Noon, Wildness, Stream, Washe, Ruins, Theatre
Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Walking into the ground floor galleries of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA) in late July was like arriving at a night club on the morning after. Strobe lights pulsed red and blue, while songs and electronic beats reverberated on multiple LED screens and speakers. Detritus from the night of July 12—band setlists, sticky notes, paint tubes, etc.—lay scattered around the space. This was the aftermath of the opening of the exhibition “Noon, Wildness, Stream, Washe, Ruins, Theatre,” which boasted eight hours of performances by music and dancers, action painters, multimedia artists, and others.

The show was curated by the Hangzhou-based artist group Martin Goya Business, composed of video artist Cheng Ran, fantasy novelist Da Mian, art and music curator Taoph, and writer Tan Sin Thiau. Their presentation was the third in the New Cultural Producer series, a partnership between the PSA and the Chanel Cultural Fund. This year’s open call focused on “Theatre.” In all, ten public programs activated the space over a three-month period, providing talks, performances, and workshops on subjects ranging from ceramics to DJing, from butoh to qigong.