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What it will take to make an art show. You will need three things: Artists, Space and Money! Sometimes these three things don’t come so easy, don’t they?

These are the things we are pushing right now for Cantocore exhibition, a show in both Guangzhou China and San Francisco this fall. There is a home concert preview party coming Wednesday 7/23 to fund the production of the shows. I am not a very good sales woman, but really want to make this one works!

Visit Cantocore site for information about the show, artists, and detail about the preview concert. Performing musicians for the the preview concert are Ma Jie and Chris Willits.

Adam has helped me document the installation in the Walter & McBean Galleries. This is part of the exhibition “We Remember the Sun”, on view from now till Sept 19th. Documentation video-taped by Adam Barczak.

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.

Mary Ellyn Johnson, curator of the show.

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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.

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Tomorrow Thursday night is our video screening event at Huangpu village. Two weeks ago students from my video class started projects to created various video projects to document and narrate the life and history of Huangpu village. Huangpu village is about to have its fifth redevelopment. My friend Wang Ge is one of the main designer in this redevelopment and with him we initiated this project. The screening will take place in an ancient hall in the village from the Qing Dynasty called Hu Shi Zong Ci. We have invited villagers, students in the university and designers from the redevelopment studio. The planning of the whole event is less than two weeks, so everyone is pretty excited but little nervous at the same time. (Please don’t rain that night!)

It is the first time for most of my students to make documentary videos, and hopefully this first time will have them realize the digital media they are using can be history making tool.

Chinese posting about this event is on mediaexperiment.org Feel free to contact me (lu@deerfang.org) if you want to come and need someone to guide your way.

We are heading to Taipei tomorrow. In this five days trip, we will attend ACIA (Internationl Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age) 資訊時代之亞洲與公眾創用國際研討會. On Friday night January 18, Jon Phillips, Christopher Adams, Wang Chunyan and I will be hosting Media Exchange 2 at VT Art Salon. Media Exchange 1 took place last winter, with a big group of artists and students lead by our artist friend Huang Xiaopeng in the new mega university town of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts campus. The initiative of the event was to present and discuss projects. Now it’s already one year! So to me it will be an “annual report” on my work.

Here is more information on Media Exchange 2. Sorry it’s a last minute call. But if you are in Taipei. Show up with your friends or your work!

Media Exchange 2: Open Call

Location: VT Art Salon
Address: Yitong St., #47, B1
Map: googlemaps , vtartsalon
Time: January 18, 2007 Friday 9:00 - 11:00 PM
Contact: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
Tel: 09-53-036-630

Open Call to Exchange Media: come and present your project this Friday at VT Art Salon in Taipei. Media Exchange 2 is a night of presentations about art projects, models of art practice and art communities. The set presenters of the night are Christopher Adams, writer and critic based in Taipei; Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), Open Source Developer and artist from San Francisco; Deer Fang (www.deerfang.org), media and video artist from Guangzhou and San Francisco; and, Wang Chunyan, project Lead for Creative Commons China, and a Professor at Renmin University of China Law School.

If not presenting, come to have a drink and discuss the topics throughout the night. And, if you want to present, contact us as soon as possible. Otherwise, show-up the night of and we’ll have a projector and sound system to plug you in. （Email: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com, Tel: 09-53-036-630)

Christopher Adams - CRUFT: The generative and procedural artwork of Robert Spahr (digital images) 
Jon Phillips - Collaborative art models with Overlap.org and Fabricatorz
Deer Fang - Straight Outta HK and Panda Express. (video screenings)
Wang Chunyan - CC Photo Contest in China

媒體互換 2：公開召集

地點：非常廊
地址：伊通街47號B1
地圖： googlemaps , vtartsalon
時間： 2007.1.18 星期五 晚上九時到十一時
联系：christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
电话： 09-53-036-630

“媒體互換 2”公開召集：我們邀請您這個星期五來 “非常廊” 展示您的作品和項目。“媒體互換 2” 是一次展示藝術作品，藝術工作和藝術團體模式的活動。預定展示者包括Christopher Adams， 駐台北的作家和評論家；方力中Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org)， 來自舊金山的開放源發展者和藝術工作者；方鹿 (www.deerfang.org)， 廣州和舊金山的媒體和影像藝術工作者；和王春燕，中國人民大學法學院教授和創意共同體中國大陸項目主任。

如果您不打算展示作品，請來一起參加我們的討論。如果您希望參加展示，請盡快和我們聯繫。（christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com， 09-53-036-630）

Christopher Adams － CRUFT: Robert Spahr 的生成和程序式的藝術作品(數碼圖片）
方力中－ 合作性藝術模式（Overlap.org和Fabricatorz)
方鹿－ “直出香港”和”熊貓快遞” (錄像播映）
王春燕 － 中國CC攝影比賽

Our best producer Sarah Wylie Ammerman post up some photos from our event last Tuesday on Fabricatorz.com. Bridget Lanigan took these images and she is our official photographer of the event. Following are some of the photos and Sarah Wylie’s comment:

The Crew minus a few, including Bridget, who’s behind the still camera.

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