Activities:

1. Project Discussions
2. Attended three gallery openings in Chao Chang Di Gallery District

Chao Chang Di Art District - Gallery Openings:

Platform China Contemporary Art Institute:

"Platform China is a multi-function art gallery, established since 2005. It has two gallery/project spaces and five international residency studios (total 1,500sq. m). The main aim of Platform China is to develop and promote contemporary art in China and to build up a platform of cultural exchange and dialogue between Chinese and international artists."
From: http://www.platformchina.org/en/about.asp

Exhibit: A Project/ Incommunicable
Artist: COMPANY
(Li Ming Chen Zhou Jin Shan Chen Wei James Elaine, Jia Hongyu,Li Fuchun, Lin Ke,Li Ran, Liu Shiyuan, Lv Zhiqiang, Guo Hongwei, Shi Xiaowen, Yang Junling, Yan Xing)
Website: http://www.platformchina.org/en/exhibitms_show.asp?exhitid=100

"COMPANY is an undisclosed project co-founded by Chen Zhou, Li Ming, Li Ran, Yan Xing in 2008. Since 2010, COMPANY has successively launched a series of projects named after A Project. On this occasion , Chen Zhou, the initiator of COMPANY, will be working with fifteen artists to present A Project-Incommunicable. Through these continuous practices, COMPANY aims at setting up a platform to promote the four founding members' individual productions."

"COMPANY is a company with no employer, employee and salary. The definition of COMPANY is as vague as all the definitions. COMPANY has no principles or precise characterization. The artists from COMPANY rarely communicate with each other; they work independently with no aims and no obligations towards doing things. COMPANY was founded under this name in 2008 and after the reciprocal recognition of each member."

Exhibit: Relating
Artist: Wang Gong Xin
Websites:
http://www.wanggongxin.com/
http://www.platformchina.org/en/exhibitms_show.asp?exhitid=98

"Together with Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, famous Chinese video artist Wang Gongxin will show us his new series of works "Relating" opening at 15:00 p.m. on Together with Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, famous Chinese video artist Wang Gongxin will show us his new series of works "Relating" opening at 15:00 p.m. on June 5, 2010 in Space A, Platform China. The show will include the first two works from the "Relating" series "Relating -It's About 'Ya'"and "Relating -- It's About Dream"."

Exhibit: Looking For Balance
Artist: A K Dolven
Website: http://www.akdolven.com/

Three Shadows Photography Art Center:

"In June 2007 two leading photographers - RongRong, from China and inri, from Japan - founded the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing's vibrant new art district, Caochangdi. The Centre is the first contemporary art space dedicated exclusively to photography and video art in China. The 4,600 square meter complex includes 880 square meters of gallery space and was designed by renowned artist and architect Ai Weiwei.Three Shadows aims to become the most professional and comprehensive platform for the promotion of photography and video art in the country."
http://www.threeshadows.cn/en/about_us.html

Exhibit: our face
Artist: Ken Kitano
Website: http://www.ourface.com/english/

"Ken Kitano was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1968. In 1991, he graduated from the College of Science and Technology at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. In 1993, he became an independent photographer. In 1989 he began taking photographs, and in 1993, he held his first solo exhibition. Since then, his works have entered collections both inside and outside of Japan."

Exhibit: Me In My Surroundings
Artist: Mo Yi

"From June 19, 2010 to July 18, 2010, Three Shadows hosts Me in My Surroundings -80, 90, 2000, an exhibition of Mo Yi's photography. The exhibition reflects Mo Yi's attitudes and feelings towards the city in a group of black-and-white photographs. Mo Yi said, "In nearly thirty years of creation, I have always confronted the big city, taking it to heart. I definitely have an emotional tie to the city. The city has already become my longtime subject and photography has always been for me the most appropriate language and way of speaking about this subject. The three parts of this exhibition are merely a small portion of my works about the city, but they deal with different points in the 1980s, the 1990s, and 2000s. What's fascinating is that despite this sort of great span between the periods, the three works nevertheless exude some kind of identical flavor, and that is a curiosity, amazement, apprehension, and happiness about the city. By coincidence, this is the moment that China began to reform its political system and to urbanize, the whole process of upsurge and development--so, is my flesh and blood as well as my spirit and work today also a part of this process? Me in My Surroundings is about is my state in the city, my feelings and attitudes."

Beijing Li-Space Culture & Art Center

Li-Space is situated in Caochangdi Art District, Beijing, China, full name is Beijing Li-Space Culture & Art Center. It was founded by Gu Zhenqing and Yang Li in July 2008. The exhibition hall of Li-Space is 318 square meters and 5.8 meters high, composed by two main halls, two video rooms and a backyard. Since its founding, Li-Space has been working on the construction of the concept "New Blood of Art". This concept doesn't constrain to the outstanding endeavor of the young generation but also tries to encourage the already established artists to gain new strength. It is no doubt that the new energy of art creation lies in the efforts of making a fresh restart when changed to a new track and artists' logo went to zero.

Exhibit: GET MOVING!
Website: http://li-space.com/en/exhibition_show.asp?exhitid=30
Artists: Cheng Ran, Diao Wei, Guo Ling, Hu Qingyan, Niu Miao+Nicholas Hanna, Sun Xun, Wu Junyong, Xie Qi, Xu Xiaoguo, Zhao Yiqian, Zhao Zhao

"Lives are about moving forward, so is the art. While an artist is satisfied by constantly and massively producing the work of art merely about graphic, means or materials, he just endeavors to form his style as a fixed LOGO. A conservative artist whoever succeeds in merely being responsible for textbooks would lose his own nature; a conservative artist whoever insists merely the past track would abandon the foresight of art; a conservative artist whoever insists merely preciseness would escape exploring and challenging to uncertain world. Artists always have excuses for their conservative behavior whilst none is coming from art itself. Stereotyped LOGO of an artist comes with stubborn laziness and strong inertia, which is like a dull knife of the perception, inducing people whoever are about to suicide their spirit.

Get moving --- Up or down; left or right; forward or back! Get moving proactively is always active. Action makes track of the movement and motivates vitality. Artist on the move makes everything possible. Get moving! Artists will bring alive thoughts in this more and more conventionally institutionalized society."

Contacts:

Yang Li
Art Director,
Beijing Li-Space, Red No. 1-F, Caochangdi, Beijing 100015, China
Mobile: +8613910953931
Tel: +86(10)51273272
Fax: +86(10)51273271
Email: yangliart@sh163.net
Website: http://li-space.com/en/index.asp

Chen Zhou
Artist & a founding member of COMPANY
(former student of Fei Jun)
http://64770522.blogbus.com/
http://www.platformchina.org/en/art_works.asp?artistid=60

Platform China Contemporary Art Institute:
No. 319-1, East End Art Zone A, Caochangdi Village,
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015
T: +86 10 6432 0091
F: +86 10 6432 0169
info@platformchina.org
http://www.platformchina.org/en/exhibitms.asp

Three Shadows Photography Art Center:
155 Caochangdi,Chaoyang District Beijing 100015,China
Tel: + 86 10 6432 2663
Email: info@threeshadows.cn
http://www.threeshadows.cn/

Beijing Li-Space Culture & Art Center:
Red No.1-F, Caochangdi, Beijing 100015, China
http://li-space.com/en/index.asp