A performance, exhibition and auction of contemporary art
Open: July 16, 2022
Performance: July 16 at 7:30 P.M.
(Bill Aitchison, Michelle Lewis-King, Mimi Shi Co.,Ltd)
Duration: July 16 till 23, 2022
Auction: July 23 at 7:30 P.M.
Artists:
Bill Aitchison, 陈溢 Yi Chen, Jaime Ekkens, 金晶 Jin Jing, 刘圆圆 Liu Yuanyuan, Michelle Lewis-King, 咪咪史有限公司 Mimi Shi Co.,Ltd, 潘菲菲 Pan Feifei
Curator
Bill Aitchison
Chinese European Art Center (CEAC)
Bill Aitchison is a British theatre director and performance artist based in China. He has presented his shows widely in galleries, museums, theatres and festivals in Europe, Asia, America, Australia and The Middle East, has exhibited in major museums and galleries and his artwork is held in both private collections and museums. He is curator of the Chinese performance platform Last Minute Live Art, holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths College University of London, and is an associate professor at Xiamen University.
Yi Chen currently lives in Xiamen, China. He received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2019. Chen walks around between digital and analog in photography. His photographs have always been about the perception of reality versus reality by creating their own sense of place, yet they are often manipulated digitally or shot in studio environments—thus evoking a sense of alienation through both form and content.
Jaime Ekkens has worked for some of the biggest names in television and media in New York including Yahoo!, Hearst, CBS News, Nickelodeon, ABC News and NBC Sports. Having received a BFA from Kendall Collage of Art and Design in 2007, she moved to New York City and successfully pursued her MFA in Computer Arts at The School of Visual Arts. Her independent short films have been
screened in international film festivals all over the globe and won numerous awards
both in New York, Los Angeles, and abroad.
Jin Jing, born in Huangshi, graduated from Xiamen University and Sandberg Instituut，now works
and lives in Xiamen, China. The main issues of her work are about individual life and living
conditions in the urban space, as well as our own situation in the “world”, and present the
experience of being double marginalized in the natural landscape and urban jungle from the
perspective of non-human center.
Liu Yuanyuan’s artistic practice stems from the dual pursuits of cognizing the true self and
exploring the freedom, and during this process, she has been building a self-consistent creation
system——the “Bottle”, which is an analytical methodology, contains concepts such as transitional
abstraction, deconstruction-construction-reconstruction, geometric structure, and shadow zone.
Meaningless is the core concept of the Bottle, which means space, interspace, and nothing. At
the same time, she created the Bottle Language, which is the imagined community in the sense
of the Bottle. The Bottle Language is like the minimal sequence, and the artist composes music
with spiritual feelings through the way of cyclic repetition and trans shape sequences. For her,
art creation is a pursuit of a sense of existence. She aims to construct a meaningless poetic world,
because she believes that the free-land only can be reached without meanings.
Michelle Lewis-King’s projects explore cosmological approaches to the embodied performance of
medicine and technology in a globalised world. Drawing on her experience as an artist and
acupuncturist, Michelle restages the Chinese medicine encounter to provoke reconsideration of
what the body ‘is’ and can do- and to illuminate how traditional East Asian medicine practices
combine poetic and scientific thinking together to diversify perspectives on the body, medicine,
wellbeing and healing.
Mimi Shi is an image supply chain service provider. The company builds a metaverse ecology around
its own worldview and ideology, using narrative images as the terminal form of strategic communication
to produce stylized and packaged concepts. Mimi Shi is committed to developing a sustainable meme
product line.
