Green Artists 绿色艺术家

2009 GtB Artists
点废成绿艺术家2009

Beijing is a greener place to live thanks to the following artists involved in our events this year:

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Beijing Improv Mainstage Players
即兴话剧组主要成员
http://www.beijngimprov.org

Beijing Modern Dance/LDTX
http://www.beijingldtx.com
Founded by veteran choreographers and a new generation of dancers in China, BeijingDance / LDTX is a platform for contemporary creations. Under the artistic direction of Willy Tsao, China’s foremost figure in modern dance, and deputy artistic director Li Hanzhong, the company boasts an ensemble technically exquisite dancers and a diverse repertoire. Based in China’s capital, BeijingDance / LDTX serves as both a leader and a catalyst for the modern and contemporary dance and dance appreciation movement. In June 2006, the company founded LDTX II in order to further nurture young talent. By presenting new choreographers and providing platforms for developing artists, BeijingDance / LDTX pioneers China’s most cutting edge choreography.

Children’s Academy of Artistic Dance (CAAD)

The Children’s Academy of Artistic Dance (CAAD) is a dance academy committed to providing quality dance instruction, building confidence within our students and promoting dance as a healthy lifestyle, determined to bridge the gap between formal, disciplined and traditional dance education which emphasizes technical dance skills and nurturing children’s natural sense of movement. In other words, dance steps can be taught and remembered, but inspiration and creativity is needed for children to naturally express their emotions. GtB was honored to have the Children's Academy of Artistic Dance contribute a special Dai minority performance at the Climate Action Carnival, in celebration of International Day of Climate Action, October 24, 2009.

MOLLY'S CHANDLERY
http://www.myspace.com/mollyschandlery

Chris Yew (Molly’s Chandlery) is an acoustic singer-songwriter who creates jaunty ballads and jittery folk in a style compared with Devendra Banhart, Joni Mitchell and Fionn Regan. Originally from London, the city and its characters are often the subject of his haunting vocals and colourful finger-picking. Keen on participating in an event that is focused on making a difference in Beijing and on a much wider scale, he thinks Greening the Beige has these objectives and would like to offer his music to support their cause.

Willow Willow
http://www.willowwillow.net

Twenty-eight year old fashion designer, Alicia Lee's independent label WillowWillow and studio (formerly NOISE shop) was found in 2008 at Sanlitun. With the concept of high-quality original design for young people, WillowWillow contains three sections—the ready-to-wear collection, original couture service, and limited edition tees—which all target young fashionable professionals, among which a lot are designers of different fields and upcoming actresses. Besides that, you can also find cool little goodies like toys, interesting books, stickers, postcards, jewelries, etc. With a young, playful yet sophisticated heart, Alicia has created fashion collections such as “Hero of the Forest and Lord of the Opera” and “Lost in Peach Blossom Land”, which all showed a unique perspective of culture and the experimentations of high-tech natural fibers. The new collection with the theme “the Cube” creates a magical world of cubes--a surreal world with no color but transformation of forms, a story about geometric reveries amidst ultimate loneliness. 李坤，女，28岁，服装设计师。2008年在三里屯创立独立品牌WillowWillow及工作室（前 NOISE店）。WillowWillow以面向年轻人的高质量原创设计为宗旨，主要有三个部分，每季一个新系列的成衣系列、原创高级订制、限量T恤。主要面对时尚的年轻职业者，其中各行的设计师和年轻艺人占了很大比重。其次店内还有玩具、好玩的书、贴画、卡片等有意思的潮物。年轻、好玩同时精致、内涵深刻的精神始终贯穿于李坤的设计中，她以往的设计如《森林里的骑士和柳梦梅》系列、《爵士桃花源》系列等，都体现出对文化的独特理解与对高科技新面料的实验性应用。新系列《立方体》以服装的形式塑造了一个立方体的魔幻空间。这个没有色彩只有造型变换的超现实世界流露出遗世独立的清高与被人遗忘的寂寞。

蒋雷鸣 (Zack Jiang)
Originally born in Beijing, Zack Jiang grew up along opposing coasts of United States for much of his life, influenced heavily by the nature of the Applications and the California coastline. Seeking a medium between personal sanity and self-propelled creations, his project is rooted in his personal fulfillment in biking and an interest in pushing social thinking towards sustainable designs. By presenting bamboo bikes in a physical format for Beijing and China Zack aims to rewire the cultural acceptance of bamboo from historic uses (brooms, clothing poles and scaffolding) to allow acceptance of new forms of product design.

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GtB Artists, 2008
点废成绿艺术家2008

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Doug Lewis (www.douglewis.com) is both an artist and curator. He has shown internationally in Canada, USA, England and Croatia. Lewis’ work focuses on the idea that his art making is a way of navigating life. He received his MAFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design and currently teaches art in Beijing, China. Up and coming exhibitions include a solo show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada and London, England.

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Oak Taylor-Smith www.oaktaylorsmith.com

Oak is a British photographer living and working in Beijing. With a background in architectural photography, his images often provide a documentation of the dynamic landscape of Beijing, a city in flux.

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Qiao Wanhua
乔万华

Born in 1980 in Lianyungang of Jiangsu Province
1980生于江苏连云港
2000: graduated from Gangzhong Secondary School of Lainyugang, majoring in Arts and Crafts
2000年连云港港中等专业学校 工艺美术专业
2004: studied at Beijing College of Art Design, majoring in Computer Art Design
2004年北京艺术设计学院（原北京工艺美术学校）电脑美术设计专业
2007: studied at Department of Oil Painting of Central Academy of Fine Arts
2007年就读中央美术学院油画系

Achievements:
2002.3.20: first solo exhibition “Qiao Wanhua’s Art World” in Beijing School of Arts and Crafts
2002年3月20《乔万华艺术世界》首次个展 北京工艺美术学校展厅
2004.2.29: “Qiao Wanhua Poster Art Exhibition” in the Meiyuan Gallery of Beijing College of Art Design
2004年2月29《乔万华招贴艺术设计作品展》北京艺术设计学院美苑画廊
2004.3.15: “Qiao Wanhua Poster Art Exhibition” in the gallery of Beijing Institution of Clothing Technology
2004年3月15《乔万华招贴艺术设计作品展》巡展北京服装学院画廊
2004.4.17: “1980 Art Alliance Exhibition” in the gallery of Chaoyang Culture Center
2004年4月17《八零艺术联盟作品展》朝阳文化馆艺术画廊
2005.9: art piece “Thirst” was selected in Beijing International Art Biennale and Beijing World Art Museum
2005年9月作品《渴望》入选北京国际双年展 中华世纪坛
2006.8: solo exhibition “Universe In My Heart” in Besuo Art Gallery
2006年8月《心中的宇宙》个展 798碧索画廊
2006.10: solo exhibition “Qiao Wanhua Art Exhibition” at Chaoyang Art and Culture Festival and Besuo Art Gallery
2006年10月《乔万华城市涂鸦-刻章办证系列》个展朝阳文化艺术节 798碧索画廊

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MGL, "17 Years" Experimental Piece
www.myspace.com/musicmgl

mgl stands for Mark Gabriel Little who was born and raised in North Carolina in the Southern United States. Sometimes he is making sounds for dancers and sometimes for ears(www.myspace.com/musicmgl). Previous projects range from "sound as music" to "rhythm and blues" to "classical" to "African-American gospel." He is unable to be at GTB, but is always green in Beijing.

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Flo Eysler

Flo started producing and recording dance music in 1992 and began his DJ career about 1 year later. After countless gigs and events he started hosting his own regular club nights in and around Munich, Germany. To further his musical ambitions Flo and partners went on to open his recording studio "F44 Music Production" in 1998.

From early 1999 more than 20 records were released on labels like Virgin Records, Warner Music, House Nation, Edel / Club Tools, CMR, X-it, Balloon Records & AdrenalinItaly. Several of these records entered European sales charts and made it onto CDcompilations around the world. In 2001 the song ‘Fire’ was awarded with a professionalmusic video production (copy of the video available on request). While the tracks of H44 were usually targeted for the more commercial & trance drivendance floors, Flo always kept his Dj sets true to deep & groovy House Music.

From 2000 onwards, Flo pioneered pushing the progressive UK sound to Germany which earned him bookings all around South Germany, Austria and Italy. Due to his move to China in 2003, Flo sold his share in H44 Music and focused on working in other industry fields.

During 2006 Flo returned to Djing with an initial gig in Fuzhou (South China) and since spring 2007 he adds his crisp and very own musical selection to the floors all over China. He recently joined the artist roster of BaiCai Productions, the most influential promotersfor Techno & House Music in Beijing. Flo has always kept his musical style unique and innovative. His musical influences are based on 80ties Electronic Sounds and early 90ties Techno & House Beats. His Dj sets musically are best described as Deep, Groovy & Driving House Music combined with minimal and technoid elements with twisted vocals on top.

Reason for participating in Greening the Beige: Flo aims to move people's dancing feet into action towards a greener Beijing.

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DELACREW
www.myspace.com/delacrew

DELACREW is a band with only one aim: to innovate and explore.

They experiment with a range of styles —Downtempo, Breakbeat, Jungle, Drum & Bass— mixed with video to create an explosive and powerful live set.

Fresh from the shores of Spain, Delacrew offers GtB guests alternative energy for the dance floor.

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Ines Brunn, Artistic Cyclist
www.trick-bike.com www.natooke.com

Ines Brunn is a physicist and passionate cyclist.

She was a researcher at a particle accelerator, then moved to the telecommunication industry after which time she relocated to Beijing in 2004.

She was a competitive athlete for over 20 years and on the German National Team of indoor cycling for close to 10 consecutive years.

In 2007, fueled by her passion, Ines and a friend started the steadily growing community of fixed gear bike riders in Beijing and together hosted China's first fixed gear bicycle event in 2009.

Ines founded Natooke which is the first fixed gear bike and juggling
equipment shop in China.

She is also an advisor to Greening the Beige which is an eco-minded arts collective to connect and build synergies between green organizations and individuals in Beijing by holding
yearly events.

Ines aims to build awareness for bicycling in China as a sport, hobby, and daily transportation method which helps minimize the worldwide carbon emissions.

With her cycling she has been on TV in
Germany, Belgium, Singapore and of course China.

She will perform at the closing event for GtB'3 at CNEX Salon, Warehouse 1, on Saturday, November 28, 2009.

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Junglecat
www.myspace.com/thisisjunglecat

ELECTRONALOGUE. DRUM N BASS. trippin HIP HOP. spoken word. jazz/funk.
For more than 3 years, drummer Mico and Jess Meider have been mixing all kinds of yummy musical styles together in the spirit of the natural evolution of music. Based in BJ China, Junglecat's 6 piece live band mixes live dnb electronologue and jazz creating an audio-extravaganza. Good looking and good sounding, the band has appeared on big stage venues such as: 9 Gates Jazz Festival '06, '07 BJ Intl Jazz Festival '05, '07 BJ Midi Rock Festival '06 Shanghai Fuxing Int'l Jazz Festival '06 Sanya Jazz Festival '07 and regularly graces the stages of BJ's hippest clubs - Mao Livehouse, YuGongYiShan, Hangzhou and Shanghai's JZ Club. Junglecat does what they love and loves their junglekitties (fans) and all the dancin and fun they have.

Junglecat is happy to participate in something that affects the community in a positive way, that helps to bring awareness to the idea of SHUN QI ZI RAN, following the natural way of things. Respecting the earth is an easy concept and they’re all about promoting wellness, clean air & water, and the idea that every person can make a difference!
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ZIYO
www.myspace.com/ziyo

ZIYO started sometime in January 2004, when Helen walked into a guitar shop and was conned into guitar lessons by lead guitarist Da Ming. Two lessons in, they both came to the conclusion that 1 Helen had no real talent as a guitarist, and 2 Da Ming had no great patience for teaching. But they manage to salvage the relationship by forming a band, later recruiting Mao Mao whom Da Ming had met in a subway underpass only months before with similar dreams of rock stardom. Mao Mao recruited Zhang Jie an ex-bandmate in a very briefly formed death metal band, and Ziyo was born.

In 3 short months, the band wrote 10 songs, 3 of which are still performed to this day. Because all the band members had such varied musical tastes, the result was 10 very very different songs. They ran from rough reggae, to sloppy jazz, to folk songs, to punk rock, to Emo, and even some nu metal. But everything despite the huge jumps in genres was packed full of funk beats, infectious guitar hooks, and strong melodies belted out by Helen who lived half her life in the American South.

The result was a resident gig at two of Beijing's more well known underground livehouses, the New Get Lucky Bar, and Nameless Highland. The band continued to play these 10 songs, with a new song every few months added to set for a year and a half before they realized they were getting bored as the Tuesday night house band and the filler band for gigs with bigger named bands that actually had their own "sound".

So the band went on haitus. Canceled most of the gigs for the next few months, went into the rehearsal studio to find a sound, and record some demos. Not long after the first few self-funded demo songs were sent out, Ziyo got attention from some of China's biggest record companies. In October of 2005, Ziyo signed Warner Music China as a developing band (before they found their "sound").

Wang hui, ex-guitarist from the punk band Gum, joined the band to add another layer of punky guitars, and in one short year, Ziyo wrote another 30 songs, and produced 20 more self-funded demos. They were all sent to Warner whom still shook their head at the young band. The genre's were still too broad, and they wanted the sound "poppier". But just before this still directionless band was re-packaged into a sugar-coated unoriginal faux-rock band made for pre-teens, a miracle happened. Helen fell off a wall shattered her jaw, and was hospitalized for 3 months.

During those three months, she had her i-pod on shuffle listening to everything from Bloc Party to Basement Jaxx, from Libertines to Peaches. Now with a strong sense of personal identity, still bandaged and newly rebuilt, she went to her first rehearsal post surgery with a "sound". Within days, all the various genres they had experimented with was roughly cut and mixed together. The result was 50's doo-woop melodies combined with dance and funk beats, space guitars efx, mixed with some very punk rock guitars. Don't know what it is, but it certainly was a sound. When asked what they wanted, the band simply answered "to see bodies moving underneath the stage, dancing not just pounding the sh** out of each other".

ZIYO released their first EP with Warner music in January of 2008. You can check out the EP on their Chinese website at www.myspace.cn/ziyo.

Reason for participating in Greening the Beige:
Ziyo will be greening the stage in support of a greener Beijing.

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MEiWENTi SOUND PROJECT
E-Mail: meiwentisound@mac.com

A strictly conscious reggae vibration that puts the RED, GREEN and GOLD back in the beige.

Reason for participating in Greening the Beige:
Our regular Reggae Sundays Event has been hijacked by eco-hippy cultural terrorists!

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Capoeira Beijing
E-Mail: killemit@gmail.com

Capoeira group practicing the afro-Brazilian martial art here in Beijing. Capoiera Beijing will provide an open workshop for GtB guests with 3 birembau's, a pandeiro, some other musical instruments and people.

Capoiera Beijing believes in Greening the Beige. The group intends to raise awareness about the Afro-Brazilian art form and recruit more members.

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HOT & COLD
E-Mail: simonfrank91@gmail.com

Hot and Cold was formed in 1991 but only began playing music as late January 2005. While brothers Joshua and Simon are Canadian, they consider themselves a Beijing band and have performed exclusively in China. Their style varies from thrashing lo-fi loops to dreamy shoegaze. Sometimes two notes are better than twelve. Sometimes no notes are better than two. In December 2006, Hot and Cold reunited and performed at the encouragement of White's Zhang Shouwang and Shen Jing. They followed up with numerous performances during the summer of 2007 and beyond. Hot and Cold also play together and apart in experimental/punk outfit Fear the Talon, no wave collective Speak Chinese or Die and the concrete act 3951. In the words of City Weekend; "After criss-crossing the planet for the past three years, this pair of super experimental wunderkinds has finally set down in Beijing and is slowly shaping their thrashing noise into cosmic art"

Hot and Cold loves playing music but is also conscious of the negative changes occurring in the environment around us.
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EYETRICK
www.eyetrick.info

Eyetrick is a feast of exquisite visual magic. One half of this duo presented creative feats at GtB 08's closing event, Friday July 18, at The Boat for your green inspiration. Prepare to be amazed.

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ACUPUNCTURE RECORDS
www.myspace.com/acupuncturerecords

Established in September 2007, electronic label "ACUPUNCTURE Records" is a group that presents real good music and organizes real fun parties. All the 8 DJs in this crew are the very top local techno talents and have always been staying true to themselves. Weng Weng, Gao Hu, Huang Weiwei, X.L.F. , Pancake Lee, ELVIS.T, Xiao Feng, Terry Tu. They never stopped fighting for their dream in the underground scene, and so far have earned a reputation of "biggest support for local DJs" for the group. Music is the core, and with a focus on this, ACUPUNCTURE not only brings you parties with the best sounds, but also records, tracks, music we make ourselves to release in the near future. We are here to KEEP TECHNO ALIVE!

2007年，电音厂牌ACUPUNCTURE Records ("针灸疗法")历经市场沉浮跌宕，洗尽铅华，破土而出。8位久历沙场的本土DJ 翘楚人物：翁嗡，高虎，黄维伟，大饼，肖林丰，ELVIS. T，晓风，Terry Tu，经过地下状态休戚与共的切磋磨合，碰撞出了新的激情，新的灵感，对音乐的执着热忱与纯粹本色再次融汇成燃烧的勇气点亮了最初的梦想。

齐聚ACUPUNCTURE RECORDS麾下，8位战将力擎中国Techno DJ的半壁江山，联手发声，旨在诠释、传播音乐生活真谛，发掘、拓宽本土电音市场，为更多的人们呈献更好的音乐，让真的好音乐成为信仰，成为必需。

自成立以来，"针"云集了众多国内顶尖的DJ，VJ，和Party策划人，从几十人的"Minimal Hit"，到上千人的"Genesis"；从或地下或高端的俱乐部，到798艺术中心空旷的废旧工厂，他们联袂打造了一场场精采绝伦的派对活动，在各地不断上演激动人心的电音好戏。

藉由活动组织与音乐传播，"针"的出现大力推动了中国Club及电子乐文化，已经成为电子舞曲新势力的代名词。他们将继续在音乐制作、发行、活动制作、艺人经营等方面锐意前行，全方位助力中国电子音乐文化的坚实发展。

Acupuncture Records loves Beijing so much that they hate to think they won't be able to stay in the city when they're old because of pollution. DJ ELVIS.T has Rhinitis, and was really suffering when he first came to Beijing because of the bad air. Everyone can benefit from a cleaner, greener city, that's why everyone should participate.

Closing the final event for GtB '08, Acupuncture DJs X.L.F. and Elvis T. will play clean green healthy beats on the lower deck of The Boat, July 18, 11 pm to 2:30 am.

Be there or be beige.

扎根北京的"针"无比热爱这个城市，每当想到也许老去时将不得不因严重的污染而离开心中就五味杂陈。当台湾DJ ELVIS初到北京时，糟糕的空气让患有鼻炎的他难受至极。每个人都能从一个更洁净，更绿色的城市中受益，这就是为什么所有的人都该投身参与其中。

为"点废成绿08"落上一个圆满句点的闭幕活动上，"针"的DJ肖林丰和ELVIS.T将会在"船"地下层献上他们绿色、健康的好音乐。

7月18日晚11点到早2点半，"点废成绿"不见不散！