For your viewing pleasure: the homepage of some of the players in The Lost Ring (see previous post).
Mei Hui, China
Diego, Spain
Markus, Germany
Lucie, UK
Monica, Spain
Ariadne, US
Larissa, Brazil
Noriko, Japan
Archive for the 'Art' Category
Spotted on the web, a luxury concept hotel in Guilin: the Hotel of Modern Art (HOMA) Libre.
They are the only Chinese hotel that is part of the global Relais & Chateaux (luxury hotel and gourmet restaurants) alliance.
Book one of the 46 individually-designed rooms now! Via concierge.com.
About the show:
Slice is a collaborative project that seeks to uncover relationships between perception and movement, ephemeral experiences and the concrete materiality of everyday life.
In “Stop-Action” artist Rania Ho has handcrafted a scale reproduction of a familiar everyday object—a ping-pong table—out of low-cost commonly found materials. The inertness of this mundane object is humorously offset with a hint of movement through the form of a constantly levitating ping-pong ball… painter Wei Weng has created a site-specific wall painting entitled “As Prospects Get out of Range”… the artist seeks to invent idiosyncratic visual narratives in inadvertent urban spaces through the use of diverse media including paintings, cutouts and installations.
About the venue:
Arrow Factory exhibitions represent a unique approach to contemporary art making that is defined by mediating relationships with the local surroundings and the aesthetics of urban space.
Address:
箭厂空间 北京东城区箭厂胡同38号 (国子监街内)
Arrow Factory 38 Jianchang Hutong(off Guozijian Jie) Dongcheng District, Beijing
http://www.arrowfactory.org/
Was passing by Heathrow and picked up a pamphlet about…
And I checked the website, which said they were co-hosting “over 800 events nationwide spanning art, design, cuisine, culture, science, business, technology, education and sport [that] will capture the imagination and advance the UK public’s understanding of China.”
Their lineup seems pretty impressive, and includes these works:
Above by Chen Shaohua, 1992
Above by Ji Ji, 2006.
There is, in addition, an educational component:
Lastly, they even conjured up a clever marketing ploy: To put paper pigeons in Leicaster Square that act as discount coupons:
For more information, see the HSBC Cultural Exchange website.
Question: Are there similar corporate program(me)s in the US?
This happened several months ago, but I think it’s still worth capturing.
From PFSK:
“While single-use chopsticks may be a convenient option for restaurant owners and patrons alike, there is a small group of Chinese DIY designers and young environmentalists who are taking initiative to counter their use. One such group called ‘Unigreen’ has made an open offer online to hand-stitch a free chopstick / soup spoon holder for anyone who pledges to only carry reusable chopsticks.
Original post on PSFK. More pictures of chopstick bags from Unigreen’s blog.
According to a quote from nerve.com on the artists’ website:
“The ecstatically romantic story of Madi Ju and Patrick Tsai (Pat Pat)
tells you everything you need to know about the inspiration behind
their gleeful photography. Taiwanese-American Pat Pat was raised in
California and schooled in New York. Jolted by the Iraq War, he packed
up and moved to Taipei to seriously pursue photography. Three years
later, he met Madi, who lived in China, on the internet. They
rendezvoused in Hong Kong, fell in love, quit their jobs and struck out
on a pan-Asian adventure together…”
And presenting, the photographing duo known as My Little Dead Dick.
Plagiarized book alert! The offending item is:
Inside: Tons of illustrations used without permission, and texts ripped straight from the Little Chimp Society site.
The offenders are listed as being from Hong Kong (see here for full details), but when the offended parties tried to contact them, they found out that the phone number was for an air filter manufacturer and the ISBN number was faked.
Are they really from Hong Kong then? Probably, but I hope not.
Via Drawn!
Cool: TBWA’s Olympic ad for Adidas.
Makes sense? I don’t know — yes, there are many people in China and so I’m guessing the theme is something grandiose along the lines of “standing on the shoulder of billions.” But it’s looks a bit like they’re competing somewhere in hell — not my idea of a good brand association. (Would any of my account planning readers like to chime in here?)
Maybe they’re tapping into some sort of macho thing — see my previous post on a GM car ad.
Via the Longyin Review newsletter.
This looks like a very cool undertaking. Collabor8 (C8) is an 8 week project that will run from the 28th of April to the 20th of June, bringing together Chinese and Australian designers in a series of online courses and discussions. It’s being put on by the Omnium Research group at the College of Fine Arts. It’s completely free for participants, who should be studying graphic arts in China or Australia. From the website:
Design students from Australia and China will join forces for eight weeks, with project convenors, teachers and special guests worldwide, to work collaboratively within a fully online learning environment.
The aims of C8 include:
• providing design students in Australia and China with the opportunity to work collaboratively on a graphic design problem thereby emulating new trends toward global team-based networks within industry.
• stimulating new ways for designers to work collaboratively across cultural boundaries.
• the development of environmentally friendly and sustainable graphic design for ceramics, textiles, product and environment design.
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