Upcoming Events / 未来的
Shiyuan Liu / 刘诗园
Shiyuan Liu / 刘诗园
Upcoming Events / 未来的
The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial. @OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen China. From May 12 to August 3.Reception: May 12. / 第7届深圳雕塑双年展. OCT当代艺术中心. 5月12至8月31. 开幕5月12.
Visual Arts Galleryt, New Y ork. From June 8 to June 30. Reception: June 14. / 纽约视觉艺术学院摄影系研究生毕业展. 视觉画廊. 6月8至6月30.开幕6月14.
Harold Arts Artist Residency. Chicago. From July 9 to July 26. / Harold Arts艺术家驻地项目. 芝加哥. 7月9至7月26.
Passed Events / 过去的
Artist Talk / 艺术家讲座
March 7, 2012. Copenhagen University. Copenhagen, Denmark. / 2012年3月7日. 哥本哈根大学艺术史系. 丹麦.
An Interview with Contemporary Performance Network / 一个采访
Oct 21,2011. / 2011年10月21日. http://contemporaryperformance.com/2011/10/21/member-spotlight-shiyuan-liu-brooklyn-ny/
Shiyuan Liu is the director/creator of An_Ding_Men Performance Group. Her performative interest falls mainly in the field of meshing performance art with other mediums in order to challenge the definition of performance art. Currently focusing on transferring the minimal status of performance art’s essence through photography. Shiyuan Liu currently resides in New York and is finishing her MFA degree in photography at The School of Visual Art.
1. Can you tell us a little about your history and your performative concerns.
I was born in Beijing, China in 1985. And currently lives in New York. I learned ballet when I was at a young age, also practiced keyboard, photography and painting at the same time. My weekly schedule is filled with my many practices. It is hard to imagine a five-year old kid working in a dark room and doing leg-pressing everyday. Of course I hated it. But now, what I’m doing is mixing all the art mediums I learned before.
I always been interested in meshing two different art mediums together, or challenging their relations. Like merging performance, video and photography together. I don’t want to express anything by focusing one medium. But by seeing my work, I want to evoke in people their own imagination instead of me explaining it.
2. What projects are you working on now?
I’m currently creating a minimal status of the essence of performance art with still images. I have been trying to explore a way of making art in which the audience is satisfied by the emotion and the energy from it, not the concept. After I eliminated all the symbolic visual elements which convey the concept, I photograph only the poetic sentiment. In fact I believe, only the poetic sentiment is the real essential for an artwork.
For this current project, the audience should not view it with a common symbolic expectation because it’s not what I trying to convey. The discussion the photos instigate is about how the image itself works without the expression of a certain words or sentences.
I was born in Beijing, China in 1985. And currently lives in New York. I learned ballet when I was at a young age, also practiced keyboard, photography and painting at the same time. My weekly schedule is filled with my many practices. It is hard to imagine a five-year old kid working in a dark room and doing leg-pressing everyday. Of course I hated it. But now, what I’m doing is mixing all the art mediums I learned before.
I always been interested in meshing two different art mediums together, or challenging their relations. Like merging performance, video and photography together. I don’t want to express anything by focusing one medium. But by seeing my work, I want to evoke in people their own imagination instead of me explaining it.
3. Tell us a little bit about your members?
I organized An_Ding_Men Performance Group in 2010. We have six members besides me (director).
Kristian Mondrup Nielsen is an excellent drummer, composer, and sound designer from Denmark. He has his own band called Kalaoukei. Also plays jazz, perform music for theater art and films. His new record will be released soon.
Diandian Wang and Lisha Liu are experimental design team that graduated from China Central Academy of Drama University. They work collectively on stage design, performance and theater art.
Zenghui Li is a humorous guy with a promising career as an actor and musician.
Grant Li got his BFA of graphic design from Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, currently work in Italy. One of his passions is street dance and he’s one of the top dancers in China. The stillness of his artwork is a huge contrast with his hobby.
I was born in Beijing, China in 1985. And currently lives in New York. I learned ballet when I was at a young age, also practiced keyboard, photography and painting at the same time. My weekly schedule is filled with my many practices. It is hard to imagine a five-year old kid working in a dark room and doing leg-pressing everyday. Of course I hated it. But now, what I’m doing is mixing all the art mediums I learned before.
I always been interested in meshing two different art mediums together, or challenging their relations. Like merging performance, video and photography together. I don’t want to express anything by focusing one medium. But by seeing my work, I want to evoke in people their own imagination instead of me explaining it.
4. What was the last piece that you saw that you would recommend to the Network and why?
The last piece I saw was Robert Wilson’s The Threepenny Opera at BAM. It was the first time I seen his work, which is really different from seeing the still pictures. The pictures are more about aesthetic and always serious. However, the performance is narratively driven and had a good sense of humor.
I was born in Beijing, China in 1985. And currently lives in New York. I learned ballet when I was at a young age, also practiced keyboard, photography and painting at the same time. My weekly schedule is filled with my many practices. It is hard to imagine a five-year old kid working in a dark room and doing leg-pressing everyday. Of course I hated it. But now, what I’m doing is mixing all the art mediums I learned before.
I always been interested in meshing two different art mediums together, or challenging their relations. Like merging performance, video and photography together. I don’t want to express anything by focusing one medium. But by seeing my work, I want to evoke in people their own imagination instead of me explaining it.
Still Spotting, Guggenheim Foundation. / 古根海姆项目
( Single Channel Video )
2011, Guggenheim, NewYork.
http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/video-studies/shiyuan-liu/
Music by Kristian Mondrup Nielsen.
Secondhand Stabilization / 二手安定
《二手安定》/ Secondhand Stabilization
Director : Shiyuan Liu / 导演：刘诗园
Writer : Shiyuan liu, Diandian Wang / 编剧：刘诗园，王典典
Stage Designer : Diandian Wang, Lisha Liu, Shanshan He / 舞美：王典典，刘丽莎，何闪闪
Performer : Zenghui Li, Xiyuan Zhang / 演员：张曦月，李增辉
Music : Zenghui Li / 音乐：李增辉
Performance : 8pm，17～19 June, 2011 / 2011年6月17至19每晚8点
Address : No.205 Andingmennei Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing / 北京东城区安定门大街205号
Entry : 30¥ / 票价30¥
An Ding Men Performance Group / 安定门剧社出品
《二手安定》/ Secondhand Stabilization
Director : Shiyuan Liu
Writer : Shiyuan liu, Diandian Wang.
Stage Designer : Diandian Wang, Lisha Liu, Shanshan He.
Performer : Zenghui Li, Xiyuan Zhang
Music : Zenghui Li
Performance : 8pm，17～19 June, 2011.
Address : No.205 Andingmennei Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing.
Entry : 30RMB
Conducted by 安定门 / An_Ding_Men Performance Group
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