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Archive for May, 2007
highly recommend this programme about China on channel5 monday night 9pm…..well, unfotunately there is another program called ‘Brits Get Rich in China’ on Channel 4….well, I will record that one.
I watched the first episode on last Monday, the most interesting things is this crazy farmer who is obsessed about making robots. It is really amusing and amazing, he can managed to make lots of variation robots. Just watch the youtube if you have missed it. I am sure my tutor Natasha will love it. We were robot maker for a year while I studied in Inter 3 between 2002-03 at AA School.
Apparently, you can see all his documentary on Youtube. For those people don’t have TV or miss the program.
While researching on the video, I found this weird website…..well, sure it will happen eventually. Shanghailist
Finally, I have set up a website blog http://www.translationarchitecture.org instead of Anglo-Chinese Conceptual Translation in Architecture created by Li Hua and Doreen Bernath….Having its own website blog will enhance its functions and for open public discussion. This idea could become a wikipedia.org for architecture translation. Users generated content……well, unfortunately, I am not web design expert …just hoping this open platform blog can intrigue the flame!….
Website is still on working progress. More information about this organisation, please see the website.
Bloody Rem, come back again for getting more projects……what are you foreseeing again? ……China’s Long March?!
WHCHEN have made a sketch based on the photo of Rem Koolhass . This time it was a bit of short notice from AA School, I heard they only decided last week…..so unfortunately, I couldn’t get the ticket on time. Well, you always can see his intelligent big ear anyway in the giant screen! I am sure all my friends will turn up, see you all tonight at AA 6:30pm………..
Jeff Innocent, Eco Worrier
Before the launch of this year’s Environmental Tectonics competition the Environments, Ecology & Sustainability Cluster invites you to join us for a more jovial look at the environment of the world today. In an event aimed at ‘bringing back the elephants’ we invite you to come have a laugh, a drink and a repositioning in relation to the world around you. We invite you to join us in welcoming Jeff Innocent to the Architectural Association’s line up.
“East Ender Jeff Innocent is that dangerous breed; a big man with a brain. This unique contrast is the product of a colourful life growing up in London‘s East End as the son of a real-life villain, which has seen him combine working as a bouncer while also boasting an academic background. Such experiences form the cornerstone of his act and his talent has seen him land numerous roles on film and TV, including appearing alongside fellow hard-man turned thespian Vinny Jones in Mean Machine. Time Gentlemen and It Was An Accident as well as working with the likes of Later With Jools Holland and Phil Jupitus. His recent show ‘Eco Worrier’ is the story of one man’s struggle to do the right thing. It is a voyage of discovery into the ethical world of animal rights, fair trade consumerism, charity and our response to environmental disasters. It charts the unlikely journey of hard-as-nails and funny-as-hell comedian as he attempts to ‘make a difference’ … and the ethical dilemmas he faces along the way.”
MAY 17th
6:30 Lecture Hall A digital display of featured work from the Environmental Tectonics 2006 international competition will be on display.
6:30 South Jury Open bar providing wine, beer and bar snacks.
7:30 Lecture Hall Jeff Innocent performs live in a one man, one hour show. Once the show begins the doors are sealed and drinks will be provided by table service.
8:30 North Jury Environmental Tectonics v2.0 : A Call for Projects Competition. Launch of EES website, poster and competition brief.
Environmental Tectonics v2.0 : A Call for Projects Competition
Competition website has been launched. You can see last year entries here http://aaees.net/
The Architectural Association and the Environments, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster are again sponsoring an open one-stage international competition in search of innovative ideas, design projects, new techniques and research initiatives that highlight incites into contemporary directions of architecture and design relative to environments, ecology and sustainability.
The goal of the second annual competition is to again reveal and promote the potency of new work, be it conceptual, experimental or realized. The organizers view this as a unique opportunity to exhibit and publish relevant and important new projects as well as to help visualize and comprehend current strands of investigation within this realm. Akin to a call for papers, Environmental Iterations v2.0 is an open call for projects/ideas competition.
The competition winner is to be announced in November 2007 during the opening of the competition exhibition that will be hosted at the Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London. The exhibition, competition results, idea/project organizational visualizations, introductory articles and excerpts from the forum will be published in 2007 in a double volume publication including work from the 2006 competition.
Just too hilarious, Iaughed from the beginning;)
John Maeda’s exhibition at Riflemaker. report will be coming;)…more detail please see http://www.riflemaker.org/
I went to his lecture in Design Museum…..it was the kind of lecture I expect…haven’t got time to write down soemthing yet…will do soon….it was great lecture…..more about the exhibition and lecture report will be up soon…..
He has his own weblog at MIT
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/
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Curator Ou Ning has published draft information data diagrams about GIL07 on his blog, here are some selected from his blog. For Original post, Please go to see his blog for more information. (Note: his blog is in Chinese) ………….click 用世界语介绍大声展 ; All diagrams and information below will be published on Chinese version of Italian magazine domus in June.
Below diagram is about time, location,media sponsors and curators etc.
Well, it was a bit of late inform as I received Li Hua and Doreen Bernath’s e-mail on Thursday night….here you go, if you are interested on this discussion, come to AA School.
Message from Doreen and Li Hua
Dear all,
How are you doing? Hope everything is going very well with you.
For some reasons, our translation workshop suspended for a while. Now we want to ‘restart’ it. The meeting will take place at 2:00pm, Saturday, 12th May (this Saturday). Let us meet at the AA Bar first and will move to a classroom then. The first session will be about ‘representation’, which we use everyday as a concept and as a professional tool. We will give a brief presentation first, which will map out its transformation from Renaissence time up to now. Through a discussion, we hope that we can further explore it in the western architectural context as well as in the Chinese context. We hope this can help all of us to have a better understanding of architectural issues here.
If you find someone’s name missing here or if you know someone will be interested in this issue, please forward this email to him/her. If you have any question, please do feel free to contact us.
Best wishes,
Doreen and Li Hua
for more details, please check
http://translation-architecture.spaces.live.com/
It has been incredibly busy for the past two months. I have so many good news to announce. I haven’t gotten much time to write blog. Here, first big news. I will fly to Guangzhou on 16th June and stay there until 25th June for Get It Louder Exhibition 2007. Hopefully, I can see all my friends again. You are all welcome for the opening when it will be exhibited in ’Grandview Mall’ 天河正佳广场 on Saturday 23rd June. (It will be very unique in the contemporary arts history that such a big exhibition will be held in shopping mall rather than museums and galleries. I think it is a very creative way thinking of aiming to attract more public attention. It is also suitable for the context of modern China. In the west, especially in London museums and galleries are almost butter and breads for everybody’s daily life. However, historically in China 集市bazaar is always a part of most important social life. Nowadays, shopping mall becomes a significant place for urban life. People will prefer shopping rather than going to museums/galleries.) We will see whether it will be successful or not in the coming months.
William Hailiang Chen (AA Dipl 2006) has collaborated with sculptor Chong Boon Pok who is a Phd student at the London Metropolitan University on a project called ‘As Much As You Like’ for Get It Louder exhibition 2007 in China. ‘As Much As You Like’ is a site specific installation which encourages audience to create sculptural objects by disposable chopsticks. Installation is hoping to provoke a debate about the way disposable chopsticks have been used and developed. Get It Louder07 – (a visual noise made by young talented designers and artists around the globe) is a biennial exhibition on contemporary arts and design in China. GIL07 will travel 4 major cities:
For latest news and more information about GIL2007 exhibition, please see http://www.getitlouder.com. About 1st year of Get It Louder in 2005, please click ‘Get It Louder 2005′ .Curator Ou Ning has published draft information: data diagrams about GIL07, please see post GIL07 in Domus (Chinese edition)
Get It Louder 2007 _Installation work (description of work)
William Hailiang Chen & Chong Boon Pok
This is a collaborate project between William Hailiang Chen and Chong Boon Pok. Chen from China is an architectural graduate from the Architectural Association School of Architecture and practice in London; and Pok from Malaysia is currently a fine art practice based research student at the London Metropolitan University. Chen working in architectural industry is interested in environmental sustainability issues in relate to transformation of object and materiality. Pok’s is an artist who is interested in the idea of attentiveness to the everyday; his work as a whole explores the as-it-is ness of things as well as the interconnectedness between objects and people.
The concept is developed from Pok’s Assemblage of Used Disposable Chopsticks, 2000. About the Chinese Title ‘韧用‘: Chinese character’ 韧’ has two meanings: 1. because its pronunciation is same as ‘任‘, it has meaning of using whatever you like；2. In Chinese context,’ 韧’ also means it could be used as many times as possible. Combining the meanings of them, it brings out the Chinese words ‘韧用’; While in English, ‘As Much As You Like’ refers to eating. It makes connection to a buffet style serves in some of the restaurants in the UK where diners pay a fixed price to “eat as much as you like”.
It is said that Chopstick was invented in the Shang Dynasty of China; and now has been developed into disposable chopstick in our modern world for convenient and hygienic reasons. In China alone, an estimated 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are used and thrown away annually. This adds up to 1.7 million cubic metres of timber or 25 million fully grown trees every year.
Disposable chopsticks have very short life span. We threw them away almost immediately after we finished our meal. This project combines both Chen and Pok’s interests, where they observe the relationship of this object with us within this temporal environmental and time frame, searching ways to make connection and expand the life span of the chopstick and its paper pocket accompanied. Trapped between controllable and uncontrollable, applicable and non-applicable, they are trying to allow dialogs to expand among the chosen materials and the viewers. Their idea transformed the disposable chopsticks into various physical forms through the hands of the people who consumed them. Arguably, the resulted work may be seen as a cross between architectural form and sculptural form.
大声展装置展览说明
韧用
‘韧用‘是建筑师陈海亮和艺术家傅宗文一起合作为07大声展特制的现场装置参展项目。来自中国大陆的陈海亮毕业于英国伦敦建筑联盟学校现在伦敦工作；马来西亚华裔傅宗文目前正在伦敦城市大学攻读艺术博士学位。陈海亮对物质材料在可持续发展及使用中与其带来文化形式上的转变感兴趣。傅宗文的作品主题则对日常生活给于专注，长久以来作品贯用日常的物与事。作品探索物体本身持有的原本性以及物与人之间的相关联性；促使理解物与物，人与物之间共享的天地。
概念来源和延伸发展于傅宗文2000年的一次性筷子雕塑。有关作品的中文标题‘韧用’:’ 韧’，有两层的含义: 1. 跟’任’同音, 有任意，随便使用；2. ’ 韧’ 其本身有耐用，反复多次使用的含义。以此，合并成‘韧用’ 。英文标题‘As Much As You Like’跟英国的中餐馆饮食有关；许多自助餐提供一定额的价钱但各户可以‘任意吃’。
据说筷子发明于商朝；现代由于方便及洁净的原因发展出 一次性筷子‘。在中国，每年大约使用及废弃四百五十亿双一次性筷子。这相当于每年砍掉一百七十万立方米的树材，或两千五百万成年的大树。
‘一次性筷子’ 拥有非常短的寿命，我们用餐后便会立即丢弃它。我们的参展项目检验在这短暂的时空中物体与我们生活之间的关系，寻找延长筷子与纸套的使用寿命。我们将它转换成雕塑的形式同时通过观众的参与制作使其成有意之物。限制在可控制与不可控制，可适用与不可适用之间，我们试图扩展使用者与被使用物体之间的对话关系。作者试图通过筷子使用者的参与将它转换成多样的雕塑形式，有争议地最终的作品形式也许将会被视为介于建筑与雕塑两者间。
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