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Opening: 21 June 2003, 6pm
Exhibition
Schedule:
6:00 Begin screening of videos
7:00 Gary Lee dance
production begins, video screening becomes backdrop to dance, forming a
multimedia installation
7:15 The set goes dark for one
minute
7:16 Introduce Cui Zi’en’s special screening, show his film
“Feeding Boys”
Exhibition Includes:
1） Multi-media short
video festival
2） Special showing of works by Cui Zi’en
3） Dance by
Gary Lee
As the third exhibition mounted by the 25000 Cultural
Transmission Center in Beijing’s Dashanzi art community, “Media Center
Project” comprises three parts: 1) a festival of short videos from around
the world produced in 2002-2003, 2) a special screening of film work by
Cui Zi’en, and 3) a dance production by Gary Lee. “Media Center Project”
aims to deplore the multiplicity of visual space and the complex movement
of sensory organs. Setting out from the point exhibition curating, it will
show the interactions between the complexity of vision and the social
nature of art.
Cui Zi’en’s work systematically conveys news about
homosexuality in China, and in a certain sense, serves as a summation of
the entire phenomenon of homosexuality in China. Through works in film and
literature, he explores the normalization of homosexuality, and directly
expresses stories of gay love. At this moment when homosexuality has
already been accepted, we can look back on the history of that acceptance
and at changes in morality over time. The international video festival is
a traveling exhibition, coming to Beijing from Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Short videos give us much information, and we can choose and connect to
them arbitrarily with the ease of surfing the net. Videos from different
countries have obvious local characteristics. Having been compressed, what
they convey is a visual feeling. This kind of information is short and
powerful, an intermediary between media. Like the costumed dancer in a
performance, it can shuttle back and forth between the genders, forming an
attack on traditional ideas.
25000 Cultural Transmission
Center
4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
(Mailing
Address: Beijing PO Box No.554, P.R.China, 100015)
Tel/Fax: +86 (10)
64387107
Email: longmarch2003@vip.sina.com
Website:
http://www.longmarchfoundation.org/
Gallery
Hours: Daily, 10am - 6pm
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