Event Details

WHAT: A Private Visit to Sound Art Museum with Colin Chinnery


WHEN: Sunday, April 9 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm Beijing Time


WHERE: Sound Art Museum 声音艺术博物馆 in Beijing's Tongzhou District - a little over an hour from Beijing city center by car, and a little under two hours by public transport. RASBJ organizer for this visit will help facilitatate carpooling to the venue using the attendees WeChat group.


MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: Sound Art Museum (SAM) is a cultural institution that focuses on sound. Based in Beijing, the museum is building a platform that places cross-disciplinary practice at the center of its activities. Rather than focusing on a theme such as classical or contemporary art, Sound Art Museum explores a medium – sound.


Central to Sound Art Museum's thinking is the concept of ecology. Sound is all around us all the time, and has a profound effect on our lives. Artists, musicians, linguists, scientists, and many other professions work with sound, but mostly independently of each other; the Sound Art Museum aims to create projects that bring people together, so an ecology of collaborative projects can be generated and grown over time.


At the center of Sound Art Museum's 80,000 sq. ft. site will be an exhibition that introduces sound from the perspectives of local traditional culture, nature, language, music, science, and memory – each section created to inspire visitors to experience the world in a different way. An award-winning building, Tongxian Gatehouse, plus three other exhibition halls will be spaces for sound art and experimental projects. There will be a live house for concerts, an archive for research, a residency center, and a project space for kids. The gardens will provide Beijing residents a platform for traditional sonic pastimes including a rooftop pigeon whistle center.


Sound Art Museum aims to be an open platform that fosters the most cutting-edge content, bridging traditional and contemporary culture, and engaging passionately with both local communities and those visiting from afar. As sound is a flexible and reproducible medium, it means many projects can easily be shared across China, and eventually around the world.


PLEASE NOTE: The group size for this visit is limited to 19. Please register early to avoid disappointment! For the same reason, if a scheduling conflict arises after you have registered, please let us know at communications@rasbj.org so that we can add someone from our waitlist. As we can only offer this opportunity to a limited group, we want to make sure that all 19 slots are taken by registrants who attend.


HOW MUCH: Free for RASBJ Members.


HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT: Please click "Register" or "I Will Attend" and follow the instructions. After successful registration, you'll receive a confirmation email. If you seem not to have received it, please check your spam folder.

Speakers

  • Colin Chinnery (Co-Founder of Sound Art Museum)

    Colin Chinnery

    Co-Founder of Sound Art Museum

    Colin Chinnery is co-founder of Sound Art Museum in Beijing. Deeply involved in Beijing’s art and music communities since the 1990s, Chinnery was the lead singer of Xue Wei, one of China’s first alternative rock groups, from 1992 to 1994. He went on to study Chinese language and civilization at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), graduating in 1997. After working for the British Library’s International Dunhuang Project in London, he returned to Beijing in 2002. He has since worked as a curator and artist, exhibiting widely in China and around the world. His conceptual practice generally takes the form of multimedia installations, often focused on sound. As curator Chinnery was Director in 2009 and 2010 of ShContemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, and between 2006-2008 he was Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, playing a central role in setting up China’s first major contemporary art institution.
    In 2020, with his partner Hong Feng, Chinnery started building Sound Art Museum, a cultural institution in Beijing with a focus entirely on sound, including museological exhibitions, sound art, live music, archive, residencies, and civic society projects. The museum opens to the public in May 2023.

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Venue

Courtyard Institute

Sihe College
28 Zhong Lao Hu Tong
Bei Jing Shi, China

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