Artist Networking 2.0 : MyPeople Project

 Artist Panel Discussion: MyPeople Project  
Time: 7:30pm, 31th May, 2012
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd.
Host: MyPeople Project, Xindanwei
Cost: 40RMB (including fresh coffee and tea)
Language: English

MyPeople Project suggests a new approach to develop a network between artists from Europe and Asia, allowing an intercultural dialogue. The process will result in exhibitions taking place in London, Amsterdam and Shanghai. The project intends to create a more organic discussion and an opportunity for the exchange of views and perceptions between artists, as well as an online and offline artist/audience dialogue. Three artists – Colm Lally, Xu Zhifeng, and Ronnie Gillam are taking part in this project and will present their perspective on the relationship between art and networks. More about the project.

Colm Lally – Magic Realism and Image Machines
Colm’s presentation focuses on imaging machines, image-making devices that summon into existence new space. He will present some examples of imaging technologies that fabricate and bind fantastic tempo-spatial concepts, pealing back new measurements, demanding new approaches to movement through space and placing powerful notions of the ‘real’ inside what Vilém Flusser (Towards a Philosophy of Photography, 1983) describes as the magical powers of the image. His proposition heads toward the realm of ‘magic realism’ because these machines travel along an unstable path between the ‘real’ and the fantastic.

Xu Zhifeng – Zoom
Shanghai based conceptual artist Xu Zhifeng will give a briefing on his under developing plan entitled ZOOM that dedicated to the MyPeople Project (http://myppl.co.uk). ZOOM uses Google Earth technology and GPS tracking to assist mapping the trio-city Shanghai-London-Amsterdam respectively and correspondingly through Xu Zhifeng’s clockwise walking at the very speed of the hour-hand on the clock within 12 hours to create a mega circular route track (~16km∅ in Shanghai case), questioning the relationship of urban development and human scale in the context of so called ‘globalization’. Process documentation might be secondary to the process itself and the experience.

Ronnie Gillam – MyPeople Project
Ronnie will talk about MyPeople Project which is having it’s premiere exhibition in Shanghai.
MyPeople Project explores the subject of networking, bringing together twelve critically acclaimed artists from London, Shanghai and Amsterdam. The project is a collaboration between a group of self-selected artists, curators and event organisers with an exhibit, Solar Plexus, opening in Shanghai in June, 2012. This project suggests a new approach to developing a network for an intercultural dialogue and exchange between artists from different countries. As an example, all the artists in this show were invited to join the project by other participating artists, creating a true network of peers. The process will result in exhibitions in London, Amsterdam and Shanghai, presenting work from these twelve established artists, while promoting this unique networking model with an open dialogue, and exchange of ideas, knowledge, skills and cultural experiences between both artists and audiences, locally and internationally.

About Artists:

Colm Lally was born in Galway, Ireland; lives and works in London. Colm is founder and director of E:vent. Since 2003 Colm has taken a hands-on role developing the E:vent programme, focusing on media art; video; performance; and electronic music. He was visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in 2004/07, visiting lecturer at the Architectural Association 2006, and visiting juror in Bartlett School of Architecture 2007. Colm was a co-organiser of Node.London 06, London’s first major media arts festival. He is also co-director of Arts in Action since 2001 – an artists community based in East London.

Xu Zhifeng a.k.a. Shaw studied architecture at the Fine Art College of ShanghaiUniversity between 2003–08. Since this time, Shaw has moved on to explore the theoretical and social experience of architecture through a series of installation,intervention, performance pieces and art exhibitions that intervene with urban spaces, and challenge the observers experience of the built environment. Xu has exhibited extensively in China, UK, and Germany.

Ronnie Gillam holds an MA from Central Saint Martins Art and Design College and a BA from Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design. Has extensive experience in managing a range of studio and magazine projects including branding, exhibitions and photo shoots. Ronnie currently resides in London.

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