Lijiang Studio
#37 Xinhua Jie Huangshan Shang Duan
PRC 674100 Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan
China
50, South Main Street
Providence Rhode Island 02903
USA
- Founded:
- Duration:
- Discipline: Drawing & Painting, Film, Literature, Media Art, Sculpture
- Targetgroup: International
Description
The Lijiang Studio, residence, local studio and workshop, aims to:
1) Benefit local people with cultural intervention that is sensitive to their communities and traditions, providing a means for them to adapt to the massive influx of Western, global culture and forces of modernization in ways that enhance, rather than deplete, their culture.
2) Complement and foster growth in China's thriving arts communities, which presently exist in the outskirts of cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. To connect Chinese artists with a community rooted in China's rural culture, as an alternative to the urban Chinese experience.
3) Provide international artists with the opportunity to experience rural Chinese village life, as an alternative to the intense pressure and marginalized status of the international 'white box' art circuit.
4) Encourage new paths of artistic development and greater awareness of their work, both in China and internationally.
Technical Information
Basics for tradional art
Accommodation Information
The Lashihai residency currently has 4 small double bedrooms rooms available, and a dormitory with 8 beds. There is shared studio space, some open and some enclosed, suitable for a variety of work from sculpture to video editing. The residency has a large shared kitchen and eating area, two showers, two sinks, and two toilets.
Paid by host
Lijiang Studio provides living and working space, and most meals.
Paid by artist
Artists are required to pay for their own airfare, internal transportation in China, appropriate insurance, production or project expenses, and general living expenses.
Location
Webbed by clear-flowing canals adjacent to each street, the old stone town of Lijiang is a vital cultural center at the heart of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Situated on a southern branch of the Silk Road, known as the Horse and Tea Road (chama gudao), Lijiang is a matrix of ethnicities, religions, languages, and layers of history. The Naxi people, Lijiang's largest population segment, were intermediaries in the horse and tea trade, along with Tibetan and Yi people to the northwest, Han Chinese to the northeast, and Bai and others to the south.
Application address
#37 Xinhua Jie Huangshan Shang Duan
Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan
China
Telephone +1 202 905 5522
Fax +86 8715031790
50, South Main Street
Providence Rhode Island 02903
USA
Telephone +1 202 905 5522
Fax +86 8715031790
E-mail
jay@lijiangstudio.org
www.lijiangstudio.org
