{"id":11996,"date":"2012-01-30T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2023-05-02T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:57:04","slug":"a-note-on-urban-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/a-note-on-urban-play\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note on \u201cUrban Play\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cUrban Play\u201d<\/strong>, group exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landgent Centre<\/strong> (No.20 East Middle 3rd Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing). Nov 17 \u2013 Dec 25, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Tang Zehui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not so often that a building like the romantically named Landgent Centre south of Beijing\u2019s CBD \u2014 or indeed any office building-slash-shopping mall-slash-plaza-slash-subway station of the ilk that are fast overrunning the city \u2014 becomes home to public art works. \u201cUrban Play,\u201d a site-specific art exhibition curated by Tang Zehui, was not a roller coaster of a public art show, but for a month this winter it inhabited and enlivened pockets of the place and set an unpretentious precedent for this mode. One hopes it might give rise to more, teasing art works out of their commercial encampments in the art districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lian Guodong, Lei Yan, Amy Grubb-Han and Liu Zheng, \u201cStage.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of the works on display, which included installation, performance, dance and sound, a few in particular stood out. Constructed in the pedestrian plaza outside the center were a series of three slender pinkish, flat-topped pyramids with an entrance. Inside \u2014 as is the case, it seems, with most installations one must go into \u2014 was pitch black. But, as one\u2019s eyes adjusted and unusually enthusiastic attendants handed you pieces of white A4 paper, all became clear, with a compelling simplicity. For this was a walk-in camera obscura by Australian architecture designer and specialist Andrew Toland; onto the paper from above swam images gleaned from an involuntary outside world \u2014 at the time of the opening awash with a rainy night, with car lights slipping by and figures coursing gently about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giancarlo Norese, \u201cEyewitness\u201d\u3002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Inside the building in the basement were small nickels of wit inserted into the walls by Giancarlo Norese. One of these was life-sized video of a single blinking, looking eye (his own) placed so as to be camouflaged amongst the green lentils of a large advertising image. This occupant was instantly surreal, but above all witty: humor is a powerful, universal force for communication (often neglected in art), and highly appropriate to public spots where  earnestness can dissolve in the currents of daily action. Though Norese\u2019s text introducing the work was somewhat involved, it did include mention of \u201cminimal and feather-like actions\u201d and \u201carchitectural errata\u201d \u2014 snippets of a light, poetic diction that was enticing in the context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Toland, \u201cBeijing Obscura\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unintended wit intruded happily into \u201dStage,\u201d a dance performance on and around the ground floor escalators to signal the opening of the show. Clad in work suits, dancers recognizable from Wang Jianwei\u2019s \u201cYellow Signal\u201d exhibition performances in UCCA\u2019s Main Hall last year wheeled and clambered over and along the moving escalators (a remarkably similar choreography). A few hapless shoppers and their children were caught at intermittent moments having not noticed this unusual action spilling over the moving stairs, and found themselves ungainly and blushing\u00a0\u2014\u00a0but best of all, unpredictable \u00a0\u2014\u00a0\u00a0participants in an instance of \u201dUrban Play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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