LI JIAO II

Shanghai Orchestra plays its music without noises

loops us the cars over the grass

transportation effectivity is amplified to the life size

city has its fractal beauty visual or invisible

it depends where is your viewing angle,

and the technology of imaging.

TOUR TUEUSE

Conspiracy? Coincidences? Better double check!

STOCKMARKET LAND

In ruin, building site, construction, on standby, in pause, In « pour parler », project, demolition… Each city regulates. Humans live their own cycle and buildings frame too. During all punctuations, the life does not exist anymore.
In Shanghai, at the time of very grown, this phenomenon seems even more present. Like so suddenly, during the overactivity of this mégapole, the approximate 1% of “waste land” is multiplied. And in this personnal percentage, I count only the places which at the present are completely inert at 100% for one remarkable period. In a city of more than 16millions inhabitants that happens very quickly on a colossal surface (without counting the inactive places 50% of their time)
Indeed as for the stockmarket, many built spaces are under the speculative emulation and then not used… In parallel I note that Shanghai have a great number of mobile actors, passengers in perpetual revival, temporary workers, visitors, expelled…
In a 24 hour city, I imagine the Utopia that the inert consumption of space can find fugitive use, “ the time of”. An environmental program, within the meaning of entourage, offering to these places a transitory life useful for the residents as one can see it in the destroying process of the shanghainese Lilong.
During more than one month, apartments and shops empty one after other and start to be dismantled. During this time the last occupants simply adapt emptied space, a shop becomes a night carpark, a place for a nap, a clothes line, an office or a storage for the new workers…
In China this mobile force exists thanks to the mass of inhabitants. And when a city live more quickly than its own men, and when it is so large, suddenly if we discover non moving area it becomes to us source of mystery.
What could be more public than a building site in destruction stopped or deserted to be destroyed? What could be more educational than a building in construction or ruin? What could be more suitable for events than a devasted land? What could be more useless than a tower emptied by the owner?....

Imagine whereas any blocked space becoming a new property..
Could a place, before the last blow of tractopelle, transform as an external happy ending party not obstructing form the noise anybody more…
Could someone propose to the expelled, a refuge like in deserted offices or waste ground near the places they have social and work life…
Could an empty roof be a public observatory sources of break as parks.
Immagine a public building site allowing to discover the construction differently.
Immagine to visit a ruin through scaffoldings…

About Xujie and Sophia

I guess nobody knows us before this exhibition though we met Lam once in an interview with Niyouyu when they were roomates 2 or 3 years ago. But actually we are living in a so related circle.

Xuejie and I are very old friends. We met when we were in middle school in our 12. And after studying the high school separately, it occured to us that we were coincidentally be schoolmate again. During 2001-2008 we were both in Shanghai University major in different major.Mine is graphic design and his is always art history.

Our cooperation begain in 2006 mid summer during which we managed to figure out our first documentary Ecounter Art. Since then we are living like twin brothre and sister. However the last thing we want to do in the world with eachother is just being a lover. I just like Xujie like a famely. Anyway, he is the person through whom I met Petra. Eventhough before I met her I had known much about her and her lessons by chatting with Xujie. And then I am happily to meet everybody here.

We are now working on many different documenta one of them is to record Chinese Acrobats life in Shanghai. Other one is shooting our schoolmates project, Caoyang project. That's why we know Tiger and Zhouzhiyuan and Ivan etc. In Shanghai Anti Xujie is in charge of cutting and I am the translator.In Runner both Ivan and I are the camera.It's fun to hang out with these guys to join the creation of artworks.

By the way, Xujie is too lazy to write this. Haha, so I do it.

Good luck everybody & Happy new year!

LI JIAO

I met Petra before we met, it has designed, from my high school. In 2003, the beginning of my university, i just can not select the English major's English course, because there're time crashes with my own major's, and one of the teacher heard of my frustration and suggested me to Petra's course, just because she is one of the two foreign teachers in my college and the only one who has the open course. And in the later terms i got to known Lam and Jam in this class room, and later on Adrian and Tiger, who were both my living room roommates in our first year. In 2004, i met an Australian friend, Rowena in a gallery in 50 Moganshan Lu, where i went firstly with Petra. Then i got a summer job by knowing George through Rowena, in the gallery of studio rouge, and Lam and Jam were my colleagues, but we shift work the other day. Also that was in studio rouge, i met Alex, we started be friends because he was an international student in my college in 2002. After we became good friends, he introduced  his best French friend also his high school class mate, Johann, who later introduced naco, the company he worked for me, because that is also an architecture company. So i got the internship in the summer of 2006 by an interview, and Fanny sat next to me, Marie sat down stairs. I know Jeremy because he also was an architectural student and then roommate of Johann. February 10 2007 i was invited to an art exhibition called "Contemporary Art doesn't feel cold at home" hosted by Johann and Jeremy, where i also met Kahn. Xujie and Sophia both we met in amspace for the exhibition, but we also studied in the same college, in different years...

Petra/Germany|Adrian-Zhou Zhiyuan/Shanghai|Tiger-Cai Chengliang/Shanghai|Lam-Deng Yeming/Shanghai|Jam-Yu Ji/Shanghai|Alex-Alexandra/France|Johann/France|Fanny/France|Marie/France|Jeremy/France|Kahn-Yuan Chonyin/Shanghai|Xujie/Shanghai|Sophia-Wu Jiayin/Shanghai|Shaw-Xu Zhifeng/Jiaxing

We are with Sichuan acrobats in Shanghai.

'Link to Link' Park Junghyun Performance Room

Joseph Beuys said "Every man can be an artist" If you are an artist, you probably denounce these words; but if you want to be an artist, it might give you power and confidence. So, are these words correct? What actually is the relationship between art and artists?

And yet, artists are not the only creators of art. The rest comes from people who treasure life. Those that care deeply, those who know what love is, those that generously express their feelings. These are often the sources of art.

With "Every man can be an artist" in mind, if we go searching for such a person, we are assured be pleasantly surprised. This type of pleasant surprise doesn't come from people only, but also from art!

She believes: If people used their hearts to communicate, anyone from anywhere in the world can become friends. Among the countless ways of expression, I am only trying to say to use your heart to communicate for relationships.