" Pinocchio was a persistent liar and In Mao's time, Chinese people were told that the communist party was the mother of all the people."

LONDON SHOW TOOK PLACE AT:

Blacklist Projects
Helen's House

Opened each Friday, Sat & Sun until 13th August, from 12-6pm or by appointment. With screenings each Friday evening from 8pm until late, and special events during the weekend.
PV 6pm Friday 14th July

Curated by Helen Marshall, Fei Fei Lu & David Goldenberg

BEIJING SHOW: ( NOW CANCELLED IN CHINA )

Due to censorship laws in contemporary China, and as a response to cultural sensitivities, the exhibition has been prohibited by the chinese authorities and will not take place as of september 1st 2006. Updates will be posted regularly on this site.

The Gao Brothers Studio,
No.4, Jiuxianqiao Road
Chaoyang District Beijing
P.0 Box 8503 Beijing 100015 China

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MISSMAO celebrates the inauguration and opening of Blacklist Projects with a unique and diverse international collaboration. The exhibition marks the beginning of a new dialogue and debate between artists and curators examining modes and myths in an information driven age.

The catalyst for the show, the Gao Brother’s ‘MissMao’, is seen here for the first time outside China. ‘MissMao’ is one of a series of red, silver, gold and white idols originally made in mud before being cast in fibreglass, and ranges in size from 2-20 feet high. Prior to its journey to Europe, it was shrouded in sack-cloth to avoid confiscation during police inspections. In fact, until 2003 the Gao Brothers themselves were on a government blacklist and unable to leave China. In recent years, Gao Zhen, 50, and Gao Qiang, 44, both from Shandong Province, are part of a new wave of Chinese artists showing at an international level.

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Michael Wright on censorship

Miss Mao show is at:

Blacklist Projects
100 Blurton Road
London E5 0NH

Travel info:
Silverlink to Homerton station.
Bus 242 & 243, Homerton Hospital

See map here

Open 6pm Friday 14th July throughout till 10pm Sunday 13th August
Friday, Saturday & Sunday only or by appointment 10-8pm

PV 6pm Friday 14th July

contact Helen Marshall 07795518724

Artists showing:

The Gao Brothers (China)

Helen Marshall (UK)
& Fei Fei Lu (China)

David Goldenberg ( UK )

Completely Naked /Pau Ros ( UK )

Ccred (UK)
& Basekamp (USA)

Anabela Zigova (USA/Slovakia)

Lizzie Hughes (UK)

Neil Stewart ( UK )

Stephen Connolly ( UK )

Elizabeth McAlpine (UK)

Michael Wright (UK)

FREEE (UK)

Peter Fillingham (UK)

Charlotte Moth (UK)

Michelle Deignan ( UK )

Simon Hyde ( UK )

Sam Jury (UK)

Artists profiles >>>

The Gao Brothers ( China )

Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang have been on the artistic scene of contemporary art in china for the past twenty years, and together they have created a body of work under the name of The Gao Brothers which can unequivocably be seen as an allegory of human emotion.

They are authors and editors of several published works, including “One Day In Beijing”, “The State Of China Avant-Garde” and “The Report Of Art Environment”. They have been collaborating on installation, performance, photography works and writing to explore issues of contemporary life and society since the mid 1980s.

Gao Brothers in the UK Link

Gao Brothers Link (chinese)

Hugging Link

Fei Fei Lu & Helen Marshall ( China & UK )

Fei Fei Lu arrived here in London from Beijing in May 2006 with the Gao Brothers: She has remained here for six months to work with Helen Marshall.
The work they have been doing together celebrates the notion of impulse: a sudden strong and unreflective urge to act. The new work has become part of the impetus for making a show here in London in the very space within which they have been making and living. This participation could not have taken place under the more prudent conventions of an international artist exchange or residency and work as a result is provident.

New works

Fei Fei Lu

Helen Marshall

Post Autonomous Practices

This site is dedicated to the research, expansion, archiving, scenario construction, concrete implementation and promotion of new models under he umbrella term of Post Autonomous Practices.

Post Autonomous practices offers robust solutions to the colonial and hierarchical system inherent to European art. Post Autonomous Practices offers the framework for the complete rethinking and reinvention of art

All information is found on the Postautonomy Blog

David Goldenberg CV

48HOUR WAKE 14/15/16th July PHOTOS

CONVERSATION WITH CCRED/BASEKAMP 14/07/06

Pau Ros( UK ) Photographer and Artistic Director of Completely Naked.

His interactive and visual work questions the individual in society; departing from a simple and basic psychological premise, it develops into a powerful aesthetic, provoking the audience to partake in the final appraisal of his work.

View www.completelynaked.co.uk and www.pauros.com for more...

Interested in the participatory process in contrast to the western egocentric vison of the artist; for the Miss Mao exhibition, Pau will create an exclusive image for the 'Domestic Violence' series in collaboration with the Chinese artists involved in the show.

"Walk-Talk-Eat-TalkSomeMore" Experimental Hybrid, April 2006
Co-organized by: C.CRED & BASEKAMP

C.CRED ( UK ) [si: kred] (Collective CREative Dissent) is a London based but very nomadic artist collective and members-run platform for the development of collaborative structures, projects, interventions and other initiatives seeking to link art and aesthetic practice to a wider socio-political context. Although maintained by a small group of people, it operates only through collaboration and through wider, continuously changing collective structures. CCred

BASEKAMP ( USA ) is a non commercial studio and exhibition space whose primary focus is to participate in the creation, facilitation and promotion of large scale collaborative projects by contemporary artists. Philadelphia is an example of a city whose visual art-world is currently in the process of self-definition. We have seen this as an opportunity to use the city as a home base to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint experiment to develop new models of relations within overlapping art communities. Basekamp is located in a commercial district of Center City Philadelphia. Basekamp

PROJECT CONTEXT
Walk-Talk-Eat-TalkSomeMore is a multi-city, multi-day project in and between London, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Malmö, Portland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Berlin and San Francisco. The project is an experimental hybrid of similar work by Ccred & the 16 beavergroup (Counter Cartographies, Alt.Space), BASEKAMP & The Institute for Advanced Architecture (Evident Use), 0009 (platial) and the Bureau of Research into Post Autonomy. Walk-Talk-Eat-TalkSomeMore

Spin/Still (detail from transcript)

2 x audio CDs

In 'Still' I quickly telephone someone in each consecutive time zone of the world asking where they are located what the time is. The piece is to be played alongside 'Spin' where I similarly telephone the same time zones, but each time, the person answering the phone responds giving me the same time - 1pm.

Listen to Sound Clip

Lizzie Hughes CV

Neil Stewart ( UK )

Neil Stewart’s practice explores the idea of time and the nature of motion in the space between the virtual and the actual. This primarily involves making models directly for the video camera/monitor in order to manipulate colour, rhythm, repetition, stillness, flow, etc. Whether model or reality, Neil Stewart privileges the concept of wholeness and simplicity over fragments and narrative; recently, this has lead to an investigation into the ancient Chinese concept of time and its renewed relevance to contemporary Western society.

Neil Stewart link

Neil Stewart China's Time ( as published in ArtSEEN journal 2005 )

Neil Stewart Fragrance of Time

Michael Wright ( UK )

The work is concerned less with the aesthetics of arrangement than with the ethics of relationship to subject. This concern prompts editorial interventions so as to disrupt the photographs illusion of objectivity and neutrality. Globalisation is generating a visual virus in the form of an invasive and ubiquitous flood of consumer imagery which repeats the same consumer narrative, ad nauseum. This imagery dominates not only public spaces but equally our domestic and social environment and inexorably the interior life of our imagination. The consumer agenda also informs contemporary news broadcasting which pertains to be neutral and apolitical, however this bland surface masks a persuasive political agenda which begs critical attention.

Henriette Van t'Hoog Video Editor

Michael Wright link

FREEE ( UK )

The Neo-Imperial Function

The neo-imperialist function of public art is to clear a path for aggressive economic expansion:

The neo-imperialist function of public art is to clear a path for aggressive economic expansion is the latest in a series of text works entitled The Functions of Public Art by Hewitt & Jordan and Dave Beech. Previous works in the series are: The Aesthetic Function of Public Art; The Economic Function of Public Art; The Function of Public Art for Regeneration; and The Social Function of Public Art. Each work in the series uses changes in site, scale and form to extend the critical potential of the statement.
The neo-imperial function is a text work in Mandarin. The work is also sequential, comprising of three phases, in two cities, over two months.

FREEEBIO

Dave Beech link

Hewitt&Jordan link

Michelle Deignan (UK)

'Unmaking or Redoing', DV, 11mins 22 secs 2006

'Unmaking or Redoing' tells the story of the artist being photographed by the police whilst walking down a street in east London. Referencing a “making of” style documentary video, she describes this through a combination of voice over and filmed interactions between her and an actor. She has cast this actor, we are told, as a tour guide to host a future performance which uses the same story of her photograph being taken as its subject. When events beyond her control change the social climate of London, the artist moves us out of the city and on to a bus tour in the outskirts of Vienna.

Michelle Deignan link

Simon Hyde has been working with live and interactive video manipulation in collaboration with musicians and contemporary dance since 1993. He has shown work in the USA, Canada, Scandinavia and all over Europe.

Riddle me this is a haunting and evocative exploration of a familiar city scape. Sylvia Hallet's playing of a bicycle wheel perfectly matches the abstract digital imagery provided by Simon Hyde.

Simon Hyde link

Born in 1974 in Bratislava, Slovakia, Anabela Zigova now lives in Paris and New York. Her work gradually developed from body related objects, sculpture, performance and video towards cinematic structures based on writing, socio-political research and film language. These works examine possibilities beyond narrative, psychology and visual stereotypes.

Anabela Zigova’s work has been shown at LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University in New York, at Galerie Cite des Arts in Paris where she was also an artist-in-residence, The Paris Project Room Gallery, Exit Art Gallery in New York, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, Goliath Visual Space in New York, Dresden Kunsthalle in Germany, MXM Gallery in Prague and other venues. Her film work has been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film Festival in Switzerland, Artfilm in Slovakia, Anthology Film Archives in New York and Cinema Accatone in Paris and a number of emerging filmmaker screenings.

Currently, Anabela Zigova is developing a film project under working title “Follow Me.” Additionally, she continues to create and present video, performance and collaborative projects. Among these is participation in “Constructing a practice in the space of Post Autonomy.” “Follow Me” is supported by a development grant from Lightning New Media, a non-profit foundation in New York, the Slovak Ministry of Culture’s Audio-Vision Program and Barenholtz Productions in New York.

Stephen Connolly ( UK )

Tian'anmen Square
9pm 58min 04 sec
(shot/reverse shot)

'Beijing' means 'northern capital' and it is Chinese custom that a leader should look south over their people.

Almost 30 years after Mao's death, and 55 years after the foundation of the people's republic has the axis of the city changed as my guidebook says ?

A shot/reverse shot film investigates.

(with chinese sidetitles)

Stephen Connolly CV

Stephen Connolly Link

Sam Jury (UK)

Through documenting spontaneous actions and performance in recognisable and familiar spaces, Sam Jury's work places a contemporary dis-ease into the safe realms of the ‘known’ landscape, domestic garden or classical architecture. The result is a panoptic image that is the sum of the ‘mass’ and yet of nothing that exists in reality - employing visual lies to obtain a psychological truth and touching on an ontological question ‘how do we know what we know?’

Sam Jury link

Elizabeth McAlpine (UK)

Elizabeth McAlpine completed the BA Fine Art and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College in 1996 and graduated from the Slade School of Fine art (MA Sculpture) in 2002. Elizabeth works with time-based media and uses most predominately Film in her artwork. Her work has been shown widely throughout the UK, including a solo show at Laura Bartlett Gallery in May 2005, and has taken part in a number of film festivals and group shows the UK and Europe: “Wayne Rooney”, VTO Gallery, London (2004), Tank TV, ICA, London (2004), “All For Show” touring show, “Edge Zones”, World Arts Building Miami, USA, “Southern Exposure”, San Francisco, USA. “The Physics Room”, Christchurch, New Zealand. Elizabeth was recently awarded the Stella Artois After Dark Cinema Commission and her work will be showing at the Thomas Dane Gallery in London later this year.

Elizabeth McAlpine CV

Since 1999 Charlotte Moth has been building a collection of photographs known as the Travelogue,which is both active research and resolved work. This collection, a form of visual vocabulary functions as a methodological kind of matrix, where continuous growth and omissions establish a culture for the collection of found forms, architectural structures and environments. A box of photographs from the travelogue was sent out. Derek Hampson the artist had agreed to look at the images and record the thoughts and observations that they might trigger. What is on the screen does not neceserily correspond to what is heard. The immediate security of thoughts and ideas triggered through visual imagery is momentarily questioned.

Charlotte Moth CV

Peter Fillingham (UK)

Peter Fillingham’s piece God Bless, 2002-4, further internalizes experience relaying the personal and invested as symbolic and then the relations between symbolic items as equivalences.Peter Fillingham had a recent solo show at Magasin 4, Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria. His curated group shows include The Museum of Christmas, Ramsgate and The Greatest Show on Earth, Metropole Gallery, Folkestone.

Peter Fillingham CV

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Miss Mao goes to Beijing >>>

BEIJING SHOW: ( NOW CANCELLED IN CHINA )

Due to censorship laws in contemporary China, and as a response to cultural sensitivities, the exhibition has been prohibited by the chinese authorities and will not take place as of september 1st 2006. Updates will be posted regularly on this site.

The Gao Brothers Studio,
No.4, Jiuxianqiao Road
Chaoyang District Beijing
P.0 Box 8503 Beijing
100015 China

BEIJING SHOW: ( NOW CANCELLED IN CHINA )

Due to censorship laws in contemporary China, and as a response to cultural sensitivities, the exhibition has been prohibited by the chinese authorities and will not take place as of september 1st 2006. Updates will be posted regularly on this site.

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Links:

Digital Art Projects

HelenMarshall

Gao Brothers in the UK

Gao Brothers (chinese)

Fei Fei Lu

Postautonomy

CCred

Basekamp

Completely Naked

Pau Ros

Anabela Zigova

Dave Beech

Simon Hyde

Michelle Deignan

Sam Jury

Neil Stewart

2. CLASSES AND CLASS STRUGGLE

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."