For the A4 Art Book Fair in 2022, the Archive participated with the live interactive project Chatting into a Book. This year, we will continue our live production work style with the live interactive creative project Love Hate Love Hate.
Who is your favorite person?
Who is the person you hate the most?
Does it make you hesitate to put it on paper?
Project Overview
▌Four days into the book fair, from April 6 to 9, the Archives booth D-A3, located on the second floor of the Museum of Fine Arts, will be set up with a rather ceremonial step pyramid structure, with a drop box placed at the top. Participants will walk up the steps to the top and write the name of their favorite or most hated person on pieces of paper, one word per piece of paper, and place them in the drop box when they are finished.
▌The pieces of paper in the drop box on the first three days will be given to a singer, a poet, and a calligrapher successively on that day, and the three will chant, write, and form poems based on the content of the pieces of paper. ……
▌On April 9, before the end of the book fair, from 17:30-18:30, in the Action 2 area in the center of the second floor of the Museum of Fine Arts, there will be a performance of the results of the project Love Hate Hate. A poet will appear to recite a poem, a calligrapher will present a tablet, after that, pieces of paper with surnames and first names written on the day of the 9th will be distributed to the audience on the spot, and each person will write the words on the pieces of paper they are holding onto an A4-sized canvas centrally, and lastly a musician will perform a song live.
▌Project output: a song, a poem, a tablet, a graphic work.
Creative Guests: Big Brother + He Xiaoqiang (musician), She Yang Sibo (poet), Sun Dawei (jinshi ologist)
Project Coordinator: He xi
Project Concept: Zhou Bin
Production Organization: UP-ON Performance Art Archive
Organizer: A4 Art Museum, 2023 A4 Art Book Fair
Big Brother is a male, born in 1968, originally from Xi’an, China.
Since 1992, he has been using the academic concept of Qinqiang blues-rock music style, making good use of rests, and advocating the original spirit of “preserving the sound of the mother tongue’s hearing”. In 1995, the single was included in the “Western Rock” Xi’an Cluster Platter tape. In 2010, the self-financed album “Yellow Gate Dunking” recorded seven original works in acoustic clear voice; in 2014, it was injected into the network for free and public use. 2018, the concept of continued non-fiction improvisation site, is embarking on # with your instrument sketching site, from “Qin cavity blues”, to “official cavity blues” to identify the site of the improvisation launched.
He Xiaoqiang is an independent musician, a judge of The Voice of China Western Region, and one of the founders of Xi’an Rock. He has been engaged in art, music and social activities for 36 years.
Resume: ● In 1992, he was engaged in band performance with Xu Wei, Zhang Chu, Zero Point and other bands. Released the album “Western Rock”; ● In 1999, organized the first “Cold Kiln Music Festival”, which is held annually. ●Founded the first rock music bar in Xi’an after 2003 till now. ●2017 Participated in the Improvised Film Scoring Competition of the Hancheng International Golden Frame Film Festival and won the Best Creativity Award.
Sun Dawei was born in Dali, Shaanxi Province, China.
Graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Arts, majoring in literature and technology. Young scholars, cultural relics connoisseur, topography expert, Xi’an City Goldsmiths Society President, long engaged in ancient artifacts identification and finishing research. He has published more than ten papers on gold and stone and other cultural relics in authoritative journals in the field.
Born in 1996, She Yang Sibo is a descendant of Lule Zimo of the Nuosu Umun mudskipper tribe of the ancient Yuyi (Yi), and is the 58th generation of the Lule of the Mohs.
He has been practicing painting since he was a child, walking back and forth between high mountain valleys and highways. He intervenes in reality with his creative methods such as action, video, installation, poetry, sound and event.
