August 8, 2009 – September 19, 2009 | Three Shadows Gallery
Curator: Karen Smith
This exhibition is sponsored by Shao Foundation, the opening party will be held at 4:00pm, August 8, 2009 (Saturday).
By Liu Heung Shing, 1979.
Seek Truth from Facts is the first exhibition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing in mainland China. It features a selection of Liu’s photos taken from 1978 to 1983, all of which were published in China After Mao: Seek Truth from Facts by Penguin in 1983 (reprinted in 1987 and 1992). The Chinese edition will be published by the World Publishing Company (Shijie Tushu Chuban Gongsi) this September.
Liu Heung Shing was born in Hong Kong in 1951 and graduated from Hunter College of the New York City University in 1975. He was a former foreign correspondent / photojournalist who had been dispatched to China, U.S., India, South Korea, and the former Soviet Union in a span of 20 years. From 1997 to 2000, Liu was the Director of Business Development for Time Warner Inc. in China. He worked for News Corporation (China) as the Executive Vice President from 2000 to 2006. In 1992, Liu shares the Pulitzer Prize and the Overseas Press Club Award for the coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He is currently the Editorial Director of Modern Media Group, which publishes eight magazines including Modern Weekly.
Please visit Three Shadows gallery’s exhibition page for more info on the exhibition.
Public Space as Side Effect: The End of Neo-Liberalism
3:00pm—5:00pm, August 30, 2009
The CROSSTALK Beijing # 5 echos the retrospective of Ying Liang. Film critics Chiao Hsiung Ping， Shu Kei, Cui Weiping and Du Qingchun joined the discussion with Ying Liang on art value of these film and how film directors with extremely low budget can survive today.
When: 15:00 – 17:00, May 21, 2009
Where: Beijing Angle Modern Art (4/F, Tower 1, Zhongguo Hongjie, Jia 2 Gongti Dong Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing)
Inquiry: (8610) 6561 0361, info [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Free admission. The talk will be in English with consecutive Chinese interpretation.
Shao Foundation is proud to announce CROSSTALK Beijing #4: Public Space as Side Effect: The End of Neo-Liberalism, a talk by Professor Scott Lash from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Disagreeing with Ma Qingyun’s famous dictum ‘There is No Public Space in China’, Lash will look at the terminal crisis of Neo-liberalism with the financial meltdown of 2008 – 09, striving for an understanding of Neo-liberalism in the context of ‘The Washington Consensus’ and financialisation — including especially the corporate bond markets and the triumph of the funds — hedge funds, venture capital, leveraged buyout and private equity. Neo-liberalism will be examined as the competition between monopolies and a certain legalisation of production, including sharply defined property rights. Lash will also elaborate on a possible ‘Beijing Consensus’ of blurred property rights, relationality in place of individualism, and of course a different financial regime. If classical liberalism features market transactions, Neo-liberalism features corporation as the site of transactions. Lash will look at how this creates externalities that is side effects or spillovers from the neo-liberal corporate space, which creates for itself not just environmental damage but also public goods and positive externalities. These externalities include the creation of a certain kind of public space itself — not the public space in the classic western sense, but something else. In his talk, Lash will discuss the implications of this new kind of space for urbanism, the arts and new media, including different possibilities for meta data, semantics and the social web.
Scott Lash is the Director of Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He’s the author (co-author) of The End of Organized Capitalism, Reflexive Modernization, Critique of Information, Another Modernity, A Different Rationality, Global Culture Industry, Sociology of Postmodernism and Economies of Signs and Space. Currently, Lash is working on a new book called Intensive Culture. He has been doing research on the ‘Risk Culture’ in China, and is a part of Rem Koolhaas’ OMA team for the West Kowloon Culture District bid in Hong Kong.
CROSSTALK Beijing is a new kind of conversation programme conceived and presented by Shao Foundation. We invite artists, scientists, thinkers, architects, designers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, futurists and software developers to a lecture or conference setting, confronting them with the live feedback from the audience — local and remote — through the use of new web technology known as ‘Micro-blogging’ (a la Twitter). The event is free.
Beijing, April 20, 2009 — Ou Ning, the Director of Shao Foundation, joins the jury of this year’s Benesse Prize at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Initiated by the Benesse Corporation in 1995, Benesse Prize is awarded to young artists who are opening new horizons outside the current paradigm with an experimental spirit. All the artists and works in the Biennale, including those in each pavilion and the special exhibitions, are open for consideration. The judging process is executed separately from the official judging, and a new jury group is organised for each Prize. Besides Ou Ning, this year’s jury consists of Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes, Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery), Tom Eccles (Executive director, Centre for Curatorial Studies), and Fram Kitagawa (General Director of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial).
Past recipients of the Benesse Prize include Cai Guo-Qiang, Alexandros Psychoulis, Olafur Eliasson, Janet Cardiff, Georges Bures Miller, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tacita Dean and Adel Abdessmed.
The Benesse Prize is a part of ‘NAOSHIMA: Art and Architecture Projects in the Seto Inland Sea’ to be presented by Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation this June at the Venice Biennale. The event consists of a symposium, exhibition, the annual awarding of the Benesse Prize, and an overview of the latest projects by Tadao Ando, Kazuyo Sejima, and Ryue Nishizawa in the Seto Inland Sea area.
The symposium this year will be conducted on June 3, with theme of ‘how to revitalise the Naoshima and the Seto Inland Sea region by creating a cultural sphere based on architecture and art’. Guest speakers include architects Tadao Ando, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, and Hiroshi Sambuichi, as well as Soichiro Fukutake — the Chairman and CEO of Benesse Corporation. Francesco Dal Co, one of Italy’s most prominent architectural historians, will be moderating the discussion.
The exhibition, which aims at a retrospective of the art projects in the Naoshima and the Seto Inland Sea area in the past twenty years, will run through June 7 to June 21. In addition to learning about art and architecture, visitors to the exhibition will have a chance to experience the area through the natural environment and local culture on the islands.
In the past editions, one of the features of the Benesse Prize was that the artist was chosen based on the understanding that he/she would be considered to create a commissioned work in Naoshima. Last time, the possible site for the commission was extended to Echigo-Tsumari. This year, it would be further extended to the seven islands in the Seto Inland Sea as part of the Setouchi International Art Festival, which will be launched in July 2010.
Click here to download the original press release by Benesse Corporation.
Public Space as Side Effect: The End of Neo-Liberalism
— a talk by Scott Lash
3:00pm—5:00pm, May 21, 2009
CROSSTALK Beijing #4 features Professor Scott Lash from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Taking issue with Ma Qingyun’s statement that there’s no public space in China, Lash examines the possibility of different kind of public space in China in the context of the financial crisis since late 2008, and the implications such a space will have on urbanism, arts and new media.