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For this event, UCCA members will enjoy:

• Exclusive seats reservation service

• Members-only guided tour

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Li Ran (Artist)

Li Ran (b.1986, Hubei) received a BFA from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and currently lives and works in Beijing. Li’s recent solo exhibitions include “Same Old Crowd” (Aike Dellarco, Shanghai, 2016), “Re-projecting – One or Many Roles” (OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, 2015), and “One Man One Night” (Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, 2014), among others. Major group exhibitions include “Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs” (Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok; Para Site, Hong Kong; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev; 2017), and “The Making of an Institution” (NYU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore, 2017), among others. Li Ran was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2017, and awarded Best Artist at the Moscow International Biennale For Young Art in 2014.

Zian Chen (Writer, Art Critic)

Zian Chen has been writing short exhibition-novels since 2012. In them, he introduces the subjective position of fan fiction to explore these expanded forms of review writing. In principle, fan fiction reflects the contemporary condition of mass self-education, which he thinks is spawned by the economy of relentless fandom and over-identification. He received the Contemporary Art Writing and Critical Thinking Award from the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco in 2015. Chen currently serves as a researcher for the Long March Project.

13:00-13:20 Ticket pick-up at the reception desk (for UCCA members who RSVPed)

13:20-13:50 Exclusive UCCA members-only guided tour

13:30-14:00 Ticket distribution at the reception desk (for UCCA members who didn’t RSVP and non-members)

14:00-16:00 Conversation

*Please arrive promptly.