Purpose
To integrate Chinese contemporary artists and musicians with the international art and music community, and to provide a non-commercial counterpoint to the exclusively market-driven art and music field.
Description
Not-for-profit project space to be launched in Beijing, October 2006, for art installations and music performances, in a large factory-type space.
Program Summary
- Artist Residency/Installation Exhibition
Artists of international reputation will be invited for two-month residencies to create installations and hold exhibitions. - Visiting Artists Workshop
Workshops and discussions will be organized for visiting artists with local art community (artists, galleries, critics, and academics). - Composer Residency
Overseas composers will be invited to work with musicians in Beijing, and informal concerts will be organized. - Music Workshop
Musicians from conservatories in other regions of China will be invited to collaborate with Beijing composers and musicians, culminating in a concert performance.
People Behind Currents
Sarina Tang
Director
This enterprise has been created by and primarily funded by, Shanghai-born Sarina Tang. Ms. Tang is an art historian and curator with significant experience in the international art community. She has been following the development of Chinese artists since 1979, when she first returned to China professionally. Since 2000, she has commissioned large-scale permanent installations in Tokyo by prominent Beijing sculptor Zhan Wang, Matthew Ritchie and Melissa Meyer. Ms. Tang was born in Shanghai, brought up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and studied history of art at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, France. She is now based between New York, Beijing and Lucca, Italy.
Ms. Tang curated and organized an exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein's "Landscapes in Chinese Style" at the museums of Singapore and Hong Kong, in 1998, producing a bilingual catalog for same. She also commissioned the six monumental sculptures for "The Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture Plaza" at Millenia walk in Singapore.
In 2005, Sarina Tang launched the Bonesetter's Daughter -- The Journey as the Executive Producer of an opera based on Amy Tan's novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter, with composer Stewart Wallace, directed by Chen Shi Zheng. The San Francisco Opera Company ran for seven performances between September 13th and October 3rd, 2008.
QIAO Xinyue
Production Coordinator
Qiao Xingyue is an independent filmmaker, photographer and graphic designer. He has worked as a cameraman for Sun Network Television and writes, directs and shoots his own film projects. In 2006, Qiao worked with Thinking Hands as a graphic designer.
乔星月
制作
小乔是一位独立电影家，摄影师以及平面设计师。他曾经给阳光卫视做编导，也曾在“思想手”作平面设计工作。