China Power Station - exhibition in Battersea power station, London

by lawrence

Pink Floyd: Animals

Sure you all know this album, don’t you? (No, I don’t.)

Well, this is the place where a large-scale Chinese contemporary art exhibition is going to happen soon (as early as October). From artist / curator Ou Ning’s blog:

(in translation)

Hans-Ulrich Obrist will be curating a large-scale Chinese art exhibition called “China Power Station” in the Battersea power station of London, due early October. He has invited a lot of Chinese artists and architects and commissioned me for a sound art project at the entrance hall of the venue. This is a good opportunity for me to launch a long-term research project about geo-sonic phenomena. I’ve talked to Yan Jun and Lawrence Li about possible sound artist candidates and volunteers, a text document will be released soon in order to move things forward. If you’re a phonographer / field-recordist and are interested in the project, feel free to drop a message here (i.e.: here - Lawrence). We’re also looking for writers who are interested in the research of sound, architects who are interested in the relationship between sound and physical space and tech people who’s capable of establishing large-size sound archive on the web. China Power Station will tour in Oslo in 2007, Beijing in 2008 and back to London afterwards, each exhibition will be different. Our sound project will be included in the tour, as well as Get It Louder ‘07, which is due to tour in three major cities of China.

Related:

- Times‘ coverage of the event.
- Serpentine Gallery, who’s in charge of the production of the CPS exhibition.

Entrance space of Battersea

This will be the space used for the sound art project. For more photos of Battersea, check out Ou’s original post.




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  1. […] Sorry for the hiatus of posts, I’ve been busy translating a lot of sound art-related texts, for instance Justin Zhong Minjie’s artist’s statement for his Phonography project with D-Fuse, the articles and lecture transcriptions which will be published by British Council China as a book documenting their Sound and the City project last year (the book is edited by Yan Jun). In the meantime I have to keep track of the Battersea thing too, speaking of which, it turned out that the deserted power station is being strictly protected to the point that you can’t even hang a poster on the walls inside, and no audience will be admitted to Turbine Hall B, which we thought could be used for our Chinese sound art survey exhibition. Well actually it _is_ for that purpose but since you can’t get in and the space is huge (30 * 80 metres, with a height of around 25 metres), there’s no point in placing the PA system inside and having audience listening outside. So we ended up putting the loudspeakers on the 30 * 15 metres platform in front of the entrance. Not an ideal scenario but I think the double-CD compilation that we planned to release as a document of the exhibition weighs more. […]

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