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Media Center Project Exhibition
Media
Center Project
Exhibition Includes:
1£© Multi-media short video festival
2£© Special showing of works by Cui Zi'en
3£© Dance by Gary Lee
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
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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.
Curator: Li Zhenhua
Opening: 2003.6.21, 18:00
Exhibition: 2003.6.21-2003.6.28, 10:00-18:00
Address: 25000 Cultural Transmission Center, 4 Jiuxianqiao
Lu, Chaoyang, Beijing
Mailing Address: Beijing P.O. Box #554
Postal Code: 100015
Phone/Fax: +86 (10) 6438.7107
E-mail: longmarch2003@vip.sina.com
Website: www.longmarchfoundation.org
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