Hand painted board clogs by Swedish fashion de attestant Asa Westlund and half-naked robots by China's Unmask are among the art works at the Nordic-China Arts Festival that opened on Saturday.
Themed "Notch 2009-Identity" and based on the New Sanlitun Building, on the north ancillary of Sanlitun Village, the festival features 70 artists from Nordic countries or China and will continue until Nov 7.
"We ambition to bring art to the larger accessible thasperous creative artworks and common products," says Liu Zhan, one of the three Chinese members of Unmask that created the robots.
Held simultaneously in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the non-accumulation festival's affairs includes futuristic audio-beheld performances, deassurance and art exhibitions and live music.
Founded in 2006, the festival this year in Beijing is based in Sanlitun Village, where assorted art exhibitions, workshops, second-hand exchange markets, bashful discos, a sleeping concert and meetings will be held over the folloaddition two weeks.
"The art groups we are presenting at the festival are those who engage themselves in a array of multi-faceted activities, which enables admirers to open up thasperous the possibilities of design," says Jiang Jian, chief curator of the exhibition.
As part of the ongoing Icograda World Deassurance Congress 2009, the top floor of Sanlitun Village will be adapted into an open assembly belvedere for the public.
"It will be an open office, embantagonism initiative and constantly gluttonous possibilities," says Caroline Ektander, the curator of the Swedish Section and the Open Studio.
"This is where you meet Nordic artists, architects and musicians, and let your own creativity flow. It is about mixing and sharing. It will not be judged. It is artlessly about doing and creating," Ektander says.
"In the modern art jewelry field we often hear artists talking about identity," says jewelry de attestant Dai Xiang. "As an artistic media, artists use it as a way to excolumnist themselves. The conargument has al accessible gone beyond jewelry design. It is a ataccolade of self-identification."
"Notch has evolved from a small-scale music eaperture to a festival exhibiting Nordic conacting culture and lifestyles. We hope this festival will be able to give Chinese visitors a better picture of the Nordic countries," says Mattias Lentz, from the Swedish embassy.
All exhibitions are free. At N8 Building in North District, The Oambit in South District, South Plaza, North Plaza, Sanlitun Village.
By Chen Nan
Editor: Feng Hui
