Fresh from winning Melbourne Fringe Festival’s 2018 award for Innovation in Diverse Practice, and sell-out seasons in Sydney, Melbourne and Iceland, nomnomnom debuts in China. In this immersive food delivery show, audience roleplay as nomnomnom staff on a job trial. Guided by star employee Trevor, you will walk the streets of Old Town interacting with actors and entering local businesses and residential houses. The twist? Nomnomnom isn’t a real food delivery company - it’s a companion service for ‘sheng nu’. The show runs 9-11 August. Sign up to see how far Trevor will go to please his female clients...
Starring: Daniel Last, 何湘云, Sharon Zhang, Maggie Guan, 郝正
My work is based on series, patterns, recurrences and the use of abstract forms. During my month at Untitled Space, I worked on a series of drawings and paintings in which I use traditional Buddhist and Chinese iconography to create abstract visual compositions. Thangka painting backgrounds are made with coded and abstracted representations of nature and landscape elements, each having a precise meaning and place in the overall composition. I extract these elements from their original context and combine them into non-narrative abstract compositions. I am interested in patterns and question the perception of shapes and symbolism when used outside of an originally intended setting. I explore the mnemonic effects in the narrative /non-narrative of forms and language while playing with positive and negative space in the structure of my compositions.
First Impression 《第一印象》 Mike McCormick (Canada 加拿大)
For my first project working in a visual medium, I wanted to create an algorithmic composition that would allow me to experiment with several programming environments and explore my visual aesthetic. Field recordings collected during evening walks in Zhujiajiao were used to compose a sonic portrait of the old city. This composition was then analysed for musical characteristics in real-time using the SuperCollider software. Data produced by the analysis was then fed into an algorithm written in Processing, which uses the data to “paint” a visual representation of the sonic scene.
The human body, especially the "body" that moves in space, has become the core content of this Shanghai resident creation. The "body" spatiotemporal state - its condensed energy and fluctuating moods - are imbued in the initial stage of painting,and then with the constant addition and removal of rationality, the picture presents a thick "simpleness", transcending time. I hope that the work itself will be in an open state. The viewer will see different pictures at different times, and I hope that people can constantly examine themselves when they see the painting.
This piece explores notions of being outside but looking in and inside but looking out. In doing so, I investigate how external forces exert themselves upon us to shape our selves in ways we never intended, giving rise to feelings of control and constriction. Shifting between specific movement efforts, I seek to combine fluidity with a more staccato musicality.