Chong Boon Pok

Contemplating the Everyday
-An exhibition of practice-led PhD fine art research

Private View: 4 July 2011 (Mon), 6pm – 8pm

Exhibition: 5 – 8 July, 11am – 5pm
Venue: Room CE 4-12, CE 4-13 & CE 4-22
4^th Floor, Central House Building
London Metropolitan University
59 – 63 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7PF

This exhibition is the result of my practice-led PhD fine art research based on the title The Mind of the Everyday in Contemporary Fine Art and Zen Buddhist Practice. It emerged from my personal experience and discoveries as an artist working from a Buddhist background. The core of the research is my studio practice with the theoretical framework operating in the intersection of personal and social perspectives. It seeks to develop an enhanced understanding of the everyday in contemporary fine art and Zen Buddhist practice in new and original ways, through bringing forward and integrating the physical and theoretical components of my studio practice as presented in this exhibition. 

Devoting attentiveness to and contemplating the everyday is central to my art practice. The everyday that I refer to is the trivial, ordinary and inconsequential objects and activities that people tend to take for granted such as the activities of cooking and having a meal. And, everyday objects are such as the cutlery we use for eating, something we are so familiar with that we are less likely to give a second thought when we encountered them. Besides assembling everyday objects into sculptural forms and installations, part of my work involves using food and cooking to perform and interact with people visiting my exhibition.

My studio practice operates within subjects, time and space using the everyday, and engages aspects of mindfulness, self, memories, social, cultural and symbolic form. My cultural upbringing and life experience are often revisited, examined and evidenced in my work. The work embraces ideas of as-it-is-ness, nothingness, the impermanent nature of things, and the interconnectedness of objects and people, all of which are relevant to Zen Buddhist discourses of the everyday.

Contact:  (E) andrewpok@hotmail.com or (M) 07979 55 88 18

CDR is delighted to invite you to the Chinese Visual Festival 2011 (30th June-15th July) organised by China Cultural Connect.

Chinese Visual Festival 2011 from Jingjing Xie on Vimeo.

The Chinese Visual Festival (www.chinesevisualfestival.org) is a twin art festival dedicated to promoting Chinese independent documentary making partnering 10 short documentaries shown at Birkbeck and South Bank Universities with a video art and photographic exhibition entitled Lost in Transformation at 17 Dorset Square, Marylebone.

Both exhibition and film tell untold stories with unknown faces looking at the life of children, economic recession, industrial work (Mask Changing- A letter to Antonioni, director Pan Jun, show on 7th July at London South Bank University) and the Chinese love of Shakespeare (For the Love of Shakespeare, director Zhu Chunguang, shown on 2nd Jul at Birkbeck Cinema). The exhibition Lost in Transformation (1st – 15th Jul Dorset Square) joins the documentary films in presenting unique perspective and the images and videos talk back to the documentaries in agreeing or disagreeing voices.

CHINESE VISUAL FESTIVAL 2011 (30th June-15th July) Programme
Art Exhibition will be FREE and open to the public from 1st July
Opening Hours: 12pm- 6pm Monday-Saturday 12pm- 5pm Sunday
Featured artists: Cao Fei, Adrian Fisk, Li Wei, Lin Zhipeng and Yang Yankang

Screening and special event ticket price: £5.00 for each session
Book tickets online at http://chinesevisualfestival.org/purchase-tickets/

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Thursday 30th June 6:30 pm, 17 Dorset Square, Marylebone NW1 6QB
2011 Chinese Visual Festival Opening Event (Invitation Only)

Saturday 2nd July, Birkbeck College Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD
1:45pm
Rabid Dogs (Cao Fei) 8’ , Tide (Yao Songping) 10’, Brave Father (Li Junhu) 50’
Panel Discussion with VIP Speakers

4:00pm
View point (Ma Fangfang) 10’, Patent Wars (Long Miaoyuan) 11’,
Nu (Cao Fei) 69’

6:45pm
For the Love of Shakespeare (Zhu Chunguang) 51’
Kindergarten (Zhang Yiqing) 69’

Tuesday 5th July, Charing Cross Library, 4 Charing Cross Road Leicester Square, WC2H 0BJ
7.00pm
Meet the artist Adrian Fisk
as he talks about his series iSpeak China.During the discussion the artist will also talk about the overall iSpeak series

Thursday 7th July, Rm VG10, K2 Building, Keyworth Street, London South Bank University , SE1 6NG
7:00pm
My 4-fen Land (Yan Fei) 5’, Water and Land (Huang Cong) 11’,
Mask Changing—A Letter to Antonioni (Pan Jun) 60’
Chinese Martial Art Performance
Chinese Traditional Dance Performance

Chinese Visual Festival Face Book Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chinese-Visual-Festival/231489010199218
Chinese Visual Festival Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/CVF_2011
Catch the trailer at:
http://www.vimeo.com/24868309

Festival credits
Organiser: China Cultural Connect
Partners: RSP Planet Design Studios, Birkbeck College, Charing Cross Library, London Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou Documentary Association, Chinese Designer’s Region, CNEX, HAA

Catering Partners: Goldfish Restaurant(Tel: 020 7794 6238), Empress of Sichuan (Tel: 020 7734 8128) and Dumplings Legend(Tel: 020 7494 1200)

Curators: Xuhua Zhan (Sylvia) Jingjing Xie (Christina)
PR & Marketing: David Crombie Si Si
Graphic Design: Yuling Deng
Website Design: Darin Higgs
Trailer Editor: Faisel Butt
Framing/Printing Material: Communityviews

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TREKX is a free entry exhibition of multi-platform artworks by 10 London based artists. The exhibition is sponsored by Anywalk, which is a new fashion label launched in China last year. The show will take viewers on a journey of exploration of the value and essence of the local culture and its reflection to the youth spirit and life through illustration, animation video, photographs, prints and paintings. The event also encompasses a 5 minutes documentary film featuring TREKX artists and their work process that will immerse the viewer in the lifestyle, culture and community of the current London art and design scene.

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Private View: Thursday 16th June 2011 6pm-10.30pm (DJ by Jas Mb starts at 7pm)
Open to Public: Fri 17th – Mon 20th June, 10am-8pm; Tue 21st June 10am – 2pm
Admission Free

Location:
The Loading Bay Gallery
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL

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Curated by:
JOYN:VISCOM WORKSHOP
Wide Open Space Creative
& POPZHE

CDR is delighted to invite you to the private view of Barely Notice exhibition created by one of our members (Andrew) Chong Boon Pok, in collaboration with Korean Artist Bommsoon Lee at the CDR’s venue in Baker Street. Please R.S.V.P. to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com with the number of people and names so we can add you into guest list.

Barely Notice
by Bommsoon Lee & ChongBoon Pok

Barely Notice embarked on the mutual interest of two emerging contemporary artists – Bommsoon Lee (South Korean) and Chong Boon Pok (Malaysian). The exhibition examines the commonplace: objects, spaces and situations that most people take no notice or show their lack of interest. The artists respond to both positive and negative spaces of RSP Planet Design studios. The work operates within the concepts of time and space, and recalls a sense of ‘Nothingness’.

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Private view: 14th October 2010, 6pm-9pm
Exhibition open to public: 15th-30th October, 12pm-6pm
Venue: RSP Planet Design Studios
Address: 17 Dorset Square, London NW1 6QB, UK
Short walk from Marylebone and Baker Street tube station

More info @ www.barelynotice.blogspot.com
For any queries about the project, please contact Chong Boon on  +44(0)7979 558818
Or email barelynotice@gmail.com

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=155769521122748

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About the project:

Bommsoon and Chong Boon’s work are both inspired by and physically derived from the objects, spaces and situations that are evident in their immediate environment. They reclaim the potential of the less attended and transform them into artistic forms for re-examination and contemplation.

Barely Notice consists of both artists’ existing work and new works. The work interacts with and assimilates the things and the structure of the space that concealed in the horizon of the everyday most of us barely notice.

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About the artists:

Bommsoon Lee
www.bommsoonlee.info

“Working in a range of media including drawing, object-making, installation, lens-based media and writing, my practice, at its heart, questions the relation between self-knowledge and knowledge of the world external to oneself.”

Attentiveness plays the central role in Bommsoon’s art practice, which to seemingly invalid fragments of objects, spaces and situations of everyday, and that enters selected tradition, ideological premise, or institutionalized orthodoxy for analysis. However the body of her work emphasises the indeterminacy or potentiality, often drawing from the line of the absurd and humour and remains within those moments where a decision or resolution has not yet been reached. In this show, she presents narrative sound, site-specific installations and drawings inviting viewers to the less attended.

Bommsoon completed her MA in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University and has been appointed to Artist in Residence 2010-2011 at Chelsea College of Art.

Chong Boon Pok
www.thegroundweshare.blogspot.com

“Devoting attentiveness to the everyday is central to my studio practice. The everyday that I refer to is the commonplace and trivial: objects and activities that for most people, maintain no great significance. I am interested in the artefacts and processes neglected or taken for granted.”

Chong Boon is interested in the as‐it‐is‐ness and impermanence of things: the interconnectedness between objects and people and how these things recall memories, mindfulness, and ideas surrounding the self. His work aims to reify the trivial and discarded, providing opportunities for the viewer to re‐approach these (often overlooked, and) reinvigorated contemporary cultural tomes.

Chong Boon is currently a practice‐led MPhil/PhD fine art research student at London Metropolitan University.

Alpha-ville 10 Screening Programme Trailer from Alpha Ville on Vimeo.

Associated with Alpha-ville festival, CDR will co-curate a special evening screening to showcase a selection of moving image from Chinese contemporary artists and designers, 3D animation, motion graphics, digital short film and more.

The films titles are:

This Is Love, by Lei Lei

My Life Tomorrow, by Zhe Wang

Balloon Girl, by Yibi Hu

Between the Lines, by Ann Xiao

The Soliloquist, by Keats

The festival will take place on Friday 17th @ Whitechapel Gallery  and Saturday 18th September @ The Rich Mix. The screening programme will run from 9:20 to 00:30 at Zilkha auditorium.

Alpha-ville, London’s new Digital Arts & Culture Festival unveils its Line-up and curated theme:

Visionary Cities..

Day 1- Friday 17th September @ The Whitechapel Gallery

Day 2- Saturday 18th September @ The Rich Mix

Alpha-ville, London’s new organisation dedicated to digital arts and culture, today announced its annual festival: Alpha-ville 2010, introducing the theme – Visionary Cities (17-18 September 2010). The Festival, in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery and Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, will fill two days with groundbreaking live music and visual performances including advanced electronic music, live cinema, interactive media installations, 3D visual performances, a moving image competition and a screening programme.

In its second year, Alpha-ville presents a strong curatorial programme focusing on increasing the exposure of quality digital arts within an interdisciplinary context. Under the theme ‘Visionary Cities’, Alpha-ville 2010 aims to break the boundaries of traditional disciplines, fostering new collaborations that use innovation and creativity to develop unique experiences.

Highlights of the programme include a rare live appearance by IDM pioneer Bola (aka Darrell Fitton), a special live set by internationally recognised electronic sound artist Scanner, an exquisite portrait of contemporary and up and coming electronic music artists such us talented composer Actress, German melodic techno duo Kettenkarussell, the Boats and hyperdub’s talent Subeena. The Festival will also showcase ‘live cinema’ performances – the latest trend in audio-visual art – including a 3D commission by Alpha-ville that brings together Pixel, a pioneer electronic music composer from the German label Raster Noton and Graphset, Alpha-ville’s visual creator. Carmen Salas, creative director of Alpha-ville said: “Alpha-ville 2010 invites the public to see the city and society of tomorrow through the eyes of pioneering digital artists who have made use of the latest technology to explore social, emotional and environmental issues. Our cities are continuously developing, growing and interconnecting, controlled by the demands of the 21st century metropolis. New technologies are transforming human relations and the built environment and there are increasing concerns for the future of urban spaces and society. The 2010 festival will provide a space for reflection on this theme.”

In close collaboration with the pioneer contemporary institution the Whitechapel Gallery, the Festival brings together two east London venues, taking digital art to the core of contemporary art to create a dialogue between a leading cultural institution and Rich Mix, its neighbouring up-and-coming arts centre.

Alpha-ville Festival will create a virtual itinerary for the public by using the latest social media applications, such as Foursquare. (http://www.foursquare.com).http://www.alphavillefestival.co.uk

DAY 1: Alpha-ville 2010 takes over 5 rooms at the Whitechapel Gallery presenting a rare opportunity to enjoy an extraordinary mixture of multidisciplinary events including live electronic music, a selection of cutting edge digital media screenings alongside interactive media installations and 3D audio-visual performances.

Digital Screenings

Bartlett’s Unit 15 Showcase: Talk & Screening

Moving Image Competition – “Visionary Cities”

Alpha-ville digital screening programme:

● Architectural projection mapping:

● Chinese Designers Region – CDR

Alpha-ville in collaboration with CDR (Chinese Designers’ Region) present a selection of videos from emerging Chinese contemporary artists and designer based in the UK.

-This is Love, Lei Lei, 2010, CH

- My Life tomorrow, Zhe Wang, 2007, UK

- Balloon Girl, MIE (Yibi Hu & Joe Marshall), 2009, UK

- Between the lines, Ann Xiao, 2008, UK

- The Soliloquist, Keats (Ma Kuang Pei), 2008, Taiwan

DAY 2: Unique evening dedicated to “live cinema” – a newly formed movement consisting of live digital music and real time visual performances.

If you want to present and share your projects/images to CDR community, please bring your works with a CD or memory stick and we will give you 10-15mins. The purpose for the gathering is for CDR members to know each others. It is an informal meeting/party and all presentations will be in English.

For more details about event, please click below link
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124229304275989&ref=mf
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It has been a while to wait for CDR’s gathering this year. Many people have contacted us about the coming event. Finally the refurbishment of the venue CDR which used last year has finished. It will be a great place for talks/exhibitions/screening to serve CDR’s community in the future.

To celebrate the opening of our new venue, we now announce and invite you to ‘New Comers’, another exciting event hosted by CDR. As the title suggests, we will have some invited new members to join and present their creative works. This time, we have our guest speakers Jing Wu and Jie Ren to introduce their graphic grids; Bei Yue and Tian Ye Wang to share with you their visions on photography as well Gemma Taylor to bring you her own animated wonderland. We are also very happy to show you the special film/animation screening as all the films are particularly selected for CDR New Comer event from the wonderful 4 nights New Generation independent films event organized by Kiki Yu in support with Ann Xiao. Plus, CDR has prepared you the BBQ space and facilities, just bring your summer special recipes and enjoy the BBQ party with all the creative boys and girls after the event.

Please refer below for the time and location of the event.

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New Comers 2010
Time: 13:30 onwards, Sunday 27th June 2010
Venue: 17 Dorset Square, London NW1 6QB (click HERE to see map, nearest Tube Baker Street – DUE TO planned engineering works, only Bakerloo, Circle and Hammersmith and City Line are working on the day)
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* Entry: £5 (incl. entry fee + 1 free drink and snacks)
* Entry fee also includes limited BBQ food and facilities provided, bring your own special recipes to win applause and make the party more fun.
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Dressing Code: Casual but with your favorite PAIR of SHOES!
R.S.V.P. with the number of ppl and names at cdrsubscription@googlemail.com.
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Venue sponsored by RSP Planet Design Studios PTE. Ltd.

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Rundown of the event on the day

Starter
13:30 doors open, concierge on your mark,
13:30~14:00, a slight social warm up
Main Course Part I
14:00 ~ 15:30
New Comers presentation
Guests speakers to present their works from Graphic/Multimedia Design, Photography and Animation/Moving Image. Each Speaker will have 15mins to introduce their works.

Interlude
15:30~17:30
World Cup Screening + BBQ
England vs Germany in the World Cup 2010 16.
Americans’ courage and the magnificent goal last minute added the special section of the CDR event this time. Let’s sit together with beers and cheer for the Team England here once in 4 years! If you are not interested that much in football and wish to chat with friends instead, the BBQ and weekend afternoon sunshine are right there outside in the garden

Main Course Part II
17:30~19:00
*Films and Animations from the latest independent directors and animators from China.
*Works specially selected by CDR from the New Generation independent films event organized by Kiki Yu in support with Ann Xiao. See a trailer from HERE.

Desert
19:00 onwards
BBQ section continues and for real football fans, another World Cup 16 game starts at 19:30 with Argentina vs Mexico.

Again, don’t forget to RSVP to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com for your attendance. Feel free to invite friends who are interested, just add their names to the RSVP email and then just enjoy the event.

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If you are interested to become one of our guest speakers or to join CDR, just drop us a line at info@cdregion.com

Kind regards,

CDR

Trailer-New Generation contemporary Chinese independent film from Kiki Yu on Vimeo.

Cube Magic and Cinéphilia West are delighted to host an event spread across four evenings, New Generation: Contemporary Independent Chinese Film. It is a showcase of some of the latest and most innovative and exciting films made by young generation Chinese filmmakers. In a series of four screenings: documentaries, animations, fictions and experimental videos, this event presents a new vision of contemporary China, under the themes of ‘Absurdity and Reality’, ‘Lost in ‘Now? – dream, memory and fantasy’, ‘Merging Fiction and Documentary?’, and ‘Searching for Identity ‘.

Most of the young film talents were born and grew up in post-socialist China, and they take a more personal and even first-person approach representing Chinese social reality. Among the showcased films, many are highlights from the Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival, China (CIFVF). 


The event will be presented by Independent Filmmaker and Programmer, CDR member, Tianqi Yu, director of Cube Magic, with the support from CIFVF and CDR. The London based Cube Magic(cubemagic.org) curates and programmes contemporary Chinese independent film and video works. Promoting international collaborations and exchange between China and abroad, Cube Magic represents emerging innovative young generation film/video makers, mostly born in post-socialist China.

When: From Thursday 27th to 30th May 2010 at 7:00pm


Where: Cinéphilia West, 171 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RS


Cost: £5 on the door / Free to Cinéphilia Club members


For further information about the event,
please contact Yoram Allon ( yoram@cinephilia.co.uk) / 020 7792 4433
and Caroline Jones ( caroline@cinephilia.co.uk)/ Cubemagic.org

Program

New Generation: Contemporary Independent Chinese Film

7 – 10pm, 27th MAY – Focus on Documentary: ‘Absurdity and Reality ’

Living in contemporary China means a life-long experience of dramatic transformations without much option of escape. This absurd reality makes everyone constantly re-position the ‘self’. Experiencing this constant shifting of identity, young documentary filmmakers also explore the ongoing challenges of documentary filmmaking – of how to position themselves as filmmakers, and their relations with others and society at large.
In The 7th Medical Ward, the filmmaker lives closely with homeless people in a developed South Eastern coastal city. The homeless people are regarded as being ‘mentally disabled’ by society and the filmmaker sympathises with their plight and feelings at being forsaken.

In Three Animals, the filmmaker, being an orphan himself, documents fragments of lives of his younger orphan ‘brothers’.  We may question his lack of moral responsibility by filming young boys robbing and fighting, but isn’t he also a victim of this absurd reality?

In Scrape, the filmmaker exposes her position more explicitly; in fact the film explores how difficult it is for her to elicit responses from urban management officers as well as the merchants who play ‘hide-and-seek’ with them.

Lastly, Settled is a dialogue between the 21-year-old film maker and an 83-year-old man; with the elder man’s story mirroring the transformation of China throughout the twentieth century, can the young film maker who was born in a new China, have a clear view the country’s present and future?

1. The 7th Medical Ward (Dir. ZHANG Tianhui, 44 mins, 2007)
2. Three Animals (Dir. XUE Jianqiang, 17 mins, 2008)
3. Scrape (Dir. ZHU Yi, 30 mins, 2008)
4. Settled (Dir. SHAN Zuolong, 30 mins, 2009)

Introduction and Q&A with Professor Chris Berry
Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

7 – 10pm, 28th May – Focus on Animation: ‘Lost in “Now” – Dream, Memory and Fantasy’

The young animation director Lei Lei shares his daydream of childhood with us inMagic Cube & Pingpong Color and Pear or Alien. He also reminds us how we can easily get lost in our greedy desires in The Face.

Ms. Red, Li Xianji’s Adventures and The Chinese Labour are animated documentaries. While Ms. Red illustrates the experience of the elder generation growing up during the Cultural Revolution, Li Xianji’s Adventures explicitly presents the fragmented ’self’ growing up in the commoditised ‘gaming’ China. The Chinese Labour, on the other hand, tells stories of the struggling subaltern class. This showcase also includes three most recent and best animations from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

All together, these animations invite us to think: to what extend can the truth be told through animated memory and dreams?

1. Magic Cube & Pingpong Color (Dir. Lei lei, 4 mins, 2009)
2. Pear or Alien (Dir. Lei Lei, 4 mins, 2008)
3. The Face (Dir. Lei Lei, 9 mins, 2007)
4. Black Pig White Pig (ZHANG Gong, 5 mins, 2005)
5. The Chinese Labour (Dir. CONG Longfei, 7 mins, 2008)
6. Ms. Red (Dir. ZHANG Gong, 17 mins, 2009)
7. Li Xianji’s Adventures (Dir. Youxiu de Feixingyuan, 22 mins, 2009)
8. Give & Take (Dir. HE Zhiping, 5 mins, 2008)
9. The Soliloquist (Dir. YU Weicheng, 6 mins, 2009)
10. The little Sun (Dir. Qiu Liwei, 22 mins, 2007)

7 – 10pm, 29th May – Focus on Narrative Short Films: ‘Bridging Fiction and Documentary’

This showcase of short fictions demonstrates more personal styles of film making. The award-winning Condolences re-enacts one true story in a single long take of 19 minutes, which challenges the aesthetics of so-called ‘fly-on-the-way’ documentary. The other films on show challenge the stereotypical Social-Realism of Chinese cinema by illustrating the more complex truth of living in China in a more self-reflective and expressive way. In addition, queer relationships also become a focus in ‘New Generation’ cinema, which can be found in And I Knewand Spring of Yangchun.

1. Condolences (Dir. YING Liang, 19 mins, 2009)
2. The Mirror Minded (Dir. MA Xiang, 30 mins, 2007)
3. And I Knew (Dir. HUANG KAI, 15 mins, 2004)
4. Spring of Yangchun (Dir. YANG Pingdao, 17 mins, 2006)
5. Closed Eyed; Wake Up (Dir. WONG Weihai, 18 mins, 2009)
6. F.I.L.L. K.I.S.H (Dir. LIN Zhele, 10 mins, 2005)

7 – 10pm, 30th May – focus on Experimental Film: ‘Searching for Identity’

While the short documentaries demonstrate the difficulty of positioning the ’self’ in response to the dramatic transformations under way in the country, the selected experimental films directly question the ’self’ in contemporary China on the explicit level of identity: ‘who are we?’

1. Me (Dir, CHEN Xuegang, 1 min 34 secs, 2008)
2. Tremble (Dir. CHEN Xuegang, 2 mins 20 secs, 2007)
3. Export (Dir. ZHOU Fei, 3 mins, 2009)
4. Untitled-3 (Dir. LI Ning, 15 mins, 2008
5. Yellow Spirit (Dir. Wang Wenyang, 7 mins, 2009)
6. Unfinished-2 (Dir. LI Ning, 16 mins, 2008)
7. National Anthem (Dir. LI Wake, 10 mins, 2009)

Q&A with Dr. Katie Hill
Senior Lecturer in contemporary Chinese Art and Visual Culture, University of Westminster

创意与演讲，激情与分享，尽在广州创意夜！

2009年12月31号晚，广州扉艺廊内热闹非凡，一场由广州绿色之春文化传播有限公司、扉艺廊、《VISION青年视觉》和《城市画报》共同主办，驻英中国设计师联盟CDR协办的创意聚会——广州创意夜，在这里揭开了她的神秘面纱。

广州创意夜的核心环节是“Pecha Kucha Night”，这是在广州举办的获得了日本东京Pecha Kucha Night组委会官方认可并支持的活动。Pecha Kucha是全球性的非盈利论坛组织，自2003年创办以来，已在全世界256个城市为观众带来无数个炫彩缤纷的夜晚。主办方大力把这场活动带到广州，旨在发掘珠三角地区的年度创意新人，为他们搭建一个跨界交流的平台，推动本地区文化创意产业的发展。

广州Pecha Kucha Night自2009年11月正式启动以来，吸引了众多来自各行各业的朋友报名参加，最后入选的20位朋友，有建筑师、设计师、艺术家、媒体策划人、品牌营销人、摄影师、老师和学生等，他们不但背景“非常跨界”，题目也是个性鲜明。这次Pecha Kucha Night的主题是“PK 2012”，主办方希望籍着玛雅文明“2012年是世界末日”的预言，与公众共同分享这20位参与者的创作、灵感、态度和生活。

被邀请的200多位嘉宾来自社会各界，Pecha Kucha Night参与者的精彩表现让现场气氛持续热烈。到了2009年的最后10秒，全场嘉宾一起倒数，在欢呼声中迎来了新的一年。

广州创意夜吸引了多家电视、网络和平面媒体前来报到，活动结束后，主办方还接受了搜狐网的独家访谈，与广大网友一起分享这场特别的聚会。

Pecha Kucha Night
演讲人简介
1、岑欣（Chris）
主题：设计开始于2012/12/22
毕业于广州美术学院工业设计系，2006年加入+D team，负责市场策划与推广。+D team（积极生活）是立志设计与生产日常生活家居用品的本土原创生活品品牌。+D team提倡优质、健康、舒适、放松、无拘束的生活方式。将有效的设计应用于不同的材料、不同的产品类别范畴，来设计生产于日常生活中所需时常用到的各类大小产品，渗透到您生活的每一个角落。
邮箱：miu.chris@gmail.com

2、李蝴蝶
主题：艺术家与地球联盟
剧场艺术家、诗人、青年剧场艺术评论家。现居广州。新快报高级编辑主编、人间喜剧场（Theatre of Human Comedy）创办人、天涯舞台艺术版版主、“广州访问计划”策划人。现主持李蝴蝶当代剧场工作室，致力于推动在剧场范畴内与不同艺术家进行跨领域创作。作品有《桥》、《西山一窟鬼》、《游园》、《微，国家片段》。
邮箱：renjianxiju@gmail.com
豆瓣：http://www.douban.com/people/RuFeng1752/

3、张博
主题：处理现场
张博，08年毕业于深圳大学建筑与城市规划学院城市规划系，被美国USC大学MLA专业录取并获奖学金；深圳大学建筑设计研究院直属景观部创建者之一、景观设计课助教；深圳大学建筑系系刊艺术设计顾问；现任职于深圳华森建筑设计有限公司。
邮箱：andrewzb@126.com

4、梁洛文
主题：Fly us to 2012
独立设计师，热爱生命并且喜欢白日梦，相信设计可以创造人间乐土。
建筑学毕业，曾从事广告，室内设计，建筑园林等行业，现专业是户外家具策划与设计。协助合作企业创造独有的品牌雏形与产品体系。曾获中国家具博览会设计金银铜奖等多个设计奖项。所设计的产品销往30多个国家和地区。
邮箱：luowen.l@gmail.com
博客：luowenislotus.blogbus.com

5、张丹丹 （Dandan Zhang）
主题：男人的收藏，秋冬季-2010-时装（A Men’s Toy,AW-2010- Collection）
张丹丹，来自上海，2002年进入上海东华拉萨尔服装设计学院学习女装设计。2005年进入伦敦时装学院学习男装设计并以优异的成绩（1ST Class honors defgree）获本科学位。求学期间曾在Alexander McQueen, Jasmine Di Milo, Katarzyna Szczotarska 实习。2009年,毕业作品被Artstalker Creative Group(www.art-s-talker.com) 挑选为100% Design London参展作品之一，同年其作品又参加了伦敦Cheers:) 2009逆流展。
网站：www.dandanzhang.com

6、杭宇
主题：2012
刚刚完成建筑学本科的学习，获得建筑学学位。现跟随西安建筑科技大学建筑学院院长刘克成老师继续研究生阶段的学习。
邮箱：michael1406@gmail.com

7、秦雨琪
主题：用夸张的方式告诉你一个结果
秦雨琪，女 ，1977年11月出生，2003年6月湖南大学设计与艺术学院硕士研究生毕业，现任教于华南农业大学艺术学院视觉传达设计系。主要业绩：多项设计作品获得“广东之星”、“中南之星”等奖项，在《艺术与设计》等专业刊物上发表多篇学术论文，主编教材《时装品牌视觉识别》。09年获得ICAD（国际商业美术设计师）平面设计专业（高级）证书。
邮箱：qyy06@163.com
博客：http://blog.sina.com.cn/qyq1111

8、王击凡
主题：如何运作一本独立杂志
广州独立创作杂志《RICE》主编，《城市画报》记者。致力于推广年轻人独立创作。
邮箱：xiaowangzi1984@126.com

9、林建
主题：另一条路往终点（The other way to the end）
林建，漫画编辑、平面设计师。广告学专业毕业后于地产集团和报纸媒体代理机构从事平面设计工作，同时涉足活动企划等周边领域。2009年3月由厦门转战至广州，阴差阳错当上“美化天线工程师”，仅三个月爬过近百个楼顶，以独特的方式认识广州。现任漫友文化资深美术编辑。
网站：www.eondesign.cn

10、陈海亮（William Chen）
主题：物界
建筑师，出生于海南，毕业于英国伦敦建筑联盟学校（AA School）。他热衷研究数码科技在材料及其结构几何性关系的运用。陈海亮是07大声展的参展艺术家之一，现在在英国伦敦的建筑事务所POPULOUS（前身是霍克体育建筑事务所HOK Sport Ltd.）参与伦敦2012年奥林匹克体育场的设计工作。
邮箱：whchen@whchen.com
网站：www.whchen.com
博客：www.whchen.com/blog

11、何岸（Stone He）
主题：当酒店爱上设计，当设计恋上酒店
生于七十年代，任职于某媒体公司，热爱生活，热爱工作，热心公益事业,并酷爱旅游，用自己的独特眼光看世界。所以无论工作如何忙碌，每年都要利用年假到处行走。足迹遍布亚洲、美洲、非洲、欧洲、大洋洲等近四十个国家和地区，梦想是可以环游世界并撰写自己的所看所想分享给朋友们。两年前开始，迷恋上设计和建筑，在行走中，花更多的时间去探访设计酒店，体验和寻找设计大师的踪迹。
博客：http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1266902864
个人专辑：http://msn.igotou.com/entity/traveler/1/32.html
邮箱：Hestone@21cn.com

12、陈洲
主题：2012年计划
陈洲于1974年10月1日出生于安徽金寨。1996-2000年在南京艺术学院壁画专业学习。2002-2007年留学法国，并于获得艺术硕士学位。现以独立艺术家的身份生活在广州。曾先后策划四次艺术展览活动；参加上海证大现代艺术馆策划的“介入：艺术生活366天”和北京798艺术节等多次艺术展览。
邮箱：cz_1006@hotmail.com

13、叶富华（Tony Yet）
主题： Rethinking cellphones for social good
Tony 是一个正在追梦中的年轻人，他是 TEDtoChina.com 的发起人，该网站旨在把国外各种最优秀的创意思想和行动引介到国内，并且通过网站团结一群人，让他们通过实验找到更美好的未来。Tony 相信积极的新闻以及行动是面对各种挑战的最有力的工具，并且正在推广这样的理念与做法。Tony 还是自由软件的倡导者。
博客：www.tonyyet.com
网站：www.tedtochina.com，www.TEDxGuangzhou.com
邮箱：tony@tedtochina.com

14、汪子旋（Judy）
主题：交换生活——任何时候请别忘了梦想
1989年中国制造，长163CM，净重保密。没意外的话，将于2012“世界末日”前6个月于华南农业大学兽医学院小动物医学专业光荣毕业。打小爱爹，爱娘，爱做梦，爱美食，爱旅游，爱生活。打小满肚子古灵精怪的点子，满脑子天马行空的想象。希望可以通过自己的坚持和努力实现自己的缤纷梦想！
邮箱：742859821@qq.com

15、陈旭军
主题：把旅游变成一场多角的恋爱
陈旭军，生态旅游专家，撰稿人，广东省旅游发展研究中心客座研究员，中山大学公民社会中心理事。致力于生态旅游在中国的研究和实践，在实践中，大力推广生态旅游和文化、艺术、有机农业、身心灵康复、教育、设计、人类学和社会学的互动；注重社会责任，带动社区和谐发展。同时关注和研究城市有机更新规划的课题，特别是历史老街区的保护和利用。
邮箱：cxj@earthcycle.cn

16、刘心慧
主题：小孩子的世界
舞动笔尖工作室创始人，毕业于华南师范大学美术系，广东省工艺美术协会会员，广东少儿美术教育协会会员，广东美术馆培训中心特聘教师。多年来从事创意儿童美术教育工作，发表了大量的关于儿童美术教育的文章并多次获得优秀教师奖项。
博客：http://blog.sina.com.cn/wudongdebijian
邮箱：cindylao@126.com

17、O.Be & Macci
主题：潮人相谈事务所
O.Be，《1626》杂志高级编辑。Fashion圈中浸淫多年反被潮流之养分所滋润，从以前觉得“衣服只是遮丑布”，到深信“衣服有能量”。确信潮流可以令人迷失，亦可取之有道，现筹建潮人相谈事务所，提供个人形象鉴定及改造服务。
网页：http://ao-1.blogbus.com
邮箱：moobe@163.com

Macci，自由设计师、媒体撰稿人、插画师。深迷fashion到不能自拔，对服装要求苛刻，相信一颗纽扣、一条拉链、一道线皆有其生命价值。理想国的构建者，并立志要将此理想在每个有自我认知的人身上付诸实行。
网页：http://vicky03.lmy.blog.163.com
邮箱： lmy2ljq@21cn.com

18、陈岳远
主题：城市陌生化（Urban unfamiliar）
陈岳远，YORK, 生于广州。城市摄影师，撰稿人。以陌生化的角度重新认识自己土生土长的城市，热衷城市漫游，去发现城中的宝藏和见证消逝的时光。曾与朋友合撰《我们的广州－生于八十年代》重温羊城旧事。现专注生活，寻找生活创意和地道美食。
博客：http://smilingeveryork.blogbus.com
邮箱：smiling_everyday@hotmail.com

19、林春园（Coco Camillelin）
主题：《卡在剧场门外的表情》——简称“卡·门”
直观工作室创始人，多重领域创作：架上绘画、空间装置、实验影像、戏剧编导。活动于维也纳艺术节、波兰艺术节、香港乙城节、北京798艺术节、北京左右艺术节、北京青年戏剧节、上海下河迷仓秋收季、广州大学生戏剧节、小洲艺术节等。独立制作出品：《戏游记》之“香·体”、《一个主画面的数字死亡现场》。
邮箱：linchunyuan@msn.com
博客：cococamillelin.blog.163.com
豆瓣：http://www.douban.com/people/4230698/

20、覃岛（Chin Thom）
主题：制作一个展览
1975年出生于柳州，现居广州。艺术家，电影人。
邮箱：541754204@qq.com

The Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR) is delighted to invite you to join our special event – CDR Shanghai Salon 2009. Since CDR was set up in 2006, many members have been back to China either started their own business or joined local creative industries. The salon is aiming to provide a platform for members to update each other what they have been up to and exchange their thoughts on how they adapted the context of local working condition. Members will also be informed what CDR has been doing during this year in London. Speakers range from architecture, product design, graphic design to fashion design. Guests are also welcome to briefly present your works and share what you have been through: excitement, frustration and happiness. This salon will be annually run by our Shanghai correspondence who will be elected during the salon. Special thanks to ACO Studio for venue support.
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CDR Shanghai Salon 2009

Date: Sunday, 20th December, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm to 7 pm
Venue: ACO Studio, 31 South Kaixuan Road, Xuhui District (Near Tube: Long Cao Road Station, Line 3)徐汇区凯旋南路31号(地铁3号线龙漕路站) 
Organized by: Chinese Designers’ Region (CDR)
Admission: Free (Drinks and snacks will be provided.)

Please RSVP to cdrsubscription@googlemail.com. For other inquiries and information about joining CDR, please email info@cdregion.com .

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=207078162412

Salon is chaired by William Hailiang Chen, more speakers to be confirmed. If you would like to present, please contact him at 0086-15011860729 or e-mail will@cdregion.com

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Coming next event:

CDR Pecha Kucha in Guangzhou 2009
Date: Thursday, 31st December, 2009
more details coming soon