Wei Weng is an artist who uses a variety of media to explore ideas of cognition and perception as they relate to ephemeral and permanent spaces. In this interview Wei Weng discusses her time with Arrow Factory (storefront art space in Beijing that she co-founded), her own practice, her ideas about personal mappings and the gallery as public / non-public space.
Artists & Curators
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The definition of an artist has gone through huge paradigmatic shifts in response to social and technological change. Perhaps it is most fitting to say that there is no one definition that covers everything artists do. But far from being unsatisfactory, this vagueness is maybe the most important part of the job description, because it leaves open that space of self-determination that makes it so vital as an agent of change. The artist can be seen as a fulcrum between idea and form, an agent of meaning -making, -breaking and/or -preservation, a juggler of significations.
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Wei WengNing YingNing Ying is a filmmaker who director the Beijing Trilogy (For Fun) (1993), On the Beat (1995), I Love Beijing (2001), a series of films that explore and analysis the massive changes that China's national capital has undergone in the recent decades. In this interview Ning Ying discusses her films, her career and her use of urban spaces and architecture to explore cultural identity and cultural memory. Philip TinariBeijing based writer and critic Philip Tinari discusses how he became interested in Chinese art and culture, the emergence and development of the Chinese contemporary art scene, the role gallery spaces played in the movement and the philosophy of artforum.com.cn.
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
Helsinki based artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen initiated the Complaints Choir project, which invites people to sing about their complaints together. The first Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham (UK) in 2005. After the event became a surprise success, Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen have been invited to initiate complaints choirs all around the globe. Soon thereafter they initiated the Complaints Choir of Helsinki, the Complaints Choir of St. Petersburg and the Complaints Choir of Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. |
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