Sleepers: Eleven Yunnan Artist Contemporary Artistic Experimentation

“Sleepers: Eleven Yunnan Artist Contemporary Artistic Experimentation” Exhibition

Artists: Yang Yijiang, Sha Zhibin, Adam Lik Lui, Xiang Weixing, Zhang Yongning, Wang Yuhui, Zhu Xiaolin, Zhang Zhiming, Hu Jun, Li Xuefeng and Zhao Gang.
Curator: Luo Fei

Exhibition opening: 2010/1/8, 20:00
Exhibition Duration: 2010/1/8–1/31
Tel: 0871-4114692

These eleven artists are all faithfully playing the role of “sleepers”, sharing their experiences “in hiding” with everyone. Since ancient times, artists have always been a group of active sleepers. They engage in the act of creation through games, explorations, thoughts, accumulated experiences and constantly refined language, all in hopes of making a “prison break” from reality. This process is long, arduous, dangerous and debilitating, with the only comfort coming from the breakthroughs, large or small, that are achieved through creation. The saving grace of art is that it provides these “sleepers” with the idea of a shore to rest on, so that they can imagine the possibility of redemption somewhere beyond reality. This is the enchanting thing about art: the expectations of the “sleepers”, and the great and just “conspiracy theory”.

Foreword for the exhibition: Sleepers, by Luo Fei

Monthly Program 2010 Jan-Feb

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Program

January
1/4 Mon: English Corner ‘Western New Year’
1/8 Fri: Sleepers: Eleven Yunnan Artist Contemporary Artistic Experimentation  exhibition opening.

Artists: Yang Yijiang, Sha Zhibin, Adam Lik Lui, Xiang Weixing, Zhang Yongning, Wang Yuhui, Zhu Xiaolin, Zhang Zhimin, Hu Jun, Li Xuefeng and Zhao Gang. Curator: Luo Fei

1/9 Sat

1/11 Mon: English Corner ‘ The End of the world – How to save the world’

English Corner: ‘ The End of the world – How to save the world’
One of the largest problems the world is facing today is the pollution. The way we live our lives is affecting the environment in an alarming way. In January we are going to take the opportunity at TCG Nordica to discuss what we can do to change the situation. Please join us in English Corner on the 11th of January to exchange ideas and practise your English at the same time!

1/15 Fri: Swedish movie month!-”A Swedish Love story”

Movie Night: “A Swedish Love story” Long, bright nights and light green birch trees: This month Nordica offers you a chance to escape the freezing January wind and to soak up the Swedish summer warmth for a couple of hours. The first movie of the year will be “A Swedish Love story” by Roy Andersson, a movie famed for its description of teenage love. This is a wonderfully well told story starkly contrasting the naturalness of youth with the absurdity of the adult world. Do not miss this one!
We will start at 6.30 pm and finish approximately at 9 pm.

1/16 Sat: Tehilim Trio Concert

1/18 Mon: English Corner ‘ Globalization’
1/23 Sat

1/25 Mon: English Corner ‘How to celebrate the Chinese New Year traditionally’
1/29 Movie Night “Wild strawberries”

This movie will be “Wild strawberries” of Ingmar Bergman – a jump right from thoughtlessness of youth into old age’s self insight and regret. This movies is considered as one of Bergman’s best and most optimistic, depicting an old man’s journey from regret to reconciliation.Nordica’s movienight is open for everyone, an opportunity to share good movies.We will start at 6.30 pm and finish approximately at 9 pm.

1/30 Sat: Chinese New Year Celebration

Spring Festival is one of the most important Chinese traditional festivals in various parts of the world. At this time, people travel from different areas back home. Because of the special importance of it in Chinese Culture, Chinese people continually celebrate from the Chinese New Years Eve until the 15th according to the Lunar Calendar. Today, Spring Festival has become a well-known cultural festival in the world.

TCG Nordica has celebrated Spring Festival since we were established. in 2010,the celebration will arranged on Jan 30th. We carry on the traditional way with inviting folk artists, who are disappearing in the strong developing country, to show their brilliant folk handcrafts. Meanwhile, some children bands will play their happy music to welcome the spring. Our aim is to show foreigners the traditions of spring festival and also to give local children the opportunity to see the old way that their fathers loved. We are very proud to be a part of cultural protection in China.

February
2/1 Mon: English Corner ‘ What is it to be brave like a Tiger ‘
2/8 Mon: English Corner ‘ The Virtue of Vegetarians’

Feb/11 Feb/28 Closing Down for Chinese Spring Festival

Sleepers

Sleepers
on “Sleepers: Eleven Yunnan Artist Contemporary Artistic Experimentation” Exhibition
Luo Fei (Curator, Artistic Director at TCG Nordica)

After several changes, our eleven participating Yunnan artists finally settled on the name “Sleepers” for this exhibition. This name denotes inconspicuousness, diligence, training and experience, and it also makes the allusion that these people are under cover in a certain environment, waiting for action, which fits with the real state of mind among the artists in this exhibition. This word calls to mind two other words, “sleeper cell” and “prison break”. Read more

2009 New Year Concert

2009 New Year Concert
Time: Dec 31,2009 7pm .please attend in formal attire
Price: 65RMB(Includes Banquet & concert Activities)
25RMB (Only Concert Activities)
Add: Xi Ba Road No.101 Chuang Ku/LOFT TCGNordica

Come and celebrate Western New Year with us at TCG Nordica! There will be food, dance, performances, games and other activities. The party starts at 19.00 with a special buffet and then continues with different happenings. You are very welcome! We also invited our special guests Miao Choir to sing a few songs!

AIR: Thea and Elisabeth

Norwegian artists Thea Elisabeth Haavet and Elisabeth Helvin were invited to come to TCG Nordica work as residency artists, residence time: Dec/20/2009–Jan/4/2010

Thea Elisabeth Haavet:

I am a 34 year old Norwegian journalist and filmmaker. I have a bachelor degree in comparative religion, antropology and theater/dance from Norway – and a Master of fine arts in Theater from New York. But my professional life has mostly been in the media. I have worked for many years as a journalist for newspapers and magazines – and also for TV as a writer and director. I love dancing, tango, salsa and dance impro – and just finished a documentary on tango – my favorite dance. I also like very much travelling and meeting people from different cultures. I attend Oslo International Church – which has members from most part of the world – which I enjoy very much. I believe in empowering and transforming people and societies by art – and among others I have worked with young people in South-Africa, using theater as a method.

sculpture from Elisabeth Helvin

Elisabeth Helvin:

My education is in teaching and I have worked with rehabilitation of people with drug problems and in children care before I got an invitation to move to South Africa and learn the craft of ceramic in 2001. Since 2002 I have worked as a sculptor full time, mostly here in Norway. I also work with photography, painting and drawing. You are welcome to visit my website www.elisabethhelvin.no to get a feel for what I do.

The last two years I have completed a degree in counseling. I believe that art and the creative process has a healing effect on people. I believe that one of the things we are made for is to create. So besides sculpting I work with children that has lost parents and parents that has lost children. Using art together with conversation as a tool to work trough the process of grief and to deal with the great and difficult loss this people have experienced. I find this work very meaningful – and we also experience the transformational power of the creative process.

My big fascination in life is people, I newer stop being amazed! And it keep me seeing new thing, about myself and life. I also as Thea loves to travel and see new places. Learning about different ways of living. I enjoy music and I love a good story; told through a book, on stage, screen or by the fire.

2009-christmas-celebration-concert

December 25th and 26th, Friday and Saturday; 6-7:30pm (Dinner) 8-9pm (Concert)
Add: Xi Ba Road No.101 Chuang Ku/LOFT TCGNordica
Admission: 50RMB (Includes Buffet) 10RMB
Reservation requested!
Tell: 0871-411 4691
Christmas is the most important holiday in the entire world. The Christmas show will tell the story of how and why Christmas is celebrated. The Celebration will offer a Lucia buffet and concert.

New-songs-for-the-season-concert

The Coffee Shoppe International Holyday Concert at Nordica Saturday, December 12th, 2009 ….8:00pm to 10:00pm 20 rmb per Ticket Add: Xi Ba Road No.101 Chuang Ku/LOFT TCGNordica
Kunming, China has a lot of blooming talent, both expat and local. These twenty original musicians, dancers, artists and song writers wish to help raise funds in this benefit to renovate the Coffee Shoppe

Fan Li’s solo exhibition “Landscape Log”

Fan Li’s solo exhibition “Landscape Log”
Opening time: 2009/12/19, 20:00
Exhibition Duration: 2009/12/19–12/30
TCG Nordica Gallery
Tel: 0871-4114692
www.tcgnordica.com

Artist Fan Li

Landscape sketch is not only a academic task in art schools, but also a live style in Yunnan artists, they recorded their daily life through this kind of art, like a log. Fan Li’s oil paintings in the exhibition all are from Kunming, Beijing’s streets, and some of them from indoor scenes. There is no academic aspiration in those landscape and scene sketches, just personally and daily life’s sketches, but testimony of artist’s real sentiment and peace.

Luo Fei and Tang Zhigang speech on the opening

Yunnan Army School, Oil painting

Green Lake, Oil painting

2009-lucia-concert

Date December 13th, Sunday, 6-7:30pm (Dinner) 8-9pm (Concert)
Reservation call 0871-4114691
Admission: 50RMB (Includes Buffet) ; 10RMB (Concert Only)
Add: Xi Ba Road No.101 Chuang Ku/LOFT TCGNordica
Lucia is an old Swedish tradition centered on light. At this, on one of the darkest nights of the year, Saint Lucia and her maids bring light to everyone. Celebration will offer a Lucia buffet and concert