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Welcome to people's architecture
October update! In this issue we will give you an overview on select
activities, exhibitions, and contemporary events in China, as well as
related people's architecture activities. For further
information please contact us.
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__________________________________ PEOPLE'S EXHIBITIONS
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SHCONTEMPORARY ART
FAIR
SHANGHAI
EXHIBITION CENTER
Last month,
ArtAsiaPacific and people's architecture
presented BUILDING ASIA BRICK BY BRICK at the ShContemporary Art Fair
at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. Please visit the BABB blog for more
commentary on the event.
ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
FAIR
PIER 92 | NEW
YORK CITY
NOVEMBER 8 -
12, 2007
ArtAsiaPacific
and people's architecture will be
presenting BUILDING ASIA BRICK BY BRICK at the first annual ASIA
CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR exhibtion in New York. Please visit
ArtAsiaPacific at our booth at ACAFNY. More info >>
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____________________________________ CHINA CONFERENCE
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CHINA : NEXT
AN ARCHITECTURAL RECORD CHINA EVENT
CHARTRES
GARDEN | NO. 268, FUXING WEST RD. | SHANGHAI
OCTOBER 30,
2007
What's
driving the next generation of design in China? Organized by
Architecture Record, part of McGraw-Hill Construction, the world's
leading construction information & media service provider, CHINA :
NEXT is a one-day symposium that will bring together a
multi-disciplinary group of architects, designers, artists, filmmakers,
planners, and critics. More than 15 distinguished architects from
around the world will speak at the event.
Panel
discussions will explore the following ideas and strategies shaping the
future of China's architecture, art, and urbanism:
NOSTALGIA. How
contemporary architects in China are using/misusing history and memory.
MONEY. How the booming economy is driving/distorting design today.
ART. How architects are learning from/being led astray by ideas from
other fields of art.
SOCIAL JUSTICE. How architects and planners are engaging/ignoring
people of different socio-economic groups in their designs.
Please
click the following link for more info >>
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________________________________________ CHINA GLOBAL
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CHINAPRODUCTION
ARCHITEKTURZENTRUM WIEN | VIENNA | AUSTRIA
OCTOBER 25,
2007 - JANUARY 21, 2008
Under the
title "Chinaproduction" the exhibition presented in the Az W
reflects the current international debate about contemporary
architecture in China that is developing from a Maoist-communist state
to a political and economic superpower with Western tendencies.
For the Western international architecture business China has become
the most desirable place to build. Prestigious buildings by star
architects function as emblems of contemporary Chinese identity. They
are intended to symbolise a modernised open China, which, it is often
now maintained, is more Western than the West. Peking for example,
which is to be converted into the metropolis of the "global
players", offers a setting for "hypermodernity".
Traditional and historic structures fall victim to this modernisation
that in some cases involves the destruction of entire areas.
The current discussion about the breath-taking urban transformation as
well as reflections upon the changes to the profession of architect in
the context of China's transformation will be presented in the Az W in
the form of a documentation organised as a history of reception through
the media. More info >> [DE / EN]
MADE IN CHINA :
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART AT THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
THE ISRAEL
MUSEUM | JERUSALEM | ISRAEL
SEPTEMBER 18,
2007 - MARCH 1, 2008
Comprising
painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and works on
paper, the exhibition offers an insight into the many currents that are
energizing Chinese art today and provides an introduction to a visual
culture that is making its way, at lightning speed, to a prominent
position on the international art scene. And just as contemporary art
from China has recently attracted great interest in the West, Chinese
artists have been making skillful use of media, techniques, and forms
of expression that were developed outside their country. At the same
time, specifically Chinese roots - pre-modern tradition on the one
hand, and the Socialist Realism prescribed by the Communist Party until
the late 1970s on the other - are still evident in many of the artists'
works. Classical subjects such as landscape painting have given rise to
contemporary images of nature that differ from those we know in other
cultures. A technique rich in tradition, like ink-wash painting, is
introduced into experimental and challenging frameworks, so that today
Chinese characters are drawn on the human body and the calligraphic
symbol is developed into a pure abstraction. More info >>
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_______________________________________ CHINA CURRENT
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CHINA'S
RURAL INTERNET GROWTH
Numerous articles have cropped up over the past few weeks regarding rural Internet growth in China,
and an overall increase in Chinese Internet
users in general. Away from pure data and societal
commentary, some of these articles are also tinged with an undercurrent
that these numbers point to the potential for new markets. In contrast
to the excitement, an article appearing in China Vortex offers some
interesting probes and digs into
the demographic of Internet cafe users in Beijing and Shanghai, and
suggests that reporters move away from the "Wow, China has a lot of
people!" analysis of potential Chinese markets. Stripped of all
profitability by this commentary, perhaps these spaces can now flourish
as crazy heterotopias.
WIRELESS
BEIJING
In keeping
with the Internet topic, Ogilvy's Digital Watch
reports that the first phase of the Wi-Fi Beijing project
shall be complete by the end of this year. An ambitious plan, the first
phase will the Central Business District, Olympic Stadium, and Hotels,
and it is intended that Wi-Fi service shall blanket all of Beijing by
2010. For those of us that geek out about this kind of stuff, the
wireless service will employ a blended network of WiMAX plus a Wi-Fi
mesh-as this may reduce costs when the combining high coverage
advantage of WiMAX with the high-volume, small coverage of Wi-Fi.
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____________________________________ SUSTAINABLE CHINA
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NO-CAR DAY IN KUNMING
While
No-Car Day in Beijing and Shanghai received a lukewarm reception, it
has taken off in Kunming. Danwei reports, via
GoKunming, that Kunming has become the first Chinese city to designate
a monthly No-Car Day. Beginning the 27th of October, private cars will
be banned from entering the city's ring road between the hours of 9:00
am and 7:00 pm on the fourth Saturday of each month. And lest we forget
the numbers, according to municipal government statistics, September's
all-country No-Car Day had a significant effect on air quality. Carbon
monoxide levels dropped 32.9 percent, nitrogen dioxide levels dropped
45.1 percent, ozone was down 39.5 percent, carbon dioxide was down 15.4
percent and airborne particulate matter was reduced by more than
one-fifth.
CHINA'S
GREEN BUILDING BINGE
Alex
Pasternack, of TreeHugger, provides
an insightful editorial into government-level discussions about
promoting green building practices in China. More info >>
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__________________________________________ CHINA BLOGS
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CHINESE
BLOGGER CONFERENCE 2007
Now open
for registration, the Third Chinese Blogger Conference takes place from
November 3rd - 4th in Beijing. Last years conference was held in
Hangzhou, the year before in Shanghai. This years conference promises
to bring more of the excitement of the last two and, to borrow from
Danwei, is "highly recommended for anyone interested in grass roots
Chinese Internet culture, or meeting entrepreneurs, bloggers and Net
freaks". Check the
events blog here as the planning
unfolds [CN only].
THE WOMEN
THAT MAKE YOUR CHILDREN'S TOYS
China makes
70% of the worlds toys, with most of them manufactured in Guangdong
province by a predominately female labor force. Shanghaiist (courtesy
of China Digital Times and mazm.com) offers up a photo feature of the
many women that manufacture these
toys.
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