Come out tomorrow afternoon and evening, Friday, May 1 at CCD300 for a last minute event tomorrow in Cao Chang Di for the Qianti 2009 Performance Art Festival. Matt and I are setting up the upgraded Laoban Soundsystem 1.0 and will use the new Xiaoban Baby Speaker Samples we have in the stack for the event to start at 2 PM on May Day (May 1) and will last for a few hours. If you are hardcore, come out from the start. My guess is the best time to come after the performance art is at 5:30 PM and we will keep the bass and dubstep going for as long as people are on the scene. There is cheap drinks and food all around the space, so all is well on that front.

UPDATE: Ok, confirmed details. There are performances and a couple of bands from 2 - 6. Then after 6 PM, the big party starts and goes until late. There is free bbq and beers the entire day from 2 until whenever...so this is really about who comes out now, and who is mixing.

We will be mixing some drum n bass, dubstep, dirty south beats, and getting some friends to mix as well, all around the theme of planning for summer events like Laoban Tour, CaoChangDi.org, and other projects in anticipation of Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 arriving soon.

DJS: If you are a DJ, please come out and mix some cutting edge music. Its all about the battle of best music on an open soundsystem.

Stay posted to this blog and rejon on twitter for more details about the event. Here are the details on the Qianti 2009 Performance Art Festival:

Qianti 2009 Performance Art Festival

策展人：王军
Curator: Wang Jun

学术支持：袁霆轩
Academic Support: Yuan Tingxuan

视觉统筹：赵乐娟
Visual Organizer/ Curator: Zhao Lejuan

特邀嘉宾：艾未未，何云昌， 王庆松， 余心樵
Special Guests: Ai Weiwei, He Yunchang, Wang Qingsong, Yu Xinqiao

开幕酒会：2009年5月1日下午2点
Opening Party: 2pm, 1May, 2009

活动时间：2009年5月1－3日
Exhibition Time: 1-3 May, 2009

地点: 北京草场地CCD300艺术空间
Venue: CCD 300 Space, Caochangdi, Beijing

接待电话： 138 1084 6594
Reception Number: 138-1084-6594

协办单位：CCD300当代艺术空间， 易品名堂高端室内设计机构， 左映像图片工作室， 第八天云南餐厅， 韩摄影工作室
Supporting Group: CCD300

特邀媒体：99艺术网

There is loads of artwork and performances at CCD300, a studio in the corner opposite Ai Wei Wei's big studio. You'll hear the music since the event is outdoors. If it rains, there is an indoor space, so come anyway! Come on out, lets have some drinks to celebrate May Day, talk about the summer, and figure out ways to plug into the entire Laoban Project. We still need sponsors and are planning for a full summer of events.

Here is a map to the space on Google Maps in China. If you get lost or something, or want to know what is happening, you can text or call me (Jon Phillips) at: 132-6817-8381

Thanks to Venus Lau for translating this quickly :)

UPDATE: Check out the facebook event.

Laoban Summer Planning LOGO as SVG vector file all outlines

For both Chinese and English speakers, check out the smart work of Cantocore artist, Guy Overfelt.

Guy Overfelt is a San Francisco-based an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. With humor and a mystic hammering, Overfelt furthers the conceptual art movement by mediating the influence of contemporaneous sociopolitical, cultural and economic conditions embodied by his 1977 “Smokey and the Bandit” Trans-AM muscle car. Overfelt plays with laughable notions of American-ness. Through a convergence of artistic practices, Overfelt re-imagines by-products of desire. He modifies his iconic Hollywood styled, Detroit-powered ideas to create mono-prints, peel-out paintings and a life-sized inflatable Trans-AM. His high performance actions shift cultural objects from the familiar to a more obscure metaphoric output.

Guy Overfelt是一名美国旧金山艺术家，作品多次在国际上展出。他以幽默和神秘的方式，通过调停社会政治、文化和经济的同构性影响，深化观念艺术。这一理念包涵在他1977年创作的肌肉车Smokey和Bandit Trans AM。Overflet以可笑的美国主义式见解，通过聚合的艺术实践，重新想像欲望的副产品。他改变好莱坞式的明星风格，用底特律的方式创作单色版画、原地烧胎绘画和实物尺寸的充气跑车。他高强度的行为作品把文化物品从熟悉转变为含糊和富于寓意。
Project

Untitled (Up in Smoke), inflatable nylon installation, 2008

Guy Overfelt furthers his obsession with American muscle cars. This time the inflatable Smoke is fabricated in Guangzhou, factory direct. Beyond Paul McCarthy-like reductive shapes coming off the assembly line or the Chinese Olympic team leaving the others’ in the dust, the simple shape raises questions about what these factories are pumping out in Guangzhou.

无题 (烟雾中)，充气尼龙装置，2008

Guy Overfelt进一步推进他对美国肌肉车的狂热，这次Overfelt在广州本地工厂制作了可充气的汽车烟雾。除了无数像Paul McCarthy式的从生产线来的复制形状和中国奥运队给其他国家运动员留下的一骑绝尘，这个简单的雕塑形式向我们提出的问题是这些工厂在广州的空气中排放了什么。

From my website, I just posted about:

Guy just sent me the brilliant video documenting the installation of his "Untitled (Up in Smoke)" which Fabricatorz facilitated in getting fabricated. Click the image above or follow the link to see the video.

Don't forget tomorrow, Sat, Feb 28 from 4-6 PM is the Cantocore FOB Artists Talk at Mission 17. Come discuss the project with Guy, JD Beltran, David Johnson, Kathrine Worel, Justin Hoover, and myself.

Hi all, we launched Cantocore.com and are ramping up promotion for this show in Guangzhou initially in September 2008. Here is the post re-blogged:

Hi all, welcome to a new project which is a collaboration between Fabricatorz and Garage Biennale. Here are two levels of scale about the project:

"Art show in Guangzhou, China in September 2008 and then in San Francisco November 2008."

And, a few more sentences...

"Garage Biennale and the Fabricatorz are bringing you Cantocore, a research project investigating contemporary art and culture between Canton (Guangdong) and cities around the world. The initial focus is a contemporary art exhibition with two versions of the same show in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China."

There is a solid line-up of artists working on projects at present for both shows with the main concept being the ideas of import and export where projects in both locations are the same, but different versions.

Lu re-blogged the Cantocore Home Concert Preview we are doing next WED in SF, and so, I'm pushing out this post about the Cantocore project which is a contemporary art show that Lu, myself and Justin Hoover are pushing out this early September and November. The first instance of Cantocore is to generate some funds to help in production of the artwork. No one is getting paid from the raising of monies to support art production, so we are putting on a concert to preview the artwork for the show.

Lu wrote about here:

What it will take to make an art show. You will need three things: Artists, Space and Money! Sometimes these three things don’t come so easy, don’t they?

These are the things we are pushing right now for Cantocore exhibition, a show in both Guangzhou China and San Francisco this fall. There is a home concert preview party coming Wednesday 7/23 to fund the production of the shows. I am not a very good sales woman, but really want to make this one works!

Visit Cantocore site for information about the show, artists, and detail about the preview concert. Performing musicians for the the preview concert are Ma Jie and Christopher Willits.

And then there is a follow-up post on the Cantocore website:

Cantocore Home Concert Preview is coming up next Wednesday July 23rd, 7-9 PM in San Francisco. Right now our RSVP deadline for this event is extended to Monday, July 21st. And tickets are on sale right now for $50 USD! All money goes to the production of the Cantocore exhibition in Guangzhou and San Francisco. And, all contributions will be rewarded with praise, promotion in printed materials and on this website.

This event is a preview of the coming exhibitions, and also a home concert featuring Chinese traditional instrument musician Ma Jie and electronic musician Christopher Willits.

To reserve your tickets please do one of the following:

Call Justin at 415-425-1647
Email: jhoover.charles@gmail.com
Or use Paypal option

We are eager to raise some funds from those interested in the ideas which will gain both a plug on the http://cantocore.com website and then in our printed material. Feel free to ask questions here on this blog post publicly, or send us email about this.

Please participate in this project and if in SF, RSVP by next MONDAY, July 21 to come to the Cantocore Home Concert Preview.

Mean Chan will get on here shortly and write something better and in Chinese for all you reading this in China.