Mr. SouTian is an artist who lives and works in the Song Zhuang area. Song Zhuang is an area outside of Beijing which has been developing as an artist community over the past 25 years. Starting as a rural retreat for artists who wanted studio space outside the city, the area now attracts foreign artists […] […]
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On July 13th, 2011 the entire field school team made their first visit to Mr. Her’s studio. Mr. Her showed the team around his studio, which is currently under construction. He discussed with us several of his finished paintings. The paintings were lined up under a covered walkway with an open wall to a courtyard. […] […] Jiangou Village- Red tourism A small village located near the Miaofeng Mountain 50 miles outside of Beijing, Jiangou is an emerging tourist destination. While the temples on the mountain are used by religious pilgrims, Jiangou caters to a different kind of pilgrimage, those individuals who want to feel more connected to their communist roots. Red […] […] ”Very few works speak to social problems. Chinese contemporary art doesn’t make people understand. It has lost its function and its very important social, avant-garde, and revolutionary features.”- Zhang Jianhua Zhang Jianhua is a contemporary sculptor known for being controversial. The subject of his work often involves poverty, exploitation, and death. Through his four sculptural […] […] The temple above Jian Gou, a village outside of Beijing, is a location of significance for Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Until 1986, when a road up the mountain was built and the restoration of the temple began, the only way from the village to the temple was by pilgrim trail on foot. This area first […] […] The fieldwork field school met several artists living in Song Zhuang, an area outside of Beijing where contemporary artists have congregated. This area has been developing as a popular artist community over the past twenty five years. The local government now estimates the area attracts approximately 500,000 tourists a year who visit galleries and artist’s […] […] We’ve finished the fieldwork/residency phase of the field school, and rather successfully at that! Now we move on to various locations: Shanghai, Tsingtao, other parts of Beijing, or all the way back to Oregon. We will reconvene at the beginning of August—from wherever we all are—in order to process fieldwork materials into ChinaVine content (initially […] […] During the past two weeks of our residency our group has discovered many new insights into the art and culture of China. Focusing on two villages, our group (Nan, Jeanette, and Megan) have focused on two cultural elements that we would like to share with Vine Online. The first is our exploration into red tourism […] […] Liulichang Street in Beijing. “World Listening Day” – brush on pavement and sustained chirp. […] Our group from the field school, which includes Sam, Jo, Yuting and Rosalynn, will focus one of our upcoming posts on cultural tourism. We will examine cultural tourism through a restaurant in JianGao which severs traditional farmer’s food from the area to cultural tourists. Jiangao is a tourist site due to its religious significance, associations […] […] |
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