Cao Fei's new work Eyeliner(2013) create an oasis of rest within the heart of the exhibition. It becomes a bookstore where the visitor is invited to "take time" to discover recent history and to daily life in China from the stories behind the clothing she created. 

More:  exhibition photos       pinchukartcentre.org

Home Works 6, its multidisciplinary forum on cultural practices which takes place every 2–3 years in Beirut. Cao Fei's 2 video works: Shadow Life (2011), Whose Utopia (2006) will be participated.

The exhibition program for Home Works 6 adopts strategies of spatial and temporal transferences, reenacting three key exhibitions that took place at transitional moments in history: the first Alexandria Biennial in 1955; the First Arab Art Biennial in Baghdad in 1974; and the exhibition China/Avant-Gardein Beijing in 1989. Inspired by Ibn Arabi’s concept of time as a fluid place and place as a frozen time, the exhibition examines the locations and conditions of the present, which finds itself once again at a historical juncture. The exhibition summons the past and present of Baghdad, Alexandria and Beijing to Beirut 2013, suggesting leaps among these different epochs and locales, and among the basic laws that have governed (and continue to govern) our culture and our thought. The exhibition does not seek to redraw a historical map. Rather, it presents a body of contemporary artworks against three crucial events—all of which were fuelled by important political, social and artistic movements—as a layer in time and place that is at once conductive and disruptive.

                                                                                     — Tarek Abou El Fetouh

More info:

www.e-flux.com

www.ashkalalwan.org

Cao Fei: House of Treasure


An exhibition of giant inflatable sculpture on the site of M+, Hong Kong' s future museum for visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District. Participating artists: Cao Fei (P.R of China); Choi Jeong Hwa (South Korea); Paul McCarthy (UK);Lukas Tam Wai Ping (Hong Kong); Jiakun Studio (P.R of China); Museo Aero Solar(Germany). In terms of scale, this is the largest contemporary art exhibition ever to be mounted in Hong Kong. Inflation! has been planned as a prelude to the planned fourteen hectare future Art Park in the District, with the aim of stimulating debate around the transformative power of art in the public realm, specifically in park design. The exhibition will also physically open up the undeveloped site, allowing the public to explore the parkland and consider the impact of the Art Park on Hong Kong's cultural landscape.

Inflation! continues the series of pre-opening 'nomadic' exhibitions curated by M+, marking the beginning of the museum's venture to explore different possibilities of engaging the public without the presence of a building – planned for completion in late 2017. Mobile M+ hopes to turn the supposed disadvantage of being 'rootless' into an advantage, by realising projects that would not have been possible in a single museum building.

Artists:
Cao Fei, Choi Jeong Hwa, Paul McCarthy, Lukas Tam Wai Ping, Jiakun Studio, Museo Aero Solar
 

Open:
Thursday, 25 April 2013

Close:
Sunday, 09 June 2013

Address: West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, West Kowloon, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Opening hour:

Daily | 6am - 11pm

Transport:
Tung Chung Line MTR, Kowloon; Bus KMB 8, 11, 203E, 215X, or 281A and get off at the Austin Road West

The Hayward Gallery’s Wide Open School is an unusual experiment in learning. Its programme of classes is devised and delivered by over 100 artists from approximately 40 different countries. It is not an art school however. Instead it is a wide-ranging forum where artists lead and facilitate workshops, collaborative projects, collective discussions, lectures and performances about any and all subjects in which they are passionately interested. That is a territory as expansive as the imaginations of artists.

Cao Fei's project The Orchid Pavilion is based on a cultural gathering/drinking contest that took place during the Six Dynasties era in China: cups of wine were set afloat down a winding creek and poets would have to drink and compose a poem each time a cup stopped near them.

For the class, Cao Fei focuses on the Taoist concept of 'effortless action', which cultivates a state of being in which our actions are aligned with the elemental cycles of the natural world to allow us to respond to situations with ease. Participants are asked to discuss a subject chosen by the artist each time they drink a cup of wine.

Cao Fei leads the discussion with fellow artist Pak Sheung Chuen.

more info:

http://www.wideopenschool.com/

http://www.wideopenschool.com/about-school

http://www.wideopenschool.com/artist-classes-main/by%20class

http://www.wideopenschool.com/class/The%20Orchid%20Pavilion

100 DAYS BEFORE TRACK
ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

© S.M.A.K.
TRACK
A Contemporary City Conversation

TRACK is a temporary exhibition in the public and semi-public space of the city of Ghent. Philippe Van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis invited 35 artists to make an in-depth exploration of six typical neighbourhoods in Ghent and to come up with artistic proposals that interact with the different communities in various ways. The curators took the time to select surprising, meaningful and hidden locations in the wider city centre of Ghent and invited artists who have an affinity with the thematic context of the various places. The selected artists use the local reality as a fertile source of inspiration to reflect upon the city and the contemporary human condition in a global light. The results of their explorations are not simply traditional works of art, but artistic projects with an intense relationship with the city and its inhabitants that will leave permanent traces.

TRACK was initiated by S.M.A.K. It continues the tradition established by the large-scale exhibition projects Chambres d’Amis (1986) and Over the Edges (2000), that had installed contemporary art in the context of the city and entered into a direct dialogue with the public.

More info:

www.track.be

www.e-flux.com/announcements/announcing-artists-for-track/

Cao Fei, “Live in RMB City,” 2009, video. Courtesy of Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing.

Game On / Re-Newing Media Art is a touring screening programme of artist’s film and video works that utilise the imagery and media of desktop interfaces, video games and online software. Curated by Chris Clarke (Curator of Education and Collections, Lewis Glucksman Gallery). Game On explores the ways in which contemporary artists appropriate and manipulate extant online materials and applications, often in order to challenge the rhetoric of user-interactivity and to highlight the aesthetics of the computer screen.

While new media artists have often explored computer technologies in their practices, the featured artists in Game On appropriate existing software; an approach shared with hackers and ‘hacktivists’ who often re-programme mass-produced video games and applications as a strategy of subversion. While hacking has generally concerned itself with forms of sabotage through computer viruses and website vandalism, the artists here use widely-available software to create films that emphasise the aesthetic qualities of the virtual landscape.

Artists: Peggy Ahwesh (US), Paul B. Davis (US), Michael Bell-Smith (US), Cao Fei (CN), Faith Denham (IE), JODI (NL), Oliver Laric (AT), Conor McGarrigle (IE), Takeshi Murata (US)

More info:  

www.glucksman.org

www.e-flux.com/announcements/game-on-re-newing-media-art-a-touring-initiative/