The 2nd Culture & Arts Festival of CUHK-Shenzhen — Speed//Time
The 2nd Culture & Arts Festival of CUHK-Shenzhen — Speed//Time
2020.11.15-2021.2.26
In 2020, the second Culture & Arts Festival hosted by the University and organized by the University Arts Centre will target at "public art" and will be officially launched on November 15th after one year of preparation！
Our intention is to enable aesthetics to be deeply embedded in every corner of the campus, to extend the artistic vocabulary to a wider space, and to create more connections and dialogues with Shenzhen and urban development.
Why Public Art?
With the rapid development of the society, public art, as a blank in life, has opened up a gap for us to stay for a short period of time to get thoughts and feelings about the surroundings. It is a medium that facilitates our encounter with the world and others. Through unexpected interaction with art, we gain the pleasure and warmth of aesthetics.
Public art on campus will reflect the characteristics of adapting into local conditions. No matter which method or style it presents, it will play a positive role in space, eliminate the inherent boundaries, and shorten the distance between art and us.
Theme
"Time is money. Efficiency is life."
"Acceleration" has always been a fashionable word in the culture of Shenzhen. How is speed defined by time? What is the relationship between speed and time? The curator tried to find a speed of life and incorporate "time" into the discussion of "speed".
This year, in the Culture & Arts Festival, UAC will invite 8 artists from different fields to create 8 sets of cutting-edge sculptures about "speed//time" for the campus, deconstruct the concept of time and space from unique perspectives, and interpret the sense of familiarity and strangeness in the surroundings. This will touch the heart with ordinary things, and at the same time inject infinite vitality into the continuous interaction.
This new and bold attempt of cooperation will be the first full-scale artistic fusion of the campus and the outside world, and it will also be an avant-garde event which may fully present large-scale sculptures in university. From scale and form to conceptual design, it will be a record-breaking artistic exploration.
The 2nd Culture & Arts Festival
of CUHK-Shenzhen — Speed//Time
2020.11.15-2021.2.26
Opening Ceremony
Time: 2020.11.15 14:30-18:00
Venue: TC101
Rundown
Prologue——【Conversation】
14:30-16:00
Guests: Curator + Artists
Opening——【Opening Ceremony】
16:30-17:00 Opening Speech
17:00-17:30 Curator-guided Tour
17:30-18:00 Musical Performance
Artists Say
Cai Yinan
"The installation is likely to offer a space where you can connect with time through your body emotions and further observe life. Here, let's return to TIME itself."
Introduction of the artist
She has created many weird works, and she specializes in "to be a stranger".
Cai Yinan is a well-known illustrator in Shenzhen, who does well in illustrations for brands, graphic design, wall painting, stage art, etc. Participated programmes include: Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen Yantian Youth Art Week, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Meizu Technology, SUPERMONKEY, Shenzhen Circle Creation 101, Fat Bird Theatre, etc. Her painting styles varied in style and are colourful, which can bring people strong visual impacts.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: 3.745
Size: 3,400 x 2,400 x 1,700 mm
Year: 2020
Materials: Fiber reinforced plastics, LED lights
Information of the Work:
Time exists in breathing, and speed only lies in comparison. Everyone has his own time, about which everyone has unique and various feelings. Time is private, which could not be shared. Even if in the case that two lovers are kissing with hugging, their feelings towards time differ. Time is as untouchable and boundless as truth is, but its existence could not be denied.
Think about how to concentrate on the matter or the feeling which is just in front of you, and think about how to focus on the step you have moved to, for example, when your toes touch the ground, try to really experience the strength and the organic operation from your own body. Think about how to perceive the elapse of every second now, or how to catch the birth of the next new second. In fact, time is eternal in some perspectives.
This is a lesson that needs lifetime devotion, which is probably an approach to live a life and get close to the truth. The installation is likely to offer a space where you can connect with time through your body emotions and further observe the life.
Here, let's return to TIME itself.
Byoungho Kim (Korea)
"This artwork stems from the reproduction structure of flower. Flowers reproduce in silence, and I think human system is like that too."
Introduction of the artist
Byoungho Kim once studied at the College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, then he got his M.S in Major of Technology Art, Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University. The artist has designed his works as productions of standards, regulations, and systems of social conventions, using blue print instead of freehand sketching and creating a production system with thorough divisions of processing. He inserts electricity into precisely designed and processed metallic works to achieve the "Sculpture of Sound", which is an exploration of new ways of sculpture creation for him.
His works have been exhibited many times in solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally, such as: 2018 <Enchantment> Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China (Solo); 2010 <Invisible Object> SOMA (Seoul Olympic Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea (solo); 2012 <Jing'an International Sculpture Project> Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China; 2012 <Korean Eye> Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: 31 Silent Propagations
Size: 8,300 x 3,000 x 3,800 mm
Year: 2020
Material: Urethane coating on stainless steel
Information of the Work:
This artwork stems from the reproduction structure of flower. Flowers breeds and proliferates in silence, and I thought human system is like that too. "Silent Propagation" is to reproduce a quiet propagation of human desire. A series of work featured by 26 pieces of tubes visualize the fantasy of human desire that is generated silently, combined together, and propagated.
Through this work, artist tries to show the value of various factors, regardless of their scale or individual significance. This is somewhat similar to how an engineer assembles small parts to make a final product. These parts may seem small in scale, but the system would not be complete without them.
One of the "materials" I like to use is sound. The essence of sound is the vibrations of frequency, and these vibrations are often seen as geometric patterns to the eye. Through the process of changing these geometric patterns, namely modulation, they become sounds for the artworks. A small device is necessary to produce the sounds; computer programming source codes are saved to this device, which operates on direct current (DC)power.
Peng Libiao
"This is a legendary land, a paradise for pioneers, and a wonderland for adventures."
Introduction of the artist
Peng Libiao graduated in 2009 from the Sculpture Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. He was committed to exploring the possibilities of sculptural ontology language and material conception.
Exhibitions: "Tempo Rary Scene", Shenzhen, 2018; "World By World", Germany, 2017; "Finding Friends: Discover Young Artists, Today Art Window", Beijing, 2016; "The Art Exhibition of the 35th Anniversary of Shenzhen Special Zone's Establishment", Shenzhen, 2015.
Now he lives and works in Shenzhen.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: Earth Thunder
Size: 2,000 x 2,000 x 2,530 mm
Year: 2020
Materials: Stainless steel, LED controller
Information of the Work:
This is a legendary land, a paradise for pioneers, and a wonderland for adventurers. Just like the thunderstorm season in the Pearl River Delta, the game between the rising energy of the Pacific Ocean and the ancient continent, the thunder and lightning on this land near the sea, are metaphors for opening the world, metaphors for a passage into another world that symbolize infinite possibilities. I use a "Shenzhen-style" vision and mood to tell a less "self" landscape.
pink;money
"The artwork in and out of the TC101 SPACE is divided into the form that can help people feel the coolness and the heat, the wind and the rain, and capture the activities of surrounding lives."
Introduction of the artist
pink;money is a creative new media art team founded by new media artist/programmer You Long and graphic designer/experimental film director Shen Qi. The team holds a shared interest and expertise in fields including generative design, human-computer interaction, audiovisual art, interactive installations, parametric design, animation design, experimental noise art, etc.
pink;money is active in Hong Kong and Mainland China, participating in a number of audio and video art performances and new media art exhibitions. Its mission is to express new forces of the understanding of chaos and order. Recent projects and collaborations include "Sonar Hong Kong"; "New Year in The Forbidden City"; "Time Maze" at Min Sheng Art Museum and so on. pink;money is currently contracted with Modern Sky's MVM.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: Mossketch
Size: Dimension variable
Year: 2020
Materials: Electronic tree, sensor, display
Information of the Work:
Life is good, but data is the truth. Data needs to be interpreted to be understood, or translated to be interpreted. The artwork in and out of the TC101 SPACE is divided into the form that can help people feel the coolness and the heat, the wind and the rain, and even capture the activities of surrounding lives. The concrete world is abstracted by sensors into data, and then re-birth and interpretation hidden in the moss form a new mode of audio and video.
Julie 【EMBER】
"Any living creature is swallowed by the energy while time and space are compressed around it."
Introduction of the artist
EMBER is a creative platform jointly initiated by three art teams located in Shenzhen. For the love of new media art and the pursuit of sensory expression, the team brings together members' diversified abilities and distinctive personalities, and continues to output new creative concepts. EMBER uses installations, programs, images, sounds and other media as the interface, and combine interaction with live performance as the communication language, to invite participants to share their present feelings, thinking and imagination.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: ELONGATED GATE
Size: 5000 x 4000 x 3000 mm
Year: 2020
Materials: LED screen, light
Information of the Work:
Around a large mass of an energy body, there are three virtual crevices with abnormal properties. Anyone who walks past the crevices will be pulled to the core of the energy body by the gravity and disappear; even lights cannot escape from it. In this space, any living creature is swallowed by the energy body while time and space are compressed around it. When the living creature tries to dance, to jump or to observe, or when it eventually overcomes the tug of its gravity and escapes from the crevice, the information stored in the crevice at that time will be infinitely slowed down and reflected.
Xie Wendi
"I try to express the concept from the imaginary and the symbolic perspectives. It's
like outlining the air."
Introduction of the artist
Wendi has received a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art, London in 2012, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from China Academy of Art, Hangzhou in 2010. Now she lives and works in Shenzhen.
Her artworks include painting, sculpture, and she specializes in making use of glass material. Her solo exhibitions include The Other Me in the CFCCA in Manchester, England in 2013, and Form Form Form in Guanlan, Shenzhen in 2017. Her artworks have been exhibited in China, UK, Czech Republic, Germany, Unite States and other places, and some have been collected by art museum and private collectors. In 2016, her public artwork- a large stained glass piece Bridge the World was exhibited permanently in Shenzhen Airport Metro Station. In 2019, another piece, also made of stained glass, named The Light of the Sea, was exhibited permanently in Shenzhen Qianwan Park Metro Station.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: The Light of the Sea
Ashore:
Size: 625 x 625 x 3,000mm（including base）
Year: 2020
Materials: Hand-blown glass, mirrored stainless steel, high-definition silver coated glass, LED lights
Water:
Size: 2600mmφ
Year: 2020
Materials: Hand-blown glass, mirrored stainless steel, LED lights
Brick Wall:
Size: Dimension variable
Year: 2020
Material: Hand-blown glass
Information of the Work:
I am quite interested in the physical form, and try to express the "speed of air" from this perspective. To outline the air, I adopt the transparent glass which turns into a tough bubble after being blown to represent the air. I use different locations (mediums) in CUHKSZ campus, including the banks, the water surface, and the brick walls, to represent the speed of air. I choose the three locations in that they are continuous. Air is everywhere. Just like the moon-shaped doorway that creates a frame for the scenary, I frame air. I chase it, depict it, and make it a new scene. This is why I name the work "Tracing Air".
Xu Ziwei
"The audience is allowed to walk up on the artwork and...An island floats in soft light that gives a comfortable feeling."
Introduction of the artist
Graduated from the Department of Public Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a Bachelor's Degree, she is currently based in Shenzhen and Beijing.
Exhibitions:
"Blazing Element" (AN+Art & Design Center, Shenzhen, 2020); "Facula" (OCAT Chengdu New Media Exhibition, Chengdu OCAT Culture Square, 2019); "Made In Illusion" (Artron Art Museum, Shenzhen，2019); "China House Vision: Future Life Exhibition__Hewei Exhibition Center Salon" (Bird's Nest South Square, Beijing, 2018)
Awards:
The 6th "Tomorrow Sculpture Award", Special Award; "Youth Tendency", The 5th Biennale of Excellent Public and Visual Artworks by College Students, The Second Prize; The graduation creation My Body Is Slightly Larger Than The Entire Universe received the Excellent Award at the faculty and the artwork was collected by the People's Government of Putuo District, Shanghai.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: Flow
Size: 5100 x 5300 x 1300 mm
Year: 2020
Materials: Fiber reinforced plastics, LED light
Information of the Work:
An island floats in soft light that gives a comfortable feeling. The artist tried to use a soft undulating material similar to cloth as carrier and breathing light which is like bubbles. This artwork presents a life that flows like water, creating a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere and adding a touch of relaxation and joy to students' journey after class.
The audience is allowed to walk up on the artwork and it can be used for various purposes: for example, it can serve as a stage in the water for students to perform on after class; beanbags can be placed on it as a platform for chatting, resting and reading.
Yang Mushi
"Here in Distorting, in the repetitive pattern and motion, you can see classic production pattern, intense speed of urban development, rapid breathing rate, the manual operation of the works and edgy signals all blended in the catchy white light."
Introduction of the artist
In 2014, Yang Mushi graduated from the Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing China. His recent solo exhibitions include "Disappearing into Thin Air" at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing in 2019, "Complusory Execution" at Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne in 2018, "Broken Troso" in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in 2018, and "Illegitimate Production" at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing in 2016.
Group exhibitions include: "Architectural Presentation in Chinese Contemporary Art", One Thousand Museum, Miami, USA (2019); "Sixteen Scenes of Shanghai", Maoma Warehouse, Shanghai, China (2019); "Modern Times", Ullenes Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2019); " Annual Arts Exhibition between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries -- The Universe", Ox Warehouse, Macao, China (2018); "HEIMAT" -- The 2018 Guang'an Field Art Biennale, Guang'an, China (2018); "The Dark Matters", White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2017); "Visual Questions: Young Artists' Visions and Experiences", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2017); "Everyday Legend", Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016).
He now lives and works in Shanghai.
Introduction of the work
Title of the Work: Distorting
Size: Dimension variable
Year: 2018-2020
Materials: Neon tubes, transformers, electric wires
Information of the Work:
Known as a classic vehicle for advertising and informing, here, conventional white neon tubes were selected and distorted — the very basic way of making neon tube arts— also randomly beveled and bent, to emit similar but differential geometric rays. White neon symbolizes the fluorescent lamps at workplace while turns and angles represent the twists and turns in reality. Texts, error codes, electrocardiogram and K line chart are epitomized in the pattern while accident, death and life are all tangled and twisted within the strobe. Under the dazzling light, lives are silently languishing and fading. Here in Distorting, in the repetitive pattern and motion, you can see classic production pattern, intense speed of urban development, rapid breathing rate, the manual operation of the workers, and edgy signals all blended in the catchy white light by the artist. This lighthouse is also an attempt to ignite viewers' imagination for future cities.
From all the works, we will see enormous enthusiasm of each artist for the theme "Speed//Time", and they capture the visible or sensible elements from the time and the space they are in and comprehend the subtle dialogue between the real world and them. We will do everything possible to achieve the display on the campus.
The unique sculptural vocabulary constructed through different media allows each piece to stare at the moment and eternity of the present, and contains the endless energy in "Speed//Time".
When you stop in front of a certain piece of work and feel the spatial changes of the campus, every breath confirms a certain pure existence.
Please enjoy them.
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Chief Project Creator:
President Yangsheng Xu
Producer: Dorothy Wong
Project Creator: Cici Tang
Project Coordinators: Zhang Xu, Yulia Han
Academic Chair: Luan Qian
Curator: Li Rongwei
Curation Assistant: Hu Anqi
Artists (in alphabetical order):
Byoungho Kim (Korea)
Cai Yinan
Julie 【EMBER】
Peng Libiao
pink;money
Xie Wendi
Xu Ziwei
Yang Mushi
Academic Support：
Shenzhen Center for Design
Shenzhen Art ＆ Design Alliance
Partners:
F.T. LIBRARY
Students' Associations and Clubs:
Film Club, Debate Team, Photography Interest Club(P.I.C.), Darlingo, Shutopia
More information:
