14 Oct 2009

Program e.V and Berlin China Cultural Bridges presents THERE IS NO I IN TEAM

Program e.V and Berlin China Cultural Bridges
is pleased to present THERE IS NO I IN TEAM

participating artists and speakers:
Meiya Lin (CN), Jin Shan (CN), Dead J (CN) + Chen Xiongwei (CN), Harndorf (DE), HomeShop (CN), Peng Lei (CN), Huang Rui (CN) & Berenice Angremy (FR), Christine Woditschka (DE), Lillevan, Annika Pinske (DE), Tina Pfurr (DE), Cheng Ran (CN), Sheng Jie (CN), Meng Jin(CN), Song Tao (CN), Gao Yu (CN), Sun Xun (CN), Wu Junyong (CN), Joyn:Viscom (CN), Tsui Kuang Yu (TW), Chen Xiaoyun (CN), Gao Shiqiang (CN), Zhang Ding (CN), Qiu Anxiong (CN)

As part of THERE IS NO I IN TEAM's international tour, this 3-day event happening at PROGRAM, Berlin, from 15th to 17th October 2009 brings together cutting-edge chinese video, live audiovisuals and performance art and creative communities from both China and Berlin.

The event is structured around the idea of making a live radio show focusing on rhizomatic networks stretching out from China to Berlin. The guests for THERE IS NO I IN TEAM belong to the same network of people who create their artistic projects on an individual basis but yet become public through a team of people who provide the necessary context.

On Friday 16th there will be an audiovisual performance of Dead J and Chen Xiongwei where the outer space dub electro mixed with cold and warm soundscapes of Dead J melt into the urban sketches drawn by CXW. Harndorf, known from the collective Torstrasse Intim, will perform on the evening of the 17th. The very neurotic and very German figure has promised to learn some English so she can share her crude views on life, art and postmodern food with us in her live lecture „[ai] [ai] [ai]'.

A radio program created around the existing project THERE IS NO I IN TEAM installs itself in an exhibition space where the video works of Meiya Lin and Jin Shan raise questions about the role of the individual, hierarchy, power, migration, public space, market strategies and capitalism. These questions set up a framework for the talks, interviews, skype-conversations and lectures of the radio program and will be broadened further into 3 series of Chinese short films, screened in the evening.

THERE IS NO I IN TEAM curatorial team: Pauline Doutreluingne, Keri Elmsly, Keith Whittle, Jiang Jian, Leo de Boisgisson, Anne Rottig, Beatrice Leanza

Thursday Oct 15
12:00 opening of video art exhibition with works from Meiya Lin (CN) and Jin Shan (CN)
4:00–6:00pm radio show: Individual and Groups in Beijing and Berlin after the eighties with Lillevan and Jin Shan
8:00pm screening: I would do anything for love (Chinese short films)
9:30pm b-movie: Peking Monster by Peng Lei (CN)

Friday Oct 16
4:00–6:00pm radio show: China's Creative topography and Getting Lost Together [Interviews with Moving Cities (BE + PT), Lin Yu (CN) and performance by Christine Woditschka (DE)]
8:00pm screening: Mythic moments (Chinese short films)
9:30pm live electronics + A/V performance: Dead J (CN) + Chen Xiongwei (CN)

Saturday Oct 17
4:00–6:00pm radio show: Creative actions! Case Studies [Berlin talks: Club Transmediale; Torstrasse Intim (DE). China talks: Li Zhenhua (CN) on Laboratory Art Beijing]
8:00pm screening: Public Viewings – Mnemonics of the Self and Social Space in the film works of 5 Chinese artists
9:30pm performance / anti-stand-up comedy / lecture: Harndorf (DE)

The exhibition will be open daily after 2pm. The radio show will be recorded at PROGRAM between 4-6pm and will be available as a podcast online.

Sponsored by ifa - Institut für Auslandbeziehungen e.V.