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Bringing Suzhou Village to the world

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-10-20 11:50

Boiler Corporation – Creative Management

Boiler Corporation is a creative agency and publishing house established in Milan in 2001that provides solutions for companies, institutions and publishers in Italy and abroad.

APAX Group – Production

APAX production was established in 2006, with fully equipped factories in Shanghai and Beijing. APAX Production is proud to be the key production suppliers of APAX Group for their premier events.

Uovo Project - Performers Management

Uovo is an international and undisciplined project that promotes contemporary creativity in its diverse declinations and expressive formats, going beyond the traditional division of genres and places of representation. A nomadic and undisciplined path that reflects on identity and creativity in the contemporary city, promoting the search of new forms of expression related to generational trends. Uovo presents internationally renowned and emerging artists that do not rigidly identify with traditional disciplines (theatre, dance, visual and plastic arts), but work across all of them. (uovoproject.it)

Recipient Collective – Visual and creative content

Recipient Collective is a Milan based collective of freelancers with rich and extensive areas of expertise which include multimedia communication, technology research and Audio/Video productions with in-depth knowledge at technical and operational level on artistic and commercial, as well as aesthetic and creative projects.

Nicole & Norbert Corsino – Artists

Interested in the kinetics of bodies and landscapes, Nicole & Norbert Corsino explore areas where dance can appear suddenly and be written to show how the movement of bodies modifies their nature. (nncorsino.com).

Strange Fruit – Performers

Strange Fruit is a Melbourne-based performing arts company that produces and performs a remarkable style of work that fuses theatre, dance and circus, using a unique elevated medium.

Perched atop 5-metre high flexible poles of original design, the troupe delivers a sublime performance, bending and swaying in the air, captivating and engaging the audience in absolute fascination (strangefruit.net.au).

Bringing Suzhou Village to the world

Bringing Suzhou Village to the world

Li Ke (Xiao Ke) – Choreographer and Performance Artist

At the age of six, Xiao Ke began her Chinese traditional dance education and training, which lasted for twelve years until she was enrolled by Fudan University in Shanghai from where she studied modern dance. In 2005, together with Zhang Xian and other artists, she co-founded ZuHe Niao Physical Theatre Company in Shanghai and the company won the ZKB Award at the Zurich Theatre Spektakel in 2006. In 2011, she co-founded the Cannot Help Art Collective with Zhou Zihan and Zhang Yuan that aims at probing into social issues through art that is trans-boundary and diverse. .

Bringing Suzhou Village to the world

Bringing Suzhou Village to the world

Huzi – Sound designer/musicians

Huzi is an established artist in Beijing's underground music scene, first appearing on stage as the front man in the late 90's alternative folk band, X-Doctor. In 2000, Huzi started to focus his work within the electro genre. Since then, Huzi has released three albums on China's indie label Modern Sky Records, with his last full LP, Gemini Trip, becoming one of the best selling Chinese electronica albums to date. In 2007, Huzi founded Pet Conspiracy, with two former band members. Since the founding, he has served as the band's producer and lead guitarist, and has worked to release the first full-length album, Pet Conspiracy, and the EP, Noise from the Future. Pet Conspiracy is a project, rather than a band, watching their shows is an experience, rather than simple entertainment. They have played in countries around the world, including Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway and Singapore.

BBF is a techno project founded in Berlin. Their approach is to combine electronic grooves with classical music. The instrumental parts of classical music are recorded as samples, processed electronically and performed live in a ensemble. They have performed at a number of international festivals, including the Glastonbury Festival and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. They released You Male Me Real (2007) Mr. Machine (2011) and Miami (2013). (brandtbrauerfrick.de).

Pierre Giner - Visual and Video Artist

Category-defying artist Pierre Giner uses new technologies, video, website and video games as his means of expression. His projects are built on thematic contents, with information and interactivity, critique and romance, and linearity and discontinuity coming together to unfold the theatre of fiction. In 2010 he conceived the exhibition MuseoGames at the Musée des Arts et Métiers de Paris and in 2011 he created CNAPn, a new virtual art space. In 2012 he set up the Imaginarium, a creative laboratory where art, research and innovation come together with public participation. In 2013, given a carte blanche by the CNAP, he designed the exhibition images Comme des oiseaux with photographer Patrick Tosani and devised its digital offshoots. He is currently in residence at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at Lieu Unique in Nantes, tasked with imagining and developing objects, apparatuses and digital programmes for each space. (pierreginer.net).

Patrick Vidal – DJ

Patrick Vidal, resident DJ at Club Silencio (David Lynch's club in Paris), BLT (Maxim's) is a well-known DJ, personality and artist. He was singer/guitarist of the mythic New Wave Punk band Marie & Les Garçons, who recorded with John Cale, played at C.B.G.B, and toured with Patti Smith & Talking Heads. Patrick started to spin in NYC where he lived in the mid-eighties then returned to France where he became Resident DJ at Les Bains-Douches and opened for David Bowie‘s Serious Moonlight Tour with a new band OCTOBRE. His passion for music led him to DJing, Sound Design, creation of new parties and performances.

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