Island6
Encyclopedia
island6 Arts Center is a not-for-profit, artist-run space
in Shanghai
, P.R.C. founded in 2006 by French curator
/artist Thomas Charvériat
.
island6's mission is to provide a forum for contemporary artists whose works explore social, aesthetic,
and philosophical issues and show "a large roster of European and Chinese artists whose work is exhibited in a series of tightly curated group shows."
Since April 2006, island6 Arts Center has had four locations in the Moganshan Lu area, the vibrant art district in Shanghai. Currently showing its 43rd exhibition, island6 has exhibited more than 500 artists from 21 different countries, sponsored 139 resident artists and helped in the creation and the production of around 2000 art projects. In 2007, island6 founded Liu Dao
, a multimedia art group composed of performance
, sound
, photography
and video
artists collaborating with engineers to create electronic art
.
Its success attracted many other entrepreneurs, resulting in the creation of 16 additional mills and the base for China's modern milling industry.
Later it was purchased by Rong Yiren
, Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 1998 and onetime business tycoon.
In 2002, the Fou Foong Flour Mill complex was sold to a real estate developer, most of the silos were demolished and the "small packaged flour" warehouse where island6 once stood was facing imminent demolition. The remnant of Suzhou Creek
’s industry was fought by architects and university professors, and island6 became historical heritage architecture. In 2006, the warehouse was rented out to Thomas Charvériat
, Margherita Salmaso, Zheng Guoyang
and Kang Jingfang who were responsible for the foundation of the first island6. On March 2006, Thomas Charvériat
registered Island6 Arts Center Ltd in Hong Kong and on April 1st 2006, “Invisible Layers, Electric Cities” http://www.island6.org/InvisibleLayers_info.html the first art exhibition organized by island6 (and curated by Allard van Hoorn & Margherita Salmaso) opened its door. From June 2006 to June 2008 Charvériat
assumed the direction of the space. For these two years, island6 was noted for its remarkable location in a field of rubble surrounded by "high-rises creeping in from the distance", standing as a prime example of Shanghai's transformation from old to new.
In June 2008, facing imminent eviction by real estate developers, island6 moved to Moganshan number 50 (m50
), a district of galleries inside old warehouses and factories, where it remains to this day.
Following a series of joint exhibitions between island6 and ifa gallery, the converted space, designed by French architect Philippe Diani and dressed with furniture by Aymeric Lefort, has undergone complete renovations. On August 2008, the space was once again rehabilated by Taiwanese architects Zheng Guoyang and Kang Jingfang. Starting January 2009, Thomas Charvériat
, seconded by Zane Mellupe, took the direction of the space. In October 2009, Binbin Wang joined island6's board of directors.
In 2010, writer Peter Bradt joined the curatorial team.
is the most frequent and extensive presence in the island6 Arts Center. The group’s works often use video recordings of simple movements to be turned into an animated sequence of bitmap
s. The results are alluring LED
representations that blink and shift in their own realities. Liu Dao’s works tend to move in the themes of sensory
engagement, voyeurism
, urban development, tradition
versus modernity
and technology
, and Chinese cultural history
.
program, which was set up in 2006 to help artists from around the world interact with the constantly shifting energy of Shanghai
and build a relationship with its inexhaustible dynamic. Resident artists have over 750 square meters to work with, as well as an exhibition
area and production studio, while staying near Shanghai University
. It is a member of the International Artist-in-Residence Organizations Res Artis
and Trans Artists Foundation
. By June 2010, the island6 Residency Program focused only on Chinese national artists and was by invitation only. The program was ceased in late 2010 due to the directors taking on a new direction. Nonetheless, Liu Dao still occasionally cooperates with other artists for the creation of truly unique pieces.
Artist-run space
An artist-run space is a gallery space run by artists, thus circumventing the structures of public and private galleries.Artist-run spaces have become realised as an important factor in urban regeneration...
in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, P.R.C. founded in 2006 by French curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
/artist Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat is an artist, curator and art director.- Life :Thomas Charvériat was born in Paris and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1998, and pursued graduate coursework at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine...
.
island6's mission is to provide a forum for contemporary artists whose works explore social, aesthetic,
and philosophical issues and show "a large roster of European and Chinese artists whose work is exhibited in a series of tightly curated group shows."
Since April 2006, island6 Arts Center has had four locations in the Moganshan Lu area, the vibrant art district in Shanghai. Currently showing its 43rd exhibition, island6 has exhibited more than 500 artists from 21 different countries, sponsored 139 resident artists and helped in the creation and the production of around 2000 art projects. In 2007, island6 founded Liu Dao
Liu Dao
Liu Dao Liu Dao Liu Dao (a Pinyin phrase meaning "island number 6" - , is an international multidisciplinary art collective based in Shanghai, China. Liu Dao was founded in 2006 by island6 Arts Center under the direction of French curator Thomas Charvériat. Liu Dao is an electronic art group...
, a multimedia art group composed of performance
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
, sound
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and video
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
artists collaborating with engineers to create electronic art
Electronic art
Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music...
.
Origins in The Fou Foong Flour Mill
island6 was first established at Moganshan road number 120 (located at 31.247841°N 121.449316°E), in the Fou Foong Flour Mill, a four-storey red brick building designed in 1897 by the British architectural firm of Dallas & Atkinson. The Fou Foong Flour Mill was founded by Mr. Sun Duoxin and his brother Mr. Sun Duosen (from Anhui province) who made it the largest and most advanced mill of Asia of the late nineteenth century by being the first ones to import American machinery and by offering its 2,000 employees the benefits of a hospital and two on-site schools.Its success attracted many other entrepreneurs, resulting in the creation of 16 additional mills and the base for China's modern milling industry.
Later it was purchased by Rong Yiren
Rong Yiren
Rong Yiren was the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 1998 and was heavily involved with the opening of the Chinese economy to western investment. It is from this second accomplishment, that the western media called him "The Red Capitalist".-Biography:Rong was born in...
, Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 1998 and onetime business tycoon.
In 2002, the Fou Foong Flour Mill complex was sold to a real estate developer, most of the silos were demolished and the "small packaged flour" warehouse where island6 once stood was facing imminent demolition. The remnant of Suzhou Creek
Suzhou Creek
Suzhou Creek is a river in China that passes through the Shanghai city centre. It is named after Suzhou, a city in neighbouring Jiangsu province which was the predominant city in this area prior to the rise of Shanghai as a metropolis.One of the principal outlets of Lake Tai, Suzhou Creek has a...
’s industry was fought by architects and university professors, and island6 became historical heritage architecture. In 2006, the warehouse was rented out to Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat is an artist, curator and art director.- Life :Thomas Charvériat was born in Paris and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1998, and pursued graduate coursework at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine...
, Margherita Salmaso, Zheng Guoyang
Rose Tang
Rose Tang is the pseudonym of an ambiguously-gendered,semi-fictional artistic personality based on Taiwanese-bornarchitect, biologist and zoologist Zheng Guoyang, under the art directionof French-born founder of the island6 Arts Center,Thomas Charvériat....
and Kang Jingfang who were responsible for the foundation of the first island6. On March 2006, Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat is an artist, curator and art director.- Life :Thomas Charvériat was born in Paris and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1998, and pursued graduate coursework at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine...
registered Island6 Arts Center Ltd in Hong Kong and on April 1st 2006, “Invisible Layers, Electric Cities” http://www.island6.org/InvisibleLayers_info.html the first art exhibition organized by island6 (and curated by Allard van Hoorn & Margherita Salmaso) opened its door. From June 2006 to June 2008 Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat is an artist, curator and art director.- Life :Thomas Charvériat was born in Paris and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1998, and pursued graduate coursework at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine...
assumed the direction of the space. For these two years, island6 was noted for its remarkable location in a field of rubble surrounded by "high-rises creeping in from the distance", standing as a prime example of Shanghai's transformation from old to new.
In June 2008, facing imminent eviction by real estate developers, island6 moved to Moganshan number 50 (m50
Suzhou Creek Art District
Suzhou Creek Art District is home to Shanghai’s contemporary art scene. An alternative name for the quarter is 50 Moganshan , which is the actual address or site of the art quarter...
), a district of galleries inside old warehouses and factories, where it remains to this day.
Move to M50
Established in 2006 in m50 (located at 31.247841°N 121.449316°E), the new island6 space was founded towards the promotion of emerging and prominent Chinese and international artists. The m50 district is found at the heart of the former Shanghai Chunming Roving Factory. Located on the southern bank of the Suzhou River, m50 art district was once called the Xinhe Spinning Mill, belonging to the Zhou-family and supplied merchants from Anhui province with cotton and textile. In 1994 the enterprise was renamed Shanghai Chunming Woolen Mill.Following a series of joint exhibitions between island6 and ifa gallery, the converted space, designed by French architect Philippe Diani and dressed with furniture by Aymeric Lefort, has undergone complete renovations. On August 2008, the space was once again rehabilated by Taiwanese architects Zheng Guoyang and Kang Jingfang. Starting January 2009, Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat
Thomas Charvériat is an artist, curator and art director.- Life :Thomas Charvériat was born in Paris and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1998, and pursued graduate coursework at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine...
, seconded by Zane Mellupe, took the direction of the space. In October 2009, Binbin Wang joined island6's board of directors.
In 2010, writer Peter Bradt joined the curatorial team.
island6 art collective (Liu Dao 六岛)
The art collective Liu DaoLiu Dao
Liu Dao Liu Dao Liu Dao (a Pinyin phrase meaning "island number 6" - , is an international multidisciplinary art collective based in Shanghai, China. Liu Dao was founded in 2006 by island6 Arts Center under the direction of French curator Thomas Charvériat. Liu Dao is an electronic art group...
is the most frequent and extensive presence in the island6 Arts Center. The group’s works often use video recordings of simple movements to be turned into an animated sequence of bitmap
Bitmap
In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to...
s. The results are alluring LED
LEd
LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....
representations that blink and shift in their own realities. Liu Dao’s works tend to move in the themes of sensory
Sensory
Sensory may refer to:relating to senses or smellIn biology:* Sensory preference* Sensory system, part of the nervous system of organisms* Sensory neuron, nerve cell responsible for transmitting information about external stimuli...
engagement, voyeurism
Voyeurism
In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered to be of a private nature....
, urban development, tradition
Tradition
A tradition is a ritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, with origins in the past. Common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes , but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings...
versus modernity
Modernity
Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, and Chinese cultural history
Cultural history
The term cultural history refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter.Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural...
.
Artist in Residency Program
A key component of the gallery is its residencyArtist in residence
Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....
program, which was set up in 2006 to help artists from around the world interact with the constantly shifting energy of Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
and build a relationship with its inexhaustible dynamic. Resident artists have over 750 square meters to work with, as well as an exhibition
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...
area and production studio, while staying near Shanghai University
Shanghai University
Shanghai University is a public, comprehensive university located in Shanghai, China. The university has the longest serving President; Chien Wei-zang since 1982 until he died in 2010. He was a well known scientist in China...
. It is a member of the International Artist-in-Residence Organizations Res Artis
Res Artis
Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programs, representing the interests of more than 300 centers and organizations in 50 countries worldwide that offer international artists the optimum conditions for producing art...
and Trans Artists Foundation
Trans Artists Foundation
Trans Artists Foundation informs world wide objectively about international Artist in residence programs. The information is intended for artists of any discipline: visual arts, literature, music, performing arts, architecture, design, dance....
. By June 2010, the island6 Residency Program focused only on Chinese national artists and was by invitation only. The program was ceased in late 2010 due to the directors taking on a new direction. Nonetheless, Liu Dao still occasionally cooperates with other artists for the creation of truly unique pieces.
Previously Represented Artists, 2006-2010
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Artist's Name Country of Nationality Exhibitions 
Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", "Urban Lust", “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China", "Nuit Blanche", "Eurasia One", "Remote/Contol", "Bits, Bytes and Pixels", "I Love LEDs" Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China" Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China", "Nuit Blanche", "Eurasia One", "Platform for Urban Investigation II", "Remote/Contol", "Bits, Bytes and Pixels", "Untitled Santa", "I Love LEDs", "Getting Along" Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds" Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China" 
Republic of China TaiwanTaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China", "Remote/Contol", "Bits, Bytes and Pixels", "Untitled Santa", "I Love LEDs", "Getting Along", "Forward/Backward and Reloading" 
United Kingdom United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
"Eurasia One", "Forward/Backward and Reloading" 
Latvia LatviaLatviaLatvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China" Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust” 
United States United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds" United Kingdom United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China" 
Brazil BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata" 
Early Modern France FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds" Early Modern France FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
"Pi" Early Modern France FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”, “Clouds of Crowds", "Zero Gravity", "PlugIt", "Made in Shanghai", "Made in China", Lecture on Digital Arts, "Nuit Blanche", "Eurasia One", "Platform for Urban Investigation II", "Remote/Contol", "Stop/over Cities", "Bits, Bytes and Pixels", "Untitled Santa", "I Love LEDs", "Getting Along", "Forward/Backward and Reloading", "Platform for Urban Investigation", "Invisible Layers, Electric Cities" Mainland China ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
"Synesthesia", "Pi", "The Artist Died Yesterday", "Automata", “Urban Lust”
Notable Exhibitions
| Year | Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Invisible Layers, Electric Cities | The first ever island6 exhibition, Invisible Layers, Electric Cities featured 15 international artists, including Constantino Ciero (who later became part of the permanent exhibition at Museum FLUXUS+ Museum FLUXUS+ The museum FLUXUS+ is located in Potsdam, Germany and opened in the city’s new cultural centre Schiffbauergasse in April 2008. It is Potsdam's first museum of modern art. The 1000 sqm exhibition space of the two-storey building comprehends artworks from private collections... ), Thomas Charvériat Thomas Charvériat Thomas Charvériat is an artist, curator and art director.- Life :Thomas Charvériat was born in Paris and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography in 1998, and pursued graduate coursework at Columbia University, receiving a Master of Fine... and Lee Walton Lee Walton Lee Walton is an American artist whose work includes drawing, concept based systems, performance, video art, net art, and public projects.-Academic career:... . The work centered around a theme of urbanism as a framework of reality. |
| 2008 | Clouds Of Crowds | The final exhibition held at island6’s initial premises in the Fou Foong Flour Mill, Clouds of Crowds explored themes in time, space and environment. Engaging all senses, it showcased a series of interactive sculptures Interactive art Interactive art is a form of installation-based art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some installations achieve this by letting the observer or visitor "walk" in, on, and around them; Some others ask the artist to become part of the artwork.Works of... created by the island6 Lab, visual artists, and sound artists, as well as a live performance from Acid Pony Club. |
| 2008 | Urban Lust | Urban Lust was the first exhibition held at island6’s current home on 50 Moganshan Lu Suzhou Creek Art District Suzhou Creek Art District is home to Shanghai’s contemporary art scene. An alternative name for the quarter is 50 Moganshan , which is the actual address or site of the art quarter... . Jointly organized with Ifa gallery Ifa gallery ifa gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shanghai, China. The name ifa comes from Chinese 艺 and 法 , meaning methods of art, with the name in English taking a similar pronunciation: .... , it showed twenty-three artists of diverse cultural backgrounds. The show examined the theme of desire, how it is defined and how it affects the lives of people in the urban center of Shanghai. |
| 2009 | The Artist Died Yesterday | The Artist Died Yesterday was a group show featuring a diverse collection of artworks. It was created as a response to the way the internet, “affordable art” and changing expectations of art collectors have altered the role of the artist. It was also a part of the 2009 Jue Festival Split Works Split Works is a Beijing- and Shanghai-based concert promotion and brand activation agency. Founded in 2006 by Archie Hamilton and Nathaniel Davis, Split Works has produced both branded and independent live music events in Greater China and the wider Asia region... . |
| 2010 | Prophecies | Planned as a mixed-media show evaluating the power of foresight, conceptions of time and the study of the future, Prophecies gained controversy when it was cancelled before it was opened. |
| 2011 | Spring Floods and Peach Petals with The Arts House | With island6’s artwork traveling to Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... for the first time, Spring Floods was a collaboration between island6 and The Arts House. It showed thirteen new artworks reinterpreting the theme of traditional shan shui Shan shui Shan shui refers to a style of Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and often waterfalls are prominent in this art form.-History:... art. |
External links
- http://www.island6.org: island6 official website
- http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk: Free online gallery that allows artists to showcase their work
- http://www.rhizome.org: Online resource for people who are interested in new media art
- http://www.artknowledgenews.com: Global art news site
- http://www.shanghaiist.com: Review of island6 in the 2010 JUE Festival
- http://issuu.com/explore: "I know Why the Caged Birds Sing", Scope Basel 2011
- http://issuu.com/explore: "Shaolin Monk", Scope NY 2011