! GENDERS ENGENDER
2018.3.22 - 2018.5.19 Opening 2018.3.22 16:00
ARTISTS AND PARTICIPANTS: HUANG Jingyuan, LI Shuang, United Motion, MA Qiusha, Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian QIN, Mountain River Jump!, Writing Mothers Working Group (WMWG), ZHANG Ran, ZHANG Sirui SPACE DESIGNER: LI Juchuan READING LIST: Folded Room
CURATOR: LI Jia ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: TANG Xin
Red No.1-B2, Caochangdi, Cuigezhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing, CHINA www.taikangspace.com 10:30 - 17:30, Tuesday to Saturday
About Exhibition
Taikang Space will present “Genders Engender”, a major exhibition of the year, accompanied by forums, workshops and publications altogether. Focusing on gender studies and practices that take place nowadays or have impacts on social recognition of gender disparity, it attempts to create a platform for display, a space for conversation, even a workshop for production for these plural discourses through curating an exhibition. It embraces and welcomes participants from every field and every community, expecting to open up a broader sight of view, to build up more diverse connections.
“Genders Engender” is not an exhibition presenting “feminist art” or “art of the women artists”, nor providing any definition or producing the tags based on any essentialist tendencies. We believe that gender identity is a kind of symptom or phenomenon which requires reading and interpreting rather than the cause or standard. It is not the similarity of the temperament, the theme or the method that link these works and performances together. On the contrary, the inner connection among the exhibition is a gender perspective that has been already integrated into the practice of all the exhibition participants. It is the latter that plays the key role in identifying or choosing a viable ethics toward a better life and a desirable feature of all the people.
Taikang Space commissioned 11 artists (groups) from around China to create works for this exhibition. The works include photography, installation, videos, multimedia and performances, as well as engaging or interactive programs, social investigation and archives. Part of the exhibition space will be used for inviting consecutive events organized by the participant artists and feminist activists. There will also be three forums calling for the engagement of academics, authors and activists to share their gender expressions in the field of writing, photographing and social practice.
About Artists and Participants
Huang Jingyuan was born in 1979, Guangxi. Huang received a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal) in 2005 and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Currently lives and works in Beijing. She is the initiator of “Writing Mothers,” an on-going collaborative writing project with the ambition of discovering the potential of a feminist critique offered through the lens of family life.
Li Shuang was born in 1990. She received Bachelor of Arts in English in Civil Aviation University of China in 2012, and Master of Arts in Media, Culture, and Communications from New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 2014. Currently based in Shanghai.