曹斐 Cao Fei

Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand New, Art Basel Hong Kong
2015.03.13 - 2015.03.17

Cao Fei will light up the entire façade of Hong Kong's iconic ICC building with a major new work

Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei has set her sights on Hong Kong's International Commerce Centre building in Kowloon, where a large-scale LED installation will display images from 1980s video games every night as part of next week's Art Basel.

For Cao Fei's installation, "Same Old, Brand New," symbols, logos and moving images from video games such as Pac-Man and Tetris will play out on the facade of the 490-meter-high ICC in five 10-minute sessions every night from March 13-17.

For those in Hong Kong, recommended viewing spots include the terrace on Podium 3 and 4 of the IFC Mall, where an accompanying audio piece by Hong Kong sound artist Dickson Dee will evoke music from 1980s computer games, as well as Tamar Park and Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park.

Commissioned by Art Basel and ICC, the installation is part of a larger program called the ICC Light and Music Show, which consists of a series of spectacles that are said to be the largest light and sound shows on a single building.

For more information on the project, visit icclightshow.com.hk. Art Basel Hong Kong runs March 15-17.
Documentary Fortnight 2015, MoMA, New York
2015.02.26 - 2012-02-27

Cao Fei's 2 films Haze and Fog (2013) and i.Mirror (2007) screening at MoMA

i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film

2007. China. Cao Fei. 28 min.

Haze and Fog

2013. China. Cao Fei. 47 min.

Post-screening discussion with Xin Wang, Associate Curator, Asian Contemporary Art Week

more info: MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2015
Whose Utopia, Poetry and Dream, Tate Modern, London
2014.10.25 - 2015.04.25

Cao Fei's Video Whose Utopia (2006) now on Display at Tate Modern
Theme: Level 2: Poetry and Dream (collection exhibition of Tate)
Room: Cao Fei (Room 2)
more info: Tate
Cao Fei's Haze and Fog screening at Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2014.10.30

Haze and Fog (2013)  

30 Oct, 2014

Cinema 1 - Centre Pompidou, Paris

€ 6, € 4, free LP

The Chinese artist Cao Fei works with video, 3D animation, photography, as well as platforms through its Second Life avatar "China Tracy". She builds her works from reflections on Chinese society, using references to the fantastic and integrating performative elements related to contemporary dance.

Her latest film Haze and Fog (2013) reflects the discomfort of living in a invaded by the video game industry and consumerism society, symbolized for the artist by a thick fog. She invented in response to a parallel universe with zombies who fully live their desires and emotions.  

Curated Mnam / Bcc - contemporary and prospective service creation, Christine Macel

more info: www.centrepompidou.fr

L’artiste chinoise Cao Fei travaille avec la vidéo, des animations 3D, de la photographie, ainsi que des plates-formes sur Second Life à travers son avatar « China Tracy ». Elle construit ses oeuvres à partir de réflexions sur la société chinoise, en utilisant des références au fantastique et en intégrant des éléments performatifs liés à la danse contemporaine. Son dernier film Haze and Fog (2013), don du Cercle international de la Société des Amis du musée et présenté lors de cette séance, témoigne du malaise de vivre dans une société envahie par l’industrie des jeux vidéo et la consommation à outrance, symbolisé pour l’artiste par un brouillard épais. Elle invente en réaction un univers parallèle avec des zombies qui vivraient pleinement leurs envies et émotions.

Commissaire : Mnam/Cci - Service création contemporaine et prospective, Christine Macel 

Cinéma et Vidéo

30 octobre 2014, à 20h00

Cinéma 1 - Centre Pompidou, Paris

6€, 4€, LP gratuit
Cao Fei's Haze and Fog screening at Gene Siskel Film Center, School of Art Institute of Chicago
2014.10.23
Cao Fei: Haze and Fog
2014.10.23.
Gene Siskel Film Center, School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Cao Fei, China, ca. 80 min.
Chinese artist Cao Fei mixes fantasy, documentary, and virtual reality to reflect on the ways China’s rapidly changing economy has transformed the everyday lives and imaginations of its citizens. Her latest film, HAZE AND FOG (2013), is a darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security guards, manicurists, and sex workers seeking contact in an increasingly individualized, alienating society. Fei accompanies the film with her 2007 short i.MIRROR, which follows her avatar China Tracy as she navigates the alternate reality of Second Life. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Various formats. (Amy Beste)

Cao Fei will be present for audience discussion.
more info: www.siskelfilmcenter.org
La Town, Cao Fei's Solo Exhibition, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York
2014.09.10 - 2014.10.25

La Town, Trailer (1'31"), 2014

Cao Fei: La Town
Solo Exhibition

September 10 – October 25, 2014

Vernissage: Wednesday, September 10, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

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Indeed, this simulacrum remains unsurpassed in its evocation of the Real.

Indeed, this film conveys the Truth.

I will always mourn for the fate of La Town, for La Town is always in mourning.

– Cao Fei

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Lombard Freid Gallery is pleased to present La Town, Cao Fei’s fifth solo show with the gallery. An ambitious stop-motion feature, La Town exemplifies the artist’s playful-yet-political practice, converging fantasy and reality into a film noir-inspired vision of the contemporary China and the World at large. The trailer for the film was well received at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014, and is followed by the full-length film and related photographic series.

more info: Lombard Freid Gallery
Cao Fei's Theatrical Mirror, Contemporary Art Center of South Australia
2014.09.14 - 2014.10.20

Cao Fei’s Theatrical Mirror: Living Between the Real and the Unreal   

Presented by Adelaide Festival Centre and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA)

 Internationally recognised Chinese artist Cao Fei presents Adelaide audiences with Theatrical Mirror: Living in-between the Real and the Unreal, featuring eight videoworks spanning the years 2004 to 2013. These video and new media works reflect the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution, exploring perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of “Second Life”. Depictions of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development abound in imagery that echoes traditional Chinese landscape painting and in the design of her own virtual utopia, RMB City.

Applying strategies of sampling, roleplay and documentary film making Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China’s younger generation.

more info: Adelaide Festival Centre
Cao Fei's Haze and Fog, The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale
2014.05.16 – 2014.08.31

8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen, China

OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen announce the artists who will participate in the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, open May 16–August 31, 2014. The works selected for the Biennale elicit subtle levels of involvement, whether by inviting action, reflection, critique or contemplation, based on the free judgment of the viewer. The selected artworks use references to everyday occurrences, to modest and neglected aspects of our lives, to seemingly ordinary spaces, structures or architectures as a way of giving aesthetic form to diverse social realities.

The artists and collectives participating in the Biennale and its public programme include Cao Fei, Chen Chieh-jen, Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Yufan & Chen Yujun, Cheng Ran, Geng Jianyi, Gran Fury, Huang Po-Chih, Takahiro Iwasaki, Jia Chun, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Meiro Koizumi, Lai Chih-Sheng, Marc Lafia, Michael Lee, Li Jinghu, Li Ming, Ahmet Öğüt, L+ (Pak Sheung Chuen, Wo Man Yee, Lee Soen Long), Sheila Pepe, Adrian Piper, Polit Sheer Form Office, Tsong Pu, Younès Rahmoun, Manuel Saiz, Song Ta, Wu Mali, Xu Tan, Morgan Wong, Yao Jui-chung with LSD, Qiu Zhijie & Song Zhen with Diankou residents and Total Art Studio, Héctor Zamora and Zheng Bo.

OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT)
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Is Utopia for Sale? MAXXI Museum, Roma, Italy
2014.02.15 – 2014.05.04

15 February – 4 May 2014
Gallery 5

curated by Hou Hanru and Monia Trombetta
with contributions of the curatorial teams of MAXXI art and MAXXI architecture

Whose Utopia, video, 2006, Cao Fei

The Utopia of monetary power

is gradually replacing

the Utopia of social good.

Is Utopia for sale?

more info: www.fondazionemaxxi.it
Cao Fei's Haze and Fog at Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, UK
2013.10.25 - 2013.12.07

The film Haze and Fog (2013) is Cao Fei’s most ambitious moving image work to date and is a joint commission, the inaugural work to be acquired for the New Chinese Contemporary Art Collection, the first in the UK created in partnership with the University of Salford. This new initiative builds on the strengths of both institutions, commissioning emerging Chinese artists, developing work for the collection that will aim to increase knowledge and interest in Chinese contemporary art across the UK and internationally. The collection will be officially launched on 11th October at Media City UK, Salford.

‘Haze and Fog’ was produced by Eastside Projects (Birmingham) and Vitamin Creative Space (China) and is commissioned in partnership with Eastside Projects, Arnolfini (Bristol), Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University. The film will also be exhibited at Eastside Projects (Birmingham) from 21st September – 16th November, screened at Tate 22nd September, and at Arnolfini (Bristol) as part of a series of events profiling the artist’s work.

Haze and Fog - Trailer: www.youtube.com

More info: www.chinese-arts-centre.org