28 May 10

All the older subway stations have their own light design. Since Caochangdi is pretty far from everything in BJ you start noticing these things along the way to the city center.

27 May 10

May 29th 2010, 8.00 pm

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
No. 155 Caochangdi, Beijing, China
Tel: + 86 10 6432 2663
www.threeshadows.cn

Nadine Stijns
Photo Screening + Presentation of Works in Progress

Dutch artist Nadine Stijns will show the body of work she has made during her three month residency at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.

While in China, Stijns became fascinated with the way the natural and the artificial mix in Chinese society from the standpoint of a Western eye. She photographed the newly created and Western inspired idyllic surroundings of luxury apartment blocks in Chaoyang District, the striking duality of twins in a country that still enforces the One Child Policy, and the eerie consumerism of covered stalls in Wangjing’s mega-shopping malls after closing time. In each of these series, she examines the blurred demarcation line between the public and the private as well as the addition of some Western ideals that appear to have become prevalent in the construction of Chinese society.

Nadine’s work focuses on the small ordinary moments and objects that are part of daily life.

Music:
DJ BB & DJ Otra*
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娜丁. 丝糖慈
摄影作品放映+正在制作的作品展示

荷兰艺术家娜丁. 丝糖慈将展示她在三影堂摄影艺术中心居住的三个月期间创作的作品。

在中国期间，娜丁. 丝糖慈对于从西方人的角度看来中国社会中自然与人工的混杂产生了浓厚兴趣。她拍摄了朝阳区豪华公寓楼周围新建成的西方风格田园景观，在一个仍然强制执行独生子女政策的国家里双胞胎们明显的二元性，望京大型商场关门后遮盖住的摊位体现出的可怕的消费主义。在每一个系列中，她都审视了公共与私密之间模糊的分解线，也审视了某些在中国社会的建设中显然越发盛行的西方理念。

娜丁的作品着眼于构成了日常生活的那些微不足道的平常瞬间和对象。

音乐：
DJ BB & DJ Otra*

The invitations for my presentation this Saturday at Three Shadows and my last night behind the decks with the ‘Chicks on decks’ crew at Lantern tonight.

21 May 10

Lately I’ve been working a lot without translator. I seem to manage quit good on my own. The poor Chinese I speak somehow gets me a long way. While shooting the restaurant twins again I had to wait a while so I started taking pics of the very nice employees.

This morning I went to make A2 posters. The bleed was cause for a lot of ‘Ting Bu Tongs’ (I don’t understand what you say) from both sides. So we resorted to drawing down a lot of numbers. Monday they’re ready, it’s only than I finally know if they got me the right paper and size!

20 May 10

Tomorrow there will be a wedding party at Three Shadows.
When coming home at night I had this vision of a disco picture. For once I allowed myself to zoom during exposure, hate those slick tricks, but does work in this case.

18 May 10

I wanted to visit the 2nd Tongren building because it used to be a hotel and I was curious in how they changed it into a hospital. We thought it would be better if we pretended to visit a patient so we decided to buy some flowers (real ones they also had those).
I actually was able to take some pictures in the hospital without getting kicked out for a change!