saturday and sunday, april 19-20, 2014, 10:00am to 4:00pm
the NEST, 105 puyu xi lu (between gaohuo lu and lujiabang lu)
shanghai, china
www.ecodesignfair.cn
That Flies
Artists: George Kaye, Individual “Ecographs” Creators, Barbara Edelstein & Zhang Jian-jun
Partner: Xuhang Town Kite Club
Air, 气，हवा, אוויר , hewa, לופט, umoya, ਹਵਾ, هواء. The thing that flies in our nostrils and flies though our lungs, flies over the treetops and across the cosmic night goes by many names.
That Flies is a kite exhibition and interactive public artwork which challenges everyone to devise a new name for the “thing that flies”, to make kites and decorate them with these names and see whether they fly.
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Air Tunes
Artist: Ameet Gill
Partners: Manuela Frank and SAS Middle School
Air awakens us to its presence by its changing movement, which we perceive on our bodies and all around us. Light, colorful things especially that change in response to the air put us in mind of changes in the air itself.
Air Tunes is a mixed media installation that combines giant chimes made from over 200 crochet circles and a garden of pinwheels made by students at SAS Middle School. Visitors are invited to remove a pinwheel from the garden and replace it with a puff of wildflower seed, that may grow to mark the beginning of a change that is taking place.
Artist’s statement: “This installation asks the public to engage in completing the piece, and also to carry a part of it home as a reminder of the change in choices we need to make today for a better tomorrow.”
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Air Hug & Snugger
Artist: Loes Venker-de Noo
Air Hug and Snugger is a whimsically knitted air filtration system that clarifies the mind and soul.
Artist’s Statement: “If you are good to the air, the air will be good to you. Hug it. Make it nice and snug. Your affections will be returned.”
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Beautiful Mushrooms
Artist: 露Lou 露Lou
Partner: Zhi Geng Nong
From lofty events in the atmosphere to the lowliest stirrings underground beauty surrounds us. Materials that are useful and/or nutritious surround us too. Take the mushroom: ubiquitous, fast growing, complex, tender, sometimes delicious, sometimes dangerous. Whether we value mushrooms for their beauty, their utility, or not at all comes down to our frame of mind.
In this interactive installation the artist duo 露Lou 露Lou have teamed up with Zhi Geng Nong, a social enterprise engaged in consumer food awareness and farmer training, in a happy marriage of aesthetics and action. Beautiful Mushrooms invites a sensory experience of soil, mushrooms, clay and porcelain, and a conversation about ecology.
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Aspiration Traces – A special performance and public artwork
Sunday, April 20, 2014, 2:00pm
Artists: Vivienne He, Yan, Jane Wang, Jay Peng
Breathing is the most essential movement. What traces does our breath leave, hanging in the air? What of further extended movements, the day-in and day-out expressions of our dreams and aspirations. What traces do they leave, hanging in the air?
Aspiration Traces is a study of movement and an experiment in representing interaction with the enveloping air visually, using brush and ink. It is also a gradually unfolding observance of the most essential movement, by which we establish ourselves in a reciprocating relationship with the air.