happy new year!

Thanks to the Great Fire Wall, I will no longer update this blog.
please refer to my official website for all future and past information, works, exhibitions, news etc.

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Happy New Year to you all!

"Young Fellow Upstairs" Times Art Museum Beijing

This curators nominated show opens June 12th 2010, exhibition will continue until July 8th. I will be showing two videos, a work titled "Sun and Moon".

www.timesartmuseum.com

beijing-bangkok-berlin-vienna-budapest-zurich-metz-paris-tel aviv - paris -beijing

I love traveling, the preparation of a journey, the expectation of an adventure, the expected unforeseable encounters. but now i am half way through this extended journey and I am actually exhausted, the fear of stepping into another plane pushed me in switching to train rides and adding a few stops and connections, as if shorter rides could ease the feeling of actually being on the road. So far I haven't yet been in a place where I could understand the language that street people speak. I look forward the minute I arrive in France...tomorrow, monday, tuesday.... one of these days... but the beauty of being on a journey is also being able to stay in solitude and complete isolation of some sort. I continue looking out the coffee shop window.

Life is about noticing without being noticed.

hesitation

I often find it frustrating to see how much hesitation there is in my work. It is one thing I can not hide, yet unwilling to talk about, of course, like everybody, I would like to advance with no hesitation at all. Especially in China, most of the work I see has no trace of hesitation. I sometimes wonder, "how the hell they do that?" Then, other times I say to myself, "maybe they hide their hesitation".

If I have to choose between mal-honesty and hesitation, then hesitation is not such a bad trait.

If there are no more confusion in life, maybe the interest in art will vaporize as well.

Yesterday, an artist friend told me the same thing, and quoted Kafka, "Life is hesitation". I suddenly realize that I am not so crazy or inferior all this time, I am just living my life.

Exhibition "Things" Opens at Baden Art Center, Vienna, Austria.

Dongxi - Things

Cathy Busby. Can / Kerstin von Gabain. A / Chan Kok Hooi. Malaysia / Elaine W. Ho. USA / Ulrike Johannsen. A / Johann Neumeister. A / Ma Yongfen. VR China / Evelyne Leblanc–Roberge. Can / Ralo Mayer. A / Shen Yi Elsie. VR China / Michael Yuen. Aus & Yam Lau. Can /

Vernissage: Fr, 21. Mai 2010, um 18 Uhr
Performance: DICA - Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art

Ausstellungsdauer: 22. 5. 2010 - 4. 7. 2010

Memories of My Studio I -Black Bridge (2008-2009)

Part of living in China is about constant renovation and constant moving of studios. I don't know of anybody who is not looking for a new studio; or worried about his/her new studio being torn down by the government; or just moving into a new studio and yet to renovate. Here are some images of my first studio which lasted for exactly one year, but served me well.

My memories to Black Bridge No. 2 South.


This also where I had my construction tent to preserve heat in the winter.

Song Zhuang Museum Experimental Film Exhibition

Please join me for the opening cocktail at 4:30 pm April 18th, 2010. Art Museum of Songzhuang.