Asia Live! Performance from Hong Kong and China

We are pleased to invite you to Asia Live! Performance from Hong Kong and China

Artists:
Wang Chuyu (Ch)
Zhou Bin (Ch)
Liu Nanxi (Ch/HK)
Mok Chiu Yu (HK)
To Yeuk (HK)
Sanmu Chan (HK)

Curator: Waldemar Tatarczuk

Free entry!

The artists will make their performances and lectures also at the Labirynt Gallery in Lublin and BWA Gallery in Zielona Góra.

Chen Shisen (Sanmu Chan)
Born in Beijing in 1963, now living in Hong Kong. He joined the “Southern Artists Salon” and the First Experimental Art Exhibition in Guangzhou in 1986, and started his performance art creations during that time. He moved to Japan in 1987. After the Tiananmen Incident in 1989, he participated in social movements, which changed the theme of his works. His works mainly reflect the oppression by wars and massacres, and also reflect on the oriental culture. He also uses poetry, printing, installation and so on as his way of expression. He returned to Hong Kong in 2002 and continued his creation, as well as curating exhibitions. He was invited to join numerous international performance art event/exchange program, including Art of Encountering IV organized by E.P.I Zentrum (Germany), Transart Communication Performance Art (Hungary/Slovakia) . He performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Canada and etc. Also he curated Hong Kong Performance Art Laboratory 2014, Hong Kong International Performance Art Festival 2015 and a serious of performance art exchange between Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Hungary etc. Now he is working as the curator of CCCD arts space – Green Wave Art in Hong Kong. 

Liu Nanxi
She has presented her performance art / live art in exhibition, performance art festivals in Hong Kong, Xi’an, Xiamen and so on. She also has been working as an organizer and coordinator of activities and events of performance art in these years, including “Inter-via Encounters Between Hong Kong & Taipei’s Performance Artists”, “Performance Arts Laboratory Project 2014” , “Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: Hong Kong International Performance Art Festival”  and recent years, she co-organized a performance art exchange project between Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary and also performed there. Now she is working as performance artist, independent curator and freelance writer.

Mok Chiu Yu
graduated from the University of Adelaide with a B.Ec. degree (1967) and completed his counselling training at the University of Keele (1980), He has worked as a youth worker, newspaper editor, high school teacher ( 1974 – 1990), arts festival organizer and cultural worker since 1990. He was involved in organizing disability arts Hong Kong from 1995 – 2004 after which he headed a new organization called Centre for Community Cultural Development.  He has extensive experience in cross cultural collaborations in theatre e.g. the Big Wind Project, a cultural caravan involving artists from nine cities in Asia, Australia and America, which toured Asia for 4 months, Yours Most Obediently etc. He has been involved in many community theatre projects (including projects involving migrant workers and persons with disability) in Hong Kong. He has also been a keen promoter and proficient facilitator in various educational and community theatre methodologies in Hong Kong eg. Basic Integrated Theatre Arts, Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre etc. He was the Congress Director of IDEA 2007 in Hong Kong, attended by altogether 1,700 drama educators from all over the world. His publications include When the Big Wind Blows, Fluid Sculpture – the Playback Experience in Hong Kong, Black Sky – Plays of South Asian and Hong Kong Encounters. He won the first ever Drama Achievement Award presented by Hong Kong’s Arts Development Council in 1999. Presently he is the chief executive of the Centre for Community Cultural Development. 

To Yeuk
Graduated from the First Institute of Art and Design in 1997, and works in design field. she participated in the arts and cultural condolence at the time of a series of actions, and Installation Art in 1996. she had been creating performance art and installation since 1998, and presented her works in Beijing during 1999 to 2001, including performance in The 1st Open Art Platform Performance Art Festival. After that she had been working in design field from 2001 to 2012.  And from July 2012, she backed to create performance art, and during these years she performed in Hong Kong, Xi’an Gu Yu, Beijing, Chengdu Up-on, Shenzhen and Taipei ,also participated Hong Kong International Performance Art Festival 2015 and a serious of performance art exchange between Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc., she works mainly respond to social movements, environmental issues , life and self-exploration etc.

WANG Chuyu
Born in 1974, Shaanxi, China. He was graduated from Shaanxi Art Normal College (present Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and has been living as an artist from 1994 till now, based in Beijing. He has been focusing on create performance art since 1996, and curated independently a lot of important performance art exhibitions and festivals in China, such as “Dadao Live Art Festival” in Beijing (2003-2006), “GUYU Action Performance Art Festival” in Xi’an(2007 till now). He also initiated and held a serious of performance art workshop “Square Performance Art Workshop” in Beijing (2007-2010), and facilitated performance art workshop annually in Taiwan (2012 till now). He has participated in performance art events in Britain, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and so on.

Zhou Bin
Born in 1970 in Xi’an, China, Zhou Bin graduated from Xi ‘an  Academy of Fine Arts and Chang’an University. Between the years of 1994 and 1997, he worked at Beijing’s YuanmingyuanandSongzhuang artist villages. 1997 marked his move to Chengdu, where he turned exclusively to performance art. Zhou Bin’s work emphasises the body’s experience in performance artworks, giving absolute substance to the idea, whether expressing some slight feeling or dealing with life’s contingencies. His works arrive at the epistemological and linguistic root of performance art, stressing: What you say is important, but how you say it, even more so. The body’s language, interaction of various media, spatial penetration, spontaneity, and the event are all in medias res, ready to be freely employed.
Zhou Bin has travelled extensively abroad with his performance art, spending productive time in Japan’s Tokyo Live Art Center, Korea’s Guangzhou City Museum, Renchuan Art Stage, Singapore’s Binhai Art Center, Thailand’s ManguCulture and Art Center, Holland’s W139 Museum, England’s Chinese Art Center, Moore University Museum, Seattle Action Art Space, Isreal’s ZAZ Performance Art Center, Germany’s SAVVY Modern Art Group, Ludwig Museum, Italy’s 21st Century National Art Museum (MAXXI), Austria’s KUNSTRAUM NIEDEROESTERREICH Gallery, Vienna’s TANZQUARTIER WIEN. He has researched and performaned in art residency programs throughout Sweden, Belgium, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia and Pakistan.