9.9.10

FAKEcopy

Made In China

ideas:
- order a reproduction of the painting 'De Rechtvardige Rechters' (Jan Van Eyck) (Ghent)
- order a reproduction of a work of Ai Weiwei or a portrait of him
- order a reproduction of a work we made ourselfs
...

Reproduction Oil Painting,Original Oil Painting



Product Description:
1. Trademark: Famous Oil Painting, reproduction oil painting, original Oil Painting, Cheap oil plaiting
2. Size: All sizes available
3. Color: Various
4. Quality: Superior
5. Packing: Original packing, tags, label
7. Discount: The more you order, the more dicount you get.
8. Payment: Western union, Bank transfer, Paypal, MoneyGram
9. Drop shipping: Acceptable
10. Transportation: EMS, DHL, FedEx, TNT
11. OEM and customer design are acceptted.

China’s Impolitic Artist

Shiho Fukada for The New York Times

print making - The Frans Masereel Centre




How to apply

The Frans Masereel Centre has two selections per year. Each selection handles residency requests for the subsequent six months. It is therefore important to verify that your desired working period corresponds to the period provided in the selection. You will find dates for the next deadline on the news page.
Be sure to take a look at our website to determine if our way of working and our facilities are suited to the project you are planning. A complete inventory of materials, machinery and products is available on our website.
Only complete files will be processed.

Primary function: Artist in residency programme

The Frans Masereel Centre is a centre dedicated to printmaking. The studios are fully equipped for intaglio printing, screen printing and lithography. The expertise of the FMC is geared to be at the service of the widest possible range of professional contemporary artists who want to realize graphic projects.
We receive artists from January until the end of November. The workshops are open between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 20:00 p.m. Two master-printmakers are at your disposal for technical support and advice. The FMC provides all the most common products, inks, and materials. There is also a paper shop on site.
The FMC offers artists a residency period of maximum three weeks during which the artist has the opportunity to produce a print project in our workshops. Each resident is allocated his/her own fully equipped cottage with open plan kitchen, dining room and sitting area, bathroom and two bedrooms each with two singe beds. Residents may choose to bring an assistant or family. In addition, every artist has a bicycle at his/her disposal.
All residents pay a fee of 75 euro per week. This contribution goes toward financing two annual young curator projects. At the end of the residence each artist donates one print of each edition to the archives of the FMC. The works in the archive are exhibited regularly. The FMC is unable to provide financial support for projects or a subsistence allowance. Artists are also responsible for their travel expenses and for the transport of their work.

8.9.10

Creativity at a Crossroads: Art and Architecture in China

Creativity at a Crossroads: Art and Architecture in China

USC | 12 maart 2009
Creativity at a Crossroads was organized by the USC School of Architecture as part of Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative. At this event, independent curator Ai Wei Wei, conceptual photographer Chi Peng, and USC School of Architecture dean Qingyun Ma—three of Chinas most influential figures in the global contemporary arts scene—came together to discuss their work. The event was held on September 17, 2008, in Bovard Auditorium.

Visit the USC Visions and Voices Web site: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/vision...
Visit the USC School of Architecture Web site: http://arch.usc.edu/

Categorie: Onderwijs

2.9.10

Keywords School


vitamin creative space
publications




Keywords School-Venice-Handbook of Exercises

Before the Stockholm Keywords School, it took about three years to undertake the
keywords'searching activity. During this time, we made numerous interviews in Shanghai,
Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc., also in New York and Holland.
On this basis, we created some audio-visual materials, videos, publications
("Keywords Dictionary" Vitamin Creative Space, 2008), websites (www.xutan-keywords.com), etc.
for the preparation of the Keywords School. These materials, which mainly concentrate on the
findings from searches in Chinese society, are from research on the basis of Chinese keywords.


With the "Keywords School" held all over the world, research on the basis of keywords
was extended to a more globalized background; "Keywords School" in Venice is a brand new start.
English/Swedish/Chinese | Concept: Xu Tan, Hu Fang | Dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm |
Vitamin Creative Space, 2009 | Pages: 66 P | ISBN 978-988-17864-8-7| Price: 15 Euros |




doing nothing

vitamin creative space - publications
 

Object System: Doing Nothing (O.D.)

"Object System: Doing Nothing" (O.D. for abbreviation) is Vitamin Creative Space's project for ARCO2004. "O.D" project cited from the philosophy thinking "Doing Nothing" by Chinese philosopher Lao Tse as the conceptual core. " Doing nothing" does not mean really do nothing, but dose mean how to cultivate yourself from tumultuous life into empty field and finally reach the spiritual state of " doing nothing is doing everything". Vitamin sent this proposal to Chinese artists to invite them contributing their ideas and finally 18 artists involved into the project.
 

The publication collects 24 images and texts from the artists Chen Shaoxiong,Chen Wenbo,Chu Yun,Duan Jianyu,Gu Dexin,Hong Hao, Kan Xuan,Liu Chuang,Liu Ding,Lu Hao,Sha Yeya,Song Dong,Yan Lei,Yin Xiuzhen,UNMASK,Xu Tan,Xu Zhen,Zheng Guogu. 

Publication Concept:Vitamin Creative Space
Editor:Hu Fang | Design:Hu Fang  Chu Yun | Pages: 48P | Dimensions: 9.2 x 9cm | Price: 9.95 Euros
©Vitamin Creative Space,Artists,2004




Do It

publications

DO IT



11/11






Perfect Journey

vitamin creative space

publications




Hu Fang, Zhang Wei & Xu Tan - nightschool seminar 6


nightschool

Seminar 6: Hu Fang, Zhang Wei & Xu Tan
Thursday June 19th, 7:30PM
Space within space within space

Vitamin Creative Space functions as an alternative working model specifically geared to the contemporary Chinese context. In order to operate independently from institutionalized funding, it is active both as an “independent” art space and as a “commercial” gallery. Vitamin Creative Space is actively challenging preconceptions by merging these two models, which traditionally are opposed strategies for supporting and presenting contemporary art, and is developing new Chinese contributions through research into both: the artistic practice and institutional organization within the new global context.

The seminar will look at the recent practice of Vitamin to explore how it is not merely a physical space, but is an attempt to create a new model for development and distribution of artist's new thinking on creativity.

Friday, June 20th, 7:30 PM
Things to do while you're alive

Accompanied by a slide show of Hu Fang’s recent pictorial collection of adverts, signs, photos from the realm of public media, Hu Fang and Zhang Wei will spontaneously generate a narration of a "life journey" and spatial transformations, outlining global surroundings we are living in and how there can be a possibility of the space for the artistic view of life: a view which proposes an alternative way of transforming reality.

Saturday, June 21st, 3 PM
Keywords School

The “Searching for Keywords” project was initialled from a series of interviews of active people in the Chinese society or people in the active Chinese area. By analyzing the content of these conversations, artist Xu Tan identified certain “keywords,” terms which shed light on values and motivations of contemporary Chinese society. “Keywords” measure the pulse of the current social climate and present an insight into the collective social consciousness of China. “Keywords” looks at connections between the individual speakers, words and the mental tendencies of the society.

In this seminar, Zhang Wei and Hu Fang will invite Xu Tan to discuss his Keywords project and introduce the idea of opening a “Keywords School,” as well as his conceptual approach, method and the larger social landscape made visible by the Keywords – a landscape of “collective consciousness” which actually frames our daily process.

Boris Groys - nightschool seminar: 1


Boris Groys


nightschool

Seminar 1: Boris Groys
The contemporary, post-communist situation is mostly understood as a time after the full and final victory of the market over all the attempts to put this rule into question. Accordingly, art is equated to the art market and an individual artwork is seen primarily as a commodity. Under this regime the only way for art to become "serious" is to become "critical", which means that it tries to reflect explicitly on its own character-as- commodity. It is telling that the art of the former Communist or Socialist countries is regarded from this perspective as non-serious because it is non-critical by definition; this art could not reflect on itself as a commodity because it was not a commodity. (It was not a commodity because there was no market, and certainly no art market under Socialism).

But the equation between art and art market, be it critical or not, not only brings about the erasure of a substantial part of the art heritage of the 20th Century; it also - and this is the more important point - ignores the non- market dimensions of contemporary art that functions not only as commodity but also as propaganda (for example: Islamist videos), as a means to organize a new type of communal space and a new type of community itself. The goal of the seminar is to investigate precisely these non-market aspects of contemporary art in its relationship to the long tradition of non-market uses of art, related initially to the Socialist-Communist tradition.

Suggested reading:

Boris Groys, The Total Art of Stalinism, Princeton, 1995
Boris Groys, Ilya Kabakov. A man who flew into the cosmic space. Afterall/MIT, 2006.
Boris Groys (ed.), Dream Factory Communism, Schirn, Frankfurt a.M., 2004.
Jacques Derrida, Marx' Gespenster, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M., 2003
Giorgio Agamben, Die kommende Gemeinschaft, Merve, 2003.

Born in East Berlin in 1947, Boris Groys studied Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Leningrad from 1965–71. Then, from 1971 to 1976 Groys worked as a research assistant at various institutes in Leningrad and from 1976–81 he was employed at the Institute for Structural and Applied Linguistics at the University of Moscow. In 1981 Groys emigrated from the former USSR to Germany. 1982–85 he received various grants in Germany and worked as a freelance author from 1986–87 in Cologne. Groys taught as Guest Professor in the States at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1988 and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1991. He obtained his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Münster in 1992. Since 1994 Groys has been professor for Philosophy and Media Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. And since January 1st 2001 Groys also serves as vice chancellor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which has since recieved university status. Member of the Association International des Critiques d’Art [AICA].


Publications:
Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, München 1988
Dnevnik filosofa (russ.) (Tagebuch eines Philosophen), Paris 1989
Die Kunst des Fliehens (mit Ilja Kabakov), München 1991
Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Moskau – Von der Neo-Avantgarde zum Post- Stalinismus, München 1991
Über das Neue. Versuch einer Kulturökonomie, München 1992
Utopia i obmen (russ.) (Utopie und Austausch), Moskau 1993
Fluchtpunkt Moskau (Hrsg.), Stuttgart 1994
Die Erfindung Russlands, München 1995
Die Kunst der Installation (mit Ilja Kabakov), München 1996
Kierkegaard. Schriften (Hrsg.), München 1996
Logik der Sammlung, München 1997
Unter Verdacht. Eine Phänomenologie der Medien, München 2000
Politik der Unsterblichkeit. Vier Gespräche mit Thomas Knöfel, München 2002

Liam Gillick - nightschool seminar: 3


nightschool

(rechts klikken om video's te bekijken)

Seminar 3: Liam Gillick
Three one-hour lectures. The outline of a possible text. Five parts will be tested and developed quickly.

Thursday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.: The night before closure of an experimental factory.
Friday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.: Redundancy following the promise of infinite flexibility.
Saturday, March 29, 3 p.m.: Reoccupation, recuperation and pointless renovation.


A QUESTION OF WHERE TO COMMENCE NEW STRUCTURES IN LIGHT OF SOME RETURNS AND EMERGENCES:

THE POSTWAR AS A FINISHED MOMENT: IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT AND GLOBAL CONTEXT VIA COLD-WAR INDENTIFICATIONS (E.G. ILLUSION OF IDEOLOGICAL VICTORY OF THE RIGHT…)

THE INABILITY OF THE ART CONTEXT TO IDENTIFY WITH THE NEW CONDITIONS.

COALESCENCE OF INDUSTRIAL LABOUR IN CHINA (AMONG OTHER THINGS). THE FRAGMENTATION OF LABOUR IN DETAIL. SPECIFICALLY IN LIGHT OF VARIED SO-CALLED FREE-TRADE AGREEMENTS.

THE NECESSITY TO POSIT A NEW FRAMEWORK OF ACTION THAT CAN ACCOUNT FOR THESE LOSSES AND GAINS AND PREVENT THE MOST DYNAMIC WORK FROM BEING UNDERSTOOD AS OPERATING WITHIN AN INSTRUMENTALIZED TERRAIN. (THAT MAY OR MAY NOT ONLY BE CONNECTED TO THE NOTION OF “POST-WAR” SOCIAL DEMOCRACY)

THE BOOK (THE TEXT AS OBJECT VERSUS THE FILE TO BE EXCHANGED.)

IMMATERIAL LABOUR (CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE COMMODITY)

ANALOGOUS MAPPING (WHERE DO THE DISCURSIVE MODELS EMERGE FROM IN A HEAVILY INSTRUMENTALISED CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT)

CULTURAL ECHOES (WHAT ARE THE DANGEROUS ECHOES OR PARALLEL MODELS: THE JIM JONES EFFECT?)

SITES OF PRODUCTION (THE SITES OF PRODUCTION STILL REQUIRE WORK. THIS IS THE REASON FOR MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND HIERARCHIES WITHIN EVEN THE MOST DYNAMIC DISCURSIVE MODELS)

AGENCY IN RELATION TO ECO-POLITICS (CARBON EXCHANGE: THE LUKACS QUALITY OF ECO-SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. THE OVER-RIDING OF THE POLITICSISZED DISCOURSE)

COALESCENCE/RETURN OF CLASSICAL RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION (+ THEIR ERASURE IN A DEVELOPED SENSE – DE-UNIONISZM ETC.)

CONSENSUS MODELS AS A PHANTOM PARALLEL (MODEL OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS – AMELIORATED WORKING ENVIRONMENT…)

DETAILED WORK IN THE CULTURAL FRAME (WHO IS DOING IT? WHERE IS THE CONTEMPORARAY DYNAMIC LOCATED? ART CURATING THEORETICAL FOCUS)

chinese art is hot (selling records)

Chinese Contemporary art is hot. Recent international auctions have far exceeded expectations with one painting recently setting a new record for a contemporary Chinese artist. Among today's most prominent Chinese artists is Yue Minjun, whose signature laughing self-portrait has earned accolades from critics around the world


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HljR-cyAAKg

FAKE copy

 http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,681425,00.jpg

Painters compete during a facsimile match in Dafen Village. 
More than 110 contestants make facsimile of portrait or scenery oil painting in the timed match.

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,681425,00.jpg

30.8.10

Download Youtube



On a mac it's best to choose the MP4 save - option.

haus der kunst: zuoxiao zuzhou in concert

(hoe kan je video's van Youtube halen via mac? welk programma gebruik je best?)

het concert

samenwerkingen met Ai Weiwei:

Discography
Studio Albums
2010
Zuoxiao Zuzhou OST For Ai Weiwei Works No.1

Zuoxiao Zuzhou OST For Ai Weiwei Works No.1




Film Scores

2010
An Isolated Man By Ai Weiwei
Beautiful Life By Ai Weiwei

2009
4851—May 12 Earthquake Student Victims List By Ai Weiwei
Old Mom Pettitoes By Ai Weiwei

2007
Fairy Tale By Ai Weiwei

2003
Eat Drink Play Joy By Ai Dan & Ai Weiwei



Zuoxiao Zuzhou founded his first notorious band “NO” in early 90's and he was also one of the founding member of the avant-garde artists commune “Beijing East Village”. As a primary songwriter, Zuzhou also plays various roles as the lead vocal, guitarist and violinist for his band. He commits himself to experimenting various music styles, exploring different approach to convey his feelings deeply inside up to present. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite being low-profile and having little radio or MV support. Zuzhou’s seven critically acclaimed studio albums win lavish praises from China's harshest music critics and earn him numerous awards.

Zuoxiao Zuzhou. I Love Modern Art To. 2007




 Zuoxiao Zuzhou, I Love Modern Art Too

Open Harvard Lectures on China

Very interesting link cited by Wouter Vanhaelemeersch :
Open lectures China

Making a book in group

Zach Gibson to Host 48-Hour Book Project at Levi's Workshop August 6-7, San Francisco, CCA news

"My plan is to document what happens when a group of artists makes content for a book that is about the content they produce. Will they work together to find a common thread? Will they work separately? Will a common thread arise even if they don't work together? How will they document their experience for reproduction? Everything about the book, from the content to the design to the production, will be decided upon during the 48 hours. I will be there the entire time, starting at 12:01 a.m. on August 6, whether the shop is open to the public or not!"

28.8.10

China - Shanghai - CEIBS - Art Appreciation Week 2010

   ongelooflijk dat het als concept in de blog stond ! 

MER contacteren?

 

BAM news

China - Shanghai - CEIBS - Art Appreciation Week 2010

Van 19 tot en met 25 juni 2010
Het Consulaat-generaal steunt de CEIBS Art Appreciation Week 2010, die plaatsvindt van 19 tot en met 25 juni op de CEIBS-campus. In dit kader worden vanuit Belgische zijde volgende activiteiten georganiseerd:
De 'Boundless'-tentoonstelling vindt plaats van 10 tot en met 23 juni in DonGallery. De tentoonstelling belicht en illustreert de grenzeloze identiteit van talrijke Europese en Chinese kunstenaars die 'wereldwijd' denken en creëren. De Belgische kunstenaars Leroy+Leroy en Lore Vanelslande nemen deel aan deze tentoonstelling. De curator van de 'Boundless'-tentoonstelling is Anthony Van Renterghem (Pamflet).
Een kunstboekententoonstelling MER. Paper Kunsthalle (Gent) is te bezichtigen tijdens de CEIBS Art Appreciation Week 2010 op de CEIBS-campus van 19 tot en met 25 juni 2010.
Beide evenementen worden mede tot stand gebracht door Pamflet.
Meer info:
Consulaat-generaal van België te Shanghai: www.diplomatie.be/shanghai
CEIBS Art Appreciation Week 2010: www.ceibs.edu/today/events/51901.shtml
Pamflet: www.pamflet.cn
DonGallery: www.dongallery.cn
MER. Paper Kunsthalle: www.merpaperkunsthalle.org

27.8.10

Ai Weiwei : Never Sorry

september 1st-2010 - ask a curator

ask a curator day

Tate London
and others

25.8.10

Jos de Mul, de Tao van de Chinese (Post)Avantgarde

A nice overview of Chine Avantgarde from Dutch culture-philosopher Jos De Mul (ErasmusUniv. R'Dam) who was visiting professor in China : Chinese avantgarde
Also in this article, Ai Weiwei is not precisely a leading figure...The author speaks about 80 groups of artists from the mid of 1980 and describes the famous exhibition some months before 1989 Tianmen debacle...

22.8.10

selected images China-voyage : people and pics

Selected images China-voyage


Panda's, tigers and dragons: Ai Weiwei does have a link with these...; go with the flow (forever bikes ? - not long any more ?); change and patterns, visual and not visual traditions, governement planning and/or speculation in Beijing, red everywhere, tai ji or more karaokelike groupmovements,
perspective and smog, the blur between red and green lights: never really stop is the device; unifying principles, a lot about fake but china invented everything (also the 'pluimbal' I never saw before and is the most stunning game...), and what is not visible : Ai Weiwei's paradoxical status in China (appreciation), about the atmosphere and the story of Caochangdi (where Weiwei and Frank Uyterhaeghen started what now turns to be much more hot (in termes of serious art and money) than the 798-district and might be 'passé' very soon. About the popularity of the dog...(and this time not in a dish)

20.8.10

video's Ai Weiwei

een aantal video's van Ai Weiwei op You Tube

China news tagged with: Ai Weiwei (92)

artikels, interviews, videos met de man, chinese rock! Zuoxiao Zuzhou in concert, little Ai (Wu Yuren, the artist who is currently being detained after he was beaten in a Beijing police station)

etc !

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/ai-weiwei/

19.8.10

Een overzicht van de nieuwe berichteditor



http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?answer=156829


ai weiwei @ Tate - Turbine Hall

The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei
12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011
Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series
Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, site of The Unilever Series
© Tate
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will undertake the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
This annual commission invites an artist to make a work of art especially for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The Series has resulted in some of the most innovative and significant sculptures of recent years. Admission to The Unilever Series is free.

net gemist !

Sjouwers voor de Oorlog

Vanaf 1917 werden zowat 140 000 Chinese arbeiders naar de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Europa gehaald. De Chinezen verrichtten er hard labeur achter het front. Dat eindigde niet met de Wapenstilstand: tot begin 1920 werden de koelies ingezet om puin en munitie te ruimen en om doden te begraven. De tentoonstelling brengt dit vergeten, maar boeiende hoofdstuk terug met film, foto's en tal van objecten.
WaarIn Flanders Fields Museum, Lakenhallen, Grote Markt, 8900 Ieper
Wanneer Van 24/04/10 tot 15/08/10

17.8.10

China Art Archives & Warehouse: the Belgian-Weiwei connection

MCAF in Gent! http://www.mcaf.net/

China Art Archives & Warehouse

concentrates on experimental art from the People's Republic of China, including painting,
sculpture, photography, printing and installations
initiating and facilitating exhibitions and other forms of introductions inside and outside
China

Artistic Directors:

Ai Weiwei

Business Director: Frank Uytterhaegen

Gallery Managers: Xie Wenyue
Zhang Songxin



tel/fax: (+8610) 8456 5152
email: mail@caaw.com.cn


14:00 - 18:00 Wednesday till Sunday P.O.Box 100102-43 Beijing 100102

Ai weiwei cited on a webpage of China Archive and Warehouse (Frank Uyterhaeghen, Beijing)

"Ai Weiwei takes a keen interest in altering and subverting the original function and significance of representative and symbolic elements in Chinese culture. His reconstructed Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture has no more practical function but still maintains its succinct and elegant proportions. His Han Dynasty urns covered in white industrial lacquer or painted with Coca-Cola logo probably can't be valued as antique any more but they clearly demonstrate the fundamental nature of daily utilities. Lining up of feet and hands of Buddhist sculptures in a grid showcases the variety of postures and styles and lends these fragments another form of unity. His body of work is diverse and versatile, all containing contradictions, absurdity and substantial discrepancy in time and space. His application of "readymade" is a tribute to Duchamp but the value and significance of his chosen medium (antique) lends his subversive gesture exceptional weight. Is he an antique connoisseur, a minimalist architect, a conceptualist or a post-modernist artist? Accidentally or not, in Nangao where Ai Weiwei resides in Beijing, Guang Han Tang - a thriving antique furniture business, and China Art Archives and Warehouse - a space for avant-garde art, are just a few steps apart from each other."

"Misleading Trails" in Multiple Perspectives
Xie Xiaoze
http://www.archivesandwarehouse.com/Gallery/CAAW/new_gallery/30_misleading_trails/all.htm