The project is designed to perform virtual trading activities in the art market by means of art tour. The performers from different professions and businesses including architecture and entertainment have long been paying much attention to art. From the graphic to the spatial and from the formal to the structural, they can read artworks of a certain kind and wish to hold some. HUANG will personate a senior specialist in contemporary art, taking the performers to appreciate the works on display in several galleries and their booths at the fair. Through such an introduction and promotion with a stream of words by the artist-as-docent/salesperson, she attempts to evoke the rethinking upon “taste” and its sociality with potential purchasing behaviours, while revisiting and examining the intermedium of herself or herself as the intermedium therein.
9 November | Don Gallery—QIAO SPACE—West Bund Art & Design
2:45 – 3:15 pm Don Gallery
3:15 – 3:25 pm Walk to QIAO SPACE
3:30 – 3:50 pm QIAO SPACE
3:50 – 4:00 pm Walk to West Bund Art & Design
4:00 – 5:00 pm West Bund Art & Design
11 November | West Bund Art & Design
1:30 – 2:15 pm West Bund Art & Design
11 November | ShanghART Gallery West Bund Space
2:20 – 3:00 pm ShanghART Gallery West Bund Space
HUANG Fangling is the founder of a.f.art theatreFangling. She graduated from the Department of Drama at People’s Liberation Army Academy of Art, the Department of Directing at Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Institute of Arts Administration and Education at China Central Academy of Fine Arts. HUANG has been trying to introduce drama concept to contemporary art and applying her well trained performance art skills as a medium to explore how theatre is developed and accumulated around different spaces. In the name of a.f.art theatreFangling, her recent projects include “…In Between” (ZKR – Centre for Art and Public Space Schloss Biesdorf and Löwenpalais, Berlin, 2017), “Selected Gaze” (“Theory Opera” at the 11th Shanghai Biennale “Why Not Ask Again,” Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2017), “Wander in Anger” (Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), “Sensory Tour” (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), “Time Rite” (Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), “A Struggle Between…” (chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016), “Body Encounter” (Rote Fabrik, Zürich-Wollishofen, 2015), “The Maids in the Enclave” (MoCA Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2015), etc., as well as “Knight Nightmare” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2015) and “I Can’t be Part of Your Revolution” (BANK, Shanghai, 2015) in collaboration with JIN Feng.
