Event History
about The First Yanjiao Biennial: A Dialogue in Winter Organizer: No Space Gallery Location: Yanjiao, Langfang, Hebei Province *NO SPACE is a Beijing and London based contemporary apartment gallery entity and online creative lab, founded in 2018 at the Royal College of Art, London, dedicated to curating, promoting and presenting young, critical artists without borders. "It's a story about this time, this city, in a particular season. A look back and forward about each of us." - Deng Ting, Chief Curator
What Makes this event different?
About Yanjiao Yanjiao, a small town in Hebei province, 30 km from the center of Beijing, is known for its "geographical proximity to Beijing" and its real estate, with 300,000 people commuting between Beijing and Yanjiao every day, hence the name "Sleeping City". It offers cheap, affordable studios for young artists, and in 2019 I just returned to China and rented a 3-story, 250 sq. ft. studio with an artist friend for 3000 RMB per month and settled into No Space, a contemporary art gallery and experimental space I founded with my classmates in London. It has been home to many students and alumni from the top art schools in the country and abroad, and it was a surprise to find out that it is already home to many of them. In 2016, the New York Times called it SoHo in the 1960s, Chelsea in the 1980s, and Brooklyn in the 1990s. With the soaring rents of 798 and the demolition of other art districts such as Caochangdi and Songzhuang, the opening of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Yanjiao campus and the Museum of Fine Arts, more and more artists have come to the town, and it has become a very interesting place to visit. By complete count, at least several hundred artists have set up studios here. As the epidemic and the year 2020 comes to an end, the first snow has arrived and a new round of winter has begun, it's time for Yanjiao to have its own biennial. - Deng Ting
Digital Virtual Technologies and the Private Sphere - Reports from Everyday Life Vol.02
* The first edition of the project (Digital Virtual Technologies and the Private Sphere - Reports from Everyday Life Vol.01) was realized with the support of A4 Museum of Art and participated in the yà A4 Lab 2020 project. According to the current plan, Digital Virtual Technologies and the Private Sphere - Reports from Everyday Life Vol.02 will take part in the Internet unit of the The First Yanjiao Biennial: A Dialogue in Winter.
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about the project:
There has never been a time when the impact of digitalization and virtualization has been as profound as it is now, when technologized and digital controls have been adopted in large numbers behind worldwide public health emergencies, when the scope of everyday life has been replaced by cyberspace, and when digital meetings have become the new everyday. The fact that these technologies often take over our lives before we fully understand the workings and risks behind them requires a brake-like act to make us rethink our relationship with technology.
Digital Virtual Technologies and the Private Sphere - Reports from Everyday Life is a practice in which participants engage in a critical process of daily digital life through their own digitization, virtualization, observation, analysis, and comparison of cases. This work will be implemented by each participant in the form of images, graphics, text, audio, etc. The project will be carried out at different scales. The project will explore the topic of digital virtualization from a private perspective on a variety of scales, and these "private reports" will constitute a collection of profiled images in the overall project, which is a combination of an open platform and a community of images.
Participants conducts a private "daily analysis practice of digitization and virtualization" of themselves and simultaneously records, based on a private starting point, in a manner of personal choice. I need to try to find a logical way to combine and further integrate the members' initial "private reports" into a collective image community.
Requirements for the open call:
Participants are expected to have control over their own "report," i.e., to be an independent creator, with the following requirements:
Participants propose specific objects or things to analyze for the range of digital and virtual topics, such as digital conferencing, how social networks affect everyday life, how online shopping affects your life, etc. The choice of objects can be a very concrete thing or an abstract concept. The choice of object can be a very concrete thing or an abstract concept.
The choice to intervene in the analysis of the object is free, for example it can be a performance, photography, sound, digital images, video, text, etc. It can be a newly produced experimental experiment. It can be a newly produced experimental work, an unfinished piece, an existing work, in short, a "report" from an individual without strict boundaries.
Call for entries:
December 1 - December 23
Documents to be submitted:
1. files (digitized) of the work
2. a description of the work.
3. personal Bio, Stamement and CV
4. portfolio (if any)
Send to:
digital-virtual-report@outlook.com
with the subject - "Opencall Vol. 02"
Selected candidates will be notified by email at the end of December.
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