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Posted by Didelidi 2008 Aug 08 21 01:10 AM

你说的在哪儿啊?01

你说的在哪儿啊?02

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 Aug 08 20 01:10 AM

我说我有精神洁癖,我撒谎了

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 Aug 08 01:10 AM

Flip flops coming soon.

NO.6 Middle School Polo Tees at Spoon House Shop Beijing and GoodFella shop Shanghai .

6中6中校服运动衫系列 polo衫在勺子家鼓楼东大街店

This line of casual wear is designed in memory of my own primary school and middle school life i had in a small town of ShanDong back in 70’-80’s. The colors are un-sophisticated and simple , like red, blue, green, purple and white, which were bound by the textile and dying technologies of the time. The very first day to go to middle school, the moment i became a member of young pioneer, the P.E teacher’s blue gym wear with white school name written on it... I wish to share this with people who has simliar memories with me and those times which is gone forever.

Girls Beach Tees (White only) at Spoon House shop.沙滩女T(白色)在勺子家鼓楼东大街店

5 designs of LB crotch cushion in Spoon House Shop and GoodFella shop Shanghai .

5个设计的劈叉裤衩报枕在勺子家鼓楼东大街店。

Lightning Babe (TM) sketch book at Spoon House Shop and GoodFella shop Shanghai .

本本在勺子家鼓楼东大街店。

Animated Wallpaper DVD 18 minutes (Online Order only) Price:200rmb

Wallpaper Stills from the DVD

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 July 08 01:10 AM


VARIATIONS
directed and written by Alessandro Rolandi

3+1 performance artists / 3 +1 performance movements / 3 +1 music variations / 3 +1 plastic installation interventions / 3 +1 different spaces
Performers will work alone in 3 different spaces and together in the 4th one. They are receiving a training to develop a specific type of sensitivity and a particular body language. Each of them will work alone in the 3 different spaces, creating her own movements with the director , but won’t be aware of the quality, choices and details of the others’ work. The director will also define the environment for the 4th movement (where the performers will be all together) without giving out any information to the performers, who will find themselves confronted to few unexpected visual elements. These, together with the development of their 3rd movement, will give birth to the final, collective one, following an organic logic, never experimented in rehearsal before.
Musicians have been given Bach’s Goldbergh Variations 1-7 in the Glenn Gould version of 1952. They have listened to them and studied them, both formally and intuitively, then they have re-invented them according to their inspiration, using chinese traditional instruments, vocal research and electronic devices. The new 1-7 variations have been then “variated” 3 more times, fulfilling the conceptual direction of the whole project.
The aim of the project is: to allow every part of the ensemble to working in a creative way without hierarchic differences .to establish evocative and flexible guidelines in order that the final form will be defined only by the dynamic balance of all the different elements involved: human, musical, plastic, spatial. All elements have, at the same time, a structural and creative role, which changes according to the inner development of the rising collective expression.
Thoughts on Variations
Marcel Douchamp, one of the most important and contradictory figures in art history, said once “Art is constantly at war with itself”. At the beginning of the 21st century, when a limitless flexibility is bypassing most cultural and behavioural boundaries, this Frenchman’s sentence might acquire a new dimension. Douchamp specified “at war”, which means literally, in a state of tension and conflict. If it’s true that nowadays “everything can be art”, it is also true that, by accepting this statement, every conflict is authomatically dismissed. Money and a standardized consumerist culture are leading and art is following, that’s a fact. In a time when quotes are more important than sentences and being clever is more interesting that, for instance, just “being”, endless words are spent to craft the theories which will present, justify and support the next series of goods “on sale”. It seems like different media have been mixed and several disciplines crossed-over, but, in reality, these actions have been taken for granted, with the result that their effectiveness has been reduced to simple intellectual commentaries. The taste for the shocking and the highly spectacular, together with an increasing morbid and voyeristic approach are putting art at risk of becoming a self-indulgent pantomime, empty, sclerotic and sterile. Criticism itself, merely reduced to pointing out an evidence which everybody knows, but nobody seems really interested to change, is to become a formal exercise of dialectic. How i sit possible then to set up again art “at war with itself” ? How to raise a confrontation not only dependent on market established values? Where then, can the new proposal be seeked after? How can they appear in such a foggy stillness..? Well, to me, this questions share the same nature of a pure guess…..what if, instead of commentaries or statements, rigid concepts, or theories, what if we ‘d try and start from simple questions? Not premeditated structures of thoughts, but authentic curiosity about what we don’t know and desire to confront what we cannot explain…Which are the plastic and intellectual limits of today’s artworks? When and how the art work as a specific object, has a power on the viewer, and which kind of power? Where does the meaning we invest an art work with, comes from ? As it’s no more uniqueness, not necessarily craftmanship’s quality, or longlasting aesthetic or intellectual value, what is it then? Frozen fears? Fetish narcissism? Status quo?...provocation?or what else..? Does the contemporary viewer exercise an active power on the art work or is he/she in a completely passive position? How can we avoid to “produce” artworks and be able to “create” them instead? Which form or media would be able to challenge the authority of a planetary economic model avoiding to be swallowed, made harmless by means of integration, or simply dismissed as utopian or unlogic? Which quality of energy an expressive form must develop to establish a more intimate and stronger connection with a public, whose senses are made dull by constant overstimulation, pressure and ultimate life-speed? It is difficult to see how art could escape a fate which will push it toward a tighter and tighter technological competition and a corporate-like type of structure. Those who could find the sponsors to afford the cutting edge scientific innovations will be, to their elite patrons, the contemporary Charles Lebrun, and the others will be recycled into a lucrative design-like production of mass-goods. If it still exists, a possible alternative to this scenario, it can be found in a certain kind of possible development of Performance Art. With theatre dying out because of the laziness and lack of magic in people’s life, performance art is lately coming back and could play a more important role than simply the one of a nostalgic revisitation. The “live event” taking place in the intimacy of an art gallery with a limited public and limited technological intervention, still posses a unique characteristic. It is the impossibility to capture the energy and the quality of the experience the public shares during this limited time-window. It’s possible to record it, of course, with photos or shootings, but this won’t be equivalent of going through the real happening, and the document itself will be only an historical relic, in no way a substitute of the action. Yet performance art, the way it is and has been, shows limits and weaknesses. Occupying a borderline position among the expressive forms and relying mostly onto the individual force of few enlightnned and gifted but almost autistic human beings, performance art often speaks a misunderstood language with a confused voice. It creates the conditions to bring the public on another level of perception, but either in a cryptic or in a dyonisian way, which end up both being perceived as a predictable message of rebellion and refusal of the status quo. This puts the public in a complete exterior perspective, from where it can judge, being amused and observe “some strange animal doing some strange thing”. Whenever the public is provocatively involved, by means of “happening” or interaction, it is to make it feel guilty, or ashamed, or to prove its dumbness; shortly in a position of diversity from the performer. The precious power of the living act goes then lost in somekind of postmodern marthyrdoom ritual where the “different individual” only proves to be the exception that confirms the rule. The small window opened in the public’s perception closes up quickly and the whole thing is consumed with a sense of loss, but not an entropic loss, the loss instead, of a precious chance just born and suddenly consumed in a useless cry of inadeguacy. But what if this chance, instead of being employed to, make an obvious statement, would instead be used to “empathize” with the audience…..to try and establish a different sort of communication using more subtle channels and hidden currents….what if this initial “moment of openness” could be hold and expanded and shared…what if the public, instead of being accused or discriminated, was instead to go through the much more astonishing experience of having something in common with the borderline individual, with the strange animal, with the borderline artist ?….what consequences this might have? Is it possible to break through all languages and codes and finally, reach through life.? Would the experience of an authentic human act shared be possibly more provocative, powerfull and liberating than any other.? To honestly ask a question can bear both answers. Performance artists often act out of their natural physicality, lacking awareness of the strength of their own presence and of the quality of the message they convey with their body and actions. The so-called Third Theatre has in the last 30-40 years, developed a very deep and sophisticated work to awake the hidden creative sources of the body, but due to the nature of the research itself, still remains a sort of discipline for initiates. To establish a dialogue between performance art and the training of this kind of theatre could be a way to give birth to a new generation of performance artists aware of their physical possibilities and capable to improve them and push them beyond the boundaries using more focused, powerfull and effective type of energies rather than those implied so far in Happenings and similar forms. Variations is a project conceived around these inquiries. It explores the possibility to create a “total art work” in which all parts have the same creative importance and both intellectual and physical hierarchic divisions disappear. Performance artists, space, plastic interventions, and music feed each other in a constant dynamic balance, in which they all play a multidirectional creative role to establish a connection with something alive and continuosly changing. Something surprising and dangerous that brings artists and viewers in an unknown territory of communication and perception, more complex, articulated and challenging than the one of everyday life and the one normally used in this discipline. Variations is not a solution, neither a formula, not an achieved work. It does not want to prove anything. It wants to be a proposal, a possibility. It’s like as if, among a thick mist, a blurred light appears faraway, breaking the eveness and stillness of the surroundings. We don’t know what lies ahead, we cannot know what we will find, but at least we can try to go somewhere.

 

 

 

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 May 25 01:10 AM

 

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 May 20 01:10 AM

CloseUps

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 May 0201:10 AM

"Instant celebrity" / 2008 April 30th

Collaborated withYoko Taketani........Performed by Yoko Taketani....Curated By Marc Hungerbuhler zhao Shu Lin

A celebrity is a person who is famously recognized in a society; also, the state of being such a person. In another word :"people who are famous for being famous".As a result, there is a strong public curiosity about their private affairs. Celebrities are alternately portrayed as glowing examples of perfection, when they garner awards, or as decadent or immoral if they become associated with a scandal.

"Instant celebrity" is a humourous approach of this "celebrity fever". It works backwards. By faking form of such, it showcase the glamourous moment as a cross-section of her life. This is a ongoing performance project which locates itself in show or gallery openings only.

The further plan of this project include: a film starred by Yoko Taketani, press conferences ect. A service called "instant celebrity", with our arrangement, with the right ingrdents, anyone could a "celebrity" for a day.

*2008 April 30th 4:00 pm we attened Bridge art museum "Powe and Shape" show opening.

*2008 April 30th Night we attened Diesle party "The grand Tour"

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 April 29 01:10 AM

New book Published By 3030 press, By Javin Mok and John Milichap www.3030press.com

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2008 Mar21 01:10 AM

 

MTV and OneDotZero "Bloom" / "TheBeijing Dance"

This is finally on-air and on-line. you can see it at http://www.mtvonedotzero.com/ under lulu li. This 3D animation piece "The Beijing Dance" is one of 10 winners of MTV /OneDotZero "Bloom" which commisioned by MTV and ondotzero.

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official annoucement from onedotzero

ONEDOTZERO MTV BLOOM COMMISSIONED FILMS ON AIR LAUNCH


we are excited to announce the on air and online launch of the ten winning films commissioned as part of onedotzero and mtv bloom.

onedotzero joined forces with mtv creative to initiate bloom, a worldwide competition that searched for the very best up-and-coming creative talent.

'the bloom project represents exactly what onedotzero is about - creative partnership, new talent, progressive vision reaching a wide international audience. mtv international are the perfect partners and the 10 winning creative talents exemplify quality twinned with innovation producing 10 brilliant mini-masterpieces,' said shane rj walter, director, onedotzero.

the commissioned one minute films will be given coverage on mtv’s channels globally and online, and all ten films will be available to view online now a
t www.mtvonedotzero.com read more from onedotzero.

 

 

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2007 09 24 03:10 AM

 

A feature and interview at Shift

Please tell us about yourself.

Lulu. I am a graphic artist, more like a visual artist I would say. Currently freelancing in Beijing.
I was born in ShangDong, I studied art.1996 I moved to Beijing till now. I worked in south east Asia for a while then move back to Beijing. I started work as motion graphic designer since 1998.

Could you tell us about the exhibition at 798 art district?

The exhibition at 798 right now is called "Cotton In Art". I am one of the participanting artist.

I get to work with a golf clothing brand called Ashworth from the USA. The original idea was to play golf instruction flipbooks (look like US dollars) on a money counter. Why golf instructions? For people who doesn't know golf never buy golf products, so education is the first step. I am here to help create a need which is known as a well-used marketing method. The more instructions playing through, the more possible business it generates.

In the end the instruction videos are way too long to be realistic. Instead I choose funny clips of people making mistakes when learning golf which put the learning process back into the learner's hands, which is "the more mistakes you make the faster you learn".

In the show there are 3 girls dressed up like my character Lightning Babe, helping to play the notes on 3 money counters on top of a small golf course setup.

See more at: www.didelidi.com/Didelidi_Blog.html
Youtube video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKGMOKGoWYw

How was the reaction from the audience?

At first people didn't know what it was till my Lightning Babe start putting big stacks of dollars into money counter and playing it, and they see the moving images flipping through.The movies are funny clips of people making mistakes when playing golf. I think the content doesn't matter that much. People's main reaction is "oh it's a flipbook, I get it."


What do you think of your activity in Beijing?

I think it's positive step for myself.


Tell us about your recent work like videos and graphics and etc. Can you explain each works?

Lightning Babe project is a personal project I am working on at the moment. Lightning Babe is created based on the 1950's Chinese female gymnastics figure, but designed with a modern twist.
In the 1950's, when my mom was a very young woman, her dress, hairstyle, green uniform, scarlet cheeks, energetic voice and music, all became vivid memories of my childhood. See more www.didelidi.com/merchandise.html

Works with Lightning Babe range from posters, animated wallpaper for projections, and emoticons for MSN PC (get your own copy from www.didelidi.com/WalkingBunny.htm), cushions, figures, to even rugs and sweaters... Which covered many media.

The latest commissioned motion graphics work is opener for "Get It Louder" which is showing on Shift.jp before on the right hand side banner. It's 30" piece which you can see from my website under "commercial".


How is the art scene in Beijing? With the active work of 798 art district, it seems hotter and hotter these days.

Yes it seems hotter, and more touristy too. Big buses full of tourists pull up and pour out foreigners with cameras flashing. I don't know much about art scene in Beijing. I don't know where this is heading either. I guess this makes more people see more art, talk about more art, sell more art, make more art, comsume more art... If this is the right logic.


Can you recommend us any hot places apart from 798?

Cao Chang Di maybe is newest place with lot of attraction. I see a lot of people searching every inch of Cao Chang Di trying for studio space or to build a studio and sublet to other artists.


What do you do usually when you are not working?

I work and sleep in the same space, so work and play all merge together..I will be watching my favorite DVDs on my laptop at the same time designing on another computer. If i am not working at home I will put on a t shirt with "I am actually away from my computer" printed on my back and walk around, go wherever my feet take me.


What is your next plan?

I don't have a plan, my plans never worked. I play it by ear.


Can you give readers a message?

Never listen to others.


Lulu
Tel: +86 136 8302 6373
lulu@didelidi.com

Text: Kyoko Tachibana

 

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2007 09 24 03:10 AM

"Do You Golf?"

A micro simulation of “Creating A Need”

Golf video footages being printed onto paper size of 100RMB paper notes. When the golf funny clips being demostrated, it will be played instead of a traditional media like TV screen or a DVD player or even a computer but a electronic money counting machine. As a result viewer watching the golf funny clips like watching a flip book.

200709/20 - 09/26 ////// 798 时态空间

Watch Clips on Youtube

----------------------------Exhbition-----------------------------------------------------funny golf clips on US Dollars----------------------Lightning Babes learning to swing---------------------

 
 

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This series is derive from China gymnastic frenzy during 50's-70's. As part of my childhood memory, these propaganda-ish ideology influences are the common quality we shared with my genaration - people who born after 70's. Growing up remembering vaguelly take a part of "collectivism" activities, collecting fruits, picking cottons, delivered all to the village, with few "labour points" symbolically given in return. Like any other families in the country we equaly suffer of poverty, but there was an extrmely positive energy of servival around us. As the only cloestet female in my family my mother influenced my view of women. Identy seeking as a women in China in different age peroid has been the subject never diminished which is the motivation behind this work.

I designed Lightning Babe at 2005 when i was turning 33, around me there are very few of women figure i could agree with. I couldn't see the future of being any of these weman types. I am not very much concered of becoming some one i am not one day which will never happen. Drawing inspiration is what i wanted.

"Lightning babes",looks positive, sounds positive, energetic gymnastic school girls, like they all were back in my mother's generation. Almost despiratly positive, despiratly happy, which is what i wanted to portrait.

Animated Wallpaper Poster

Crotch Series

Old Medicine Lable

Stickers

Emoticon Poster

 
 

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Posted by Didelidi 2007 11 19 01:10 AM

 

==========================WE ARE HERE FOR NETWORKING!==================================

We are small group of national and international creatives based in Beijing and Shanghai. Our work ranges from graphic to fashion to product design, from animation to short film to photography.We are interested in expanding our network...Selling food in order to gain food as is an age old way to sustain oneself...Setting up a shop is also a way to interact with a community, create a network so to say of customers,and this is exactly our intention, making contact as a means of survival...
The stand is be set up as an average chinese corner shop or 'xiao mai bu'.All products to be 'sold' will be objects of every day use as one would find in a convenience store. However, our selection should tend towards more desirable items such as alcohol, cigarettes, chocolate and such. We will obtain the objects ourselves, then either strip them of their original packaging and subsequently
redesign or alter the packaging to fit our needs, which is to distribute our individual contact informationThe items will be 'sold' in our stand/shop -but not for money. Items can be exchanged for name cards either one of the buyer themselves or one the buyer received while networking at the creative industries week. Less desirable items can be exchanged for one name card, more desirable products can be exchanged for two or more different name cards. Apart from the design of the stand and of the product packaging and/or alterations we will also make advertisements ranging from print to short film spots depending on time and money factors. Text by http://www.iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter.org

My handrolled Cigarette

Chan's sausage and namecard book

Gaoling"s noodles

Xiao Cai"s sunflower seeds adn peanuts

Our rice ball