To everyone who has been wondering why my blog has not been updated in a month, well it has been quite a busy month for myself as well as most of my friends. We have been preparing for our class exhibition at an amazing gallery space down by the Bund.
For our group project we where lucky enough to contribute to the Zendai Museum's 366 days of art in Shanghai. Our proposal was to paint the character 'chai' which means to tear down. On many of the old buildings here in Shanghai this character is written. We did our project early Sunday morning, this was the sunrise from my room at 5:30, it was so quiet.
We spent about 3 1/2 hours painting the character repeatedly until the walls of a house were completely white.
For the opening we displayed our individual work, as well as the 366 work. This was Jon's piece titled "Clouds are Heavy" which he hung outside in the patio of the gallery.
Amanda staged a party, which was a cross between her takes on Chinese and American culture, focusing particularly on the differences in food.
This is Qian, the cutest roommate I have ever had, but don't be fooled she is a tough cookie. Helena and I did a collaborative video installation in which the two of us are eating peanuts and sunflower seeds. Our inspiration was from many of the locals who nibble on them as a past time. The video was looped, and the audience was encouraged to join in and eat seeds and throw them in front of the TV. It definitely ended up being one of my favorite pieces and the audience enjoyed it too.
Here is the class, my teacher said "Happy Picture Time" this is the result. By the way for many who do not know my teacher Jian Jun Zhang aka: we call him JJ, is a famous Chinese artist, I cant believe I have him as a teacher, and more importantly how much he cares for us and our art work!
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