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Double Art Bypass

Culture comin' atcha from all four corners - By Morgan, Aug 28, 08

As the city gears up for a triptych of big-time art events for September -- the SHContemporary, the Shanghai Art Fair, and the Shanghai Biennale (pronounced, bai en ALL’ ee -- with a lilting Yorkshire accent), -- virtually every gallery in town is putting something on to get in on the action, "linked in" or not.

Like your art Chinese? Contemporary? This September, get ready to let the bullshit fly and rub shoulders with the int'l crowd in galleries all over town.

Listed below are a few highlights, presented to you, the anonymous viewer or "user," as a Lacanian contestation and renegotiation of the ambivalent boundaries and liminalities of the postmodern "e-space." Are you -- the viewer -- publicly complicit or privately indifferent to these listings? And does your indifference mirror and signify your complacency, thereby re-mobilizing it into the infinite intertextuality and difference/deference of the project of capital "L" Language? Does it? Does it?

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1918 ArtSpace – Ten Chinese Artists

Committed to the death to nurturing Chinese emerging artists 1918 ArtSpace has rounded up ten of them for a group exhibition, loosely uniting the showing artists in theme under the rubric of "progress." Progress in the last three years, to be exact: Has there been any? Lead picture of the ominously dour SOS sign on the Great Wall is from this show. Starts Sept. 8

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BizArt - Insomnia

BizArt packs in around 20 photographers for a group show including works by some of the big cameras in the Chinese contempt scene. "Insomina" is about... insomnia, and shows works done by the artists after experiencing the condition, using it as inspiration to depict a wide range of ideas, experiences, and emotions. I'm expecting a "can't sleep so I'm playing Sega" photograph in there somewhere. Starts Sept. 6

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140 Square Meters - We Are the Future

140sqm cast subtlety to the wind and boldly claims, "We Are the Future" with a group exhibition of four younger generation Chinese artists dealing with changing urban spaces, personal experiences, and the social role of the artist in society. Turns out, it's complicated. Showing is Xiao Hong, Zhai Liang, Peng Bo, and Pan Yingguo. Starts Sept. 6

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Eastlink - ChinaDorm

A mixed-media exhibition including performance art, Eastlink hosts artists interpreting and dealing with the collusion between public and private space in the urban landscape. Eastlink restructures itself as a dormitory and evokes images of private life and communal life on public grounds. "ChinaDorm" features Lin Jing, Yu Fan, Yao Zi, Zhang Qing, and Zhang Zhaogong. Starts Sept. 7

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Park Ryu Sook Gallery – Mustaba: Project for UAE

Definitely not Chinese, but what the hell, they're celebs and that counts for everything. Dynamic artist(e) duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, whom you might remember from their previous attempts in transporting mediocre concept gimmickry to bafflingly massive scales, are coming to Shanghai with their "Mustaba: Project for UAE" exhibition. The exhibition shows their plans -- drawings and collages -- for probably an effot to cover the United Arab Emirates in some gigantic piece of cloth. Huzzah! Starts Sept. 8

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