MY STILL LIFE AS A PERSONAL OBJECT
9 November - 16 December 2007
Nick Goulis
Yu-Chen Wang
Andro Semeiko
David Blandy
Lakis and Aris Ionas
Opening Night: Thursday 8 November, 6-9pm (performance 8pm)
Gallery Opening Times: Fri- Sun, 12–6pm
Alma Enterprises: 1 Vyner Street, London E2
www.almaenterprises.com
Curated by BasementArtProject.com

www.BasementArtProject.com/mystilllife

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Two Hopes
17 – 26 October 2007
Andro Semeiko, Yu-Chen Wang, Mamuka Japaridze, Cyril Lepetit, Mathijs Lieshout, Nick Goulis, Mauricio Lupini, Charlie Tweed, Toin Klaassen and Clare Gasson
Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. Tbilisi, Georgia
www.britishcouncil.org/ge-arts-events.htm
Curated by BasementArtProject.com
www.BasementArtProject.com/twohopes
Supported by the British Council, Georgia
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Manchester Urban Screens
The Bigger Picture: Best of Open Submissions

9 November - 16 December 2007

Outdoor screenings at Cathedral Gardens outside Urbis, and Grosvenor Square, All Saints, off Oxford Road
9 - 14 October 2007
Organised by BBC Live Events
The Bigger Picture screens on the Big Screen in Exchange Square
11 - 14 October 2007
Organised by Cornerhouse
Urban Screens Manchester 07 is both an international conference and an enthralling four-day programme of art and events in Manchester city centre. Struggle For Existence has been chosen to be shown on 3 big screens in Manchester as part of a ‘Best of Open Submissions’ programme to play alongside the Urban Screens Conference in Manchester on 9th - 14th October.
www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk
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New Life and the Dream Garden
13 April - 6 May 2007
Lakis and Aris Ionas | Andro Semeiko | Alicia Paz | Mathijs Lieshout | Nick Goulis | Sheena Macrae | Yu-Chen Wang | Mauricio Lupini | Toine Klaassen | Jorge Rivera | Gordon Cheung
Fieldgate Gallery, 14 Fieldgate Street, London
www.fieldgategallery.com
Curated by BasementArtProject.com
www.basementartproject.com/newlife
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Saison Vidéo 2007
22 March 2007
Éléonore de Montesquiou, Victoria Ilyushkina, Mayya Popova, Masha Sharafutdinova, Yu-Chen Wang and Dmitri Makhomet
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
www.fracnpdc.fr
Organised by Espace Croisé, Centre d'Art Contemporain, France
www.saisonvideo.com
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SATELLITE WORKS/ UVRES SATELLITES
BANDES VIDÉOS PERFORMATIVES ::
:: PERFORMATIVE VIDEO STRIPS
6th Jan. 2007 La Centrale, Montréal
www.lacentrale.org
12 Jan-11 Feb 2007 Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City
www.meduse.org/oeildepoisson
Erika Arzt, Tolia Astakhishvili & Dylan Peirce, Cat Barich, Tatiana Echeverri-Fernandez, Ben Fitton, Michael Grime & William Alexander, Lilly Hartmann, HK119, Toine Klaassen, Daniela Klein, Loukia Alavanou, Flavia Müller Medeiros, Noémi McComber, Dalia Neis and Yu-Chen Wang
Curated by Noémi McComber
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Recommendation of the fortnight: Animation & Drawing Programme
9-22 September 2006
BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, Manchester
www.bbc.co.uk/manchester
Organised by Cornerhouse
www.cornerhouse.org
The first in the series of The Bigger Picture’s dedicated animation programme, introduces the work of Philip Day, Yu-Chen Wang and Sharon Keighley to Big Screen Manchester. The programme also includes animation from blink, a Gasworks open submission project. Selectors: Haluk Akakçe, Saskia Olde Wolbers and Nav Haq, Curator at Gasworks.
www.cornerhouse.org/events/info.aspx?ID=949&page=0
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Moving in Architecture
6-7pm Tuesday 12 September 2006
CURZON SOHO, London
www.curzoncinemas.com
Curated by Cyril Lepetit /International Exhibitionist
www.international-exhibitionist.org
A proposition by Cyril Lepetit from International Exhibitionist produced in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre to accompany the Archipeinture: painters build architecture exhibition. 'Moving in architecture' is an event in two parts. It starts with an installation of artists' films in the Artist's Studio of the Camden Arts Centre (July 2006) and following by a special screening at the Curzon Soho cinema, Including Martine Aballéa, Shezad Dawwod, Yu-Chen Wang, Giacomo Pica, Goshka Macuga, Anthony Gross, Paul O'Neill, Van Mc Elwee, Cyril Lepetit, Christophe Boulanger and Charlotte Ginsborg.
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Archipeinture: Artists’ Films: Moving in Architecture
26 - 30 July 2006
Camden Arts Centre
www.camdenartscentre.com
Curated by Cyril Lepetit /International Exhibitionist
www.international-exhibitionist.org
Short films by artists including works by Shezad Dawood, Charlotte Ginsborg, Anthony Gross, Goshka Macuga, Martine Aballéa, Yu-Chen Wang, Van McElwee (Carte blanche Heure exquise), Simon Aeplli, Cyril Lepetit, Christophe Boulanger, Martin Zet, Paul Hendrikse, Paul O’Neill, Graeme Miller and others... relate to the nature of architectural space and how we interact with it.
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Conjunction 06: Transpositions
15 - 28 July 2006
AirSpace Gallery, Falcon Works, Old Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
www.airspacegallery.org
Conjunction 06 ran throughout July across four different gallery spaces in London, Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent and hosted 46 artists based in seven countries.

www.airspacegallery.org/Exhibitions/Conjunction

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Darklight Festival
22 -25 June 2006
Film Base, Curved St. Temple Bar, Dublin 2
23rd June - Struggle For Existence was included in Dark Shorts programme 2006
www.darklight-filmfestival.com/archive/Dark.htm

Struggle For Existence was included in Dark Shorts programme 2006.

24th June - Space II was shown as part of Light Short Films programme 2006
www.darklight-filmfestival.com/archive/films_screenings.htm
 
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The Bigger Picture, Manchester

15-21 April 2006

BBC Big Screen Network, Exchange Square, Manchester
www.bbc.co.uk/manchester

Organised by Cornerhouse
www.cornerhouse.org
... Yu-Chen Wang's, River Islington, a short abstract film that documents burst water pipes in a way that draws out beauty from life's failures - what we are offered are astonishing water falls, waves, small streams and mini lakes emerging in between cars, walkways, street corners and lights.
www.cornerhouse.org/events/
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Athens Video Art Festival

7-9 April 2006

Athens Video Art Festival is an international festival dedicated to digital culture and new media, and the festival that represents Video Art in Greece.

www.athensvideoartfestival.gr

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Videonale

25 February 2006

Lenin Never Died was screened in the cinema, UNION.
UNION Filmtheater, Bölschestraße 69, Berlin, Germany

www.kulturpfeiffer.de/vid_2006_forum4.html

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Saison Vidéo 2006: PARCOURS # 1
9 February 2006
Éléonore de Montesquiou, Victoria Ilyushkina, Mayya Popova, Masha Sharafutdinova, Yu-Chen Wang and Dmitri Makhomet
539 AVENUE DES NATIONS UNIES. 59100 ROUBAIX
River Islington and Spark were shown in the screening event.

Organised by Espace Croisé, Centre d'Art Contemporain, France
www.saisonvideo.com

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Sequence
10 Janurary 2006
Wouter Sibum, Aris & Lakis Ionas, Sheena Macrae, Mathijs Lieshout, Maurice Bogaert, Maia Naveriani, Jetske de Boer, Daniël Dennis de Wit, Jeroen Offerman, Yu-Chen Wang, Clare Gasson, Danielle Drainey, Mauricio Lupini, Toine Klaassen, Liane Lang, Andro Semeiko and Julian Ewart.
The Space, 269 West Ferry Road. London E14
Curated by Yu-Chen Wang and Mathijs Lieshout

www.basementartproject.com/4sequence/yuchenwang.html

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the 3rd HALLOWEEN Short Film Festival
5 - 9 January 2006
VX Vauxhall Auteur Theory
ICA, London
www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14620

www.shortfilms.org.uk

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Sequence
9 October 2005
Wouter Sibum, Aris & Lakis Ionas, Sheena Macrae, Mathijs Lieshout, Maurice Bogaert, Maia Naveriani, Jetske de Boer, Daniël Dennis de Wit, Jeroen Offerman, Yu-Chen Wang, Clare Gasson, Danielle Drainey, Mauricio Lupini, Toine Klaassen, Liane Lang, Andro Semeiko and Julian Ewart.
de Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam
Haarlemmerplein 7, Amsterdam 
Curated by Yu-Chen Wang and Mathijs Lieshout

www.basementartproject.com/4sequence/yuchenwang.html

Supported by the British Council and Royal Netherlands Embassy
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Media Art Festival Friesland
6 September- 2 October 2005
Hoofdlocatie, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
River Islington and Struggle For Existence (selected for The Best Video of 2005) were shown as part of Videosalon programme.
www.mediaartfriesland.nl/2005
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Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
'Crossing Borders’, the Big M
16-25 September 2005
Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/programme/film-25_big-m.php
24-25 September 2005t
The Big M, the Blue Carpet
outside of Newcastle’s Laing Gallery
www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com/eventDetails.php
Presenting a new programme of short films and videos selected for the festival from an international open call. This programme will go on to tour throughout the UK and Europe. The Big M is a futuristic inflatable screening space that functions as a temporary and mobile venue for the presentation of video and digital media. Struggle For Existence was selected as part of Big M touring programme.
www.isisarts.org.uk
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Catalogue ISBN 978-0-9551203-0-5
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Bow Festival - Roman Road Party
B.O.W. Social Club
Andro Semeiko, Yu-Chen Wang and John Milroy
July 2005
Roman Road, London
bowfestival.spacestudios.org.uk
Curated by BasementArtProejct.com
BasementArtProject.com/project/2005/b.o.w.socialclub
Organised by SPACE, London
www.spacestudios.org.uk
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Synch Festival
Electronic Music and Digital Arts
Lavrio Technological and Science Park, Athens, Greece
www.synch-festival.com/site/content.php?artid=202
Struggle For Existence was selected as part of video screening programme: 17 < 5' = too short. Selected solely on the basis of their very short duration (<5'), peculiar snapshots, humorous detections, acute observations and little formal studies compose an anthology of seventeen thematically varied cinematic haikus.
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Island Art Film & Video Festival
9 - 24 April 2005
Prenelle Gallery, London
www.prenelle.co.uk/Island2005
Struggle For Existence was selected as part of curated gallery screening.
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Caution : Uneven Surfaces
4 Dec - 9 Jan 2004
Curated by Anthony Gross & Jen Wu
temporarycontemporary, London
www.tempcontemp.co.uk/Caution.html
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YESVEMBER
Nov 2004
Curated by Andreas Leventis
The House Gallery, Camberwell, London
www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1099569246
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Pattern
11 artists' films Sunday 11th November 2007
V22
10-16 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8

www.v22ashwinstreet.com

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Tank.TV
June 2004

www.tank.tv

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Pizza Express Prospects Drawing Prize 2004
1-31 May 2004
Tea Building, London
Selected by Graham Gussin and Tim Marlow
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ShortCuts
3–7 April 2007
David Bethell, Andrew Branscombe, Vikki Brown and Richard Brammer Berned Charnley, Brian Holdcroft, Emily Kydd, Katie May Shipley, Matt Roberts, Chris Simcox and Yu-Chen Wang
AirSpace Gallery
Falcon Works Old Town Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
www.airspacegallery.org/Exhibitions/Shortcuts

www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content

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Elusive
20 January - 24 February 2008
Yu-Chen Wang, Cyril Lepetit, Andro Semeiko and Mamuka Japaridze
The Parlour Studios & Project Space, London
185 Queens Crescent, London NW5

www.basementartproject.com/elusive

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De Kunstvlaai A.P.I. (Art Pie international)
10 May - 18 May 2008
The Culture Park Westergasfabriek
Pazzanistraat 41, 1014 DB Amsterdam
www.kunstvlaai.nl
Out of Place Day to Day
Curated by BasementArtProject.com

www.basementartproject.com/kunstvlaai

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UltraCreature
15 Oct 2008 - 31 Jan 2009
City Inn Westminster
30 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4DD
www.cityinn.com/london/arts.htm
Yu-Che Wang City inn Wallpaper Commission, sponsored by ChromaLife
Curated by Meredith Gunderson
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Suggestioni dell’anima
17 Jan 2009 - 15 Feb 2009
Gallerie Onno van Toor
Voorhaven 38c, 3024RN Rotterdam
www.onnovantoor.nl
Andro Semeiko. Toine Klaassen. Yu-Chen Wang. Mathijs Lieshout.
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[FAT] 2009 Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week, Toronto, Canada
21 - 24 April 2009
DISTILLERY DISTRICT- FERMENTING CELLAR
(55 MILL STREET EAST BUILDING 6), Toronto, Cananda
www.alternativefashionweek.com
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Who is telling the story, Istanbul
PART ONE 11, 12, 14 September 2009
Galata Perform: Buyuk Hendek Cad. No: 21/2, Galata Kuledibi, Beyoglu, Istanbul
PART TWO 2-6 Oct 2009
Kadirga Kültür Merkezi: Kadirga Liman Caddesi No. 82, Kumkapi, Istanbul
1st International Artist Initiatives Istanbul Meeting www.artistinitiatives.org
Organised by Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture
in cooperation with Art Pie
Parallel event of the 11th Istanbul Biennial www.iksv.org
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Yu-Chen Wang & Andro Semeiko
25 September - 2 Oct 2009
Fordham Gallery
Stall 31 at Whitecross St Market London EC1
www.fordhamgallery.co.uk
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  The relation between representation, distortion and transformation is one formulation of this intention. Yu-Chen Wang’s meticulous pencil drawings of apparently organic or biomorphic forms are also an investigation into the point at which a non-figurative line stops being a line and, with a little shading, starts to become a form which might represent something else. Wang’s drawings never impose a definite identity for these shapes; they operate between representational and decorative form, and while scattering clues about what they might be, they remain always in an in-between state, as lines gather and form into resolved objects, or disintegrate back in mere outline and sketch.
  Text by JJ Charlesworth 2007
   
  Yu-Chen Wang’s drawings are beautifully rendered colourful compositions of flowers and machines melding into one another.  However, there is a strangeness to the flowers and machines – flowers look genetically modified in their almost saccharine beauty and brightness while machines lack evident purpose or appear to offer a mostly superfluous purpose. Drawings are jewel-like floating on a stark white sterile background devoid of context other than a laboratory.
  Quote from UltraCreature, City Inn Westminster. London 2008
   
  Yu-Chen Wang's colourful drawings of abstract organic forms spread on paper across a wall, spilling playfully onto the wall around. Her forms move in and out of one another, interacting on the way, referencing to the functional aesthetics of animal and botanical biology, her images flux from highly finished effects to sketchier areas, giving a sense of seamlessly varying graphic functions. Drawing over an electric socket so that it mirrors her paper, this sense of the function of her imagery seamlessly morphing carries through her work.
  Text by Alasdair Duncan 2008
   
  Yu-Chen Wang studied at Goldsmiths College, London (2000-01) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (MA Fine Art 2001-02). Working primarily in drawing and video, her work explores the notion of representation, distortion and transformation. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and abroad, including tent., Podion Gallery, Amsterdam (2002), Tank.TV, ICA, London (2004), Caution, Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London (2004), Synch Festival in Athens (2005) and Darklight Film Festival in Dublin; BBC Big Screen, Manchester, curated by Cornerhouse; Archipeinture: Moving in Architecture at Camden Arts Centre, London and Curzon Soho, London (2006); Satellite Works/Oeuvres Satellites, La Centrale, Montreal and Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada; Saison Vidéo 2007, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France; New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London; Two Hopes, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Georgia; My Still Life as a Personal Object, Alma Enterprises, London (2007); Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (2008); Suggestioni dell'anima, Galerie Onno van Toor, Rotterdam and Who is telling the story, Istanbul (2009).
   
 
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