Everyone’ s East Lake Project
Originator:
“Everyone’ s East Lake” Art Project that initiated by an architect Li Juchuan and a photographer Li Yu, both of whom are Wuhan inhabitants.
Origin：
At the end of March 2010, many Wuhan inhabitants read a news in a news weekly from Guangzhou that Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Real Estate Corporation snatched with 4.3 billion yuan a piece of land of 3167 mu （211 hectares ） inside Wuhan East Lake Scenery Dist. and its outskirt area. The corporation planned to build two large-sized amusement parks （Happy Valley and Water Wonderland） and two luxury condominiums. The news caused uproars among the local inhabitants who worry about the future of the lake for the real estate project licked up a long piece of lake shore even some part of the water area.
That’ s background the art project was proposed by two artists. Facing the upcoming transitions of this biggest city lake, censorship of the reports and control of the public opinion, the two artists decided to try to use art as a channel to speak out the concerns. In the public initiative notice the artists wrote: ” … Right now, the only thing we know is that, at least for the moment, there’ s plenty of lakeshore open for us. For the moment, the lake is not the playground for the few. For this moment, there is still no need to buy tickets. So we want to offer a suggestion: let’ s all head down to the lake, as quickly as possible. It might be the last chance we have to freely enjoy East Lake as we know it. ”
Details of the plan:
The art project is open for everyone. Two initiators publicized their proposal on internet. There are two parts to the project: First, every participant visiting the lake must create a work with East Lake and its subjetc. Second, participants must then upload instantly their creations to a website created specially for the projetc.（www.donghu2010.org）. The participants can carry through their own projects in any time in the time period set by the art project amd any place of the lake shore or water area. The initiators hoped this project could form a convergence and share platform for a common concern.
Historical events:
The project kicked off on June 25th. Its creators had originally envisioned it as one month long event but later extended another month. In two months, it had recorded submissions from 52 different participants with 58 pieces of works. Another two participants created two works after the expiry, finally, the works added to 60 pieces. The participants have different vocations and identities, the artists, designers, architects, punk players, theater workers, musicians, poets, scholars, freelance, teachers, students and the unemployed. The ages ranged from 1950’ s- to 1990’ s-born. Most participants are from Wuhan, but some come from Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou. It also involved the participants who born in Wuhan but lives outside also come back to take part in the projetc. The location of the works carried out almost covered all the region of the lakeshore that we could be freely to reach.
Web Site：www.donghu2010.org
Feng Feng
Born in Hei Longjiang in 1966. Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art. Currently lives and works in Guangzhou.
He once held such a solo exhibition as KILL YOUR DREAMS: By Feng Feng,Liu Qingyuan,Zhu Fangqiong （Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2008） etc.
His works participated in group exhibitions such as The 54th International Art Exhibition
Huang Yongping
Born in Fujian in 1954. In 1982 graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts . Currently lives and works in Paris.
He once held such a solo exhibition as Nottingham Contemporary Art Exhibition (Nottingham, UK, 2011) etc. His works participated in group exhibitions such as Xiamen Dada (Cultural Palace of Xiamen, Xiamen, 1986), The Spectacle of the Everyday－ The 10th Biennial of Lyon (Lyon, France, 2005), the 48th/50th Biennale di Venezia（Venice, Italy）etc.
Liu Chuang
Born in Hubei in 1978. Graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts.Currently lives and works in Beijing.
He once held such a solo exhibition as
Qiu Zhijie
Born in Fujian of China in 1969. Graduated from China Academy of Fine Art. Currently lives and works in Beijing and Hangzhou.
He once held such a solo exhibition as Twilight of the Idols（The House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany, 2009） etc. His works participated in group exhibitions such as The 53rd Biennale di Venezia(Venice, Italy, 2009）, The Real Things: Contemporary Chinese Art（Tate Liverpool, UK, 2007） and The 25th San Polo Biennial（San Polo, Brazil, 2002）etc.
Sui Jianguo
Born in Shandong in 1956. In 1989, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currcntly lives and works in Beijing.
He once held such a solo exhibition as Sui Jianguo-The Sleep of Reason（Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco, US, 2005）etc.
His works participated in group exhibitions such as Contemporary Sculpture China Korea Japan（Osaka Museum, Osaka, Japan, 2003）, Between Heaven and Hell:Classical Elements
in Contemporary Art（Ostende Museum of Art, Ostende, Belgium, 2001）and Avant-garde-
Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Art Exhibition（ Holland, 2005）etc.
Wang Yuyang
Born in Hei longjiang in1979. In 2008 graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Beijing.
He once held such a solo exhibition as One Painting （2009, Art Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2009）etc. His works participated in group exhibitions such as Warm Up （Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2009）, Cine Cine Cine!!! Chinese Contemporary Art Beyond the Global Market（Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 2008） and Incheon International Digital Art Festival （Incheon, Korea, 2010） etc.
Yang Jian
He once held such a solo exhibition as Are we more stupid than before? （Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherland, 2010）etc. His works participated in group
exhibitions such as End to End（Harvestworks Digtial Media Art Center, New York, US, 2011）, Infinitely Close to the Front（Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2011） and Image Art after 2009（online event）（Tate Britain, UK, 2009）etc.
Yuan Yunsheng
Born in Jiangsu in 1937. Graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currently Lives and works in Beijing.
He once held such several solo exhibitions in the gallerys in Losangeles, New York, London, Amsterdam, Taipei, Beijing International Art Center, Cambridge. His works participated in group exhibitions such as Seoul International Olympic Art Exhibition (Seoul, Korea, 1988), Works by Teachers at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts(Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, 2010）etc.
Zhang Liaoyuan
Born in Shandong in 1980. Graduated from China Academy of Fine Art. Currently lives and works in Hangzhou.
He once held such a solo exhibition as An exhibition （Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, 2008） etc.His works participated in group exhibitions such as Jungle – A Close-Up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Trends （Platform China Space, Beijing, 2010）, Incheon International Digital Art Festival（Incheon, Korea, 2010 ）and Titanic （KOGANECHO BAZAAR, Yokohama, Japan, 2008） etc.
Zhang Nan
Born in Henan in 1987. In 2009 graduated from Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Beijing.
Her works participated in group exhibitions such as Harmonious Differences—Second Experimental Art Exhibition in China Central Academy of Fine Art （Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, 2010）, Wuhan International Music Festival （Jiangtan Park, Wuhan, 2008） etc.
Curators Introduction
Wang Huangsheng
Ph.D of Nanjing Art Institute, Director of
Pi Li
Ph.D of the Central Academy of Fine Arts where he works now. He has curated many exhibitions such as ‘Under Construction’ (
Guo Xiaoyan
Chief Operating Officer of Minsheng Art Institute, Vice-Director of
Wang Chunchen
Ph.D of Art History and associate professor, vice-director of CAFA Art Museum Curatorial Research Department, specialized in contemporary art theory and new media art. He has published the translations of After the End of Art, The Abuse of Beauty, Art Since 1940, Contemporary Art Theory Since 1985, The Language of Art History and so on, and the monologue of Art Intervenes in Society. His courses include ‘Contemporary Art Theory’, ‘Western Classic Readings on Art’, ‘Contemporary Photography’, ‘The Politics of Images’, etc. The exhibitions curated are ‘Mixed Maze-Five Chinese Photographers (London) ’, ‘This Ability–International New Media Art Exhibition’ (CAFAM), ‘China’s Contemporary Art Today’ (Seoul), ‘Supernatural–China’s Photography in the New Century’ (New York), ‘Nomadic Reality: New Photography in China’ (New York), ‘Walking Together – German & Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition’ (Wuhan), etc.
Forum Director Introduction
Wang Min’an
Born in 1969, cultural theorist and professor of Foreign Literature Institute,
