Intermedia art
Where is China
Category:
Web news art/ Interactive installation
Artist: Tan Tan
2015.8-2015.9
China, an enormous country, is disappearing from the world rapidly in a way! Because the spiritual realm of the population is being transmitted into mobile phones.People have learned to watch the world on mobiles, to eat on mobiles, to make weddings on mobiles, to be born and dead on mobiles…
That’s why Tan Tan tried to “search China” via mobiles. In August 2015, she built a “channel”on “WeChat”(the most used chatting APP in China), to collect pictures, videos and audios from strangers on one subject “Where is China?”. After more than one month, she released many “web news” with dozens of materials from people all around China, so the audience of the channel could view these “art works”in the news.
1st Changjiang International Present Art Exhibition
This work started from some real performances, and then was transferred into“hoax”with web news.
In one grand award ceremony of an Art Biennale in China, Tan Tan gathered two other “unawarded” artists, and planned their own "exhibition" immediately at the site of the ceremony. They call it “1st Changjiang International Present Art Exhibition”, which was a name adapted from the “original one”. The "exhibition"was undertaken in the hall after the "real ceremony" finished, in which they carried out a “performance art competition”, and issued “golden, silver, bronze” prizes for themselves...
At last, the three were succeeded to be symbolically awarded by the “real chairman”(he is the most famous pioneer of Chinese contemporary art) of the “real exhibition”.
Category: Performance art, photography, web news art
Concept：Tan Tan
Artist：Tan Tan, XXW, Liang Shuang
2015.4
Water fire earth
Category: Installation, video art, performance art, interactive media art
Artist：Tan Tan
2014.6
This series of art contains three parts, a video installation “Water-flower in the mirror, moon in the water”, an interactive media installation “Fire- nirvana”, and a performance／installation “Earth-Sukhavati”.
These works focus on the past and present of the original natural elements “Water, Fire, Earth” of our world, which are mutual core elements set by ancient Greek philosophers and philosophy of “I Ching” in China. In both western and eastern thinking, the movements and interactions of these elements cause the changes of the universe, thereby affect the life of every human being.
From bringing back the attention of the nature elements, Tan Tan hopes to explore the current status of the running of them in contemporary China, which is a crazily “booming” country getting further and further from her origin…
Lost In Home
Category: Experimental film／Video installation/Moving image+live Music
Artist：Tan Tan
Music/sound:Eric Bribosia
2013
“Xian An Fang” is an old community built from 1910 to the 30s. From 2012, it has been demolished and rebuilt, so the memories of 100 years will disappear under the new cover. The work uses “Xian An Fang” as a background, and attempts to break the boundaries between documentary, fiction and performance, by the means of creating a subjective time-space which is parallel to the reality of China.
This work is composed of photography, video and live performance. It has been exhibited in diverse ways such as moving image with live music.
Mirage
Category ：Photograph, video art，documentary, installation, performance art
Artist:Tan Tan.
2010
The leading roles of this work series are some building models for promoting a real estate, which used to be the foreground to people's attention, but after the houses were sold they became nonsense.
I brought the models travelling with me to many places in Wuhan city, and recorded the absurd relationship between them and our life space. During this course, I also showed them to public in several new forms, so as to make a “rebirth ritual” for their “dead bodies”…
Serie 1：Installation of photographs and videos. Serie 2: Performance art. Serie 3: Multi-media installation.