2010 Sep 16 Creators Invade 798
The Creators Project started its world tour in June in New York City, and has since made footprints in London, Sao Paulo and Seoul.
This weekend, from September 17 to 19, the Creators Project comes to Beijing, bringing together nearly one hundred artists, filmmakers and musicians to display their works and performances at 798 Art District.
Things kick off on Friday at 10pm, with Tresor. Beijing transforming one of 798’s disused factory buildings for a night of techno and other electronic sounds from German DJs. Entry is RMB 50. The Rose Bud, 706 North 1st Street, 798 Art District. Please note the Tresor event listed in this week’s 7 Days Newsletter for Saturday is in fact a panel discussion – the party is on Friday only.
On Saturday there will be a series of displays and exhibitions of artistic multi-media interactive works. Visitors will witness the Beijing debut of many current masters’ works from around the world, including award-winning artist Mira Calix, interactive music makers Radical Friend and United Visual Artists who have designed visuals for leading global acts such as Massive Attack, U2 and the Chemical Brothers. As for their Chinese counterparts, they will be represented by creative pioneers such as Li Hui, Peng Lei, Vega Wang, Xu Wenkai and Xu Feng.
Music is no doubt the highlight of the party, and the lineup includes Major Lazer feat Diplo, Delorean, New Pants, Re-tros, Queen Sea Big Shark and White+, as well as a few electronic artists and DJs such as Sulumi, B6, DJ Wordy, Dead J and Nick Catchdubs.
All of the exhibition spaces will be open to the public on Sunday.
Check out the time table of Saturday:
Music: 1st Factory (第一工厂)
No.2 Jiuxianqiao North Road 酒仙桥路2号
2pm B6 DJ Set
2.30pm Sulumi
3pm Dead J
4pm White+
5pm Queen Sea Big Shark
6pm Nick Catchdubs
6.30pm DJ Wordy
8pm Pop Song Panel: Diplo, Delorean, Sulumi, Moderated by Helen Feng
9.15pm Re-tros
10pm Delorean
10.30pm Nick Catchdubs DJ Set
11pm New Pants
12am Major Lazer, featuring Diplo
1.30am Tobias Thomas / Ada
Movies: Beijing House
NO.2 Jiu Xian Qiao North Road 酒仙桥路2号
Miao XianChun, H20-Fountains of Youth
10am The Creators Project, Reel
11am Danny Perez / Animal Collective, ODDSAC
12pm Richie Hawtin, Making Contakt; Sun Haipeng, 3 Films: Margherita Premuroso, Paper Plane, Will and the Wheel Brainfarm, Red Bull Young Jaws
1pm Ladj Ly, Go Fast Connexion
1.30pm Ray Lei, 4 Films
2pm Spike Jonze, I’m Here
2.30pm Peng Lei (New Pants), Room with a Cat
3pm Vega Wang, Workshop: Music, Fashion & Technology
4pm Peng Lei (New Pants), Workshop: How modern technologies impact on independent creation
5pm Gaybird, Workshop: New Musical interface and music
6pm Tresor discuss Space for electronic music and arts with Wang Mumu and Ricarda Sophie Fricke, hosted by Markus Schneider
7pm Spike Jonze, I’m Here
7.30pm Danny Perez / Animal Collective, ODDSAC
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Re: Creators Invade 798
After waiting for about an hour to get into the party on Saturday night, we found the place more than half empty. Not surprisingly, since the other half of the crowd was still lining up for a confrontation with a blond bored looking woman, who did not find the fact that the line was growing endlessly very impressive and did not consider for a moment to take over the computer from her Chinese colleague who did not manage to spell the name 'Steven' correctly after 4 efforts. After being told that the line was so long 'because it was a good party' we could not wait for this to be proven. With few people inside the way to the open bar was open where the offer of, arguably non-alcoholic, cocktails was impressive. The party did not kick off, though. With the bands leading up to Major Lazer giving away a good show, Diplo's tricks were expected to hit the crowd. A confused set, going from cheesy 90's to comfortable reggae beats, left me disinterested. When Diplo managed to call tens of people on stage to kick them off with rude language like: 'Get the f*** off my stage, who the f*** are you people, f*** off', I lost the last bit of interest and joined the smokers outside. Far away from this awkward party.