Night School Public Seminar 6: Zhang Wei and Hu Fang
Night School Public Seminar 6: Zhang Wei and Hu Fang
Free with Museum admission*
Thursday, June 19, 7:30 pm: Space within space within space
Friday, June 20, 7:30 pm: Things to do while you’re alive
Saturday, June 21, 3 pm: Keywords School
Hu Fang is the artistic director and co-founder of Vitamin Creative Space, a project and gallery space dedicated to contemporary art exchange and to analyzing and combining different forms of contemporary cultures. As a novelist and writer, Hu has published a series of novels including Shopping Utopia, Sense Training: Theory and Practise, and A Spectator. His recent publication is a collection of fictional essays called New Arcades (Survival Club, Sensation Fair, and Shansui.) His writing has appeared in Chinese and international art/culture magazines since 1996. His curatorial projects include “Through Popular Expression” (2006); “Xu Tan: Loose” (1996); “Zheng Guogu: My Home is Your Museum” (2005); and “Object System: Doing Nothing” (2004). He has been a coordinating editor of documenta 12 magazines since 2006. Hu graduated from the Chinese Literature Department of Wuhan University in 1992. He lives and works in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Zhang Wei is director and co-founder of Vitamin Creative Space, established in 2002. She graduated with a MA in Creative Curating at Goldsmiths University in London, and has organized numerous exhibitions internationally. Zhang is particularly interested in the exploration of an alternative space for contemporary art in the context of mainland China. She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and international magazines including Parkett. Vitamin Creative Space’s most recent projects include: “Playing at Home/Playing Away: the Maze of Reality” at the Venice Biennial (2003); “Small Universe” at the Liste Art Fair, Basel (2006); and “Through Popular Expression” at the Singapore Biennial (2006).
Night School is an artist’s project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A yearlong program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. This month’s seminar is conceived by Zhang Wei and Hu Fang, co-founders of Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China.
*This event is free with Museum admission but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online or at the Museum prior to the seminar’s start; a limited number of tickets will be available the day of the event.