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[Upcoming]

*Capturing Twilight: A Film by Nirmala Karuppiah* Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011, 4pm Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre No. 155A Caochangdi, Beijing, China
In the film “Capturing Twilight”, award-winning photographer Nirmala Karuppiah presents the first part of an exploration and tribute to the ancient art of Chinese Opera. While Chinese Opera is still practiced in a contemporary context and forms an integral part of Malaysia's heritage, it is nonetheless an endangered performance art in Malaysia. Karuppiah’s film sheds light on the value of this tradition and the importance of preserving it. Chinese Opera is part of the Chinese-Malaysian cultural identity. Through this art form, migrant Chinese workers were able to celebrate and pass on the best parts of Chinese history and culture. In China, the government actively promotes this ancient art form to the younger generation in schools. By complete contrast, Chinese Opera in Malaysia is slowly vanishing into the twilight zone, as there is no specific drive to preserve this important part of Malaysian history and cultural identity. Karuppiah explores Malaysian Chinese Opera by focusing on the performances of a leading, senior prima-donna, Master Elizabeth Choy Yim Heong. Her initial encounters with Master Choy are captured through the film. The work pays homage to her and to other members of this performance art, and constitutes a tribute to their dedication and strength in keeping the history and legacy alive. It depicts the colors, movement, thought and rituals of stage preparation as well as moments of private artistic intensity, all during the Hungry Ghost Festival. Karuppiah presents a viewing of her short art film, “Capturing Twilight”, at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, China. The film was first screened at the Shalini Ganendra Fine Art Gallery Residence in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.



[Past]
Seeing People and the Space Around Them: Workshop with ICP Instructor Anja Hitzenberger Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre No. 155A Caochangdi, Beijing, China Dates & Time: October 8 & 15, 2011, 9:30am – 4:30pm both days Tuition: 500 RMB Registration required: only 15 slots available!
Learn new ways of seeing people in relation to an architectural environment with ICP (International Center of Photography) instructor, Anja Hitzenberger. This two-session workshop is for those who want to create dynamic compositions and develop a heightened sensitivity to photographing people in various surroundings. Participants will be inspired to find their own voice for photographing people in space through a shoot in the unique architecture of Caochangdi, an assignment and final critique. We will also make a comparative study of historical and contemporary photographers and filmmakers, from documentary to conceptual. Students may work in digital or film in any camera format. The workshop will be in both English and Mandarin. Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker and video artist whose work focuses on the body and its relationship to architecture and space. She has received numerous grants, commissions and residencies for her work from the Austrian government and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York). She is also currently on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in New York, where she teaches Personal Vision photography classes. For examples of her work, please visit her website at www.anjahitzenberger.com. To Register, Please Contact: workshops: threeshadows@gmail.com For Details, Please Contact: Leise hook.3shadows@gmail.com



“Enlightenment in Dialogue” series of events
Salon V: Enlightenment and Emancipation Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre No. 155A Caochangdi, Beijing, China Date: Saturday, September 3, 2011 3.00 – 5.30 pm Chair: Michael Kahn-Ackermann, Former Regional Director Goethe-Institut China, Senior Advisor to the Confucius Institute Panelists: Professor Li Xiaojiang Ph.D., Former Director, Institute for Gender Studies, Dalian University. Professor Christina von Braun, Institute for Cultural Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. Museum for East Asian Art, National Museums in Berlin Language: Chinese/English with simultaneous translation
Content Description After the heyday of the Enlightenment in Europe and later in China, women who had been suppressed for millennia were suddenly able to occupy positions they had been denied before. What led to this change? If we look at it now, after nearly two centuries of emancipation, what has been achieved? Focusing on women´s position in society in both China and Europe, this event explores the idea of emancipation.

Salon VI: Art and Historical Memory Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre No. 155A Caochangdi, Beijing, China Date: Sunday, September 4, 2011 3.00 – 5.30 pm Chair:Michael Kahn-Ackermann, Former Regional Director Goethe-Institut China, Senior Advisor to the Confucius Institute Panelists: Chen Danqing, Artist and Art Critic Professor Klaas Ruitenbeek Ph.D., Director, Museum for East Asian Art, National Museums in Berlin Language :Chinese/English with simultaneous translation
Content Description In the context of civilizations and politics in different countries, art helps with imagining, saving, possibly distorting, or even obliterating history. But after decades of years, art will become part of the history regardless of its form. Both China and Europe have rich contemporary history, yet there are significant differences in arts on historical subject. In this event, we would like to discuss the complicated relations between Chinese artists and history.

About the event series Stiftung Mercator is staging the “Enlightenment in Dialogue” series of events as an academic accompaniment to the exhibition “The Art of the Enlightenment” in Beijing. The official forums of the series have been organized by the foundation in partnership with the National Museum of China. In addition, it has independently initiated a series of salons on the subject, giving German and Chinese intellectuals the chance to exchange views and ideas on philosophical, social and artistic aspects of the Enlightenment. The salons are designed to imitate the classic salon of the Enlightenment and to offer a forum for open discussions of art, culture and philosophy. For more information, please visit: http://www.aufklaerung-im-dialog.de/salon-events/september-2011-en-US/ Registration via internet http://www.aufklaerung-im-dialog.com/participation/registration/ by text message 0086 1511 0055 057 (please state your name and the event you wish to attend)



Open Air Cinema Bike-in Screening at Three Shadows Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre No. 155A Caochangdi, Beijing, China Event date: Saturday, July 30, 7pm (bike ride), 8pm (film)
Let's bike to Caochangdi! Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Electric Shadows cordially invite you to show your support for biking in Beijing and enjoy a classic film in the summer evening air. The concept is simple: ride your bike to the screening and you will receive a discount on your admission. Admission also includes a raffle ticket for the chance to win a new Doppelgänger Model 601 espaso bike, provided by Asia Exhibits Sustainability! If you would like to ride with others, arrive at the Dongzhimen subway station, exit D, by 7pm with your bike. For those who prefer to ride solo, make sure to arrive before 8pm, when the outdoor film screening begins in the Three Shadows courtyard. This time around, the Bike-in focuses on black and white aesthetics with screenings of The Night of the Hunter and several independent short films. Directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters, The Night of the Hunter follows the story of a crooked reverend who infiltrates a family in search of its hidden fortune. Famous for its dark and atmospheric cinematography, this 1955 classic continues to influence filmmakers today. “ It's among those films that made an indelible impression on you when it came out.” --The Guardian “ Robert Mitchum plays the murderous minister with an icy untuousness that gives you the chills. There is more than malevolence and menace in his character. There is a strong trace of Freudian aberration, fanaticism, and iniquity.” --The New York Times Three Shadows Photography Art Centre is a non-profit art centre dedicated to the promotion of photography and video arts in China. Electric Shadows is a non-profit collective helping to shape the evolution of public cinema in China, programming beautiful film events in Beijing, putting films on big screens and expanding the cinema into galleries, theatres, deserts and discos. Media sponsor: TimeOut magazine. Entrance: 20 RMB by bike, 40 RMB general. For Details, Please Contact: Vicky: electricshadows.bj@gmail.com Lucie: lucie.parola@gmail.com ; 18210126374 Leise: hook.3shadows@gmail.com





*Fog, Fire, Virility: A Presentation of* Works by the Three Shadows Summer Artists-in-Residence Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre No. 155A Caochangdi, Beijing, China Date: Friday, August 5, 2011 Time: 8pm Featured artists: Svetlana Bailey, Diana Coca, and Maguire/Lum. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre’s three artists-in-residence from the summer of 2011 will present slideshows of their previous and current work in the Three Shadows courtyard. Svetlana Bailey photographs in fog in a variety of unrelated locations. In fog, objects become obscured and the horizon is hidden, which engages ideas of boundlessness and the uncertainty of perception. Fog acts like a portal to the transitory nature of one’s surroundings. Objects lose their finiteness of appearance, and we are reminded that the reality that surrounds us may not be as permanent or solid as we try to believe. Diana Coca raises questions about bodily identity, morality and taboo; our relation to and conventions built around them, whether they are acquired or violently imposed: 'Who am I? Who would I like to be? For a while I'm the melancholy of a fragmented figure, though in that interval mysteries are revealed.' The images are a deconstruction of the false cultural construction we call femininity. For Coca, the differences between men and women don't exist at birth, but instead are made. Maguire/Lum will be showcasing work from the last decade of practice. They photograph the extraordinary within ordinary men, showing them as Gods, follow their aspirations, reveal their bodies, all the way into their bedrooms and bathrooms. The work has been made in China, Philippines and Australia. "What’s a man now - what’s a man mean? is he rough or is he rugged ? Is he cultural and clean?" --Joe Jackson, 1981 The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre artist-in-residence program provides visiting photographers, artists, academics and curators with the opportunity to live and work in China.

Past

•	human negotiations Book Launch
•	July 10, 2010 Symposium
•	Nadine Stijns Photo Screening + Presentation of Works in Progress
•	Shanghai: A History in Photographs 1842 – Today Book Launch
•	Public Library for the Arts DSL Collection & RedBox Studio Project
•	Human Negotiations Photography Slideshow + DJ set
•	"Black White + Gray:A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe"Film Screening
•	1989: 365 Art Days in China and Germany Book Launch + Beijing – Berlin 1989 Photo Projection
•	Sound Kapital Night Photo Projection + Book Launch + Concert
•	ARTtrust China Launch
•	2009 Europalia International Arts Festival – Focus on China
•	Dutch art institutions delegation and Chinese photographers meet for a conference.
•	Seek Truth from Facts: Liu Heung Shing Photographs 1976-1983 Photographer's Talk .
•	August 2009，Past film Screen.
•	On August 16, 2009, the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre held a “Mysterious Photograms – Children’s Photography Activity.”
•	Movie Night on Saturday,July 18th


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