Art Intervention displays four performance art pieces during Art Beijing fair

Art Intervention, a Chinese performance art group focusing on cultural and social issues, is exhibiting four of its well- known performance art pieces as part of the ongoing Art Beijing fair.

According to Liu Jun, founder of Art Intervention, the four performances, which include country art intervention and joint art creation between Chinese and French artists, are taking part in the fair’s public art section.

The first piece, from Chinese artists Xu Bing, Sui Jianguo and Yu Fan, focuses on the question of how people can search for their own Taohuayuan, a fictional Shangri- la like village immortalized in a poem by ancient Chinese poet Tao Yuanming( 365- 427).

The artists’ works will be displayed on the mountains of Changde, a small city in Central China’s Hunan Province that aims to build a “wall- less” museum.

For the second piece, 10 large containers, each of which is an artwork created for the 2016 There is Here Sino- French installation exhibition, will be on display at the open space area of the fair located at the National Agriculture Exhibition Center in Beijing.

Founded by former French Prime Minister Jean- Pierre Raffarin, the art exhibition, which originally debuted in France, focuses on 10 artists from China and France.

Additionally, Art Intervention’s Rural Museum project is currently on display at the Lishui Rural Museum in Nanjing, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province. The project explores the possibility of bringing art projects to China’s rural areas.

First established in 2006, the Art Beijing fair is scheduled to come to an end on Tuesday.