the beijing run of the overseas project has finished, we all thank all of you who visited, helped out, and supported!
《OVERSEAS：里九外七》北京系列的活动结素了，非常感谢所有观众，参与者，来帮忙的朋友和你们的支持！
congratulations to Xiao He on his mid-run wedding, and special thanks to happy four-time repeat visitor, josh!
还有，祝小河兄弟和美子嫂子，恭喜恭喜！
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最后一活动：10月24日周六晚上7点开始！last event, saturday 24 october, 7 p.m.
必须提前预订 reservations only | 139 1108 8640, overseas_china@sina.com
and thank you, samantha… | http://review.redboxstudio.cn/2009/10/overseas-close-by-overseas%EF%BC%9A%E9%87%8C%E4%B9%9D%E5%A4%96%E4%B8%83/
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pictures from david’s well-lit but too short stay at 互助巷 Huzhuxiang…
and thank you, sylvie! | http://weliveinbeijing.com/GroupNews/news2.rails?Nid=1000001049
and thank you laura at city weekend… | http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/articles/blogs-beijing/art-attack/creatively-spontaneous/
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thank you, 粒米! | http://www.bookismore.cn/article-21.html
thank you, 储扬! | http://www.douban.com/group/topic/8226829/
http://www.douban.com/event/11128330/
thank you, 方丹敏! | http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_543c54b00100fjj8.html
thank you, time out beijing | http://www.timeout.com/cn/en/beijing/aroundtown/feature/8875/overseas-close-by-oct-10-12-17-19-22-24.html
and yes, 梁槊… | http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4e51dffc0100erzh.html
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little theatre of gestures
10 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
Kutluğ Ataman, Isaac Mendes Belisario, Iñaki Bonillas, Gerard Byrne, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Rodney Graham, Hilary Lloyd, Kirsten Pieroth, Susanne M. Winterling featuring a selection of works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel by James Ensor, Bruce Nauman, Francis Picabia among others
MALMÖ KONSTHALL
S:t Johannesgatan 7
Box 17127
200 10 Malmö
The exhibition Little Theatre of Gestures is about changes. Small changes. Changes that we do to ourselves or to our surroundings. The exhibition attempts to examine and look at how we display these changes, the theatricality of objects and bodies, staged and in daily life. We pose continuously, and depending upon the situation our gestures and poses change accordingly. We practise small scenarios—movements of power and powerlessness—even though we may not know how these movements and gestures can be used, and in which situations they might be appropriate. At times, ”we turn up the volume” of our gestures and poses, or our surroundings become the stage for part of our daily theatre.
The twenty-first century has seen the introduction of many new tools for self-representation. On diverse social www-platforms (such as Facebook, MySpace, etc.), opinions and images of our self are exchanged, and our own private theatre of images from our daily life is staged. Faster than ever, we can be anyone we want, and can create different personas in different media.
Little Theatre of Gestures is not aiming to give an overview on the formal and informal codes that constitute our communication in daily life, but instead to gather artistic positions for a mutual play on smaller or larger deeds. The focus is concentrated on a few artists who deal with gestures on a rather conceptual level, and who present and mirror each other’s interests and approaches: from documentary-like staging to self-staged personas, from staged objects to daily abstractions.
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for the full moon tonight, the others away or asleep…中秋安
“晚上我做梦说话, 白天做不了什么”
[still image from new work-in-progress, www.overseasproject.net]
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我们的网站，哟！请大家到哪里预定位！
www.overseasproject.net
Posted by admin | reply »彩排日（一）
9月5日晚7点半，第一个彩排日。小梅做了些好吃的，饭盛好了，筷子放上了，等待观众入场……
“观众”入场了……
表演开始……
这张照片有一点点诡异……
参加第一次彩排的朋友们……
“Inside 9， outside 7”
According to an old Beijing saying “Inside 9, outside 7, 4 Imperial City (inner part of Beijing)” is referring to 9 gates, 8 places and one center.
“Inside 9， outside 7”: Inside there is the city (center) and outside there are the city gates.
“Inside 9” are: In the East （1）Dongzhimen,（2）Chaoyangmen. In the West （3）Xizhimen and（4）Fuchengmen. In the North（5）Deshengmen
（6）Andingmen. In the South（7）Chongwenmen，（8）Zhengyangmen (today Qianmen) and （9）Xuanwumen.
“Outside 7” are: In the Mingdynasty, Jiajing Emporer (嘉靖) starting the citydefense, took 32 years of building the outside gate. The “3 front gates” (前三门”) are in the North, East and West. In the East and West there are (4)Guangqumen, (5)Guanganmen. In the South there is on the left (6)Anmen, on the right of Anmen and Yangmen there is （7）Yongdingmen.
The 4 gates of the inner Imperial City (inner part of Beijing): In the East there is （1）Donganmen (nowadays Donghuamen), in the South （2）Tiananmen, in the East there is （3）Xianmen, in the North （4）Dianmen.
“Inside 9, outside 7”: The “Inside” refers to “close”, the feeling of closeness and familiarity. “Outside” refers to “Overseas”, to those of Chinese heritage living outside of China and in addition how we go beyond the question of identity towards relating to one another.
Number 7: A Pre-Qindynasty saying “Your Soul is melting together and departing afterwards”: 7 days is one unit, one unit of seven days to form your spirit. After your birth 49 days, 7 circles, your 7 spirits are completed. After 49 days you are completed with your soul and spirit, and after you dye your soul is continuing。
References to 7 in Chinese Culture: Yin Yang and 5 elements they are called Seven Regulators. People are given Yin Yang, 5 elements so they have the 7 emotions。 7 can explain the Dao (道) of the World and the Qi (气) of the people. In the book 《易·系·复》it says 7 days is one circle and in the book《礼记·檀弓上》it says People who don’t drink and eat 7 days, cannot continue to live.
Number 9: 9 is the biggest number, so if there are two 9 together, you are returning to the beginning。 It’s not the original beginning, because a new circle is starting. It represents the philosophy of Dialectical Materialism “the recognition of anything”. A Buddhist saying: Two 9 together means to go back to the beginning, completing a circle, to receive a good result. The returning to 9 means: The biggest number in order, but also the ending。 That means you have to go through 1, 4,7 3,6, 9， to achieve anything. You have to complete several steps to continue.
The saying“九九归一”derives from where you’re form and leads you to where you want to go. When you you have returned, you continue, a new circle is starting.
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