05.23.08
Posted in Culture at 2:29 pm by william_lee_intern
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“Relationalized” by Michael Joo is on display at the PKM Gallery in Seoul.
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Korean art is back again in New York’s lime light. Michael Joo a Korean-American artist is again making his masterpieces. “There is still a search for identity in terms of race. But the exploration includes identity of certain mediums, like sculptures and paintings. It is also about racialized identity on a much larger scale,” was his description of his recent exhibit.
Joo does sculptures and painting. He also has a gallery in Seoul, Korea which has currently display.
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05.14.08
Posted in Culture at 12:05 pm by william_lee_intern
Christian groups are growing faster than the multi-racial groups. Rebecca Kim an associate professor at Pepperdine University has conducted a research about christian groups inside the campus of UCLA her results were two Korean American groups, one Asian American, one multi-racial group and one majority Caucasian group. Contented or comfortable was the main reason why Korean Americans chose to a part of a Christian group.
Kim said. “If anyone should be a model of multi-racial community, harmony, it should be the church.”
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Posted in Culture at 8:21 pm by william_lee
Salomon Arts
83 Leonard St, 4th Fl
New York, NY 10013
TEL 212.966.1997
www.salomonarts.com
RED BLOOD OF THE DRAGON’S PSYCHE
June 5 to Aug 5 2008
[artists]
Chen Nong, Zhang Han, Fu Yue Hui, Zhao Bo, Zhang Yu Ying
[curator]
Zhang Jie-Song
There is a substance more vital to our humanity than that which flows through our arteries, capillaries, and veins – it is the blood of our thoughts, senses, and feelings that not only pools within our minds but likewise spreads the entire surface of the world. It is this substance that hardens on canvas to manifest visual art.
If in fact we value art as a supreme language of our humanity, a vessel that reveals in an authenticity worthy of trembling this substance, this experience, of how we each feel in our grappling with the human experience, then we must work to show art in relation to the life from which it stems. In art exhibitions, the observer would not taste wine so much as the air and soil of the artists’ lives, that he or she may be brought nearer to the flesh and the earth from which the artwork emerges.
Red Blood of the Dragon’s Psyche, an exhibition series presented by Salomon Arts Gallery and curator Zhang Jie-Song, asserts the belief that if we wish to know and value Chinese art with sincerity, then we must learn to know and value China, Chinese people, Chinese thought. The work of 10 Chinese contemporary artists is to be presented throughout this exhibition series and arranged so as to highlight the dominant provinces that have defined the terrain of Chinese psychological experience within the lifespan of “Modern China”. Towards this end, the works of the artists will be presented alongside information on China in the form of news-stories, essays, and video projection intended to provide a constellation of social and historical points, by which the audience may navigate with greater insight the vast, deep, and roaring waters of Chinese psychological and (consequently) artistic thought. It is the placement of the artists’ ideas alongside a vision of their world.
The first exhibition in the Red Blood of the Dragon’s Psyche series opens on June 6th, 2008, and will feature the works of Chen Nong, Zhang Han, Fu Yue Hui, Zhao Bo, and Zhang Yu Ying.
Chen Nong’s photography submerges distinct Chinese imagery (both ancient and modern) within a world of flamboyant color, sexuality, and fearlessness of dream, a courageous yet culturally loyal and socially perceptive means of liberation from the conservative and orderly principles of the land and the times in which he was raised. The oil paintings of Zhang Yu Ying work similarly, casting strong traditional images – most notably, the farm animals revered in the folk and rural culture of the artist’s upbringing – into a fantasy theater that speaks of the old China now mingled with modern archetypes. In many of his works we see the artist concealing the mind and muscle-tearing motion of China’s feverish modernization behind smiling faces and the serenity of animals at play. In the case of both artists, their work embodies the process of Chinese traditional thought - aged, poised, and elegant - undergoing a re-painting and colorization process by way of the more liberal, perverse, and eccentric modern psychological energies.
These energies were introduced into China by the Western world, relatively recently, and Fu Yue Hui’s mixed-media works – which involve ink, newspaper, traditional Chinese art on paper, and propylene – investigate the affect of Western imagery and thinking on the Chinese mind, which he portrays as an oftentimes corrosive and difficult to define relationship. His works are as lab results, images of cultural mutation yielded in the reaction of Western and Chinese chemicals of sense and thought.
Zhao Bo’s woodcut works chisel often boisterous child-like figures on rocking horses alongside strong Chinese cultural imagery, offering us the choice to resolve all of the intensities associated with China’s recent political turbulence and head-pounding rate of cultural change beneath a pretense of innocence. Yet the nuances bound to his subject matter, in addition to the industrial method of his creating, speak powerfully of the underlying noise and circumstance of China’s modern identity.
The Chinese ink on paper works of Zhang Han take a directly different approach to Zhao Bo. His creations, though marked by a certain imaginative playfulness, tend to be highly intense and filled with elements of torture – of the nature known to compel the dark aspects of the Western curiosity in their fascination over serial-killers, crime, and the more perverse regions of the human behavior. Embellished by the forceful character of Chinese ink, his work is a raw account of the dissatisfied and deviant parts of China’s psychological character – especially that of its younger generations in search of spiritual meaning.
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05.09.08
Posted in Culture at 3:08 pm by william_lee_intern
A new analysis of the Census shows that U.S. born children with Asian parents increases the chances of having a baby boy if they already have a girl or two.
The findings ‘’suggest that in a sub-population with a traditional son preference, the technologies are being used to generate male births when preceding births are female, says co-authors Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund that appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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05.06.08
Posted in Culture at 11:43 am by william_lee_intern
Photo by Kristin Okinaka.
Senior Natida Sribhibhadh performs with
SAYAW, a traditional Filipino folk dance
group, at Filipino Night 2008 last Sunday.
The Filipino American Student
Association put on the event, which had
performances ranging from dancing to a
martial arts demo.
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UW’s FASA (Filipino American Student Association) hosted a program called “Press Play: Filipino Night 2008” to celebrate cultural pride. Many performances were done from dancing to singing to stand-up comedies and martial arts. There are also presentations made by the Filipino community, like F.A.M.I.L.Y group who featured spoken word acts and FILHARMONY choir sang.
The show has been a success and FASA members are excited to plan again for next year’s performance.
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05.05.08
Posted in Culture at 2:17 pm by william_lee_intern
A Filipino-American artist introduced kut-kut in Chicago. Kut-kut is a process of painting using layers of paint, drying, scraping and composing to produce a piece of art, which is composed of abstract lines, profound texture and a delusion of 3-D space.
This form of art came from Visayas Region particularly in Samar, which the Filipino American Fed de Asis learned it from his father and grandfather and later on introduced it to other places. It was part of the “visit Philippines” program of the Department of Tourism. This was specially sponsored by the PACF (Philippine American cultural Foundation) for the Fil-Am youths in greater Chicago. The workshop was attended by more than 25 youths and adults.
Fred de Asis has studios in Chicago, Arlington Heights and New York. There are contact information on the article for those interested to help the said workshop.
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05.02.08
Posted in Culture at 1:47 pm by william_lee_intern
On May 22 at MidAmerica Nazarene University’s Bell Cultural Events Center, there will be An Asian American panel discussion entitled “Celebrating Diversity and Honoring Unity.” The panel discussion will be talking about multiculturalism and sharing of stories and experiences.
The said event will be represented by Paulette Markel, Managing Partner, Imua Associates LLC.
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04.30.08
Posted in Culture at 1:21 pm by william_lee_intern
Jim Grieve says in The Brampton News that: “Asian Heritage Month allows students to learn more about the rich culture and traditions of the Asian community, as well as the considerable contributions of Asian-Canadians,”…
Kindergarten to grade 12 students from Peel School Board will be celebrating Spotlight on Asian Heritage events with the help of multimedia presentations and some interactive group. It is an event where you can learn more about Asian Culture and their traditions. It is also a chance for Canadians to recognize the contributions of Asian-Canadians to the development and success of Canada.
Radio station Flow 93.5 hosted the event which also engaged in problems about racism and sense of belongingness to both historical and contemporary perspective.
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04.18.08
Posted in Culture, China at 8:55 am by william_lee_intern
The contrast in cultures was obvious to the visitors from Beijing the moment they set foot in Naperville North High School on Thursday. Xiao Xiao, (center) part of a children’s performing troupe from Beijing, waits with other dancers and acrobats to perform at Mill Street School in Naperville on Thursday.
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