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Name
Ou Ning
Role
Film writer
Movies
Meishi Street, San Yuan Li
Ou Ning Rural Revivalist
Ou Ning (simplified Chinese: 欧宁; traditional Chinese: 歐寧; pinyin: ōu níng) is an activist, writer, curator and artist. As an advocate to ruralism in China, he founded Bishan Commune and School of Tillers in Bishan Village, Huangshan, Anhui, two spaces for intellectuals and practitioners who devote to rural reconstruction movement in China. As an activist, he founded U-thèque, an independent film and video organization in 1999. He also edited and designed New Sound of Beijing. As a curator, he initiated the biennale exhibition Get It Louder in 2005, 2007, and 2010. For the 2010 exhibition he chose Sharism as the overarching theme. Additional curator duties have involved launching the sound project in China Power Station, co-organized by Serpentine Gallery and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; As an artist, he is known for the urban research projects such as San Yuan Li, commissioned by 50th Venice Biennale (2003), and Da Zha Lan, commissioned by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. He is a frequent contributor of various magazines, books and exhibition catalogues and has lectured around the world. In 2009, he was appointed the chief curator of 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (09SZHKB), and was chosen to be the jury member of the 8th Benesse Prize at the 53rd Venice Biennale. He is now the curator of The Solutions: Design and Social Engineering for the 2011 Chengdu Biennale and founded a new literary bi-monthly magazine Chutzpah (Tian Nan in Chinese) (2011-2013). He was the director of Shao Foundation and member of Asian Art Council 2011 at Guggenheim Museum. He has been based in Bishan Village since 2011.
CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Ou Ning, By Dan Edwards from RealTime Arts magazine in Australia, March 2011, Beijing
NAi Interview, by Julia Linsen from NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute), 24 September 2009, Rotterdam
Wallpaper Interview, Wallpaper, Made in China issue, June 2009
In Practice: Q&A between Magnus Ericson and Ou Ning, published by IASPIS (International Artists' Studio Program in Sweden), 2008, Stockholm
The Past Has Said Goodbye to Us: Q & A between Sonja Ernst and Ou Ning, http://www.bpb.de, launched by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2008, Germany
Talk Goes On: Interview with Hou Hanru, On The Mid-ground, April 2002, Timezone 8
Get It Louder: Voice of China’s New Design, with Modern Weekly
Social thought
Agrarian Utopia: An Artistic Experiment in Chiang Mai, an observation of an artist experimental land project in Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 13, 2011
Where is China Heading?, Explorations and Propositions from the Shenzhen Marathon, 17 March 2010, Beijing
"The “Commons” of Common Spaces" essay published by the Goethe-Institut China, January 2016
Visual works and exhibitions
An Arrow, a critical writing for 3 Years Arrow Factory 2008-2011, published by Sternberg Press, 2011, Berlin
The Experience of Family and Social Change: Song Dong's Home and Art, published in Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well, Yerba Buena Center for Arts, 2011, San Francisco
Design and Social Engineering, curatorial statement for The Solutions: International Design Exhibition, 2011 Chengdu Biennale
A City Called Shenzhen: Exhibition Narrative of 09SZHKB, introduction to the main exhibition of 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture, composed of "In the South", "Losing the Countryside", "City-Building Fever", "Back to the Streets", "The Amusement Park" and "Future City-State"
Odyssey: A Wanderer's Manifesto, a fictional-styled foreword for the Odyssey: Architecture and Literature Project, 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture
City Mobilization: Towards Another Kind of Biennale, Curatorial Statement for 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture
Everyone is a Curator, curator's introduction to Get It Louder 2007, a large-scale touring biennial for Chinese new generation of designers and artists
Is London Still the Center of the World?, Everything Material, Something Immaterial: UK Chapter of Get It Louder 2007, published by British Council, 2007, China
Neo Photography and Media Industry in Guangzhou, 3030: New Photography in China, edited by John Millichap, 2006, Hong Kong
Rewriting Asia, The Global Identity of Contemporary Asian Art, Credit Suisse: Art & Entrepreneurship, exhibition catalogue, published by Credit Suisse, 2008, Zurich
Urban studies
City Regeneration and Its Opposition, 7–16 February 2008, Beijing, essay for Spectacle and the city - urbanity in popular culture and art in East Asia, 4–5 June 2010, Amsterdam, IIAS/ASCA Seminar One
The Social Flux and Spatial Politics of the Pearl River Watershed, October, 2010, Commissioned by The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Street Life at Da Zha Lan, Urban China, 2006, Shanghai, a poetic anthropological study on Da Zha Lan, a nest for the underprivileged and outcomers of Beijing; it is currently a district reconstructed in urban renewal
Offline City, an evocative description of people's living forms and status at Da Zha Lan; "offline" is a smart invention for the district under the impact of postmodern informational society
Shadows of Time, Yishu, Spring Issue, March 2004, Vancouver, on an earlier project San Yuan Li, a well-known village-amidst-the-city case in Guangzhou, South China
The Story of Zhang Jinli, Kulturstiftung des Bundes Magazine vol. 7, 2006, Germany; Volume 8: Ubiquitous China, Archis+AMO+C-LAB+NAi, 2006, Rotterdam; Totalstadt: Beijing Case, Verlag, Koln, 2006, an ordinary man with his fate closely bound to Meishi Street of historic Beijing where he lived
Design
The Country Where Dreams May Come True, ICON Magazine, Issue 057, March 2008, London
Who is Designing for the Poor?, Plugzine, Issue 1, 2005, Beijing
Music
The Revolutionary Imagination and its Cultural Praxis, Published in CHiE! Culture Sieges Politics, 2008, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Film
Liu Xiaodong and the Sixth Generation Films, Liu Xiaodong, 2006, Map Publishers, Hong Kong
Revealing Keys To The Riddle Of Reality: Moving Images Of The Pearl River Delta From 1999 To 2003, Yishu, Summer Issue, June 2004, Vancouver, on the independent DV filmmaking in Guangdong after the introduction of DV technology to Guangdong around 1999
Being As Surrealistic as Reality: Chinese Independent Cinema after the Fifth Generation, Metropolis M, October 2004, Amsterdam
Digital Images and Civic Consciousness, Argos Festival 2004, Catalogue, October 2004, Brussels
The U-theque Organization: An End or a Beginning?, Yishu, Summer Issue, June 2003, Vancouver