doh-muuuus

hot damn! a review of 3 Years: Arrow Factory in Domus! some nice pics shot by wang wei and pauline (the official AF Hand Model) and a lovely writeup by Pelin Tan.
http://goo.gl/qZZrE

want to order your own copy of this lovingly made volume? order direct from us: goo.gl/CYgSH
or from our publisher: goo.gl/4vl0m

thank you for your attention.

http://www.domusweb.it/en/book-review/trans-locality-and-dissemination-3-years-arrow-factory-2008-2011/

SF book launch!

Bay Area pee-poles! here's your chance to get a gander at our new 3 Years: Arrow Factory book.  we're doing a little book talk at the Kadist Art Foundation in the Mission TOMORROW (Sunday Jan 8, 2012 2-4pm). we have only limited copies of the book with us. if we run out you'll just have to get your local bookstore (do those still exist?) to order it from our publisher (goo.gl/4vl0m). don't miss out. look forward to seeing all your happy faces there.

below are the details. info is also online at www.arrowfactory.org.cn:

箭厂空间 《三年书》旧金山发布会
3 Years: Arrow Factory
San Francisco Book Launch

Sunday, January 8, 2012, 2-4pm

Since 2008, Arrow Factory has operated as a modestly sized storefront art space located in the center of downtown Beijing.  We are pleased to announce the publication of 3 Years: Arrow Factory, which documents the wide-range of site-oriented projects mounted by Chinese and international artists in our out-of-the-way location and asks artists and writers to reflect on new avenues for artistic production in China.

3 Years: Arrow Factory includes contributions by Ou Ning, Beatrice Leanza, Dan S. Wang, Ken Lum, Li Jinghu, Patty Chang; plus Arrow Factory’s neighbors and local residents.

Please join us for an informal book talk with Arrow Factory founders: Rania Ho, Wang Wei and Pauline J. Yao

Location:
Kadist Art Foundation
2401 Folsom (at 20th St.) Entrance at 3295 20th Street
San Francisco, California
94110 USA

Info: 415 316 7186

100% of the proceeds from book sales benefit future Arrow Factory projects.

箭厂空间 《三年书》旧金山发布会
2012年1月8日 14:00 - 16:00

箭厂空间成立于2008年，位于北京的中心城区，由一间临街店铺改造而来。 本书是对箭厂空间过去三年实践的首次全面总结 ,通过此书，读者能够一览国内外艺术家在箭厂空间中创作的特定现场作品。并记录下在中国宏观的文化氛围中，箭厂空间所扮演的独特角色。

特邀欧宁，毕月, 王念华, 林荫庭为本书撰文; 并包括与艺术家李景湖和张怡以及箭厂空间周边社区居民的对话。

箭厂空间三位创办人何颖宜，王卫，姚嘉善将亲自主持此发布会，期待朋友们介时光临！

地址： Kadist Art Foundation
2401 Folsom (at 20th St.) Entrance at 3295 20th Street
San Francisco, California
94110 USA

电话:＋1 415 316 7186

本书所有销售所得将全部用于箭厂空间未来的艺术项目。

sky light

For those that missed it, here are photos from the Kupa Studios Sky Light pop-up cafe/bar for Beijing design week. Also a link to the info about the event.

Arrow Factory also had Liang Shuo painting up a storm in another space in Dashilar for Beijing Design Week. 卖短 - 梁硕

All good fun but totally exhausting. we have only just barely recovered. 

road trip

arrow factory goes to istanbul! we meet Didem and Osman from PiST/// in Istanbul. we meet Kate and Jenny from the Collective in Edinburgh. We hatch a plan. We sell some stuff. We buy some stuff. We lose wangwei's passport and green card. we eat amazing food. more about the plan in the coming days. in the meantime, enjoy the flickr photos.

water works

just an invitation for those of you lovely people who will be in beijing these next few weeks. I've built a fountain for The Third Party, a group show at Platform China.

Here's the press release:
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THE THIRD PARTY – An exhibition in Three Acts | November 11, 2010 – January 24, 2011

第三方 – 三位一体之展 | 2010 年11月11日 – 2011 年1月24日

OPENING Act2 THE STRANGER | 第二位“陌生人”-- 开幕式: December 9, 2010 – 5pm | 12月9日， 下午5点

Curated by 策划人: Beatrice Leanza 毕月

Location: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing | 站台中国，北京

(see www.platformchina.org for details & directions)

Act 2: THE STRANGER

第二位：陌生人

Artists in Act 2艺术家:  陈绍雄 Chen Shaoxiong & 刘鼎Liu Ding , 何颖宜 Rania Ho, 何颖雅Ho Elaine W. & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga (家作坊Homeshop), 颜磊 Yan Lei.

“How can a subject give an account of its own ruin?” (Giorgio Agamben, from The Archive and Testimony)

As the second enactment of this voyaging through the realm of the ordinary, The Stranger enters a very specific world of interaction, an intermediate zone of potentiality through which different manners of human relations come ‘to be lived rather than resolved’.

The stranger is, as described in the eponymous essay by Georg Simmel in 1908, the sociological form that represents a unity of both fixation and liberation, “a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement”. His position within a given group is “determined, essentially, by the fact that he has not belonged to it from the beginning, that he imports qualities into it, which do not and cannot stem from the group itself”.  For what matters the investigation of narrative structures and aesthetic objects set out with the realization of this project, this second exhibition chooses to engage forms of artistic enunciations that dwell in the ‘negative side of presence’. More precisely, it exposes how they operate in relation to the exterior landscape by transforming or re-assembling into new spatial configurations specific orders of signification belonging to our living image- and object-scapes.

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