This publication is a parallel space corresponding to "Sprout from White Nights", the Chinese contemporary art exhibition curated by Zhang Wei at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, From September 16 to December 21 2008. With contribution of Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Hipic Group (Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Huang Kui), Hu Xiaoyuan, Jiang Jun, Kan Xuan, Lee Kit, Liu Wei, Pak Sheung Chuen, Xu Tan, Yan Jun, Yang Fudong, Yangjiang Group (Zheng Guogu, Chen Zaiyan, Sun Qinglin), Zhang Da, Zheng Guogu.
Selected content of Sprout from White Nights include: Stockholm, late afternoon, 28 May 2008 by Sara Arrhenius / One Minute Reading by Hu Fang and artist / Collective Space by Jiang Jun and Liu Zhi Zhi / Duel by Alfian Sa'at / The meaning of reading blank pages by Pak Sheung Chuen / A Meeting with the Artists by Caroline Elgh and artists
English/Swedish/Chinese | Dimensions: 22.5 x 22.5 cm | Bonniers Konsthall and Vitamin Creative Space, 2008 | Pages: 228 P | ISBN 978-91-977566-1-7 | Price: 35 Euros |
New York Paris Zhumadian depicts a Chinese dream: when the tertiary academic journey of the protagonist Hu Xiang comes to a close, and despite his wish to continue with the dream which he had created for his father all the way to the end, he is bound to have to enter into the rat race and class structure of commerce in the city. This could very well become the direct driving force for the development of Chinese society - after all, the world is not all that far away in the dreams of Hu Xiang, and in fact seems to be right before his eyes. Duan Jianyu has managed to depict how dreams about the world can be catalysed and developed even from the most mundane and ordinary scenarios of daily life. The work makes us embarrassed and feel like we are lacking, yet it touches our hearts deeply. The picture that is created from Hu Xiang's story is akin to a romantic serenade about the "investigation into the globalisation of the vulgar".
Chinese and English | Dimensions: 29 x 29 cm | Vitamin Creative Space, 2008 | Pages: 152 P | ISBN 978-988-17864-2-5 | Price: 20 Euros |
With do it in hand, you will be able to make a work of (someone else's) art yourself. Since1993 do it has provided its public with "how to" pages of instructions written by more than 200 of the most important artists and writers working today since its initiation by Hans Ulrich Obrist in dialogue with Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier.
Co-edited by Hu Fang and Hans Ulrich Obrist, do it (Chinese edition) is the most up-to-date development of do it project, it includes new contributions of do it proposals from 26 energetic artists from China/ within Chinese context, they open the new possibility to the Possible Life.
English | Edited by Hu Fang and Hans Ulrich Obrist | Designer: Huang He | English Translation: Melissa Lim | Proof Reading: Boat Zhang |Print Supervisor: Huang Liguang |Dimensions: 14 x 19.5 cm | Vitamin Creative Space, 2008 | Pages: 64 P | ISBN 78-988-17864-1-8 | Price: 12 Euro/ 15 USD |
Pavilion to the Heart's Insight attempts to re-establish the notion of possible breakthroughs in contemporary art today, by drawing from a deep sense of self-awareness acquired from artists's daily experiences living in "the Chinese context". The book is dedicated to " those restless yet profound souls/to the generation that has imposed an exile on itself".
With Contributions of Chu Yun, Cao Fei, Tseng Yu-chin, Yang Fudong, Pak Sheung-chuen, Zheng Guogu, Jun Yang , Heman Chong, Terence Goh, Hans Ulrich Obrist | English and Chinese | Dimensions: 21.1 x 13 cm | Pages: 246 P | Vitamin Creative Space, 2008 | ISBN 978-981-05-9582-1 | Price: 29.95 RMB |
Journey traces the spiritual development of the Chinese artist Cao Fei, by comprehensive pictorial explorations and text contributions from Hou Hanru,Hu Fang, and the interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artist, it highlights the thread of the inner relationship of Cao Fei's art works, which somehow opens up an alternative view on art in future.
English and Chinese | Dimensions: 22.5 x 16.5 cm | Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau & Vitamin Creative Space, 2008 | Pages: 144 P | ISBN 978-981-05-9851-8 | Price: 39.95 Euros |
Dictionary of Keywords is a conceptual publication by the Chinese artist Xu Tan, it is a high density collection of 125 keywords based on his project "Searching for Keywords", which consists of a series of interviews of active people in the Chinese society or people in the active Chinese area, and by searching and studying the content of the conversation, Xu Tan aims at finding out the connection between the individual speakers, words and the mental tendencies of Chinese society. The dictionary functions as a kind of teaching book for people to learn Chinese, and to exchange different culture experiences through the learning process.
English and Chinese | Dimensions: 14.5 x 13.5 cm | Pages: 287 P | Vitamin Creative Space, 2008 | ISBN 978-981-05-9852-5 | Price: 39.95 Euros |
RMB City is a Second Life city planning by China Tracy (RL: Cao Fei). The publication of RMB City draws the whole picture of this unique project, and explores the uncertain reality within Second Life together with various authors from art, architecture, literature, music and media fields.
Published by Vitamin Creative Space | Concept: Cao Fei, Zhang Wei | Editor: Hu Fang Cao Fei | Designer: Xi Xi | Text: Cao Fei,Zafka, Fang Zheng, Hu Fang, Jiang Jun, Wagner James Au | Dimensions: 28.5×21.5 cm | Pages:84 P | Price: 39.95Euros/50 USD
Published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group, Sponsored by Vitamin Creative Space With 25 new do it proposals from Chinese artists, together with the complete Chinese translation of do it English version Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hu Fang | Designer: Zhu Yunyan | Translator : Zhu Yunyan | Dimensions: 19×14.5 cm | Pages:370 P | ISBN 978-7-5321-3245-4 | Price: 34.5Euros
On a day in April 2006, four young men - Cao Fei, Ah Long,TOKILL and Fang Zheng were walking on the way to Yunnan province.Initially, Cao Fei was invited to make a feature film about "Yunnan" subject, nevertheless, the creation of the film reached an impasse due to various reasons in the process, all that remains is the script of Nù (Anger) which is the core of the publication. The photographs featured in the book are taken from this journey, which along the Nujinag River nevertheless involves the very conception of life.
English and Chinese | 15x25cm, 100 Pages, Color Image | Vitamin Creative Space, 2007| ISBN 978-981-05-8916-5 | 19.95 Euros ( Book Only), 38.00 Euros ( Book + Music CD by TOKILL+ Special Designed Bag)
Zheng Guogu: Jumping out of Three Dimensions, Staying outside Five Elements
Jumping out of Three Dimensions, Staying outside Five Elements explores Zheng Guogu's art practices within last 15 years. The way how he creates the work has the similar ideology with Chinese traditional painting. The difference is that he makes the work in the process of his life instead of on a piece of paper. There is certain focus in his process, but all his work is like sparkle of his idea to flash at certain point during his life. What he is thinking is what he feels. Corresponding to this, there are many sub-spaces created within the whole publication space, eventually the publication itself becomes a multi-layer architecture piece.
English and Chinese | 26 x26 cm, 350 Pages, Color Image | Vitamin Creative Space, 2007 | ISBN 978-981-05-8416-0 | 59.80 Euros
Let's say there are a library and a reader. This reader wants to, in her autistic euphoria, read all the books and prints - everything ever published. Nothing less. This is, in the physical universe we occupy, normally not possible (given a huge amount of volumes to read within a rather limited time frame)... - Leif Magne Tangen Untitled (They Become Silent Again), The Sole Proprietor and Other Stories, pp.68
Published by:Vitamin Creative Space |on the occasion of the solo exhibition The Solo Proprietor and other Stories by Heman Chong | Editor: Melissa Lim | Design:N.E.L.S.O.N.| Dimensions: 19.9x12.9cm | Pages: 180P | ISBN:978-981-05-7467-3 | Price: 29.95 Euros
New Arcades (Survival Club, Sensation Fair, and Cool Shanshui)
Hu Fang's writing is a juxtaposition of fiction and commentary about a variety of topics relevant to contemporary living, including authoritarian politics, office culture, market economy and personal experiences. These topics commingle in his work New Arcade with great lucidity and wit. His ambition seems to be embedded within the risky act of constant writing, such that he creates little seeds of texts that can be weaved into an encyclopaedia on contemporary society. (Jiang Jun, Chief Editor of Urban China )
The publication "How to Travel with a Watermelon" includes Duan Jianyu's catalogue (selected painting from 1999 to 2006) , 2 editions of Duan Jianyu's print work and a text by Hu Fang. Everything Duan Jianyu(born in 1970) wants to say, she says in her paintings. Here, textual guidance is superfluous, unless to provide a vague background:just like in some of her paintings, words are quoted, explanations coming from our daily lives, or perhaps the words uttered between a female radio broadcaster and a regretful audience confessing sexual transgressions on the air. Even her brushstrokes and palette point us toward an ineffable, slightly aggravating world. Her paintings summon us to envision a threshold we have no way of reaching in daily life, and with equal precision, they summon our feelings about contemporary Chinese reality. As such, they project the background of contemporary China, from the villages to the cities-full of vigor but also incredibly trite. Perhaps, cliché is just the crystallization of our own pursuit of modernity.
Book (Documentation of dialogs between Hu Fang and Xu Tan)+ DVD (Simplify Edition of 5 Video Pieces of Xu Tan related to Loose Exhibition) Concept：Hu FangZhang Wei Book Text：Xu TanHu Fang | Editor：Hu Fang | Translation：Hu Zhen | Proof Reading：Michael Fitzhenry | Design：Deng Jianjun | Assistant：Shen Zudi | Photo Credit:Xu TanHu Fang | Dimensions: 27.9x14cm | Price: 49.95 Euros
DVD (Simplify Edition of 5 Video Pieces of Xu Tan) 1 Made at home in China, Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou-Shenzhen,1998 2 New Curator and Lobster Art Center, Shanghai, 2003 3 Concert Hall of Zheng Daoxing, Yangjiang-Shanghai-Guangzhou,2002－04 4 Air Is Good, Shanghai-Berlin,2005 5 Xin Tian Di, Shanghai,2005 Video (Simplify Edition) Editor：Xu Tan | Subtitle Translation：Wu Yanyan | DVD Production：Deng JianjunWu YanyanLi LuluZhou TaoA Xiang
1, Perfect Journey is a series publication, which is exploring the different personal encounters with Chinese social reality. All these personal expressions through images are like a diary to make dialogue with the Chinese social space and life. In the modern society of China, the memory of the context of daily experience is rapid covered and recreated. This publication is trying to catch the social experience in the certain moment of China from different angel and layers.
2, First volume of Perfect Journey is selection of the images by four Chinese photographers (Wang Ningde, Xu Peiwu, Yan Changjiang and Zeng Han), one video work by Hongkong based French architect group Gutierrez + Portefaix(Mapoffice), and a short fiction by writer Hu Fang.
3, Perfect Journey Vol.1 is publication with edition of 100. This publication is exploring an alternative way of collecting. 6 photos are available from each photographer and the whole publication includes 24 photos from 4 photographers, one DVD and a piece of short fiction. The Publication try to encourge people not only collect these visual materials but also can very flexible to use them for mini presentation in different siutations,so the visual material in this publication can be a dynamic platform to share the social/culture experience.
4, Information of the collection Package A Material: Matte surface photo paper, Photo size with 20.3 X 30.3cm Package B Material: Glossy surface photo paper,Photo size with 15.2 X 22.5 cm | Limited Edition: 100 | Price: 798 Euros | Note: the publication with the signatures of all the authors
5, Work List of Perfect Journey (Vol.1): PRD Stories, Video,18 min,Gutierrez + Portefaix,2003 | Journey·Daylight Dream, Photo,Wang Ningde, 1998-2004 | Nansha Horizon,Photo,Xu Peiwu,2002 | The World,Photo,Zeng Han, 2004-05 | Night Zoo,Photo,Yan Changjiang,2002 | Asia·Destination,Fiction,Hu Fang,2001
Multi-landscape is a publication project in cooperation between Chen Shaoxiong and Vitamin Creative Space. Multi-landscape is presented in the 1st Guangzhou Photo Biennial in Guangdong Museum of Art from 18th Jan till 27th Feb 2005. The publication is attached with artist's artworks chronology (1994-2004). Limited edition with artist's signature: 800 Publication Concept: Vitamin Creative Space and Artist Editor: Hu FangZhang Weim | Photo: Chen | Shaoxiong, 2004 | Pages: 126P | Dimensions: 18.2x22.6cm | Price: 60 Euros
The messages we gathered both from the Asian Field exhibition venue and the website, which are the fruits of intercourse between different lives and the Field installation, constitute the main content of the book Asian Field, with creative essay "Untitled Asian Field", photographs and name list of makers and of those who have worked on the project as an important complement, hence a 3D depiction of the on-going exchanges between Asian Field and people. Like the installation process of the 180,000 clay figures, editing of the messages has to take into consideration the multi-layered relations between the different nuances of meanings expressed by different viewers, with full respect for their own beauty and significance. The simplicity and the almost invisible design of the book is in a way similar to Field which is in itself a discussion of the "nature" of humanity. Through the media of paper, the Asian Field installation has achieved another extension and will give more people the opportunity to witness the interaction between Field and people in different spatio-temporal dimensions, thus revealing, from a socio-psychological angle, how the work is linked with the inner part of people-the very in-depth spirit of Field. With that, the concept of the work becomes clear: Field is a work about the interaction and thought-sharing between lives; it is a process, which involves exchanges and transformations that turned Field from an individual work of an artist to a collective work of numerous lives; and Field will never finish, nor will it belong to one particular person. The book is a sincere revelation of the encounter of many lives with Field. Just as hoped by artist, this book will become an imprint of collective consciousness, through which audience like us enter Field and become its subject. ( Hu Fang) Editor: Hu Fang Zhang Wei | Design: Wang Xu | Publisher:Hunan Art Publishing House Pages: 496P | Dimensions: 22x16.8cm | Price: 29.95 Euros
