Скачать или смотреть 20th OPEN International Performance Art Festival - Hu Yifei, 2019

The 20th edition of the legendary Chinese OPEN International Performance Art Festival will open on Monday, the 19th of August 2019 at the Kulturzentrum Pavillon in Hannover. For the first time this festival takes place outside of China, in Germany and Switzerland.

In 2000, curators Chen Jin, Shu Yang, and Zhu Ming founded the Open International Performance Art Festival, which aims to introduce excellent international performance artists and engage with Chinese audiences. So far, the festival has been held 19 times and offered annually a "free platform for international performance art". Many of the current participants participate in the spirit of independence, openness and freedom of expression. The festival had and still has great cultural significance and became an important platform among internationally working performance artists.

Historically, the pace of China's socio-economic reforms accelerated at the beginning of the 1990s. The exchange of information between China and the US and between China and Europe was more open, and this led to a greater influence of foreign performance artists on Chinese artists. A variety of new means of expression stimulated the creative thinking of Chinese artists, especially the then new generation. In the meantime, Chinese society also changed, but the new ideas and thoughts reached only a small, limited group of people.

In recent years, incidents have been recurrent and now the performance art in China is referred to as a provocative art form. This has implications for independent artists, curators and independent exhibition and performance formats. In 2019 we will now test and discuss the openness of the visitors of Hanover and other stations together with the cooperation partners in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Burgbrohl, Basel and Bochum. In the spirit of independence, openness and freedom of expression.

This video includes performance art by Hu Yifei: https://atelierperformance.blogspot.c...

Video production by Bernd Elsner:
   / @berndelsner749  

Cooperation partners in Hannover: Culture Center Pavillon, City Gallery KUBUS, Turba Gallery and Studio: Ilka Theurich.

Cooperation partners for the German and Swiss concept are Chen Yin (OPEN Festival - China), PAErsche (Cologne DE), Kaskadenkondensator (Basel CH), Kunstpavillon (Burgbrohl DE), orbit 24 (Frankfurt am Main DE), Marita Bullmann (Interval Festival - Bochum DE) & Studio: Ilka Theurich - project space (Hannover DE)

This festival is funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Hannover and by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau of the Government of the Hongkong Special Administrative Region.