Wall=5 Documentaries screening + 3 Poets + 7 Musicians + More

Weather it's red or grey wall, if it's a wall, it can close up what is there. Since the beginning of this year 2017, Beijing started to use walls to close up thousands of shops which have interesting life in the hutong. Here we hold this event: Wall to memorize all the sadness

LINEUP

杨文亮 Wenliang ／ 肆通俱乐部 4 Channels Club／anxt=anx·i·e ty + Jiu Shang | Calligraphy／Pacalolo／The Peppercorns 飞椒乐队／WuJing／Dan Taylor

WHEN

2017-08-20 SUN 14:00

WHERE

Yue Space 7 Banqiaonanxiang, Dongcheng district

TICKETS

Presale:80 Door:100

Ticket Link

http://www.musikid.com/new/station/20627

Weather it's red or grey wall, if it's a wall, it can close up what is there. Since the beginning of this year 2017, Beijing started to use walls to close up thousands of shops which have interesting life in the hutong. Here we hold this event: Wall to memorize all the sadness.

THE WALL . MUSICIANS

杨文亮 Wenliang

Bornin Jilin, North-East of China, he is a young composer, music producer and musiceditor, engaged in film and television misic production and editing. Hispersonal style is built upon the concept of free exploration. His works gotapproval by Zhang Yadong, Chen Weilun and other well-known music producers. In2012, he arranged the winning track “Olive Tree” for the winner of Rock TheWeb, the female singer Xuan Ling Mu. He has long-standing collaborations withthe well-known S.A.G Sound Art Group, Chen Weilun, Cui Jian and Na Ying.

肆通俱乐部 4 Channels Club

4 Channels Club is a solo Chiptune/8-Bit musicproject of MaYao (The Grinding Ear’s Guitarist) which seeks to put the Gameboyhardware to its limits.4 Channels Club creates various types of electronicmusic and all infused with 8-bit sounds from a 1989 Nintendo Gameboy.

anxt=anx·i·e ty

Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa,anxt fuses an array of musical elements to create moody electronic soundscapes.Set to the backdrops of urban field recordings with hip hop carved beats hetakes you on a journey of the world that he’s lives in.

“My love for nature and urbanlandscapes is what influences my sound, and I try and contextualise thisimagery into a musical soundscape that captures these moments or ideas, and Itry and translate them to the listener.”

He is also makes up a quarter ofMacondo which has been making waves around the Beijing music scene, to which helends his skills as producer and songwriter to create high energy “ElectronicPost Rock”.

Influenced by the likes ofBonobo, Tycho, Beacon, Nosaj Thing and the music of his childhood he createsdeeply emotional music that gives the listener a glimpse inside the world whichis anxt.

anxt is currently released his debutSingle, you can listen here: http://music.163.com/#/song?id=482111410

anxt's EP is set to be released inwinter, 2017, so get ready to be transported.

+ Jiu Shang | Calligraphy

Pacalolo

Formedin fall 2008 at the urging of friends, Pacalolo had a period of changing itsplayers while its songs developed into their present emphasis on melody,English storytelling, and rhythm. Pacalolo can be called a synth pop rock bandor a alternative dance band, and it plays a combination of rock and roll andelectronic instrumentals to underpin lyrical ballads in mostly English (someChinese) that tell often haunting stories about the seedy worlds of KTV,estranged love, transcendence, and China’s waking soul. Their live show alwaysturns into a high-energy fun party.

The Peppercorns

The Peppercorns is aband that plays heavy psychedelic rock music rooted in a classic 70's style,drawing inspiration from prog and art rock. The band is guitar heavy withexperimental synth however their songs still maintain a pop sensibility.Fronted by Edog Wonderlogg II with Kangaroo Zhong on guitar, Brain 2.0 ondrums, and Yan Von3000 on bass. Get ready for helicopters, paratroopers, andatomic lizards.

Dan Taylor

Singer-songwriter Dan Taylor hails from Yorkshire. Hehas been influenced by the traditional celtic music of the British Isles andnow blends rock and folk during his performances. Dan Taylor has beenperforming in and around Beijing for the last few years. he fronts the bands'The Harridans' and 'Phuture Vulture and the Absolute', and often plays soloacoustic gigs.

WuJing

" When other people can't help me to realize my thoughts, Iwill choose to study, and do it myself." ---Wujing

Well-known as a professional visual artist, 2D, lines, Taichi ishis symbol, the sense music he has is praised.

As a music pruducer also, he is showing his attitude in manydifferent msuic styles. He released his debut EP "SoundWarfare" and album "BlackPulse" in 2016. His talent and thingshe produces have made him a super individual.

墙 . 纪录片放映 ／ THE WALL . DOCUMENTARYIES

FlickingForehead Space/弹脑门儿空间

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Building On Show

by Sofie Holten

“Flicking Forehead” is a project space initiated in Beijing in April 2014. Using “exchange” as a method, it triggers various events occurring with the limited confines of space. By trying to set up a parallel micro-reactor between cyberspace and physical space, “Flicking Forehead” aims to explore how different relations, processes and structures interact and chemically react within it as blood, flesh, and bones.

A temporary building moved from the outskirts of the city to its very inside on Saturday the 21st of June at 5 pm. It underwent changes as it adapts to its new circumstances.

The exterior envelope of the building is a blurry, undefined edge. Just as the boundaries of the city where the building is presently standing. To look at it is to feel one’s eye linger at the surface of its body. The eye gets lost in the blur while seeking a glimpse of an interior. The act and economy of looking is now part of the building.

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Beijing Portraits/《北京肖像》

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Zajia Lab Projects/《杂家计划胡同音乐会系列：惋惜之情》

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《杂家计划胡同环境即兴系列：Mind Fiber+李增辉》

by 荣光荣 Rong

荣光荣是一位中As an independent filmmaker from China, he not only shoots films but also writes poems and essays. He is desirous and persistent to record things that touch his heart in his life and regards literature and film as a lifelong dream to chase. He is a behaviorist without borders, his works ranging from photography, recording, film and transformation of spaces. He founded Zajia Lab in Beijing. His documentary film Children are not afraid of death, Children are afraid of ghosts has got the NETPAC Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam.

When we opened a project room in Beijing hutongs our family moved next to our space near Drum Tower. After few months I became a member of the neighborhood.

They often asked me “Rong, why are you always so busy?” I couldn’t follow them in the beginning, but then I began to realize why they ask such a question and I started to film their stories.

Though this area is in the central axis of Beijing’s inner 2nd Ring Road, the core of the city, all the reforms, opening after the 1980’s, crazy economic boom and the internet era didn’t change the life of these people who were still living the way their families used to since the 1950’s. They are still having cheap noodles, using the public toilets as the Communist Party imposed them in the past, paying a house rent of twenty rmb per month, playing majiong in the alleys, and still getting minimum life security benefit. The demolition plan and relocation of the Drum Tower area’s inhabitants to new flats out of the 5th Ring could be the only chance to have a property and a home with toilet and heating, but it means also to leave forever the place where they lived all their lives.

They say that for all the suffering they had been through in Chinese history, they can face this with confidence and stay in calm.

Today Grandpas and Grandmas are still having cheap noodles, but they are also talking about millions yuan of compensation.

The contrast between the extreme poverty of the residents and extremely high land prices is a sensitive topic in China. Filming them will be harder and harder.

I am still shooting the second part and trying to answer their question:

Rong, why are you always so busy?

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Spray Paint Beijing/《北京涂鸦》

by Lance Crayon

Lance Crayon来自德克萨斯州沃斯堡，曾在北京生活五年（2009-2015）。在这段时期他在北京意识到并十分欣赏这座城市繁荣的胡同氛围。

Lance Crayon is from Fort Worth, Texas and lived in Beijing for five years (2009 - 2015). During his time in the nation's capital he appreciated and enjoyed the city's thriving hutong atmosphere.

《北京涂鸦》是对快速发展的城市中兴起的一种隐秘艺术形式的粗略的审视。拍摄历时一年（2011-2012），这个项目追踪了中外涂鸦者在真诚投入这种在世界上绝大多数国家被贬低的艺术形式。

Spray Paint Beijing is a raw look at an art form emerging in a city that could hardly keep up with itself. Filmed over the course of one year (2011 - 2012), the project follows both Chinese and foreign graffiti writers as they openly engage in an art form typically vilified in most countries throughout the world.

墙 . 诗 / THE WALL .POETS

Jady/刘琦麟

Jady is a freshman from Beijing Normal University. He organized an exhibition for indie magazines on World Book Day this year and he is the organizer of the Hutong Art Project. He loves culture and art and is willing to promote them.

Matias Ruiz-Tagle

No longer adman, dishwasher, pottery maker, kiwi fruit picker, shoe store servant, or hospitality slave. Committed cat sitter, plane seat hustler, filmmaking soldier, and beat maker wannabe; spending his days between dubious online courses, early morning writing rants, and high-rolling Montessori sketches.

Sintia Amber

Sintia Amber was born in Indonesia, currently studying medicine in Beijing. Also known as a singer and multi-instrumentalist. She took up photography and literature 3 years ago and her passion allowed her to explore new places and her creativity while documenting significant moments in her life.

THE WALL . ZINES ILLUSTRATION

Hole in the Wall

Hole in the Wall is a collaborative zine between illustrators Jinna and Shui. Overwhelmed by the vibrant energy of the city, we wanted to document the young, the excited and the lost. Hence the first issue was born. Our second issue focuses on hutongs, bars and music.

As frequent nightcrawlers for the hutongs, we're often in and out of bars in the gulou area. Recent changes in the hutongs made us realise that if we don't record the now, it may be lost forever. So on May 26th we stayed up bar hopping, drawing the night as it unfolded.

Anna Gale

I'm an American girl. I moved to Beijing 2 years ago from Nicaragua to continue on the road of creating art. My main influence is the culture that surrounds me, and my style can be interpreted in many ways depending on who is looking. What inspires me most is the people, places, and things that I see on a daily basis.

Jen Rao

Jen Rao is a Chinese-Canadian artist from Vancouver, Canada. She first began exploring the hutongs in 2015 soon after relocating to Beijing. She was moved by the vibrant culture and sense of community present within the narrow alleyways.