ikret Atay
Johanna Billing
Candice Breitz
Mircea Cantor
Calin Dan
Claire Fontaine
Gao Shiqiang
Clarisse Hahn
Teresa Hubbard
Alexander Birchler
Jesper Just
Mathieu Laurette
Melik Ohanian
Ou Ning
Cao Fei
Shi Qing
Ulla Von Brandemburg
Wu Wenguang
Zhang Peili
Yang Fudong
Jiang Zhi
Song Tao
Liang Yue
Sheng Jie
Meng Jin
Fang Er
Zhao Liang
Mira Sanders
Saskia Holmkvist
Tsui Kuang-Yu
Damien Roach
Lin Chuan-chu
Oliver Lyons
Beatrice Leanza
Pauline Doutreluingne
A wide range of activities
Initiated by: BAO Atelier and Platform China Contemporary Art Institute.
Art Directors: Beatrice Leanza and Pauline Doutreluingne
Borderline is a Beijing-based urban palimpsest evolving over a 12 months period into a 9-days main event held annually at the end of June.
It is developed trough a wide range of activities centred on the identity of the moving image, and predicated on the hybrid nature of the contemporary cultural one.
This venture looks at promoting itself as a continuous experience extended throughout by means of customized events, special projects, on-going workshops and educational programmes in collaboration with different local and international institutions and educational structures: as a urban laboratory it promotes an intellectual nomadism delivering always renewed forms of communication and production.
Concretely we envision this endeavour as an experience-making machine which will progress in a series of actions/events (locally and internationally) representing participation and narration, while culminating in a constructed sequence of projects unfolding throughout different spaces and locations around the city.
A scenario of liquid disciplines, Borderline will be drawn as a long cord over-imposing the city, a narrative achieved by sets of exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, concerts, public screenings that will guide people into a sited reading of the city, an urban story-telling in the form of a modular mobile lab.
Bridging perspectives from installation, short film, documentary, animation, performance and music, sound art, new graphics, architecture and design, Borderline will be forged as a cadenced experience from point to point, like a dilated vision appropriating the city, a temporary firmament which instead of blowing the city up will progressively reveal one of its possible universes onto its flowing fabric.
Program:
Day 1| Grand Opening: “Just Like the Movies” accompanied by live Piano Performance, by
Michal Kosakowski, Music and Piano Performance: Paolo Marzocchi
Day 1| Exhibition “Seduction – A Theory-Fiction between the Real and the Possible”
Venue: Soho Shangdu, West Tower - Floor B2
Curated by: Beatrice Leanza, BAO Atelier (Beijing, HK)
Space design: Li Naihan, BAO Atelier (Beijing, HK)
Artists: Fikret Atay, Johanna Billing, Candice Breitz, Mircea Cantor, Călin Dan, Claire Fontaine, Gao Shiqiang, Clarisse Hahn, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Jesper Just, Mathieu Laurette, Melik Ohanian, Ou Ning & Cao Fei, Shi Qing, Ulla Von Brandemburg, Wu Wenguang, Zhang Peili.
Day 2| Exhibition: “We Cannot Stop, to Stop is To Fail!”
Venue: Platform China
Artists: Yang Fudong, Jiang Zhi, Song Tao, Liang Yue, Sheng Jie, Meng Jin and Fang Er, Zhao Liang, Mira Sanders, Saskia Holmkvist, Tsui Kuang-Yu,Damien Roach, Lin Chuan-chu and Oliver Lyons.
Concept and Curatorship: Pauline Doutreluingne
Exhibition design: Shuhei Aoyama and Sugita So
Day 3-4-5-6-7-8 | 6 – DAYS Mobile Lab: Performance , Workshops, Screenings. (Check website for detailed information).
Venues: Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Drive-In Movie Theatre, Dashanzi Art District
Day 7-8| Night Events: digital sounds, pure electronic music, low fi electro rock, local iconic bands and a kaleidoscope of vjs, the two nights feature 15 acts that show the diversity of techniques and expression forms contained under the digital culture label.
(Check website for detailed information).
Day 9| Closure: ‘Bloody Sunday’ presents - The Mini Movie Movement ( AGF.3 and SUE C.), SCANNER live (UK), QUIO live (GER).
Venue: Platform China, outside yard.
Grand Opening: June 23, 7:30 PM – Soho Shangdu (Beijing)
Venues: Soho Shangdu, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Drive-In Movie Theatre, Dashanzi Art District.