Chinese Arts Centre and Wai Yin Chinese Society are collaborating to give you the opportunity to meet other learners of Mandarin Chinese. Group activities and free practice followed by a free screening of a mandarin language film, will help build vocabulary and encourage speaking confidence.
All learners at all levels welcome.
Every last Saturday of the month from 1.30pm.
Next Session will be on 27th March 2010.
For more Infomation please contact Gass – intern@chinese-arts-centre.org
Lan Wei
Stanley Wong
Preview Night: Thursday, 15th April 2010
16th April – 12th June 2010
Lan Wei is an on-going photograph project started in China in 2005 by an acclaimed Hong Kong artist, Stanley Wong. These photos intend to capture the relic of this mad ‘gold rush’ happened in the last decade in China, and some developing countries in Asia.
Stanley’s project initially focused on the collapse of the overheated property market in China. In order to make the most out of property development, people rush to pour their money into real estate investment. The widespread corruption and overheated economy end up lead to the bubble burst and lots of land were left unfinished. People in China termed these buildings ‘lan wei lou’, ‘lan’ meaning ‘decaying’, ‘rotting’, while ‘wei’ is ‘the tail’, ‘the ending’.
The beautiful photographic images are not only documentation of abandoned empty building, but also become a stage of intrigue stories. The narrative elements provide a mysterious and surreal atmosphere to the curial reality.
Eastman Cheng
12 May -21 August 2010
Open Studio Thursday 19 August 2010
Eastman views an artwork or ‘object’ as a recorder. It visualises experience, records her hands movement and in the act of making, it collects the trace of her heart. For her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Eastman will observe, analysis and create ‘objects’ from the perspective of a foreigner. Life and experience form an important part of her practice and the residency will provide her with time and opportunity to live, learn skills from local practitioners and make new works in Manchester. The experience will enrich her language and bring new elements to her work.
She will create a series of ‘objects’ from her impressions of Manchester and its people, so that these works will imitate British culture. Eastman wishes to ask members of the public to loan sculptural works and make use of them in their homes. Eastman will then photograph these objects in situ. During her residency Eastman will be running a series of workshops at Manchester Art Gallery as a trailblazer for the Asia Triennial Manchester in 2011.
Cindie Gottlieb-Cheung
26 April – 9 May 2010
Within her films, Cindie Gottlieb-Cheung scrutinizes the broader aesthetic relationship between object and gesture. Her work is drawn from her interest in the historical trajectories of the representation of women in lens-based media which is presented through sculptural interventions within her films. By appropriating the choreographed forms of imagery that have been prevalent in cinema and popular culture, Cindie creates spaces or worlds, which continually fluctuate between the familiar and unfamiliar, and likewise, the awkward and the attractive. Through pastiche, the films attempt to expose their own constructed operations which identifies and separates the work from the very imagery it mimics. She is interested in the way in which representation, meaning and desire intertwines, creating gaps and links between our personal understanding of fiction and reality and also our fixed expectations of how narratives unfold.
During her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Cindie will focus on accumulating visual research through the use of video and photography. Her investigations will function as the protagonist in a larger video installation exploring clichéd female allusions in the moving image.
TXLW
‘Note to Self’
15 May – 15 September 2010
Notes to Self are Illustrated ideas from notes and memories that are written in moments of madness and or clarity. TXLW is a Manchester based artist whose drawings have found themselves onto walls, bags, furniture, posters, flyers, tables, canvas, paper and the odd face. She enjoys cups of tea, moments (not the melting kind) observing and of course creating artworks.
Her work is constantly evolving and often relates to personal experiences or observations when in public places with a sub-conscious twist. Characters, text, patterns and organic forms take shape once the pen hits the paper and the music is turned on loud.
