Rare Earth Student Art and Design ProjectsPresentations
Time: 17:00-19:00, Friday, Sept 9th.
Language: English
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd.
Cost: 30 rmb/person, with fresh coffee and tea provided
Organizer: RARE EARTH, Xindanwei
Speakers：
Name: Nick Fox
Name of Project: Footage Fly Fishing
Description: ‘Fishing’ off the side of buildings to investigate the outside structure of residential areas.
Name: Andrew Collins and Karen
Name of Project: Shanghai Connection
Description: Shanghai connection is a collaborative project about fostering invisible relationships between the myriad of people in this huge city.
Name: Alexandra De Bonis
Name of Project: In opposition
Description: Presenting dichotomies in spaces throughout Shanghai
Name: Michelle Goodman
Name of Project: A Moving Gender
Description: The progression and movement of gestures of Shanghai women.
Name: Amy Donaldson
Name of Project: Chinese Laundry
Description: Investigating public and private space through developing a laundry service.
Name: Victoria Garcia
Name of Project: Surrocodelia
Description: A Cabinet of Curiosities – Surrealism, Rococo and Psychedelia intertwine in the illustrated world of Surrocodelia
Name: Tully Arnot
Name of Project: Direction Without Destination
Description: Arnot’s practice explores the creation of non-teleological inventions, investigating the alchemical change from everyday object to ‘artwork’.
Website: www.tullyarnot.com
About The Event:
Australian and Chinese art and design students working together using Shanghai as a laboratory to create an immersive digital environment displaying shared visions about the future of the city. RARE EARTH students will present their work: Nick Fox - Footage Fly Fishing, Andrew Collins and Karen - Shanghai Connection, Alexandra De Bonis - In opposition, Michelle Goodman - A Moving Gender, Amy Donaldson - Chinese Laundry, and Victoria Garcia - Surrocodelia.
About RARE EARTH：
The School of Design Studies at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) is pleased to announce RARE EARTH, an education non-profit initiative that continues COFA’s collaborative art and design projects between universities in Australia and China.
RARE EARTH aims to create awareness about the importance of cross cultural art and design practice, education and sustainability for the future of cities. It will do this by challenging students to work together to collaboratively engage in dialogue and practice that deconstructs cultural difference and creates a basis for developing “shared visions”.
Who is RARE EARTH for?
RARE EARTH is a cooperative project between Donghua University (DHU) and The College of Fine Arts (COFA). The intended audience is art and design students, the public and practitioners in the creative industries in Shanghai.
How will RARE EARTH happen?
Students from The College of Fine Arts at The University of New South Wales in Sydney will collaborate with their peers from The Institute of Fashion at Donghua University Shanghai with the objective of creating and documenting their responses to a live studio brief encouraging a rigorous and immersive, situated response to Shanghai through artistic interpretations, interaction and co-creation using the city as a laboratory for the future. The work will be complied over the two weeks the form of an interactive media platform showing the process to the public as it happens.
More information about RARE EARTH can be found at: https://rareearth.wikispaces.com/
