CHINAME is at Tuggeranong Arts Centre from 1st to 9th November 2019. Photo: Supplied.
CHINAME by XIAO KE × ZI HAN
Research Residency: Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 1-9 November 2019.
Lecture Performance : 5pm, Sunday 3rd November 2019 in the The Hunting Lodge at Tuggeranong Arts Centre
About CHINAME
The Shanghai-based artist duo XIAO KE × ZI HAN attempt to create a temporary contact zone for ‘Chinese’ identity by researching different regions and presenting on-location documentary portraits of common people. “Our name is given, yet we try to explain who we are.”
How is Chineseness defined? Its significance shifts upon its context, and its impact on contemporary geopolitics is felt on an everyday level. How does the young generation in China perceive Chineseness? What about the diasporic Chinese outside of China? In this entangled web of perceptions, the artists broach the question: ‘What is Chinese—is it an imagined community or is it real?’
The CHINAME free lecture performance is on the 3 November from 5 pm at Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Photo: Supplied.
Lecture Performance
To introduce CHINAME to Canberra and provide audiences with background on the project so far, XIAO KE × ZI HAN will present a free lecture performance at Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Join them to find out more about the project and how you can be involved.
Details
What: Lecture performance
Where: The Hunting Lodge at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 137 Reed Street, Greenway, ACT 2900
Dates: Sunday 3rd November 2019
Time: 5 pm
Cost: Free
Tickets: Book here.
Shanghai-based artists, XIAO KE × ZI HAN are the creators of CHINAME. Photo: Supplied.
One-on-One Meetings
During their residency, XIAO KE × ZI HAN will be conducting one-on-one interviews with Chinese and Chinese-Australian people living in Canberra. If you are interested in being part of the project, you can book an interview and portrait session below.
Details
What: One-on-one interviews and portrait session
Where: Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 137 Reed Street, Greenway, ACT 2900
Dates: 4 – 8 November 2019
Time: Hourly sessions from 10 am to 2 pm
Cost: Free
Tickets: Book here.
For more information, please contact creative producer Aidan Delaney at Aidan.delaney@tuggeranongarts.com or on 02 6293 1443
CHINAME is a three-year research project that will convey them throughout Asia and beyond and will generate various artistic outcomes during the process. Photo: Supplied.
About XIAO KE × ZI HAN
After twelve years of dance training and education, Xiao Ke started her own artistic practice while she was studying at Fudan University of Shanghai. She graduated in journalism in 2000 and has been a professional performer and choreographer since then. She has expanded her practice into visual arts and other art forms since 2002, setting up different collectives to pursue her artistic ventures. Zi Han’s professional background lies in photography and audiovisual production, but has since broadened up his artistic horizon to include endeavours in visual and performance arts.
Together, XIAO KE × ZI HAN have produced and directed five stage projects through a strong interdisciplinary process, and have been performing internationally quite regularly since. Their work is resolutely conceptual and often features a clear social—sometimes documentary— dimension, often involving local artists in their projects, and/or taking the projects to the public space. In 2018, they embarked on CHINAME, a three-year research project that will convey them throughout Asia and beyond and will generate various artistic outcomes during the process.
Besides their own artistic practice, XIAO KE × ZI HAN deploy an important ‘artivist’ activity to support the independent performing arts community in China. They have been organising various festivals and artistic events, and have also founded the iPanda network to bring artists together and bridge them to potential partners abroad.
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