UCCA Beijing

“M Home: Living in Space” – Come in: Artists Introduce their Homes

2014.12.13
15:00-17:00

Conversation
Location:  UCCA Auditorium
Language:  In Chinese Only

The home is a dwelling space and the most fundamental unit for societal constructions. Art spaces, however, are governed by the senses. Both environments have very clear functions, but artists' homes often combine the two. As part of the “M Home: Living in Space” lecture series, UCCA invites participating artist Lin Tianmiao and her husband, Wang Gongxin (also an artist), to introduce their living and working environments.

This year the couple moved from their downtown courtyard to a village on the outskirts of Beijing named Yang’ge Zhuang, where they designed and built a spacious yet cozy farmhouse perfect for maintaining a quiet, self-sustained lifestyle. With their unique attitude and inspirations, this couple has integrated work and life, art and design into one original space, and during the lecture, we will follow the artists’ footsteps into their home to discuss finding a balance between the creative process and other necessary daily activities.

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Guest Speakers

Lin Tianmiao

After eight years of living overseas, “M Home: Living in Space—RedStar Macalline Art Project” participating artist Lin Tianmiao moved back to Beijing in 1995 where she is currently based. In 2012, the Asia Society Museum in New York held a major retrospective of her work entitled “Bound Unbound.” Various public and private institutions worldwide have collected her work, including: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, ICP, Asia Society Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Australia, and Singapore Art Museum.

Wang Gongxin

Works by Wang Gongxin (b. Beijing, 1960) have been featured in several international exhibitions and spaces, including: “Wang Gongxin: Video Artist” at the National Gallery of Victoria; “LANDSEASKY" at IHN Gallery Korea; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shanghai; Griffith University Art Gallery; and MAAP SPACE in Brisbane.

Moderator

Venus Lau

Curator and writer based in Beijing. After working as an art writer and project curator, she works actively in various cultural spheres across greater China, pursuing multidisciplinary experimentation with potential and emergent cultural productions in the region, while initiating discourses between Chinese art and the cultural structures in other countries. She won the CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award) Jury’s Pick with her proposal actively rethinking on the strategies of institutional critique in China, while exploring the linkage between object-oriented ontology in art. She was the chairman of Society for Experimental Cultural Production, a non-profit organization focusing on new possibilities of cultural productions. Venus Lau is currently working as the consulting curator at UCCA.

Co-organizer

RedStar Macalline

China's leading home furnishing and services brand, pioneering new trends in household comfort and consumer taste through imagination and innovation. Since 1986, RedStar Macalline has expanded from one specialty store to a chain with over a hundred shopping centers. RedStar Macalline is at the forefront of the furniture industry: the first to open multiple locations; the first to establish franchise stores; the first to build its own malls; and the largest furniture mall in the world. Today, they have opened over 140 malls in nearly 100 cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Changsha, Chongqing, and Chengdu. Through economies of scale, they are able to provide higher quality products and superior customer service. For the past five years, they have consistently ranked in the top 50 of China's top 500 private corporations.