Ou Ning

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As a graphic designer, Ou Ning is perhaps best known for his seminal book New Sound of Beijing(1999) which helped define the capital's emerging rock scene, and the experimental magazine Bie Ce(2000-2006) he edited and designed for Modern Media Group. As a curator, he co-founded the large-scale touring biennale Get It Louder(2005,2007), and organized a sound project at Battersea Power Station, London in 2006 for Serpentine Gallery. As an artist, he has organized such urban research and documentation projects as San Yuan Li, showed at 50th Biennale di Venezia (2003); MoMA, New York (2004); Mori Museum, Tokyo (2005); House of World Culture, Berlin (2006) and more recently Da Zha Lan, sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, showed at NAi, Rotterdam (2006); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2006); MoMA, New York (2006); San Francisco Art Institute (2007) . He is a writer, blogger and lecturer. He is also the founder of U-thèque, an independent film and video organization; and Alternative Archive, a platform for alternative cultural activities. He was born in 1969, lived and worked in Guangzhou until September 2006, when he moved to Beijing.For more info about Ou Ning,please click his official blog.

[edit] Essays

Media & Interviews:

Questions and Answers, with German journalist Sonja Ernst

Interview with Hou Hanru, first published in Art Union, 2001

Get It Louder: Voice of China’s New Design, with Modern Weekly

Design:

The Country Where Dreams May Come True; the newly emerging Chinese young designers in this wave of China mass construction

Who is Designing for the Poor?, 2005

Contemporary Art:

Rewriting Asia; searching for the complicated local and global identities of Comtemporary Asian art by exploring its historical dynamics

Visual & Exhibition:

Everyone is a Curator; curator's introduction of 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?; UK Chapter of Get It Louder 2007

Neo Photography and Media Industry in Guangzhou; for 3030: New Photography in China

Urban Studies:

Street Life at Da Zha Lan; a poetic anthropological study on Da Zha Lan, a nest for the underprivileged and outcomers of Beijing; it is currently a district under the urban renewal

Offline City; an evocative despcription 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; on an earlier project San Yuan Li, a wellknown village-admist-the-city case in Guangzhou, South China

The Story of Zhang Jinli; an ordinary man with his fate closely bound to Meishi Street of historic Beijing where he lived

Film:

Moving Images of Pearl River Delta: 1999-2003; discuss the independent DV filmmaking in Guangdong after the introduction of DV technology there around 1999.

Being as Surrealistic as reality; on the rapid growth of Chinese independent cinema after the Fifth Generation

Digital Images and Civic Consciousness; Chinese cinema with undeniable relationship of the mass urbanization process and political reform of China

Liu Xiaodong and the Sixth Generation Films