Guangzhou/Beijing-based graphic designer, documentarian, and curator Ou Ning (欧宁) will be screening his film Meishi Street at CMB Studio 4D on September 25, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. A special Q&A with Ou Ning will follow the screening.
Filmed by a Beijing resident and edited by the artist team of Ou Ning and Cao Fei (曹斐), Meishi Street documents the demolition of Dazhalan, one of Beijing’s oldest and most famous historic neighborhoods, and offers a dramatic firsthand account of the local residents’ struggle to keep their homes. The film traces conflicts caused by the imbalances between development and preservation, modernization and tradition, and governmental decrees and individual rights that resulted from Beijing’s unprecedented urbanization process during the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games.
Mr. Ou Ning is the co-founder and director of The DaZhaLan Project, as well as the director and co-editor of Meishi Street. Mr. Ou, a world-renowned graphic designer and artist, is also a co-founder and the curator of Get It Louder, a traveling biennale of art, architecture, design, and works in new media focused primarily on up-and-coming artists with Chinese backgrounds. Also in the role of curator, he organized the sound installations at Battersea Power Station, London in 2006 for Serpentine Gallery.
When: 8pm September 25, 2008
Where: CMB Studio 4D, UT Austin Campus
Free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come first-seated basis.
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