2010/05/22
Erhai Floatings Sounds
Spatialized live electronic for 20 boats on Dali's lake
Julien CLAUSS - Laurent JEANNEAU
Festival Croisements, support by Beijing's CCCL (Centre de coopération culturel et linguistique de Beijing)

address : Shacun Port in Xizhou, Dali - 20 km north part of Dali old town
entrance fee: 60 rmb by person including boat rental

Erhai Floatings sounds is a sound performance for large outdoor spaces. An ambient electronic music is spatialized and composes a sound extent. It acts to build a space which is renewed continuously and which resounds with the environment.
It is intended to bring people on small boats on Erhai lake to listen to music performed by 2 French electronic composers. The electronic sounds are produced on one of these small fishing boats, connected by wires under water to 4 small boats, each of the 4 boats carrying a speaker. The remaining boats are being used by the public, and can navigate freely on the lake in order to capture the moving sounds broadcasted on the 4 different speakers, giving the listeners the opportunity to listen to music differently in a very beautiful environment.

Julien CLAUSS : French artist, he studied music, acoustics, fluid mechanics and material sciences.
He made sculptural sound works and has developed installations and performances. He physically seeks to engage the listener in the process of listening and uses sound as a means of establishing a relationship between the physical body and its environment.
He also organizes experimental electronic music events in atypical places and over long durations.www.cycliq.org

Laurent JEANNEAU / KINKGONG : French electronic music composer, he is based in Dali since 2007. This sound recorder specialized in Tribal Music, ethnographer/sampler of the jungle has traveled the world to record sounds and songs which characterize the life of ethnic minorities. His experimental sounds transport us to dreamed horizons where machines are transformed into tools for impromptu meetings.www.kinkgong.com

Julien CLAUSS and Laurent JEANNEAU first collaborated in Paris in 2005 for an octophonic concert of electronic music.

2010/07/30
Derivas
Videos - Installations - Performances
José ECHENIQUE - Alejandro LEON CANNOCK

Wandering: Based on their experiences during their trip at the Rhizome-Lijiang art center, the artists José ECHENIQUE and Alejandro LEON CANNOCK present an exhibition that recues and shares some passages of their wandering throughout Lijiang. For them, wandering means letting themselves be guided by the place where they are currently transiting through, with the (non) purpose of a visual, affective and conceptual apprehension of the experimentation of the space/time they are living through. This exhibition represents a singular and individual cartography of Lijiang.

2010/09/05&15
Winter Story, "Act'N GO", China
Videos - Installations - Performances - Meetings
François CATHALA, Mathilde GANANCIA, Benjamin HERR, Sarah TROUCHE

Winter Story is a living format, created by Sarah TROUCHE, performance artist and Benjamin HERR, architect.

The Act’N go project tries to propose an artistic laboratory to artists of various disciplines and nationalities.

Presentation of the works created in residence.

The Education French school, part of Lyon 1 University, represented by Mireille BAURENS, mistress of conferences in English and in studies of kind, Fanny LIGNON, mistress of conference in audiovisual studies and cinema, Fernando SEGUI, music teacher and Geneviève LADRET, arts teacher, was welcomed by Rhizome from March 1st till March 25th, 2011.

The teachers supervised a training course of " accompanied practice ". 8 students had chosen to realize their training course in China, helped financially by the Rhône-Alpes Region (grant Explora) and the IUFM. The objective was to meet the teachers in diverse establishments, to observe and to exchange educational practices.

This month of training course is the first stage of an exchange project between the Lyon's IUFM, the Education Bureau of Lijiang's Gucheng district and Rhizome. The arts (visual arts and musics) constitute the major constituent of this project, for cultural (the students immerse themselves with the Chinese cultural resources) and linguistic reasons (it was necessary to find disciplines where the language would not obstruct the communication).
Furthermore, the teachers of the IUFM-University of Lyon proposed one week of training to their Chinese colleagues, in music, visual art and in English.

Moreover, Rhizome organized a meeting between the students, teachers and local artists, such as a Lijiang native wood engraver, as well as a Tibetan dancer, and a calligrapher, Belgian sinologist , both in Rhizome's residence.

Finally, in Rhizome, an exhibition was organized to show the various works realized by the children in the classes where the students intervened. A group of 50 Chinese teachers, directors of schools, middle schools and high school in Lijiang, came to visit this exhibition on Friday, March 13th, and they discussed with the students of their training course and discovered french cakes.

The persons in charge of the Education Bureau of Lijiang Gucheng District as Mr LI, in charge of the staff, were also invited in Rhizome, also Me LI, vice gouvernor of the city: some movies were presented, showing extracts of the French students' work, in art and in music, in the diverse classrooms.

Many exchanges and mutual pleasures were shared. This initial success is a beautiful springboard of its future progress and its perpetuity in the years to come.

2011/04/29
Ecriture(s)
Exhibition - Videos - Installations - Performances
Frank-René LEHBERGER, Christine BRAULT, Claire MALVOLTI, YANG Chun Long and Mr LIU

The idea was to combine on an event the artists in Rhizome's residence and to invite local artists; each creating in connection with the work of the other one. As in China, a landscape exists only if it is written with calligraphy, Mr LIU began to define Rhizome's space by affixing poems of the dynasties Qing and Song relative to the art's research and to the environment of the nature, directly on the internal walls of Rhizome. Frank-René LEHBERGER exhibit his former creations and those realized in residence, taking back ancestral writings of Asia. Christine BRAULT drew in the water the same chinese sentence, written with her head and her hair: "We all have time to stop ourselves, be with others, be with ourself. Presence is what is important, gestures we do, heart that speaks. Let it speak, listen, love". Claire MALVOLTI proposed a sound dumping, resulting from her wanderings in the new town, where stores get noticed by striking musics. And pursuing her work of copyist, a mural painting repeat an image of forest, often exposed in Chinese greasy spoon, of a hillside of wall to the other one. YANG Chun Long presented a lotus series engraved on wood, writing a natural autumn story. A video presented Decheng-Pema BETSANG, dance between writing and handling.

2011/06/24
I love Lijiang
Lana's exhibition
and Francois Lejault 's video - Xiao Tong's music

Mu Yun Bo alias Lana is an Lijiang native artist (Yunnan, China). He self-educated in art and for more than two years, Lana continues his colossal project: make a mural painting assembled by several wooden panels (approximately 110 x 80 cm each) which represent the traditions of Lijiang: 30m of wook carving, and he goes on...
In the exhibition, you’re going to see for the first time this 30 meters of wood carving, and also seventeen of his drawings.

In addition, the Francois Lejault’s film «Dongba» will be show. Francois Lejault is an artist, teacher at the Superior art school of Aix-en-Provence (France).
And Xiao Tong was playing Gu Zheng during the night of the openning.

re.zis.tãs, 2012/03/16
Exhibition with SHI Jindian, Awena COZANNET, students from the Lijiang Teachers College , Art department, and with the Miao's women participation, LU and LI

Exhibition until 01/04/2012

Awena COZANNET is interested by the textile knowledge of the minority: Indigo dying, batik, Tye-dye, embroidery… During her two months long residency at Rhizome, she tried to approach differents arts and crafts in the Yunnan, in Zhoucheng, Dali, Baisha, in the Guizhou in Shidong, Matang… Oscillating between sculpture, drawing, scenography and installation, Awena COZANNET anchors her work into the human body and on the human being as well as on their temporality. This approach has brought her to develop collaborative artistic practices in Bangladesh, in Burma or in Pakistan (...).
She will perform her sculpture «Before ten thousand changes, don’t change».

China’s partners: Consulat Général de France, Chengdu - Institut Français de Chine - Alliance Française, Chengdu - Lijiang Teachers College - Rhizome Lijiang Art Center // France’s partners: Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs de Lyon - Musée Muséum Départemental de la ville de Gap - Galerie Françoise Besson

Lijiang Teachers College was officially approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. The college mainly focuses on teachers training and actively promoting higher vocational education. The college always complies with the motto “Creative good morality and high level education, Showing our excellence all over the three-river area”. The aim is to set up a college which can meet people’s need, the purpose is to train qualified personnel. The further purpose is to deepen the reform and the development, which base in Lijiang, serve Yunnan and national wide. All those aims are to provide manpower and service for economic and social development. 44 students of the Art Department worked with Awena COZANNET during 10 days to build a sculpture they will perform for the opening : «To move mountains».

SHI Jindian’s works are based on both « deconstruction » and « reconstruction » of matters. The creational process of SHI is almost a Zen-like process, which is calm and seemly endless. This is similar to endless manual work in agricultural civilization, and is a total dismantling to the industrial manufacturing by his production. For him, the original intention is merely a change to traditional culture language. However, on the cultural level, this is an effective practice of analyzing culture symbol. SHI Jindian has become one of the most unique and valuable artist of Chinese contemporary art field nowadays. His works are collected by museums, organizations and individuals in China, America, Europe, Australia and Korea.

re.zis.tãs, 2012/04/13
Exhibition: Hei Ma Wu Jun,
Darcy Mc CABE,
with Marion CADIOU - Adeline GOUYETTE

Exhibition until 22/04/2012

Hei Ma Wu Jun was born April 6, 1972, in Hubei, China. In 1988, he graduated from the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. He later started working for an ad agency the south Zhuhai in 1992. He founded the Bright Jun advertising agency in November 2000. During the first six months of 2001, he suffered two major car accidents. After facing death up close, he decided to completely change his life. This realization for change was achieved after careful reflection. Based on the scars from his accident he created the “Life Series” and “Oriental Art” photography series, these collections of art were published by the Macao Museum of Art, in a collection of Chinese artists whose work dealt with ‘the Body’ as a subject. In 2003, he first exhibited his painting, “Paradise Hospital,” which was based on his own experiences. In 2004, his autobiography, “Streaking” was published. From 2005-2006, he was invited to more than 20 colleges and universities around China during his “Life and Art” lecture tour. He has been based out of Lijiang, since 2008.

Darcy Mc Cabe : «I am fascinated by the interplay of industrial materials, environment, and perception. My practice seeks to find that space between nostalgic notions of certainty and present experiences, where the only assurance is knowing that all things change, decay, evolve... It was through my own interaction with Lijiang that I decided to create an interactive exhibit surrounding my work, to help people physically understand the process of expectation, realization and acceptance. As people’s perceptions are half-formed before they reach a destination, surrounding the work was a half-finished installation of various building materials. Viewers will be invited to reassemble and finish the work upon their arrival at the opening. As they leave, they will be invited to take away a scrap of material that helped form the surrounding installation, seeing that when one leaves a place they only take a fragment of that experience with them, which ultimately frames their lasting
memories.»

Adeline Gouyette et Marion Cadiou are students at the Superior Art School of Montpellier. They are currently completing an internship at Rhizome Lijiang Art Center. They have also been completing an outside installation, in situ.
Nine Columns, Art piece in situ : It is said that beginnings start at the end, take the number 9 for example. In French, the number 9 and the word ‘new’ are homonyms. Nine Columns is an entity divided in nine segments, all spread around the space, they relate to each other by a center in which seeds grow. Each column becomes the new center of each element as it is received. All the elements are singular although they are also linked together. This installation invites viewers to discover different pathways throughout the space.