A Weekend in China:

This Autumn sees the establishment of a new and unique project in South East London. Formerly a storage facility for equipment and goods used for Crisis’s Christmas centres for homeless people, the Crisis Bermondsey Project now features over 60 studios for emerging artists- run by Bow Arts.

A Weekend in China’ has as its centrepiece a surround-sound work by the leading British experimental composer Andrew Leslie Hooker, based on a poem dedicated to the Chinese contemporary artist Xu Jiang, President of the China Academy in Hangzhou. The Chinese dissident poet Yang Lian, now often mentioned as a potential Nobel prizewinner, will read recent work, and there will be videos from innovative younger Chinese artists, generously lent by the HanArt Gallery in Hong Kong.

A weekend of live performance, poetry, video and photography
Featuring Andrew Leslie Hooker performing Until The Stars In Our Eyes Are Dead (A sound-work for anonymous voices and abandoned church bells)

For “A Weekend In China” Andrew Leslie Hooker takes Edward Lucie-Smith’s poem ‘’Sunflowers’’, written in English but now translated into Chinese, as a focal point. Hooker’s interpretation offers an immersive and hypnotic aural event, capturing the tragic undertones of the text.

Yang Lian - Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages.

Qiu Anxiong has shifted from painting on canvas to classical Chinese ink medium. His latest work is an animation featuring the beauty of brush paintings. The artist spent a whole year on finishing thousands of original paintings. Each painting is captured by digital camera and transferred into computer for making the animation.

Lou Haiming + Qui Shiming - The video is made with twenty thousand still photographs. Its narrative is formed out of countless broken memories, and reconstructs a separate, coherent time.
 
CONTACT:
Mick Bateman
Tel : 020 7426 3882
Email: mick.bateman@crisis.org.uk
 

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