DIAF 2007
In the past four years, DIAF (Dashanzi International Art Festival) has made the Danshanzi District / 798 factory, a former Bauhaus industrial area outside the east fourth ring road, has become part of the world art map. This art fair organized by artists themselves does a good job in raising public’s attention on Chinese contemporary art, the numbers of the DIAF visitors doubled from 80000 to 160000. The disputes between 798’s Seven Stars Management Group and the DIAF’s chief curator Huang Rui procrastinated the festival which is formerly scheduled in May to September 22 to October 14.
In spite of all the disputes, the 2007 DIAF is still worth expecting. Instead of being restricted to the Dashanzi area, the show extents geographically from the German style industrial complex to East Pioneer Theatre, Chaoyang Cultural House, East End Art Zone, Gao Bei Dian Art District, Huanyie Art District, Liquor Art Factory (Jiu Chang) And Yonghe Museum. This act maybe a response to the over-concentration and art super- market tendency of 798.
The motif for 2007 DIAF is yi (1)/ yi(2) (game/ process), the first Yi is from I- ching literally means easy, or change, on one hand it implies the organizer’s emphasis on the randomness, and playfulness of art. On the other hand, Yi (1) is a concept that concentrates the persistency of variability in the existing world to one single character, suggests the possibility of unlimited interpretation and misinterpretations of art. Yi (2) means move, especially the ones undergo under time and space changes, empirical side of art and human under external factors.
Organized by Thinking Hands and its partners including Art Beijing, the art feast canopies various genres including visual arts, lectures, music, films and video, dance and theater, performance arts and children’s programs. Apart from numerous individual exhibitions in a bunch of galleries, one of the features in this year’s DIAF opening is Game in Progress, a Adidas-China sponsored 24- hour continuous creation of Graffiti by Japanese street art/ graffiti artist group Rinpa Eshidan, a Japanese live painting group led by Noiz-Davi and Daisuke Yamamoto. Under the stimulation of music, artists will keep drawing, the first paintings will become the room for the next ones over it. The concept of this is also similar with automatic writing and medical Brut Art which keeps digging out mind flow. Also, the works explore an existence form of art which is parallel to the linear time flow. The happening- disappearing process redefines paintings by the visual process other than outcome
Another highlight is an exhibition of Tendance Floue, a French photography group comprised by 12 photographers who swing their photography stance between news and art with an influence of existentialism. The avoiding of collective metaphysical theories emphasizes on the topic of living experience and allows each artist to preserve their individuality though being in a group. Short films and 50 photos of 12 including artists will be shown.
If one is shocked by the line of Torii-like bright orange gateways in Central Park in New York and eleven pink- polypropylene surrounded islands Miami's Biscayne Bay, missing the talk by the creators of these artworks, environmental installation artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be his lifelong regret. Since the late 50s the duo started their “Wrapping Up” projects and gigantic Land Art pieces. All arouse phenomenological, intuitive shock and aesthetics by their huge scale (just imagine the wrapping of the Reichstag ) and almost formidable modification of landscapes. Expectedly, the worldly renowned duet will give seminars on environmental installation art, which is rarely practiced in China due to political and capital and other factors.
Performance art is paid great concern in China. People still take delight in talking about by artist Ma liuming ‘s art happening in front of British artists Gilbert and George during the avant garde duo ‘s visit in China, and debates on the ubiquity of Peter-Stembera-style self- mutilation acts are still on . Apart from performance by more than 20 local performance artists Cologne-born artist, Boris Nieslony who founded performance art collective Black Market International will host discussion, workshops and performance in DIAF 2007. The artist undergoes his ah-hoc performance art according to the resonance between him, people and the surroundings, which are coerced to be part of the process of Nieslony ‘s works.
In spite of all the disputes, the 2007 DIAF is still worth expecting. Instead of being restricted to the Dashanzi area, the show extents geographically from the German style industrial complex to East Pioneer Theatre, Chaoyang Cultural House, East End Art Zone, Gao Bei Dian Art District, Huanyie Art District, Liquor Art Factory (Jiu Chang) And Yonghe Museum. This act maybe a response to the over-concentration and art super- market tendency of 798.
The motif for 2007 DIAF is yi (1)/ yi(2) (game/ process), the first Yi is from I- ching literally means easy, or change, on one hand it implies the organizer’s emphasis on the randomness, and playfulness of art. On the other hand, Yi (1) is a concept that concentrates the persistency of variability in the existing world to one single character, suggests the possibility of unlimited interpretation and misinterpretations of art. Yi (2) means move, especially the ones undergo under time and space changes, empirical side of art and human under external factors.
Organized by Thinking Hands and its partners including Art Beijing, the art feast canopies various genres including visual arts, lectures, music, films and video, dance and theater, performance arts and children’s programs. Apart from numerous individual exhibitions in a bunch of galleries, one of the features in this year’s DIAF opening is Game in Progress, a Adidas-China sponsored 24- hour continuous creation of Graffiti by Japanese street art/ graffiti artist group Rinpa Eshidan, a Japanese live painting group led by Noiz-Davi and Daisuke Yamamoto. Under the stimulation of music, artists will keep drawing, the first paintings will become the room for the next ones over it. The concept of this is also similar with automatic writing and medical Brut Art which keeps digging out mind flow. Also, the works explore an existence form of art which is parallel to the linear time flow. The happening- disappearing process redefines paintings by the visual process other than outcome
Another highlight is an exhibition of Tendance Floue, a French photography group comprised by 12 photographers who swing their photography stance between news and art with an influence of existentialism. The avoiding of collective metaphysical theories emphasizes on the topic of living experience and allows each artist to preserve their individuality though being in a group. Short films and 50 photos of 12 including artists will be shown.
If one is shocked by the line of Torii-like bright orange gateways in Central Park in New York and eleven pink- polypropylene surrounded islands Miami's Biscayne Bay, missing the talk by the creators of these artworks, environmental installation artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be his lifelong regret. Since the late 50s the duo started their “Wrapping Up” projects and gigantic Land Art pieces. All arouse phenomenological, intuitive shock and aesthetics by their huge scale (just imagine the wrapping of the Reichstag ) and almost formidable modification of landscapes. Expectedly, the worldly renowned duet will give seminars on environmental installation art, which is rarely practiced in China due to political and capital and other factors.
Performance art is paid great concern in China. People still take delight in talking about by artist Ma liuming ‘s art happening in front of British artists Gilbert and George during the avant garde duo ‘s visit in China, and debates on the ubiquity of Peter-Stembera-style self- mutilation acts are still on . Apart from performance by more than 20 local performance artists Cologne-born artist, Boris Nieslony who founded performance art collective Black Market International will host discussion, workshops and performance in DIAF 2007. The artist undergoes his ah-hoc performance art according to the resonance between him, people and the surroundings, which are coerced to be part of the process of Nieslony ‘s works.
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