About this Event
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NUN Mapping is an interactive painting project initiated by artist Ye Su.
To participate in this project, local friends are asked to prepare a real or fictional story/situation, short or long. Participants tell their story to artist Ye Su via Zoom which will be live streaming to a global audience.
After the online storytelling session, artist Ye Su will create a painting based on each participant's story and present it to the participant via e-postcard.
About the project:
The "NUN (New United Nations) Map Survey" project started with the NUN Map, an inverted map of the world, in which established geographical knowledge and historical discourse are absent. The map becomes an open world built from many personal stories.
The "NUN (New United Nations) Map Survey" project was initiated by artist Ye Su, who continues to invite people around the globe to share real/fictional stories. Stories are submitted to the artist through online conversations, offline gatherings, email submissions, and on-site writing. The artist then acts as an image-producing medium for the project, drawing the stories by hand and then post-processing them into postcards for the storytellers.
The project began in 2020 with a collaboration with Bridge Projects in Los Angeles, capturing the stories of 17 American friends through Zoom video conversations. Participants included artists, curators, composers, organization directors, gallery staff, academics, and more. In 2021, 17 new stories from Beijing were collected in Caochangdi, Beijing, by artists, curators, white-collar workers, laborers, students, etc. In 2024, NUN Mapping continues to collect stories for its project Lunch on the Grass in Yanjiao, Hebei Province, China. Story ...... This summer, the project came to the town of Ruthin.
About the artist:
Ye Su has produced paintings, installations, video art, and novels. Ye’s art explores the connections between the Chinese literati tradition, Chinese feudalism and its influence, on ancient Chinese art and culture, and Chinese contemporary social reality. To that end, his art is oriented both toward and around a methodology of storytelling.
Ye Su was born in 1983 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; he currently lives and works in Beijing. He graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a major in oil painting and received an MFA from the Experimental Art Department of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, in 2010. His recent solo and two person exhibitions include Qin in Retrospect, OCAT Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, China (2019); Everywhere, Ye Su & Zhang Si, Telescope, Beijing (2018); Cooland: Ye Su | Zai Zai, Yi Pai Hutong, Beijing (2017); and Scrutinize “Ling,”Space Regeneration Projects, Tianjin, China (2016). His recent group exhibitions include Open Islands, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand (2019); The Glowing Warmth, XC-HuA, Beijing (2019); FUTURE GAMES, Kommunale, Berlin, Germany (2019); Stacks of Paper, Riot of Color: The Politics of Taste, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing (2018); Mapping the City: A Vision of History and Xi’an, OCAT Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, China (2018); Bad New Days Ahead, Taikang Space, Beijing (2017); and Good Painting, Light Pavilion Project, Taikang Space, Beijing (2017).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Manorhaus Ruthin, 10 Well Street, Ruthin, United Kingdom
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