China 2016, part 2
After 9 days in Beijing we take the bullet train to Xi'an and visit The Terracotta Army Museum, The Forest of Stone Steles Museum, Xi'an Intermediate Studies Univ., Xi'an Middle School, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi'an Beilin Museum, Tangbo Art Museum, Xi'an City Wall, & Muslim Snack Street.
Artist-in-residence:Canal Cheong Jagerroos
A video about the experience of Canal Cheong Jagerroos at the International Artist-In-Residence Program in Beijing 2017, including images from the opening of her related solo exhibition ‘Waking/蘇醒’ at Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China.
Canal Cheong Jagerroos (b.1968), a Chinese contemporary visual artist who grew up in an artistic family in Macau. She works between Helsinki, Nice and Berlin. As far back as Canal can remember, at the time other children her age were playing with crayons, her father taught her the fundamentals of Chinese ink brush painting. In many ways, Canal’s father teaching has strongly influenced her journey to find artistic expression.
Canal has lived and worked for 25 years in numerous countries from Asia to Europe and Africa. She is currently living with her family in Finland. The unique experience of having lived in such culturally diverse places, namely; Hong Kong, Shanghai, France, Switzerland, Italy, Senegal and Finland has influenced her work greatly whether consciously or subconsciously. Canal has discovered that walking the line between the east and west, facing different cultures, can be both constructive and destructive, but always inspirational.
Canal Cheong Jagerroos is the co-founder of the ongoing art project ‘Blue and Red’ which will be showing in numerous museums in China and Finland from 2018 - 2020.
Canal’s upcoming Exhibitions:
2017 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Art Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2017 Art Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2017 Artist In Residency, Beijing, China
2017 'Waking / 苏醒' Solo Exhibition, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, China
2017 China-Italy Biennale, Shenzhen, China
2017 Dalian Contemporary Art Fair, Dalian, Liaodong Peninsula, China
2017 Art Southampton, NY, USA
2017 Finlayson Art Centre, B&RAP, Finland
2017 Tai Yuan Art Museum, Art Shanxi, China
2017 ICFF Miami Art and Design, Miami, USA
2017 Basel Art Center, B&RAP, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Art Miami Aqua, Miami, USA
2018 Xian Art Museum, Xian, B&RAP, China
2018 Tang Bo Art Museum, B&RAP, Xian, China
2018 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Salo Art Museum, B&RAP, Finland
2019 Jyvaskyla Art Museum, B&RAP, Finland
2019 Chengdu Art Museum-Blue Roof, B&RAP, Chengdu, China
2019 Joensuu Art Museum, B&RAP, Finland
2020 Rovaniemi / Korundi Art Museum, B&RAP, Finland
Xi'an | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:30 1 Name
00:03:46 2 History
00:03:55 2.1 Prehistory
00:04:46 2.2 Ancient era
00:05:25 2.3 Imperial era
00:10:02 2.4 Modern era
00:12:15 3 Geography
00:13:53 3.1 Climate
00:15:39 3.2 National Time Service Centre
00:17:03 4 Demographics
00:18:55 5 Administrative divisions
00:19:12 6 Transportation
00:20:30 6.1 Metro
00:22:31 6.2 Taxi
00:23:07 6.3 Rail
00:25:18 6.4 Expressways
00:26:15 6.5 Air
00:28:07 7 Culture
00:29:02 7.1 Arts district
00:29:36 7.2 Resident artists
00:29:52 7.3 Xi'an cuisine
00:30:13 7.4 Opera
00:31:05 7.5 Cinema
00:31:38 8 Religion
00:31:47 8.1 Chinese traditional religion and Taoism
00:32:14 8.2 Buddhism
00:32:28 8.3 Christianity
00:33:37 8.4 Islam
00:34:11 9 Economy
00:37:12 9.1 Industrial zones
00:38:27 9.2 Software and outsourcing industries
00:39:20 9.3 Aerospace industry
00:40:53 9.4 Notable businesspeople
00:41:22 10 Education
00:41:31 10.1 Public
00:42:59 10.2 Military
00:43:29 10.3 Private
00:44:16 11 International events
00:44:25 11.1 World Horticultural Expo 2011
00:45:08 12 Tourism
00:45:25 12.1 Sites
00:48:37 12.2 Museums
00:49:12 12.3 National parks
00:50:06 12.4 Food
00:50:33 13 Sports
00:52:26 14 Media
00:52:34 14.1 Television and radio
00:53:23 14.2 Printed media
00:53:58 14.3 Online media
00:54:11 15 International relations
00:54:25 16 See also
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Xi'an ( SHYAHN, also UK: shee-AN, US: shee-AHN, Chinese: [ɕí.án] (listen)), also known as Sian, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain in northwest China, it is one of the oldest cities in China, and the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals, having held the position under several of the most important dynasties in Chinese history, including Western Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Sui, and Tang. Xi'an is the starting point of the Silk Road and home to the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.Since the 1990s, as part of the economic revival of inland China especially for the central and northwest regions, the city of Xi'an has re-emerged as an important cultural, industrial and educational centre of the central-northwest region, with facilities for research and development, national security and space exploration. Xi'an currently holds sub-provincial status, administering 9 districts and 4 counties. As of 2018 Xi'an has a population of 12,005,600, and the Xi'an–Xianyang metropolitan area a population of 12.9 million. It is the most populous city in Northwest China, as well as one of the three most populous cities in Western China, the other two being Chongqing and Chengdu. In 2012, it was named as one of the 13 emerging megacities, or megalopolises, in China.