The exhibition is part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks 2007 in Berlin, whose focal point is ’Asia-Pacific: changing the world’. The exhibition is being funded with support from the German Class Lottery Foundation Berlin.
Aedes Architecture Forum: As one of the first Western architectural forums, Aedes ventured a view towards China in 2001 with its exhibition 'TUMU - Young Architecture from China' achieving a rather unexpected but enduring success. The six young architectural offices from China presented then, today almost exclusively leave their mark on the publications and exhibitions on Chinese architecture to be viewed currently from Rotterdam, London to New York. Yung Ho CHANG was one of them.
Context:
The exhibition focuses this time on Beijing architect Yung Ho CHANG, whose projects, according to European - not even to mention Chinese – standards, are not about mass but possess a high intellectual quality and a – for Chinese standards – high quality of construction. Yung Ho CHANG's distinctly modern buildings deal with old traditions. An example can be seen in a house, which was erected at the Chinese wall close to Badaling in traditional clay construction. Yung Ho CHANG is a mediator and networker through his position in China as well as Dean of MIT in Boston.
EXHIBITION CONCEPT
AND is an interdisciplinary exhibition that conveys and simulates the discussion and debate among a group of individuals in different creative fields about the nature of the contemporary Chinese culture as China is experiencing one of its greatest social and economical transitions today, through their work. The show presents Yung Ho CHANG, an architect, LIU Sola, a musician and author, LIU Zhizhi, a graphic designer, and WANG Yiyang, a fashion designer, as each tries to borrow from or exchange ideas with others and further ventures out into territories less familiar to themselves, such as film and industrial design. The theme AND expresses the productive yet complex relationships between these independent practices and collectively reveals a rich dynamics that define the cultural landscape in present-day China.
The title of the exhibition AND, takes reference - also ironically - to the cooperation, the relations between diverse disciplines and the creative individuals. Inspired by Hong Kong gangster movies, Yung Ho CHANG's latest architectural and interior design projects are presented on celluloid, in a black-and-white projection. LIU Zhizhi will build a set of kaleidoscopes and design the exhibition in collaboration with FCJZ, the office of Yung Ho CHANG. Fashion designer WANG Yiyang will be represented in the exhibition with a space related fashion installation. Chinese composer and singer LIU Sola will inaugurate the exhibition with an honorary performance of three compositions created especially for the event and the exhibition will display her art works, which - like music scores - form the base of her creative work.
PROJECTS
LIU Sola, April 2007:
Sound Shapes & Cells / About My Musical Score
Chinese traditional music stresses the structure of the “qupai” (melody). This “qupai” is the structure of music decided by its correspondence to the shape of the characters in the phrases. In my world, according to their three-dimensional shape objects show me their ever-changing “qupai.”
LIU Zhizhi, April 2007:
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope is an interesting toy: a two dimensional pattern is presented with a crystalline form when it is reflected in a three-dimensional space constructed by three pieces of mirrors. This transformation implies a very complex and changing spatial relationship between the pattern and the mirrors. I will create a set of kaleidoscopes for this exhibition. The patterns are from the other three artists' work. The audience has the opportunities to rotate any of them, observing the interlacing patterns in an integrated state.
WANG Yiyang, April 2007:
Reflection––Redundant Space
With the exception of tight clothes, most clothes form different shapes and give a measure of space on different bodies. This space, although it is unnecessary, is nevertheless often consciously or unconsciously utilized by people trying on clothes and designers, each looking to meet personal desires. This piece is built on the idea of personal understanding of surplus space. Using clothing and their reflection, it expresses my appreciation of the space and the shape of clothing. The reflection is expressed through a video image projected on the floor; the video is a short film and animation.
Yung Ho CHANG, MIT, February 2007:
Wu Jian Zao
The literal meaning of the first two characters, Wu Jian, is without interval or simply no space. The third word, Zao, means to construct or to make. The design work in display is three quasi films or really PowerPoint presentations that are superimposed with the popular Hong Kong film noir trilogy in 2002: Wu Jian Dao or Infernal Affairs in standard English translation in theater (The American remake was entitled The Departed). Therefore, as the title of the three projections collectively, Wu Jiao Zao could literarily suggest infernal construct. While symbolically the title may imply our constant struggle, the real purpose of the overlap of architecture and cinema is to place our work in a context, geographically, temporally, and culturally, a context that blurs reality and fiction yet not far from our frantic experience in China. Furthermore, it reveals that our anchoring in basic architecture is ultimately strategic and it is a preparation for more involvement into the making of the broader contemporary Chinese cultural landscape.
CV's
LIU Sola is a composer, a highly individualistic vocalist and also a major contemporary writer.
After graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music with a degree in composition, she composed music for symphony orchestras, ensembles, solo instruments, as well as music for film, television, modern theater and dance productions. She created the first Chinese rock opera Blue Sky Green Sea with a libretto based on her own award-wining novella of the same name.
While on a fellowship to the United States in 1987 as a special guest of the United States News Agency, she discovered the Blues. In 1989, she went to Memphis and recorded the first ever Chinese blues song “Reborn” with Memphis blues musicians.
From 1988 to 2002, she lived first in London and then in New York, collaborating with Blues, Jazz, Rock, Rap, Reggae, and Club musicians as well as traditional and classical musicians, and gave performances world wide. Her first US album Blues in the East (US/Polygram, produced by: Bill Laswell) was spotlighted on Billboard and held one of the “top 10” positions on the New World Music Charts for many weeks. She released 6 other albums in the United States, including China Collage (Produced by: John Zone, Bill Laswell) and Haunts (produced by Liu Sola & Fernando Saunders). She has written film soundtracks including the soundtrack for Michael Apted’s Moving the Mountain; modern theater and dance pieces and ensemble works. In 1999, she returned to China, and with her band Liu Sola and Friends, gave ground-breaking performances at the Beijing Jazz Festival. The band has since been enlarged both physically and conceptually, performing as the first-ever traditional Chinese “big band” in Beijing in 2002; and in Berlin in 2003, as a fusion ensemble made up of traditional Chinese and American jazz-rock musicians. More recently, (as in a new concert Celebration of light and darkness - 2005), she has been devoting her musical attention to fashioning contemporary sounds from traditional Chinese instruments, while continuing to explore new vocal styles.
LIU Sola’s writings have been translated into many languages. She achieved early success with her best - selling novella You Have no Choice, which won the 1988 Chinese national novella award. Her work received not only critical praise but also became cult reading for the young generation and has remained so up to today. Her most important novels are Chaos & All That (1989) written in London, and Small Tales of the Great Ji Family (2000) written in New York. She has written many essays on music and art including the best-selling book LIU Sola on the Move?An illustrated edition of Nv Zhen Tang (Small Tales of the Great Ji Family) was published in China 2003. This political-mythological novel has published in French from SEUIL, Paris in 2005.
She was an international board member of the House of World Cultures (HKW), curate the music program [Rebel’s concert series] for the In-transit Festival 2005 in Berlin; and the music program [You Have no Choice] for [China Cultural Memory Festival], this concert series has become a world tour program for Ensemble Modern (Germany).
LIU Sola was the co-writer and one of leading actresses, as well as the composer for the sound track, of Ning Ying’s film Perpetual Motion (2006).
The world premier of LIU Sola’s new opera Fantasy of the Red Queen performed by Ensemble Modern together with [LIU Sola & Friends] Chinese ensemble in May 2006. LIU Sola is the libretto and music composer, as well as the artistic director and leading vocalist for the opera. The House of World Cultures (HKW) in Germany has commissioned this opera.
LIU Sola currently resides in Beijing.
Zhizhi LIU, male, born in September 1975 in Beijing, China, studied in Beijing Art and Craft School from 1991 to 1995 and in Graphic Design Department of China Central Academy of Fine Art from 1999 to 2003. In 2002, he founded MEWE Design Association with others. In 2003, he worked with Mr. Yifei Chen at graphic design studio YIFEI VISION as Art Director. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as a special art consultant for international publishing house Gruner + Jahr AG, China.
Major works and activities:
2005:
- Poster “Art of Walking Through Walls” participated contemporary art exhibition “Get It Louder”.
- Designed poster and CD cover for Ms. Congcong Wang’s concert.
2004:
- Setting art work “Study” participated 6 people’s contemporary art exhibition “The East-Asian Life Style” directed by Mr. Boyi Feng. - Designed Ms. Sola Liu’s book “Drunken State”.
- Invited to accomplish the plan of “Man-Made Scenery” on the scheme of “Unlimited Interior Spaces” for the China 1st Architecture Biennale.
- Invited to design a publicity product “Diary for Tomorrow” for Conqueror Paper Corporation. - Designed poster, brochure and invitation for concert “YANG C. LIN & STRADIVARI 1706”
2003:
- Designed “Feichang 10 years” poster series for Mr. Yungho Chang’s Atelier Feichang Jianzhu.
- By the invitation from “0086” magazine, designed poster series on theme “White”.
- Designed CI of Taiwan Soka Art Center and posters for its exhibition series. - Designed album of paintings “Yifei Chen’s Works”.
- Designed CI for Global File program by the invitation from China Beijing TV Station International Program Center 2002:
- Participated in the design of concept book “Half Book”, and designed poster “Beyond the Text” on the theme of “Beyond the Border”.
- Designed CI and brochures for contemporary art group UNMASK - Edited and wrote “Tokyo visual art” and “visual toy” special reports for Vision magazine.
2001:
- Designed concept book “Mark” and its poster series.
- Worked in the No.6 art studio of the Central Academy of Fine Art, and designed the posters for its lecture series. - Designed cultural theme poster “Garden”.
2000:
- Invited by “XiangDang” graphic art studio, designed art exhibition posters.
- Finished setting art work “Book-Desk”, “Book-Case”
- Designed CI for Hongkong DEEP STUDIO
1999:
- Designed concept book “Typewriter”.
- Finished setting art work “Tactile Sensation”
1998:
- Designed poster for Opera “Turando” directed by Yimou Zhang in Forbidden City.
Prizes and Honors:
- Poster “Jue” entered TDC competition 2005.
- Poster “History and White” and “One M2 Field” entered in the 3rd Ningbo Biennale of Poster 2004.
- Poster “History and White” entered Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 2004
- Poster “History and White” entered TDC competition 2004.
- Poster “Garden” won in the highest award in Japan Rong Graphic Design Competition 2001.
- Visual image work “DEEP” won the Merit Award in the Conqueror Corporate Identity Design Competition 1999/2000.
WANG Yiyang, born in January of 1970
Graduated from the Fashion Design Institute of Donghua University in Shanghai in 1992
The chief designer of “layefe” from 1997 to 2001
The brand of lady’s wear which named “ZUCZUG” was established with friends in 2002
The shop of “CHAGANG” was opened on the west Fuxing Road in 2004, and then I began to design the series of “ChaGang”
Yung Ho CHANG was born in Beijing in 1956, received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and became a licensed architect in the U.S. in 1989. He has been practicing in China since 1992 and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) in 1993. Currently, he is the Principal Architect of Atelier FCJZ as well as Head of Architecture Department at MIT. He has won a number of prizes, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1987, a Progressive Architecture Citation Award in 1996, and the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts. This year, he received an Academy Award in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has published seven books and monographs so far, the latest one in English/French entitled Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. He has taught at various architecture schools in the USA, including Ball State, Michigan, U.C. Berkeley, Rice, and Harvard, where he was the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor of 2002. In 1999, he founded the Peking University Graduate Center of Architecture and still remains as its Head.
Catalogue
An Aedes catalogue was published.
With a text by Hung Huang
ISBN 978-3-937093-83-3
German/English
Price € 10,-
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