UCCA Beijing Open Today, 10:00-19:00 (Final entry: 18:30)
UCCA Dune Open Today, 9:30-19:30 (Final entry: 19:00)
UCCA Edge Closed Today,
UCCA Beijing2015.1.14
"Creating for the Future: Thinking About the Unthinkingable", A Curatorial Practice
2015.1.14
14:30-16:30
LEAP LABS’ first online exhibitions forum coincides with the new year. LEAP and LEAP LABS have invited famed new media curator Li Zhenhua and Cao Dan, executive publisher of LEAP and The Art Newspaper China, to lead a discussion entitled “Creating for the Future, Thinking the Unthinkable.” Twenty-seven young artists have also been invited to create visual “letters to the future.” These letters will be memories, links to an unknown world, conceptually narrating reality, virtually representing the real and imaginary. This new generation’s creativity and lifestyle are directly related to the visuality of this era. The “visual” is this generation’s most common and most natural preference of media.
Ticketing & Participation: Free, ticket required.
Note
*Collect your ticket from the ticket desk 30 minutes before the event begins.
*Please don’t be late.
Speakers
Li Zhenhua（New media curator）
Li Zhenhua has been active in the artistic field since 1996, his practice mainly concerning curation, art creation and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (Switzerland), as well as for The Prix Pictet (Switzerland). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition "Digital Revolution" to be held at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014.
Li has edited several artists' publications, including "Yan Lei: What I Like to Do" (Documenta, 2012), "Hu Jieming: One Hundred Years in One Minute" (2010), "Feng Mengbo: Journey to the West" (2010), and "Yang Fudong: Dawn Mist, Separation Faith" (2009). A collection of his art reviews has been published under the title "Text" in 2013.
Cao Dan (executive publisher of LEAP and The Art Newspaper China)
Executive publisher of The Art Newspaper China
Cao Dan was born in Guangzhou in 1972. She studied at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1997, she has worked as an artist, filmmaker, and designer in both China and France. She is the executive publisher and editorial director of LEAP magazine since July 2012, and the executive publisher of The Art Newspaper China since its launch in March 2013.
Organizer
LEAP LABS
LEAP LABS are a laboratory, a generator, and a catalyst of artistic endeavor. LEAP LABS serve to contextualize the discourse of LEAP magazine, directly enabling its realization in the form of lectures, forums, workshops, film screenings, and even curatorial strategy, producing a series of experiential bodies open to external participation, communication, and evolution — a constructive interface between the art world and the outside.
About LEAP
LEAP
LEAP is the international art magazine of contemporary China. Published six times a year in Chinese and English, it presents a winning mix of contemporary art coverage and cultural commentary from the cutting edge of the Chinese art scene. Part specialist journal, part handbook of transnational style, it is the voice of the new Chinese art scene.
About LEAPLABSONLINE
Founded at the start of 2015, LEAPLABSONLINE is the online exhibition space of LEAP LABS, a forward thinking, multilateral platform presenting fresh cultural collaborations from Chinese and international curators.
UCCA Beijing
Open Today, 10:00-19:00 (Final entry: 18:30)
798, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Beijing
Tel: +86 10 5780 0200
Fax: +86 10 5780 0200
UCCA Dune
Open Today, 9:30-19:30 (Final entry: 19:00)
Aranya Gold Coast, Beidaihe
Tel: +86 335 7522 652
UCCA Edge
Closed Today, 10:00-19:00
2F, No. 88 Xizang Bei Lu, Jing'an District, Shanghai
Tel: +86 21 6628 6861
