| DIAF CURATORIAL TEAM BERENICE ANGREMY: the executive director of DIAF, in charge of the international program. Critic and curator, she has actively contributed to the development of the Dashanzi Art District since 2003. She is co-founder of DIAF. FENG BOYI: visual art curator. Feng is one of the most active independent curators in China. Next to various exhibitions focusing on new talent, he curated the first Triennale of Guangzhou, the Off exhibition of the second Biennale of Shanghai and the Left Hand Right Hand exhibition in Dashanzi. SHU YANG: cinema and performance art curator. A young independent curator active in China and recently also in the international art scene, Shu initiated the Open Art Festival and the Dadao Live Art Festival, which can be considered the first public representations of performance art in China. YAN JUN: Chinese music curator. Yan Jun is the most active music critic of the Beijing underground scene, and he contributed to the success of this scene in the West. CINDY ZENG: film curator. Her multi-disciplinary approach in promoting contemporary art in an international context has led to her organise cultural exchange festivals, film festivals, art workshops, exhibitions and theatre projects in several countries. She Is co-founder of the Hart Center of Arts - Beijing. ELS SILVRANTS: Foreign dance curator. She was active as a performing arts critic in Europe, and worked with young artists in a Belgian arts centre. She was closely involved in DIAF 2005 and recently founded Theatre in Motion, promoting contemporary performing arts in China. WANG CHUNHONG: Chinese dance curator. She is the first dance therapist in China, a dance choreographer inventor of Dadance, an international art program producer and the director of Dimensionalartdance culture & art Exchange Center. ANTHONY GROSS & JEN WU: visual art curators. Artists Anthony Gross (UK) and Jen Wu (USA) met in London in 2001 and since then set up 'temporarycontemporary', a nomadic project space and curatorial experiment. They have presented over 22 exhibitions in London over the last two years including 'Biennale! Artist Film & Video' which then toured Berlin, Shanghai, DIAF2005 and Chongqing. Gross has had solo and group shows in Paris, London and the UAE. Wu has exhibited in various group shows and has recently been awarded a curatorial fellowship at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London. LIU SUOLA: Music Curator.Trained as a classical composer at China¡¯s Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Liu Suola is a composer and vocalist whose work combines elements of traditional Chinese folk music with contemporary American jazz and blues. She belongs to the first Chinese avant-garde music and is also a writer. YAO BIN: new media curator (China and International). Yao Bin is the artistic director of 11-Art.com, a space specially dedicated to multimedia art works in 798 Art District. HAN WON SUK: Space Ieum Gallery art director, architect, artist and Korean Film Festival general director (DKFF). NEVILLE MARS: Architecture curator. He is an architect and planner from The Netherlands. Commencing his career at OMA in Rotterdam he specialized in rapid urbanization. This brought him to Beijing where he set up the Dynamic City Foundation - a platform that combines research and design and sparks the debate on China¡¯s development through publications, movies, art installations and architecture. WU HUA: Architecture Curator. She is an architect who curated in 2005 the UNESCO ¡® Beijing and Beijing¡¯ symposium and exhibition program¡¯ Living Changing China¡¯ art and architecture exhibition, and in 2004 the ¡®Beijing Academic female Artists Festival¡¯. She is Program Coordinator of the UNESCO Conserving Beijing Culture and Traditions Program. HENRI SENG: film curator. Film producer and director. Studied New Media art the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm. Working with documentary film, new media and the promotion of contemporary Chinese culture. Currently works and lives in Beijing and Stockholm. ZHAO SHULIN: video curator. He is one creator of the Today Art Museum, and he is involved in more than 100 exhibitions related to video art around the world. LEO de BOISGISSON & PIERRE ALEXANDRE BLANC / BMA: foreign music curator. L¨¦o de Boisgisson is the co-founder of 86/33 Link and the Bureau des Musiques Actuelles. She plays a signficant role in Sino-European cultural exchanges in the field of music. BEATRICE LEANZA: Italian project curator. Independent art critic and curator living in Beijing, writes regularly for international art magazines such as Flash Art International and NY Arts Magazine. In March 2006 she publishes "Object Cast", her first book project as author and editor. ALY ROSE:dance curator. An American choreographer who has lived, studied, and worked in China for over 9 years, Aly Rose has danced and choreographed for Chinese modern dance choreographer, Wang Mei, acted as head-choreographer for the Broadway musical of Lady in the Dark in China, helped with the creation and production of Casablanca -The Dance Drama, starred as principal dancer in Nanjing 1937 for the Chinese National Dance Drama Troupe and remains the only Westerner to ever graduate from the Beijing Dance Academy, the finest institution for dance in Asia. BRITTA ERIKSON: Britta Erickson£ºvisual art curator. An independent scholar and curator based in Palo Alto, California, Britta Erikson has curated exhibitions that include: Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing (Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.), On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West (Cantor Arts Center, Stanford), and Yin Xiuzhen: Fashion Terrorism (Stanford Art Gallery) Huang Rui Berenice Angremy Ninie Wang Zhang Yu Marie Terrieux Zhang Wuyi Ellena Lauren Gollasch Liu Jing Li Qian Li Tienan Ying Hao Yang Yong Zhao Hongyang Li Donghui Organiser: Thinking Hands |
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