"Water,What?"

In cooperation with Cultural Section of Austrian Embassy in China

Date：2021.05.14-06.10

Artists: Marko Zink    SHI Jiongwen     

Organizer：Cultural Section of Austrian Embassy in China

Co-organizer：InterCulture

Artists：

· Marko Zink: 

Marko Zink was born in Gasshoen, Austria in 1975. In his artwork Zink interprets staged photography in a new way. On the one hand, he gives the viewer a feeling of incidentally witnessing a fleeting moment. On the other hand, he re-stages subjects as objects and vice versa. Marko Zink makes exclusive use of analogue photography with boiled film. 

· SHI Jiongwen:  

SHI Jiongwen , graduated from Xi 'an Academy of Fine Arts with bachelor's degree and master's degree, now lives and works in Beijing. Her new oil painting “Breathing” series is the artist's new work after reintroducing brushes in 2020. The creativity of this "Breathing" series comes from the artist's feeling and experience when diving. The previous lines seem to disappear, but the colors are purer, the pictures are fuller and more intuitive, making people feel like they are on the scene.

Thinkers in Residence: Anthropologist ZHOU Lei 

Anthropologist Zhou Lei spent six days as residence thinker in Interculture Space and conducted a full field research of local customs, family relations, food and architecture, ancestral halls, waterways. During his residency, ZHOU delivered six pieces of three-hour podcasts and an immersive multi-sensory aqua theatre, which was performed at the opening ceremony of "Water, What" .

Dinning Table: Water Theater

On April 29, 2021 Zhou Lei held the Thinker's Table in the Exchange Space, inviting 21 guests from all walks of life to attend. We had a banquet in the way of philosophy, Traditional Chinese medicine, design anthropology, ecology and communication, with a total of 13 dishes. And each of the dishes, to some extent, has echoed the interdisciplinary topic from InterCulture and Bauhaus interdisciplinary lab: water, food, lifestyle and risk.