Folk in Order
Fish the Moon in Shadows: Shadow Puppet Lantern Workshop
2024.09.15 Sunday 15:00
Location
Macalline Center of Art, 706 Beiyi St, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Instructors
Lily, Alphabetes
(Founders of MioTo)
In the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar, as the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, MACA invites the art collective MioTo to pass down folk traditions by making shadow puppet lanterns with us. The process of paper-cutting is similar to that of shadow puppets, and both share common techniques of carving and decorating. In the current exhibition, Folk in Order, artist Wu Jian'an's Vital Essence #1 draws inspiration from shadow puppet techniques, transforming the “qi” of Eastern philosophy into a projection of shadow. Artist Xiyadie imbues his paper-cutting with strong personal emotions, empowering this traditional craft with free vitality.
During the workshop, inspired by Monkeys Fish the Moon, MioTo's two founders, Lily and Alphabetes, reference the animation's coloring and crafting techniques as they lead participants in creating Monkeys Fish the Moon shadow puppet lanterns, allowing them to experience the texture of traditional craftsmanship. We will replace traditional leather engraving with film, making the process easier to work with. This Mid-Autumn Festival, let's create a portable shadow theater and rehearse your own “moon fishing” scene."
About the Instructor：MioTo
MioTo is a nomadic workshop label founded in Beijing at the end of 2023. Based on common interests, we work with different platforms, venues, and individuals to plan and hold pan-art and cultural activities. In the workshop, we not only focus on handmade creativity, but also pay attention to the sharing of related cultural content, trying to enrich the workshop experience. Through the activities, we hope to form a rich, open, and mobile community field, encourage everyone to create, share, make friends during the activities, expand and extend the cultural and creative experience related to daily life.
About the Instructor：Lily
Zheng Lili is mainly engaged in artistic creation; she also writes poetry and produce art activities and handicrafts in her spare time. Her medium of artistic creation mainly focuses on multimedia painting and carries out installation and performance practice. In recent years, she focuses on the theme of the relationship between humans and nature in modern life, explores, expresses, and tries to construct new possibilities of relations. She also conducts research on folk culture and presents her research in personal practice and workshops.
About the Instructor：Alphabetes
Wenyu Duan is a graphic designer and visual artist. Born in Hunan in 1995, she currently lives and works in Beijing. Through drawing inspiration and elements from traditional Eastern culture, her current focus is to create and experiment in visual art and to ponder and create the relationship between traditional culture and contemporary art. . Her works are mainly paintings, images, installations and digital art. Her visual style and form are varied, and she is not tied to the medium. Her works are inspired by everyday news, East Asian cultures, folklore, literature, and popular culture.
