方 璐 FANG LU

This coming Saturday, my videos will be screening at Gray Area Gallery from 8PM-4AM. Man, it’s an 8 hours screening! It’s hard to do without some partying! So this is a pride party night with all female DJs from San Francisco and LA.

My videos will be projected on three screens in the main space. From 8-10PM, they will be showing “The Plum in the Golden Vase”, “The Unique Dancers”, “Panda Express”, “Bump’n Grind”, “Don’t Talk About Politics’. After 10PM and the rest of the night, three screens will shuffle through video clips from my hard drives. They are clips of out takes of above videos, videos I have never shown, and old works back to 2001. This become a project itself I call it “Scratch”. Watch out! Dangerous dangerous!!

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Christopher Willits, friend of Jon and I from San Francisco are going to perform in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Fo Shan with Dickson Dee. Here is the touring schedule on Chris’ blog in English:
http://christopherwillits.com

我们在旧金山的朋友Christopher Willits 正在进行他的巡回演出，这个月26-28日他将和李劲松在广州，深圳和佛山表演。具体演出时间和地点在李劲松的博客上。

“We Remember the Sun” exhibition opened yesterday at the Walter & McBean gallery. I am happy to see the realization of my installation “Don’t Talk About Politic”. Especially Kent and other people had done a perfect job for the installing. At least it’s nearly perfect except the 1 inch leaking light in the bottom of the screen because of the size of the screen was calculated wrong.

It’s my first time to set up two screen so close to each other and have the viewers in between. Also the height of the screen is just a bit above average human height. I found that this had created an different relationship and sensation that you will normally receive from a video projection, which is often either distantly remote or overwhelming to your senses. In the case of my installation here, the projected image had lost more or less the mystifying quality with a more proximity to the viewers and other works in the space.

A review of the show had came out in the Chronicle today: ‘We Remember the Sun’: Recalling revolution

Installation picture

Me with Hanru, Kevin Chan and Michael Zheng. Michael also has work in the show and he did a performance during the opening.

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My latest project “Don’t Talk About Politic” is being installed in “We Remember the Sun” exhibition, a group show in the Walter & McBean Galleries. Opening is this coming Wednesday, exhibition on view through September.

“Don’t Talk about Politic” is a two channel video installation. Proposed plan is as image followed, as well as exhibition statement written by Mary Ellyn Johnson. I have been working on this in the past several weeks. And I found out that if you use NTSC video camera to shoot video in a lighted studio in a PAL country, then your video will be possibly have flickering all through it. What a lesson! Luckily I am able to eliminate this unexpected effect because it was shot in a blue screen studio. I am very excited to see when all is installed. And it should be an interesting show!

Some Video stills:

Events: —We Remember the Sun
Exhibition of Work by Fifteen Bay Area Artists
—Live Musical Performance at Opening Reception

Location: Walter and McBean Galleries
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133

Opening reception: Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Dates: 19 June–13 September 2008
Images: High-resolution digital images available
Press Contact: Bob Gamboa, (415) 749-4507, bgamboa@sfai.edu
We Remember the Sun, an Exhibition by Fifteen California Artists, Opens at SFAI on 18 June 2008

San Francisco, CA (23 May 2008)—On Wednesday, 18 June 2008, the opening reception for
We Remember the Sun, an exhibition of work by fifteen California artists, will be held from 7:00
to 9:00 p.m. at the Walter and McBean Galleries on SFAI’s 800 Chestnut Street campus.
Participating artists are Amy Balkin, L. M. Bogad, Andrea Bowers, Deer Fang, David Gurman,
Taraneh Hemami, David Maisel, Jill Miller, Shaun O’Dell, Julia Page, Praba Pilar, John Roloff,
Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, Jon Winet, and Michael Zheng. During the reception, a live musical
performance will accompany the screening of Shaun O’Dell’s video Sun October 24th–27th
2002, and on Thursday, 11 September, at 7:00 p.m., L. M. Bogad and Praba Pilar will perform
live. Additionally, in August and September, films pertaining to the subject matter of works in
the exhibition will be screened (please go to www.sfai.edu/current for details). Free and open to
the public (Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.), the exhibition will be on
view from 19 June to 13 September 2008 at the Walter and McBean Galleries. (more…)

The Plum in the Golden Vase will be screening in a show in CLUSTER in Berlin curated by Pauline Doutreluingne. Screening information is as follow:

A performance of space
Wednesday June 25 at 9:30 pm
Curated by Pauline Doutreluingne

This screening shows works of artists who are questioning models of living, dealing with space, dreams, and desire. So more concretely they present a zooming into performances in
different spaces: lost landscapes, desolate city border zones, and desolate city centers, spaces left by humans or fictional spaces filled by individuals. How humans infiltrate with the space around them and how spaces perform on their own, due to infiltration and intrusion by humans, action – reaction.

Some films show no direct view of infiltration by humans and the space seem to alter itself, almost naturally, like in a trance. Then in another video for example we get to see the specific story of the
demolition of artists studios in the outskirts of Beijing or the aggressive performance of a space totally ignored by people and how this affects nature. How positive and negative energy from different individuals or groups of people are interacting with their environment, and how this subtly influences our present landscape. 7 films who share an interest in the “none-spaces” of the places we
take for granted as being unspecified by virtue of them being where we are, as opposed to the quotidian like Alexander Platz or the Great Wall of China. (more…)

I am back to San Francisco. And I look out of my window I see this: “Flat Out to Hong Kong. 2 daily non stop flights from SFO.” I just feel I would pass out and the next thing I was in Hong Kong again.