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UCCA x VICE Premiere Out of Place: Transgender Stories from Asia Screening and Discussion (2016.10.14 19:00-20:30 Auditorium Chinese with English subtitles) In this 40-minute film, VICE China brings us into the lives of transgender individuals living in Mainland China and Hong Kong. It is estimated that there are at least 400,000 transgender people living in China. This is by no means a small number, and the realities of their lives are almost never as simple as those of transgender celebrities, like Jin Xing. This documentary not only presents the realities of transgender individuals in Asia, it also provides assistance to those living with unanswered questions about their own identities, giving an inside look on the process of sex reassignment surgery, as well as the social support available to LGBTQ communities. Ticketing： RMB 30 / Adult RMB 20 / UCCA Member Note： *Enjoy UCCA Member ticket prices with the purchase of a yearly membership card (RMB 200); *Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins; *Please no late entry; *Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually; *Please keep mobile devices on silent. About the Film Out of Place: Transgender Stories from Asia Director: Han Xia, Joshua Frank Genre: Documentary Country: China Runtime: 40 min. Speakers Han Xia (Director) Joshua Frank (Co-director, Director of Photography) Mr. C (Interviewee) Collaborators VICE VICE is a global, multi-platform youth media company that produces high-quality content for the millennial generation. Headquartered in New York City, the company has branches all over the world within 38 different countries. With story coverage in music, traveling, sports, technology, fashion, arts and so on, VICE is an ever-expanding nebula of immersive investigative journalism, uncomfortable sociological examination, uncouth activities, making fun of people who should know better, and award-winning documentaries. VICE China started in 2013, its aim is to build the most influential and inspiring media platform for the young generation. VICE China presents diverse video contents, articles and events that revolve around young people’s passion points. Its most recent works include A Documentary about Edison Chen, My Team Versus Real Madrid, and the Young Chinese series. Beijing LGBT Center Established in 2008,Beijing LGBT Center is a non-profit, community-based organization that not only provides services including mental health counseling, legal affairs counseling and community service, but also leads depathologization advocacy and gender diversity education nationwide. Beijing LGBT Center is aiming to enable LGBT community members to live healthy, independent, and dignified lives, and entitle equal rights by creating a diverse and tolerant social environment. Projection Support BARCO

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CNEX DOCS Screenings @UCCA (2016.10.6 13:00-18:0 0Auditorium Various Language with Chinese subtitles) Occurring every other month, “CNEX DOCS Screenings @UCCA” features documentaries promoting cultural communication and the sustainable development of international society. Ticketing： RMB 20 / Adult RMB 10 / UCCA Member Note： *Enjoy UCCA Member ticket prices with the purchase of a yearly membership card (RMB 200); *Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins; *Please no late entry; *Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually; *Please keep mobile devices on silent. Schedule 10-6 (Thurs) 13:00-14:30 Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News 10-6 (Thurs) 15:00-16:00 Whisper of Minqin 10-6 (Thurs) 16:30-18:00 To Live for Food (Premiere) About the Film Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News Director: Tricia Todd, Eric Matthies Genre: Documentary Country: USA Runtime: 78 min. Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News is a feature length documentary focusing on the journalists who have been censored, targeted, tortured, intimidated, kidnapped, and killed. Murder is the leading cause of work-related deaths for journalists. Everyone in the world is impacted each time a reporter is imprisoned or a blogger is censored. As countries restrict news, they restrict information that is important to all. This documentary aims to address the dangers faced by journalists today and why these dangers exist, as well as raise public consciousness about the deadly cost of news in today’s society. Whisper of Minqin Director: Wang Wenming Genre: Documentary Country: China Runtime: 54 min. Whisper of Minqin is a feature length documentary that examines the ongoing, trans-generational battle between villagers and Mother Nature now carried on by the likes of ten-year-old He Fangfei. Eco-refugees like the He family want to remain in Minqin and believe it is up to the people to take fate into their own hands in order to remain on their land. But the vast and relentless desert, spanning thousands of miles and swallowing up everything in its path, must be reckoned with. Will the desert claim Minqin or will the people reclaim their land? To Live for Food Director: Shang Ming Genre: Documentary Country: China Runtime: 60 min. It’s a story about a diplomat turned farmer. Ms. Zhang is leading a one-woman crusade to implement her philosophy of sustainable farming. She’s transformed a chemically polluted area into an organic farmland and supported it by selling the produce to urban consumers. Will her initiative become sustainable and provide a viable alternative to pesticide and fertilizer heavy farmed goods in China? Following her story, the film explores a flawed Chinese food system, observing dilemmas in land use and food consumption, as well as the low social status and income of the farmers driving the agriculture industry. Will sustainable farming give them hope for change, too? Collaborator CNEX Projection Support BARCO

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From 19 September to 8 October 2016, #UCCA and Redstar Macalline jointly present “A Finer Quotidian—Beyond Vision: Redstar Macalline #Design Exhibition.” Five international designers—Jurgen Bey, Kenya Hara, Kengo Kuma, Luca Nichetto, and Christina Strand—transform UCCA’s Pavilion with works of #furniture specially created for Redstar Macalline’s thirtieth #anniversary. Enabling new perceptions of #contemporary life and the spaces in which it takes place, the exhibition calls for deeper reflection on the connections between visual culture, physical dwellings, and personal psychology. #RedstarMacalline #Beijing #InternationalArtists #KenyaHara #KengoKuma #JurgenBey #LucaNichetto #ChristinaStrand

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Best moment of last week captured in the exhibition hall designed by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates on our first public day of “Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours” with a special tour for kids. #ArtEducation #ZengFanzhi #InstallationView #UCCA #AsianArt #ContemporaryArt #TadaoAndo

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UCCA x BJDW Series Recollecting the International Hotel in the Age of Reform, 1978-1990 (2016.9.25 17:00-19:30 Beijing Design Week, Baitasi, The Global School English with Chinese translation Affiliated Exhibition "Accommodating Reform: International Hotels and Architecture in China, 1978-1990") Hotels constituted important if relatively under-appreciated spaces for change in early reform-era China. This round table discussion will focus on the design and construction of international hotels in China, particularly between 1978 and 1990. Topics to be discussed include their significance as emblems of cross-cultural cooperation in design, their broader economic, political, and cultural significance in relation to reform, and the legacy of these projects today. Round table participants includeLiu Heung Shing (Photographer), Feng Jiang (Associate Professor and Chai, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology), Lell Barnes (John Portman & Associates), and Zhang Lei(Worked at Great Wall Hotel). Cole Roskam (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong) will moderate the discussion. This event is being cosponsored by Beijing Design Week (BJDW) and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in coordination with “Accommodating Reform: International Hotels and Architecture in China, 1978-1990”, open at UCCA through October 23. Ticketing: Free Note： *Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins; * Please no late entry; *Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually; *Please keep mobile devices on silent. Speakers Liu Heung Shing (Photographer) b.1951, Hong Kong , Lives and works in Shanghai. Based in Shanghai, photographer Liu Heung Shing’s (b.1951, Hong Kong) first assignment in China in 1976 came at Life’s behest. He subsequently became Time magazine’s first accredited photographer in China, opening the bureau at the end of 1978 ahead of the normalization of Sino-US diplomatic relations in 1979. In 1981, he joined the Associated Press, moving from Beijing to postings in Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul, and Moscow, to cover most major events of the last decades of the twentieth century. In 1989 he received Picture of the Year Award for his news coverage and, in 1992, shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the collapse of USSR, for which he was also awarded Overseas Press Club Award. Liu Heung Shing is the author of China, Portrait of a Country (2008), and co-author (with Karen Smith) of Shanghai: A History in Photographs, 1842-Today (2010). He is the founder of Shanghai Center of Photography. Feng Jiang (Associate Professor and Chai, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology) Lell Barnes (John Portman & Associates) Zhang Lei (Guardian Investment Holdings Co. Ltd, Worked at Great Wall Hotel) Moderator Cole Roskam (Curator) Cole Roskam is associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in art and architectural history from Harvard University. His research examines architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. His articles and essays have appeared in Architectural History, Grey Room, the Journal of Architectural Education, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, among others. He recently completed a book manuscript titled An Improvised City: Architecture and Extraterritoriality in Shanghai, 1842-1937. He is currently at work on a second book-length study that explores architectural culture in China between 1972 and 1990. His research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, the Society of Architectural Historians, Harvard University, the University of Hong Kong, and the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong SAR.

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Nadim Abbas: Reveries of a Sedentary Explorer (2016.9.24 – 2016.10.16 Auditorium Various Languages with Chinese subtitles Affiliated Exhibition "New Directions: Nadim Abbas") My work owes a great deal to the cinema and the kinds of images that are crystallized therein. This is a collection of science fiction films—each a classic in its own right—showing that perhaps the most alien of landscapes is located not in outer space, but right here in the cracks and crevices of the mind and imagination. —Nadim Abbas Ticketing: Free Note： *Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins; * Please no late entry; *Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually; *Please keep mobile devices on silent. Schedule 9-24 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 Moon 9-24 (Sat) 16:00-18:00 Robinson Crusoe on Mars 9-24 (Sat) 18:30-21:00 The Man Who Fell to Earth 10-16 (Sun) 13:00-14:30 Jodorowsky’s Dune 10-16 (Sun) 15:00-16:30 Videodrome 10-16 (Sun) 17:00-19:30 Stalker About the Film Moon Director: Duncan Jones Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott Genre: Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi Country: UK Runtime: 97 min. Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems. Robinson Crusoe on Mars Director: Byron Haskin Starring: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West Country: American Runtime: 110 min. Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet. The Man Who Fell to Earth Director: Nicolas Roeg Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama Country: UK Runtime: 139 min. Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however. Jodorowsky’s Dune Director: Frank Pavich Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger Genre: Documentary / Sci-Fi Country: France / USA Runtime: 90 min. The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel. Videodrome Director: David Cronenberg Starring: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits Genre: Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller Country: Canada Runtime: 89 min. Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show, he discovers “Videodrome.” His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy. Stalker Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn Genre: Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi Country: Soviet Union Runtime: 163 min. Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife’s objections, a man rises in the early morning and leaves her with their disabled daughter to meet two men. He’s a Stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one’s secret hopes come true. His clients are a burned out popular writer, cynical, and questioning his talent; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the Stalker faces a crisis. Projection Support BARCO

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#Throwback to a few days ago when well known Chinese #hostess Yang Lan and fomous Chinese #actress Ge Tian paid a #visit to "Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours" #UCCA #ArtExhibition #ZengFanzhi #Beijing #AsianArt

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Everything is all set for tomorrow... #UCCA #ZengFanzhi #Countdown #Art #Exhibition #Beijing

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival from the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art!

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4th China Women’s Film Festival @UCCA (2016.9.20 – 2016.9.25 Auditorium Various Languages with Chinese subtitles) Following the success of the previous three years, the China Women’s Film Festival is back and showing more than thirty films and documentaries dealing with women’s rights. Many filmmakers, feminists, and other guests from China and abroad will gather here to share their experiences and work with audiences. Ticketing： RMB 30 / Adult RMB 20 / UCCA Member *For each 6 screening, Tickets can be purchased in packages of six for RMB 150 or RMB 100 for UCCA members. Note： *Enjoy UCCA Member ticket prices with the purchase of a yearly membership card (RMB 200); *Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins; * Please no late entry; *Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually; *Please keep mobile devices on silent. Schedule 9.20 (Tues) 19:00-21:00 Women Art Revolution 9.21 (Wed) 19:00-21:00 A Question of Silence 9.22 (Thurs) 19:00-21:00 The Last Island 9.23 (Fri) 19:00-21:00 Violette 9.25 (Sun) 17:00-18:30 Antonia’s Line 9.25 (Sun) 19:00-21:00 The Summer of Sangaile About the Film Women Art Revolution Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson Starring: Lynn Hershman-Leeson Genre: Documentary Country: United States Runtime: 83 min. For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and reveal previously undocumented strategies used to politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures. Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements and explains how historical events, such as the all-male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions. The film details major developments in women’s art of the 1970s, including the first feminist art education programs, political organizations and protests, alternative art spaces (such as the A.I.R. Gallery and Franklin Furnace in New York and the Los Angeles Women’s Building), publications such as Chrysalis and Heresies, and landmark exhibitions, performances, and installations of public art that changed the entire direction of art. A Question of Silence Director: Marleen Gorris Starring: Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriëtte Tol Genre: Drama Country: Netherlands Runtime: 92 min. Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death. Other female shoppers ignore the whole situation and leave when the crime is complete. The court appoints a female psychiatrist to examine the women; contrary to public opinion the psychiatrist finds they are not insane but implies the rage expressed by the crimes is a result of the male dominated society. The Last Island Director: Marleen Gorris Starring: Kenneth Colley, Paul Freeman, Patricia Hayes Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi Country: Netherlands Runtime: 115 min. The Last Island is a feminist disaster movie in which seven very different people and a dog survive an air disaster. They crash on a desert island and turn out to be the sole survivors of a world catastrophe. The question arises whether the human race should be allowed to survive. When one of the men increasingly takes on the role of leader, the situation escalates dramatically. Violette Director: Martin Provost Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet Genre: Biography / Drama / Romance Country: France / Belgium Runtime: 139 min. Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished and unloved Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in post war Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two female authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. Antonia’s Line Director: Marleen Gorris Starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir, Veerle van Overloop Genre: Comedy / Drama Country: Netherlands / Belgium / UK / France Runtime: 102 min. Antonia is an elderly woman who wakes up one morning and realizes that this is the last day of her life. She begins to tell her story in flashback, beginning with her arrival home to the family farm after World War II with her daughter, Danielle. For the next fifty years, a variety of colorful characters come and go on the farm. Danielle becomes a painter, and decides she wants a child but no husband, so Antonia arranges the proper donation. Danielle gives birth to Therese, who later has her own child, Sarah, also without virtue of a husband. Antonia and her descendants come to symbolize the freedom of independent females, with little need for men in their lives. The Summer of Sangaile Director: Alante Kavaite Starring: Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Dirziute, Jurate Sodyte Genre: Drama / Romance Country: Lithuania / France / Netherlands Runtime: 88 min. 17 year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste, a local girl of her age, who unlike Sangaile, lives her life to the fullest with creativity and daring. As the two girls become lovers, Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and finds in her teenage love the only person to truly encourage her to fly. Collaborator China Women’s Film Festival The China Women’s Film Festival (CWFF) began in 2013. It was the first event of such a scale focusing on film and women’s issues in China. Its second year it came in 2nd place in the Austrian Intercultural Achievement Award given by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since its beginning, the festival has been supported by many partners including UN Women and foreign embassies including Netherland, Norway, British, EU, American and Poland. Projection Support BARCO

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Zeng Fanzhi: Behind the Mask (2016.9.18 15:00-16:30 Auditorium Chinese with English translation) For the first public day of “Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours,” UCCA invites Johnson Chang (Co-founder, Asia Art Archive), Pi Li (Senior Curator, M+ Museum), and Richard Shiff (Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, University of Texas at Austin) to discuss the artist’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date, bringing viewers along the artist’s creative journey as well as introducing the greater development of Chinese contemporary art over the past thirty years. UCCA also screens Zeng Fanzhi: YOU Art Project, an up-close study showing the artist in the process of creating one of his signature paintings. With an artistic career that stretches nearly the thirty years—roughly the same length as the history of Chinese contemporary art—Zeng has continuously sought his own style in mediums that include oil painting, sculpture, and now works on paper. Having presented major solo shows in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and New York, Zeng was among the first Chinese contemporary artists to be featured in foreign exhibitions. Beginning with “Xiehe Hospital” series and “Mask” series, Zeng Fanzhi captured the attention of art critics. The compositions of “Xiehe Hospital” series allude to Christian religious triptychs, expressing the cycle of life and death through a tragedy of the flesh and spirit. “Mask” series begins with a group portraits and gradually shifts towards individual portraits, contemplating the relationship between individuals and society, especially during times of great change. Johnson Chang and Pi Li have both written extensively about the development of Zeng’s artistic career, with special consideration paid to these two series. Richard Shiff has also followed Zeng’s creative output, the “Abstract Landscape” series in particular. Ticketing: Free *Reservations required. Space is limited. Please call +86 10 5780 0200 from Monday to Sunday 10:00-18:00 to book. Note： *Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins; *Please no late entry; *Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually; *Please keep mobile devices on silent. Speakers Richard Shiff (Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, University of Texas at Austin) Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His broad range of publications includes Cézanne and the End of Impressionism, 1984; Critical Terms for Art History, co-edited, 1996, 2003; Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné, co-authored, 2004; Doubt, 2008; Between Sense and de Kooning, 2011; and Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954-1962, 2014. He has written on the art of Zeng Fanzhi on several occasions. Johnson Chang (Co-founder, Asia Art Archive) Co-founder of Asia Art Archive, collector, gallery owner Pi Li (Senior Curator, M+ Museum) Pi Li (b. 1974, Wuhan) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) where he taught in the department of arts management. Since March 2012, he has been senior curator of M+ Museum and currently lives in Hong Kong.