“Ooh la la” at Studio Rouge at the Bund
The island6 art collective makes its solo debut on the Bund with Ooh La La!, a colorful burst of dazzling LEDs, bright neon and interactive video. The exclamation, an English bastardization of the French oh là là, is used to indicate surprise, glee, commiseration, irritation, and just about any of the vast range of human expressions. In...
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Liu Dao interviewed by Shanghai 24/7
Here is an extract of the Shanghai 24/7 interview of Liu Dao collective represented by Jack and Katharina: Shanghai 24/7: What does island6 have in store for this year? Jack: We have lots going on. We have a lot of shows around the world; the New York show is opening up on the 25th, then we...
“Roll Down Your Window” (下车)
Roll down your window. Roll it down real slow. Know why I stopped you? Because you’ve done wrong. Repeat: you’ve done wrong. This here’s fifty-five. Now zip up your mouth and unzip your shirt. Nothing. Forget it. Know how fast you did? Is that a yes? Is that a no? No? No. I’ll tell you...
“Sticky Yukky Yummy and More”
(又黏又恶心又美味又……)
Blinding pixels. Bling bling walls. Polarized viewing slot. Boom, boom, boom through your veins like the hammering from the upstairs neighbor, that one old grumpy booze-hound that can barely fit through the door so much he’s abused on that two-cent gin and cigarettes that you find at that corner store with the shady dealer giving away...
“Nvwa” (女娲)
The heavens are anything but static, and the gods are anything but dull. Just because the Songs of Chu (楚辞) are from 2200 years ago, it does not mean the gods mentioned therein do not still live today. Nvwa, goddess of marriage and music, once remodeled the entire heavens using five-colored stones...
“Poley Moley”
(好戏在后头)
The happiest life is a tragicomedy: at its beautiful start, all we can do is cry; at its bleak finish, we search for laughter. The last will be first and the first don’t care where they finish anyway, laughing all the same. For some people, their funerals may hold few guests. Some of...
“Shanghai Itch” (上海之痒)
The “Shanghai Lady”, the famous metaphor for the Chinese metropolis, is remodeled in Shanghai Itch wherein the familiar figure, who once decorated the walls of pre-WWII Shanghai in posters selling Western products, has evolved into her own Marilyn Monroe. The iconic scene of Billy Wilder’s 1955 classic The Seven Year Itch once signaled a newer American...
Goddamned Shanghai
“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.” – Marlene Dietrich To the missionaries who stumbled green-faced and wobble-kneed off the bumboats in 1930s Shanghai, the city must have seemed a hellhole utterly damned beyond salvation. Heaving, pulsing filled with ritzy restaurants, opium dens, licensed whore houses, jazz clubs,...