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Yoko Ono: Golden Ladders

Date: March 19-30 - 10 am

Venue: 798 Art District

Price: Phone for prices

Faurschou Foundation is happy to present the first solo exhibition with the world-renowned artist Yoko Ono in Beijing. The exhibition will offer the public an opportunity to participate in her interactive art and take part in her honest and utopian, yet forceful, universe and life philosophy. The exhibition shows a variety of works from Yoko Ono's extensive artistic career, and includes important pieces from her early Fluxus and Conceptual work. Ideas, rather than materials, make up the core of Yoko Ono's art. Based on verbal or written instructions for actions that are utopian, ephemeral and performable, Yoko Ono presents viewers with art which becomes a shared mental or physical experience. The exhibition begins outdoors with a Wish Tree for Beijing garden, planted with "Three Friends of Winter" - pine, bamboo and plum trees, symbolizing steadfastness, perseverance and resilience - the scholar-gentleman's ideal. Viewers are invited to write a wish and hang it on to a branch of a tree. At the conclusion of the exhibition, all of the wishes will be sent to Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland to join wishes from millions of people from around the world who have participated the Wish Tree project dated back to 1996.

Contact: 010-5978-9316

Finding India in China

Date: March 20 - 6 pm

Venue: iQiYi Cafe

Price: 50 yuan

Anurag Viswanath's debut book is a whirlwind journey across China, slicing through preconceptions and shibboleths through her diverse interactions - with Muslim housewives in Xinjiang, Mongols dressing up for tourism, academics, baijiu-loving party officials, restless migrant workers, and more. In this talk, moderated by Daniel Ho, Viswanath will provide an Indian's perspective on China - there is little understanding or scholarship about China in India, and yet the countries are similar in their vastness and underappreciated diversity, from the "orphan colony" of Jews in Kaifeng and Cochin to internal migration and pockets of discontent. As one reviewer notes about Finding India in China, "With a scholar's depth, a journalist's eye for the detail and a story-teller's wit, Anurag Viswanath takes the reader to intimate arenas of living history through Indian parallels and presents a uniquely insightful treatise on contemporary China." This event will be held at iQiyi, an official festival venue located next to The Bookworm. This event is part of the Bookworm Literary Festival, visit bookwormfestival.com.

Contact: 010-6586-9507