Realized for and with Universität der Künste (UdK Berlin) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin with events in both locations.
Project - initiators and project - team: Andreas Schmid, artist, curator and
Bignia Wehrli, artist, Berlin
Graphic: Wu Yimeng, photographer: Liao Wenfeng
as well as many translators
2013/ 01/ 16, Political and Poetic – about the Tension between Contemporary Art and Society in China, Opening event with opening words of Professor Martin Rennert, President UdK Berlin; Discussion with Qiu Zhijie, artist, art critic and curator, Beijing; Davide Quadrio, curator and networker, Arthub Asia, Shanghai; Tilman Spengler, sinologist and author, Starnberg/Berlin; moderation: Project-team Andreas Schmid and Bignia Wehrli, Berlin; location: Jazz-Institute, UdK Berlin; Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 01/ 30, The Movement '85 and the modern Consciousness, Talk with Martina Koeppel-Yang, art historian and curator, Paris and Andreas Schmid, artist and curator, Berlin; moderation: Bignia Wehrli, artist, Berlin; location: UdK Berlin; Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 02/ 13, Speed and Upheaval in the People‘s Republic of China-The Art of the 90‘s, Talk with Marianne Brouwer, art historian, curator and author, Den Haag and Karen Smith, curator/directrice of the OCT-Xian, Beijing/Xian, Moderation: Project-team Andreas Schmid and Bignia Wehrli, artists, Berlin, Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 04/ 17, Public Sphere in China- Strategies of Involvement, Talk with Zheng Guogu, artist, Guangzhou; Xu Tan, artist, Guangzhou; Uwe Fleckner, professor for art history, Hamburg University and director of the Warburg-House, Hamburg; Moderation: Biljana Ciric, art historian and curator, Shanghai; Location: UdK Berlin; Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 05/ 15, Ink and Performance - the Expressive Power of the Line in Chinese Calligraphy, talk with Lu Dadong, artist, musician and professor for calligraphy, Hangzhou, Location: UdK Berlin; Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 06/ 19, Future under Construction - Social media and Media Art in China, Discussion with Zhang Peili, artist and professor for video art, Hangzhou; Hito Steyerl, media-artist and professor for media art, UdK Berlin; Isaac (Xianghui) Mao, blogger and software developer, Shanghai; Moderation: Li Zhenhua, curator and artist, Berlin/Zurich; Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 10/ 15, Yong Ping - Ping Pong- The Art of Huang Yongping, Talk with Huang Yongping, artist, Paris; Moderation: Hou Hanru, curator, critic, publicist, since Nov. 2013 director of MAXXI, Rome, San Franzisko/Paris, Location: UdK Berlin, Photo: Bat Project II, 2002, installation at the Guangzhou Triennale, Courtesy HYP
2013/ 11/ 13, Performance as a Form of Reflection, Talk with Su Wei, curator, art critic, publicist, Beijing/HK, Location: UdK Berlin; Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin
2013/ 12/ 04, Wandering Bodies- Body as Social Utterance & The New Ödipus: Theater, Desire and crisis of the Political, Evening of Talks with Zhao Chuan, theater director, Shanghai and Boyan Manchev, philosopher and guest professor, Sofia/ UdK Berlin; Moderation: Bignia Wehrli, artist, Berlin; Location: Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT), Photo: Liao Wenfeng, Berlin