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Saturday 19 October
4.30-5.30pm ｜ “China VPN: a Glimpse into Chinese Subcultures”
Moderators: Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, a duo of independent curators
Asian Eyez (aka Lhaga Koondhor), Co-founder of the all-female music collective Nüshu
Cheng Ran, artist and Founder of Martin Goya Business
6-6.30pm ｜ “China VPN #2: Conversation and screening of JOSS"
Moderators: Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, a duo of independent curators
Item Idem, artist
Cheng Ran, artist
Image courtesy Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou
Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou
Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou are a duo of curators based in Paris. They recently co-curated the Cruising Pavilion at the 16th Biennial of Architecture (Venice) and a series of exhibition devoted to the links between gay sex, art and architecture in New York (Ludlow 38).
Previously, they have presented conferences about Cruising subculture at FIAC 2018 and at the Pinault Collection (Venice); curated “Schengen Baroque Pasolini” at Converso in Milan in 2018, a group-show adapted from an unrealized project about the conversions of San Paolo by Pasolini; and undertook a research residency for the LUMA Arles Foundation in 2018 devoted to Southern Gothic (Terminal City) and how to apply chaotic fictions to the South of France.
They have also been editors of L’Officiel Art and are regular contributors of Flash Art, Spike, Mousse and Cura. They are currently working on the Suicide Club project inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson as well as the continuation of the Cruising Pavilion in Fire Island (USA) and Stockholm.
Image courtesy Asian Eyez
Asian Eyez (aka Lhaga Koondhor)
Lhaga Koondhor also known as Asian Eyez is a curator, creative consultant, and DJ. Currently, she is the co-founder of NVSHU 女术, an ongoing DJ workshop and event series focused on inclusive spaces for femme, femme-identifying, non-binary, and LGBTQI individuals between Shanghai and Zurich. Previous to NüShù, she was the Managing Director of the Longstreet Bar. In her position she has made the Longstreet Bar to one of the most subversive spots in the country creating a platform for subcultures.
Image courtesy Cheng Ran
Cheng Ran
Cheng Ran (winner of the inaugural Nomura Emerging Artist Award), founder of the Martin Goya Business, which is a new platform for artistic experimentations in Hang Zhou. Unlike a commercial gallery or an art museum, it intends to function as an alternative space - to fill the gap between a conventional gallery and a non-profit organisation. Martin Goya Business is committed to encouraging and supporting local young artists and their new approaches, experiments or researches.
>> Discover more about Martin Goya Business presented by Cheng Ran at ASIA NOW 2019
Image courtesy ITEM IDEM
ITEM IDEM
Based in Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan) for many years, the French multimedia artist ITEM IDEM (Cyril Duval) has constantly been dwelling on local resources of folklore, religions, and industrial aesthetics to create a multidimensional body of work: Through his projects like ITEM IDEM, or SHANZHAI BIENNIAL, his practice spans conceptual media, films, sculptures and incorporates the aesthetic of product design and the codes of visual communication.