Fall’08 Update!
// Arthub has recently launched its new website, featuring all its projects and publications to-date, along with profiles of all its regional partners in Asia as well as all the PCF Network Partners from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
// Summer 08, Arthub has collaborated with B’Art: Bishkek Art Center to create the first international public art workshop in Bishkek, bringing together artists and curators from Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Turkey, varying in age, contemporary art styles, media and experience. The works were exhibited at the heart of Bishkek in the space in front of the State Museum of Fine Arts. Arthub recommended Li Zhenhua from China and Hakan Topal of xurban.net from Turkey as participants and presenters in this workshop. Arthub Curatorial Consultant Defne Ayas was also on site, giving feedback to the artists, as well as presenting a lecture on new media and performance in public space with case studies from China and rest of the world. In synch with Arthub’s mission to support art creation in China and rest of Asia, through this project, the goal was to both promote contemporary art creation across the borders and stimulate an artistic dialogue between artists from different countries in the region.
// For September 08, Arthub/Bizart has jump-started Shanghai Detour 上海游艺图, a non-profit art map and free shuttle ride project, for the distinguished guests of Shanghai Biennial and ShContemporary, bringing together all the disconnected parties of Shanghai art scene, including museums, galleries, and independent art spaces- an initiative undertaken for the first time. Watch out for signs with Shanghai Detour logo first week of September!
// During the same time, Arthub/Bizart will be on site at ShContemporary art fair with a booth, where its most recent projects and publications including by artist collective Birdhead, art critic Zhao Chuan, and independent curator Biljana Ciric will be presented. Pippa Dennis will also introduce AAF (Asia Art Forum), an educational initiative for young collectors, art professionals and enthusiasts.
// Strategies from Within, an exhibition of Vietnamese and Cambodian contemporary art practices, will be installed at Ke Art Center this Fall, curated by Biljana Ciric. The exhibition is the result of research conducted in Saigon, Phnom Penh and Hanoi and received support from Arthub for artist travel. Participating Artists include Hoang Duong Cam, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Tiffany Chung, Sopheap Pich, Vandy Rattana, Chan Dany，Leang Seckon, Dinh Q.Le, Truong Tan, Tran Luong, Nguyen Manh Hung,Nguyen Trinh Thi, Tuan Andrew Nguyen in collaboration with Wowy, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, and Phe Sophon.
//Starting from September 2008, Arthub will also co-operate with Open Academy through the seminars conducted by artist Qiu Zhijie and Arthub’s Defne Ayas in Autumn 2008 and April/May, 2009, also providing in part structural funding for Blue Sun art space. The Open academy is a resource development programme to meet the needs to connect to contemporary art practices of the art communities Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, planned as a result of a research trip arranged in 2006, with Arthub’s Davide Quadrio, Chu Yuan and Jay Koh as part of Compass project, upon the invitation of Arts Council Mongolia (originally initiated through SOROS fund).
// October 2008, Arthub will be curating “Xuhui”, a highly visited neighborhood of Shanghai (October 17-22, 08), upon the invitation of the Shanghai E-arts Festival. Titled Final Cut- Processing New Media in Public Space in China, the program is developed in close collaboration with visual artists, musicians, architects, programmers, dancers and designers and curated by Arthub’s Davide Quadrio and Defne Ayas. Included will be projects such as 40 + 4 and Hipic.org as well as videos and performances by emerging and established artists, mostly from Asia, including Aaajiao with Nunu, Ling Xi, B6 and Alizia Borsari, Christian Marclay, Dead DJ+Chen Xiongwei, Feng Mengbo, Wang Yuyang, Zhou Xiaohu, Shih Chieh Huang, Terra Bajraghosa, Takeshi Murata.
