Organisers: British Council, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum
Curator: James Hu
Time: 16th October - 26th November 2010
Opening Hours: 09:30-17:30, Tuesday to Sunday (Closed on Mondays)
Venue: A/B Exhibition hall, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, NO.17-21 Huiyuan Main Street, Guangyuan Express Highway, Guangzhou
Opening: 16:30, 16th October 2010
The exhibition is opened to the public and free admission. Art lovers are welcomed to experience the multi-faceted and brilliant works from the international scene.

Presented by the British Council and Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, the exhibition “East ＆ West” invites Scottish artist Billy Cowie and Chinese artist Feng Feng to create a platform for the dialogue on contemporary art between the East and the West, aiming at revealing deep and different psychological understandings of both artists, who, in the context of globalization, try to fuse different art forms to make multi-media experiments in art.

The exhibition will feature the most significant works of Billy Cowie including IMZ International Dance Screen Festival 2007 award-winning “In the Flesh”, as well as the therapeutic yet erotic “The Revery Alone”. Both recognized as landmark contemporary dance installations, they are marvelous expressions of the beauty of human body and art.

Billy Cowie combines feminine dance and movement with 3D projection technology, to create a solo performance that seamlessly switches between reality and virtual space. The audience steps into a dark space wearing 3D glasses to observe the dancer’s every move and expression in close up. The audience is encouraged to gaze at the female dancers crawling on the floor in “In the Flesh”, and lie on their back to look above where the female dances move across the roof. The experience is challenging to one’s sensual and moral limit.

The two artists will be attending the opening as well as public talks to be held on 16th and 17th October. They will be sharing their experience and views behind the works.

Ⅰ Art Forum: Art Creation in the Contemporary Context
Time: 18:00-20:00, 16th October 2010
Venue: Exhibition Hall A, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, No.17-21 Huiyuan Main Street, Guangyuan Express Highway, Guangzhou
Artists: Billy Cowie, Feng Feng
Host: Hu Zhen

Ⅱ Artist Talk: Trajectories + Forward Motion Screen Dance Showcase
Time: 19:00-21:00, 17th October 2010
Venue: Exhibition hall A, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, NO.17-21 Huiyuan Main Street, Guangyuan Express Highway, Guangzhou
Artist: Billy Cowie
Billy will talk about how and why he moved from live-dance to screen-dance and then toinstallation-dance, followed by the screening of Forward Motion:Introwhich he has contributed to. Click here for more information on Forward Motion.  

Note: Art Forum and Artist Talk are free admission and please click here to apply by 14th October:

Photoraphy: Silke Mansholt

Billy Cowie works principally in the area of dance/theatre performance, screen dance and installation. He has made over twenty live performance pieces (in collaboration with Liz Aggiss) for the company Divas Dance Theatre which has toured Europe extensively and completed screen projects commissioned by BBC Dance for Camera and Channel 4 respectively. He has created commissioned work for Extemporary Dance Theatre, Mantis, Transitions, Intoto, Carousel and Hi Spin. A book about the work Anarchic Dance was published by Routledge in 2006 and his first novel Passenger was published by Old Street in 2008. Billy Cowie has composed music performed by Marie McLaughlin, Nicola Hall, Gerard McChrystal, Daphne Scott-Sawyer, Juliet Russell, Rowan Godel, Pammjit Pammi and Naomi Itami. He has composed music for three BBC Radio projects: The Tempest, Philip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy (both directed by David Hunter) and Thinking Earth (directed by Pam Marshall). He has also composed music for film directors Tony Palmer, Chris Rodley, Stephen Frears and Bob Bentley. He is currently Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton. His 3D installations will be seen in 2010 at British Dance Edition Birmingham, Caravan Brighton Festival, TPAM Tokyo, Tanzmesse Düsseldorf, Cinedans Amsterdam.
www.billycowie.com

Feng Feng is a professor of College of Design in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and the director in Master's mentor. He has been teaching since 1991, exploring in the field of contemporary arts, designs and writings.

Exhibitions history: Useful or Useless -The Exhibition of Fengfeng & Biaobiao (Fei Gallery and Hua Art Museum, 2009-2010); Canton Canton-(2009) Feast: Works of Feng Feng (Art3 Space Beijing, 2008); My Bone，Flesh，and Skin (Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York 2008).

About 53 Art Museum

53 Art Museum is the first non-profit private contemporary art museum in Guangzhou. The museum is rebuilt from its used old buildings to create a unique environment that echoes history and trend. The place is specified designed for exhibition of paintings, sculptures, installations, video and other types of contemporary art works. As the first private art museum in Guangzhou, 53 Art Museum focuses on experience, cutting-edge, and crossover of contemporary art. Under the slogan of “Stands on Guangdong, and eyes on world”, the Art Museum devotes itself in promoting contemporary art and acts as a platform for art exchange, building a new vane of contemporary art.
www.53art.com