The International Agency for Contemporary Chinese Artists
Welcome to June! Hello to light summer evenings and some fantastic Chinese arts events – a cracking month by all accounts. Get ready for racist text installations, art in fancy dress shops, old people and animations, and opportunities to Breathe… Continue reading ‘June Newsletter’
Saturday 31 May 2008 10 – 11pm
Residency Lounge, Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool
Free entry
This charity gig is for raising money for the victims of the earthquake which happened on 12th May 2008 in Sichuan China. A group of talented local musicians and dancers would like to commemorate this sorrowful date with you.
‘Home of Love’ China Quake Appeal Charity Gig is organized by Fenfen Huang and China Pearl and supported by Hope Street Hotel and British Red Cross.
For more information email chinapearl2007@yahoo.co.uk
“We are not in the Museum”
Photography by Zhu Ying
24 May – 15 July 2008
The photographs shown here are part of a collaboration between Zhu Ying and Yan Jun titled We are not in the Museum. The project reflects the artists’ interest in everyday life in the city, with the aim of exploring and rethinking the relationship between human beings and their environments. Continue reading ‘CHINA INCIDENTAL (Un)familiar Territories’
Opening this weekend!
CHINA INCIDENTAL (Un)familiar Territories
Headphone walks by Yan Jun & Hitlike
24 May – 22 June 2008
Chinese Arts Centre has teamed up with CHINA NOW, the UK’s largest ever festival of Chinese culture, to offer you a free trip to China… through sound. Yan Jun (Shanghai) and Hitlike (Harbin) have each created a specially commissioned sound work that transports the listener to the streets of China as they follow a corresponding route around Manchester city centre. Taking in the bustling electronics market of Shanghai or main food sellers street in Harbin, the walks provide an entirely unique insight into life in China today.
Chinese MP3 players loaded with tracks and maps of the route are available to borrow from Chinese Arts Centre or Download the files from our website. Continue reading ‘Opening 24 May’
CHINA INCIDENTAL (Un)familiar Territories
Headphone Walks by Yan Jun & Hitlike
As part of CHINA NOW, the UK’s largest ever festival of Chinese culture, Chinese Arts Centre hosts (Un)familiar Territories, a groundbreaking project that offers up the soundscape of China matched up to the landscape of Manchester.
Leading Chinese sound artists Yan Jun and Hitlike (real name Zhang Liming) have each created a carefully editied sound work of their locations in Shanghai and Harbin respectively which link to locations on a walk round Manchester city centre.
The tracks move fluidly through the different settings as the walk takes in locations as different as Shudehill Interchange, the Arndale Centre, Afflecks Palace and Market Street. Using noises captured from the bustling markets, streets, restaurants and industrial sites of these major Chinese cities, the works offer an experience of everyday life in China as the listener encounters familiar territories in unfamiliar ways. Continue reading ‘CHINA INCIDENTAL (Un)familiar Territories’
From surreal ink animations to dragon inspired paper cutting installations, from the soundscape of Shanghai to the landscape of Tatton Park, we’ve got a veritable banquet of exciting events and exhibitions for you this month. Continue reading ‘May Newsletter’
Chinese Arts Centre and 501 Artspace are collaborating to open up the Breathe Artist in Residency Programme, Chongqing. The programme is open to all artists and will facilitate one to three month at 501 Artspace, Chongqing for successful applicants. Continue reading ‘Breathe Artist Residency Programme, Chongqing’
In collaboration with Tatton Park Biennial
1 May – 29 June 2008
Hong Kong based comic and animation artist Kongkee is interested in the relationship between people and place. His animations, comic publications and online comic blog are often humourous and fun whilst also displaying a mature sensitivity to the subjects he deals with. Continue reading ‘Kongkee’
