Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Island Bar
Artist members involved in this project include
Riku Fujiwara
Born in Kochi, Japan in 1977, Riku Fujiwara is based in Yokohama and is active in several cities as a critic, artist, curator and theatre writer. In order to connect worlds separated by 'invisible barriers', in 2017 he conceived and designed the 'Island Bar' with transnational artists at the Adam Project, a gathering of Asian contemporary performance networks. "The Island Bar.
As a theatre critic, Riku Fujiwara co-manages the theatre criticism website "The Best of Theatre" with Kyoko Tokunaga, and in 2019 he co-founded the art group "Serendipity Shrug" in collaboration with Mitsuri Sumiyama. Since 2017, Riku Fujiwara has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Saison Cultural Foundation and an Ambassador for East Asian Cultural Exchange at the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Meihua Yu
Yu Mei-hua is a Hong Kong-born, multidisciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her work mixes dance with various artistic expressions, and her one-on-one performance situations deal with autobiography and the conflict between memory in the construction of the individual and the community.
Yu graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in Dance in 2015, and was the rehearsal director of Singapore's Artistic Incarnation Dance Company from 2000 to 2010. She was invited to be a juror for the 2018 Dance Platform Festival in Germany.
Her recent works include Reading Self-Memory, Wing Tin Terrace, Hong Kong, 2015; Island Bar, Taipei Arts Festival 2018. In collaboration with choreographer Saville Lehua, she presents Tentative Title 2015, Still Untitled and Rite of Spring 2018.
Sumiyama Mitsuri
Born in 1986 in Osaka, Japan, she studied architecture at Kyoto University of Technology and Fibre and has appeared in various genres of contemporary dance, dance and theatre, and has collaborated with various directors.
Since 2010, Sumiyama Mitsuri has been creating his own work, connecting with audiences through homemade props, and has performed his work "The Pen Talk" in Kyoto, Osaka, Busan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Kochi, Yangon and Yogyakarta. In this performance, participants communicate only through completely wordless writing.
SONG Yi-min
Yvonne Song is a theatre director and scriptwriter living in Seoul with multiple identities in Korea, Taiwan and China. She draws on her own life experiences to expose the contradictions inherent in being a foreigner or expatriate in a so-called 'homeland', thus exploring alternative conceptions of space and borders.
As a member and co-founder of Bjung Society, a theatre group founded in 2012, Song Yi Min observes and derives a range of attitudes, relationships and stylistic forms from social phenomena, exploring what can be done beyond the binary of 'majority-minority', 'oppressor-victim'. -Victim".
Song Yi Min's recent works include Chairs, Eyes and Blind Prophets (2018), Like Roots, Like Feet (2018), Body and Earth are Not Two (2018), and Real Masterpieces (2019). In these works she experiments with variable or mobile stage installations, tabletop systems, burger recipes, simulated toys and non-linear narrative structures.
JK Annicoche
JK Annicoche is a performing artist committed to art, culture and social development. He is the Artistic Director of the contemporary culture lab Sipat Lawin Inc., a founding member of the Komunidad X group and Director of the Karnabal Festival of Performing and Socially Innovative Arts.
Anicoche's "Peaceful Community Performance" project in Mindanao, Philippines, received the 2019 Davis Peace Project USA Award, the 2018 Ginebra Ako Para sa Entablado Award and the 2018-2019 Asian Cultural Council of New York Fellowship in recognition of his work in research in the performing arts and civic engagement.
Annicoche's work has been performed at the 2019 Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, the 2017 Asia Pacific Triennial Performing Arts Festival, and the 2014 Melbourne Next Wave Festival, among others. He is currently working on a new work for the 2019 Tokyo Arts Festival.
Pavinee Ae Samakkabutr
Pavinee is a performer, lighting designer and producer who has been working in the field of theatre and performing arts for over 15 years, collaborating with various theatre companies in Thailand and internationally. Since graduating from the National University of Law and Economics in Thailand, she has pursued her passion and developed her artistic expertise. She is one of the founders of Democrazy Theatre Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand.
Pavinee co-produced the first and second Bangkok International Children's Theatre Festival, Thailand's first international theatre festival for young audiences, with the agency Arts on Location and Democrazy Theatre Studio.
Kusudai Class
First established in Shanghai in the spring of 2005, Cao Tai Ban is an event and production company led by Zhao Chuan, which produces marginal but highly social contemporary theatre productions. For more than a decade, they have been using a variety of venues for non-profit rehearsals and discussions, emphasising the awareness of issues and the positive relevance of theatre to the lives around them, and inspiring ordinary people to engage with theatre and creativity.
The collective's major productions include the "Grass and Mustard" series and the "Social Theatre Trilogy": "The World Factory", "Small Society" and "Madman's Tale", which have been performed in over ten cities in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, as well as in Asia, Europe and America.
The members of the group include: Wu Jiamin, Sun Dahui, Zhang Ruoshui, Christopher Connery, Cao Yongjie, Zhang Xun, etc.
The Platform Group
The Moon Platform Group was established in Hangzhou in 2016.
The word "platform" was originally used for the platform of an ancient building, where one could stand on the platform and enjoy the moon without any obstruction. It now also means railway station platform. The words moon and platform are combined to form the word 'fetus'. The main meaning of the word is to set out together, to enjoy the moon together and to embody the power of life. The works in Platform are mainly in the form of video, live performance, theatre and installation. Capturing the poetry of the everyday, it brings art to the public and opens up unlimited collaboration to those who wish to enjoy the moon together. In the form of "fetuses", they are born in various public places and split into various living entities, exploring China's public space in the flesh.
His works have been exhibited in Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuzhen, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Zurich and many other places.
The creators of this exhibition: Chen Clang, Summer, Huang Dai, Zhang Xinyuan and Yiwa.
Director
Born in Shanghai, a Ningbo native who has lived nomadically in Shanghai for over thirty years, he speaks Shanghainese and has a good command of Mandarin.
Since I was very young, he/she has called me 'Shanghainese'.