moganshan RD., Shanghai)
Speakers: Zhu Xiaowen, Hu Weiyi
Moderator: Art Yan
Language: Chinese
Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org
About Share Session
Summer Sessions Talent Development Network has been held for three sessions since 2011 and a number of artists have created many excellent art works through the professional platform for creation provided by Summer Session association. For this activity, we invited the artists of the first and third session---Zhu Xiaowen and Hu Weiyi. They will share as well as discuss their resident trips combining their art creation during the session.
About Speakers
Xiaowen Zhu is a media artist, scholar and curator. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, She uses video, photography, performance, installation and mixed media as platforms to communicate the complicated experience of being an international and to wrestle with the notion of a disembodied identity. Zhu is currently based in Los Angeles, USA. She is the first receipt of the TASML Artist Residency Award and Marylyn Ginsburg Klaus Post-MFA Fellowship. She received her MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University, USA and BA in Film, TV Production & Media Art from Tongji University, China. Zhu’s works have been shown at Art Basel Hongkong, ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), ISEA2011 (Istanbul, Turkey), Dumbo Arts Center (New York, USA), Videonale (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, USA), Strozzina Art Space (Florence,Italy), Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts (Norwich, UK), DOK Munich (Munich, Germany), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, USA), Shanghai eArts Festival(Shanghai, China) and more.
Hu Weiyi (b. 1990, Shanghai) is a young Artist work and live in Shanghai, now continuing his studies as a graduate student of Zhang Peili at the Media Department of the China Academy of Art, after having graduated from the Department of Public Art at the China Academy of Art in 2012. Hu is a multimedia artist and curator, whose work combines video, installation, sculpture, action, and sound. In 2012 he curated a young artists exhibition titled The Bad Land, in which the occupation of a public crossroad in Shanghai functioned to address the limits between art and life, public and private. His works has been widely exhibited in China and abroad. Recent exhibitions include The Summer Session at V2 in Rotterdam 2013, “The Unpainted” Media Art Fair in Munich, “PANDAMONIUM” Exhibition at Momentum in Berlin both in 2014.
About Moderator
Art Yan is new media art curator and producer. He has been Executive Director of Chronus Art Center since December 2013.
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