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Programme: Official - Annual Meeting of the New ChampionsInsights: China Cities and Urbanization Values
Format: Screening
Location: Dalian International Conference Center, Betazone
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The Urban Imaginary, World Economic Forum, Dalian, China
Dalian time: 09.09.2015 17:00-18:00
Join a conversation with artist and filmmaker Cao Fei, whose work presents imaginary and dystopian visions of China's urban future.This session includes the screening of Whose Utopia?, a poetic exploration of urban growth and transformation through the daily lives of workers in a Chinese lighting factory, as well as excerpts of her other cinematic work.
Insights: China Cities and Urbanization Values
Format: Screening
Location: Dalian International Conference Center, Betazone
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Splendid River, Cao Fei's Solo Exhibition, Secession, Vienna
02.07.2015 - 30.08.2015
Cao Fei, Splendid River, Secession 2015 Photo: © Oliver Ottenschläger Splendid River is a real estate project located in the booming development region of Guangzhou, China, since 2001.At the Vienna Secession, Cao Fei will show a selection of works, among them key works such as RMB City project (2008–11) or Haze and Fog (2013), a recent film project that depicts the struggles of the disoriented urban middle class in a dystopian zombie setting. The artist has also conceived new works especially for the exhibition, among them the eponymous intervention on the Secession’s façade, which creates a connection between the original building in Vienna and its copy, home to a real estate business, in Fei’s hometown, Guangzhou. In the video installation Stranger (2015), Cao Fei explores the phenomenon of internet dating platforms which,while individuals seem to feel more and more disconnected to their surroundings, are becoming increasingly popular. Instead of meeting common expectations,the artist as invisible protagonist of the video clips performs everyday activities as form of communicating with the often passive voyeur, while in the installation Rumba (2015) automatic household devices like cleaning robots perform a kind of random choreography set on a stage designed as an abstracted landscape. Here, again, communication as in “building bridges” seems to be an underlying theme.
An artist book with texts, drawings and sketches by Cao Fei will be published to coincide with the exhibition.
The exhibition at Secession is the artist’s first solo show in Austria.
Cao Fei, born in Guangzhou (China) in 1978, lives and works in Beijing.Invited by the board of the Secession
Curator: Jeanette Pacher
PressPress conference: July 1, 10am
For interview requests and any other questions please contact katharina.schniebs@secession.at.
http://www.secession.at/presse/
Please find the press release and press images for download here:
http://www.secession.at/presse/pdf/Press_release_Cao_%20Fei.pdf
Guided tours: Saturdays at 11am (in English) and 2pm (in German) by appointmentPermanent presentation: Gustav Klimt Beethoven Frieze
more info:http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/laura-owens-and-cao-fei/
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All The World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale Main Exhibition, Venice
09.05.2015 - 22.11.2015
Cao Fei's new work will present in 56th Venice Biennale curated by Okwui EnwezorCao Fei's new work will present in All The World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale Main Exhibition
more info:
Venice Biennale Artist List
Introduction by Curator Okwui Enwezor
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Cao Fei: Same Old, Brand New, Art Basel Hong Kong
2015.03.13 - 2015.03.17
Cao Fei will light up the entire façade of Hong Kong's iconic ICC building with a major new workChinese multimedia artist Cao Fei has set her sights on Hong Kong's International Commerce Centre building in Kowloon, where a large-scale LED installation will display images from 1980s video games every night as part of next week's Art Basel.
For Cao Fei's installation, "Same Old, Brand New," symbols, logos and moving images from video games such as Pac-Man and Tetris will play out on the facade of the 490-meter-high ICC in five 10-minute sessions every night from March 13-17.
For those in Hong Kong, recommended viewing spots include the terrace on Podium 3 and 4 of the IFC Mall, where an accompanying audio piece by Hong Kong sound artist Dickson Dee will evoke music from 1980s computer games, as well as Tamar Park and Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park.
Commissioned by Art Basel and ICC, the installation is part of a larger program called the ICC Light and Music Show, which consists of a series of spectacles that are said to be the largest light and sound shows on a single building.
For more information on the project, visit icclightshow.com.hk. Art Basel Hong Kong runs March 15-17. -
Documentary Fortnight 2015, MoMA, New York
2015.02.26 - 2012-02-27
Cao Fei's 2 films Haze and Fog (2013) and i.Mirror (2007) screening at MoMAmore info: MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2015i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film
2007. China. Cao Fei. 28 min.
Haze and Fog
2013. China. Cao Fei. 47 min.
Post-screening discussion with Xin Wang, Associate Curator, Asian Contemporary Art Week
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Whose Utopia, Poetry and Dream, Tate Modern, London
2014.10.25 - 2015.04.25
Cao Fei's Video Whose Utopia (2006) now on Display at Tate Modern
Theme: Level 2: Poetry and Dream (collection exhibition of Tate)
Room: Cao Fei (Room 2)
more info: Tate
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Cao Fei's Haze and Fog screening at Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2014.10.30
Haze and Fog (2013)
30 Oct, 2014
Cinema 1 - Centre Pompidou, Paris
€ 6, € 4, free LP
The Chinese artist Cao Fei works with video, 3D animation, photography, as well as platforms through its Second Life avatar "China Tracy". She builds her works from reflections on Chinese society, using references to the fantastic and integrating performative elements related to contemporary dance.
Her latest film Haze and Fog (2013) reflects the discomfort of living in a invaded by the video game industry and consumerism society, symbolized for the artist by a thick fog. She invented in response to a parallel universe with zombies who fully live their desires and emotions.
Curated Mnam / Bcc - contemporary and prospective service creation, Christine Macel
more info: www.centrepompidou.fr
L’artiste chinoise Cao Fei travaille avec la vidéo, des animations 3D, de la photographie, ainsi que des plates-formes sur Second Life à travers son avatar « China Tracy ». Elle construit ses oeuvres à partir de réflexions sur la société chinoise, en utilisant des références au fantastique et en intégrant des éléments performatifs liés à la danse contemporaine. Son dernier film Haze and Fog (2013), don du Cercle international de la Société des Amis du musée et présenté lors de cette séance, témoigne du malaise de vivre dans une société envahie par l’industrie des jeux vidéo et la consommation à outrance, symbolisé pour l’artiste par un brouillard épais. Elle invente en réaction un univers parallèle avec des zombies qui vivraient pleinement leurs envies et émotions.
Commissaire : Mnam/Cci - Service création contemporaine et prospective, Christine Macel
Cinéma et Vidéo
30 octobre 2014, à 20h00
Cinéma 1 - Centre Pompidou, Paris
6€, 4€, LP gratuit
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Cao Fei's Haze and Fog screening at Gene Siskel Film Center, School of Art Institute of Chicago
2014.10.23
Cao Fei: Haze and Fog
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Gene Siskel Film Center, School of Art Institute of Chicago.
- Cao Fei, China, ca. 80 min.
more info: www.siskelfilmcenter.orgChinese artist Cao Fei mixes fantasy, documentary, and virtual reality to reflect on the ways China’s rapidly changing economy has transformed the everyday lives and imaginations of its citizens. Her latest film, HAZE AND FOG (2013), is a darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security guards, manicurists, and sex workers seeking contact in an increasingly individualized, alienating society. Fei accompanies the film with her 2007 short i.MIRROR, which follows her avatar China Tracy as she navigates the alternate reality of Second Life. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Various formats. (Amy Beste)
Cao Fei will be present for audience discussion.
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La Town, Cao Fei's Solo Exhibition, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York
2014.09.10 - 2014.10.25
La Town, Trailer (1'31"), 2014
Cao Fei: La Town
Solo Exhibition
September 10 – October 25, 2014Vernissage: Wednesday, September 10, 6:00 – 8:00 PM———————Indeed, this simulacrum remains unsurpassed in its evocation of the Real.Indeed, this film conveys the Truth.I will always mourn for the fate of La Town, for La Town is always in mourning.
– Cao Fei———————
Lombard Freid Gallery is pleased to present La Town, Cao Fei’s fifth solo show with the gallery. An ambitious stop-motion feature, La Town exemplifies the artist’s playful-yet-political practice, converging fantasy and reality into a film noir-inspired vision of the contemporary China and the World at large. The trailer for the film was well received at Art Basel Hong Kong 2014, and is followed by the full-length film and related photographic series.
more info: Lombard Freid Gallery
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Cao Fei's Theatrical Mirror, Contemporary Art Center of South Australia
2014.09.14 - 2014.10.20
Cao Fei’s Theatrical Mirror: Living Between the Real and the Unreal
Presented by Adelaide Festival Centre and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA)
Internationally recognised Chinese artist Cao Fei presents Adelaide audiences with Theatrical Mirror: Living in-between the Real and the Unreal, featuring eight videoworks spanning the years 2004 to 2013. These video and new media works reflect the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution, exploring perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of “Second Life”. Depictions of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development abound in imagery that echoes traditional Chinese landscape painting and in the design of her own virtual utopia, RMB City.Applying strategies of sampling, roleplay and documentary film making Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China’s younger generation.
more info: Adelaide Festival Centre