Reviews and post-scripts after the shiny mud ball: After the workshop we couldn’t stop doing moni, and once arrived home we were keeping doing them with any kind of powder we found around. That our best result, a home-made-moni with sugar, salt and flour… the technique to use your whole body is actually working, look at [...]
We’re rounding up Also Space² tonight with a film by LI Ning documenting his own life as a young theatre director, followed by more experimental eats (testing out the tako-less ball!) brought to you by Emi UEMURA, Elaine W. HO and WANG Fang, employee of C-Space. The film starts at 16.00 and runs for approximately [...]
Artist: Liu Ding Work Title: In “Also Space” Time: 12.30-2.30pm, May 12, 2010 Venue: C-Space, Beijing Participants: Liu Ding (artist), Tang Xin (Art Director of Taikang Space), Carol Yinghua Lu (moderator) This is a non-public conversation between Liu Ding and Tang Xin, Art Director of Taikang Space. This conversation is Liu Ding’s work entitled “In ‘Also Space’”, which is his [...]
Artist: Liu Ding Work Title: In “Also Space” Time: Between May 1 and 16, 2010 Materials: A non-public conversation between Liu Ding and the director of an independent art space adjacent to C-Space during the exhibition between May 1 and 16, 2010. The discussion will touch upon issues concerning rules, orders, values and standards based on which we [...]
The topics set forth during these kinds of meditative acts allow for a gentle interplay between a free flow of thought and teacherly instruction, the affectionate chastising of others’ work and the occasional bite of lovers: “You can stop talking now.” Interludes of silence are comfortable moments of concentration, the hands in motion while we [...]
Some of the recipes we prepared for last night’s chainletter dinner. Maria Kley: package Philadelphia cheese (200gr) small package of yogurt 1 shredded piece of garlic mix it with a fork enjoy it with Taco chips or baguette or…!! Lucio Castro: Portobello Mushroom Pizzas. Serves 4 elegant people. Enchanting appetizer. Ingredients: 4 Big Portobello Mushrooms 1 Big Organic red tomato 1 Big Organic Green tomato (otherwise, [...]
Today/tomorrow we’re holding the second ‘How to make moni-moni-moni’ workshop at the 《也是个地儿² Also Space²》 exhibition in Caochangdi’s C-Space. Join us from 2 pm for a few meditations on value and alchemy in the contemporary art world. below: A few of the proud participants from workshop number 1.
Tonight and tomorrow, I’ll give some lectures at C-Space from these blog essays. 06 May 18.30h, ‘Cities’ lecture no. 1, Michael YUEN 20.00h, Corpus Callosum (2002) film screening, Michael SNOW 07 May 14.00h, ‘How to make Moni-Moni-Moni’ workshop, Elaine W. HO 19.00h, ‘Cities’ lecture no. 2, Michael YUEN 20.00h, ‘Chainletter dinner’, Michael YUEN/Elaine W. HO/Emi UEMURA
Two years before the French revolution of 1848, the French printer, politician, writer, anarchist and son of a barrel maker, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, wrote a letter to Marx: “let us not set ourselves up as the leaders of a new intolerance, let us not pose as the apostles of a new religion even though this religion [...]
PROGRAM// 01 May 14:00h, ‘How to make Moni-Moni-Moni’ workshop, Elaine W. HO 18.00h, OPENING 19.00h, 8-inch record sounds, DE PLAYER 03 May 18.30h, Big Can, screening, Gogo J 20.00h, ‘ZOO of L’OS’, performance, Gogo J/olivier H 06 May 18.30h, ‘Cities’ lecture no. 1, Michael YUEN 20.00h, Corpus Callosum (2002) film screening, Michael SNOW 07 May 14.00h, ‘How to make Moni-Moni-Moni’ workshop, Elaine W. HO 19.00h, ‘Cities’ lecture [...]
i made a pair of stereo contact microphones:one CD on table to protec table surface from the soldering tin. so the CD was broken by the work:put the contact microphones on CD player then play the CD:
Emi Uemura sent us a chain letter: Please send a recipe to the person whose name is in position 1 below (even if you don’t know them) and it should be something quick, easy and without rare ingredients. Actually, the best one is the one you know in your head and can type right now. Don’t agonize over it, [...]
Saturday, 1 May and Friday, 7 May // 14:00-18:00 Each workshop lasts approximately four hours, during which time you will create your own mo-ni ball which is yours to value and/or exchange as you please. Please sign up to enroll in this very special course led by a former student of Master Kayo of Kyoto, Japan, one [...]
A Book: Dressed as if nothing is wrong. (40 pages) For a while now, I have been collecting sentences for a picture I took one morning in September 2008. It combines how I think and how I work. Without talking it uses words that I’m not able to speak, in this way, [...]
A Text on Design [PDF] Further studies on Flusser can be found here. Flusser’s essays are short, provocative and lucid, with a resemblance to the style of journalistic articles. One of the difficulties that arise while reading Flusser is the lack of references, quotations or illustrations; his articles seem to be articulated with the originality and freshness of [...]
roelmeelkop Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a post-graduate course at the same academy he decided to dedicate his work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the early eighties when he started thu20, together with Jac van Bussel,Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders and Guido [...]
Michael Snow link 1 link 2 CORPUS CALLOSUM Author: tieman64 from United Kingdom WARNING- do not go to this film expecting some kind of “story”. Corpus Callosum is experimental director Michael Snow’s latest “film”. A feature length bonanza of crazy sights, outlandish color schemes, and visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract comedy or a playful recapitulation of [...]
Sitting down to think about an exhibition in the Beijing spring, my mind first turned to the news that on Monday some twenty plus artists protested on Chang’an Avenue the eviction of artists from villages in Beijing. Some were well known both in and outside of china; some were perhaps friends. How correct was the reporting? [...]
I am partially native to many cities and foreign to others. As I move from city to city, I roll a small red bag packed with books. It is my travelling library, part of a greater collection gather dust, let’s say, in the city I visited last. I have read there is a donkey [...]
Knowing thing that are infinite
Two men sat in a bar. They looked similar, about the same age, weight and height. They went by the same name. Michael. They were the same man. Their paths had separated when the man on the left stopped drinking, seriously drinking. Sitting at the bar, the man on the right drank fast and continuously. [...]
“All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom,” I recall for you from Rousseau’s Second Discourse, “for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers. As I recall Rousseau’s words, Beckett’s lines from Godot come to me from the [...]
If you want, please stay with me overnight in C-Space! You can call me: 13911208207 Or e-mail me: kklee920@hotmail.com During the “Also Space” exhibition, I will wait for your contact, then arrange a date with you to go to C-Space. Our time is from the mid night 0:00 to next morning 10:00. I will prepare a yoga mat for [...]
see the youtube video here.recording the internal sound of my computer, 18 april 2010. reinaart, this IS an also space!
i put a pair of contct micphones on a handrail in UCCA. this is a test recording as you hear. if i want better quality i should change better tape and control the input volume. but i like this one. more than the better ones.
There are many versions of the story of Gilgamesh. This is a preface not for one but for all this versions. Herbert Mason opening summation is elegant. “It is an old story But one that can still be told About a man who loved And lost a friend to death And learned he lacked the power To bring him back to life.” The [...]
Tony Oursler’s exhibition at Galleri Faurschou is very nice. i was recommended to check out. sure, that was a nice experince.
A little while ago I posted the manifesto of Yvonne Rainer from 1965. I thought it looked intresting without that I agreed with the manifesto. Here is a reconsidered manifesto from 2008 and a remake by Andrea Bozic. It is nice to have it round in this way. I think it makes sense in the Beijing context, i [...]
