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 [...]
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