A4 Art Museum
Building 21, Luxetown Mountaintop Plaza, No,18 Lushan Avenue Section 2, Shuangliu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Tel: 86(028)85761265
Email: a4office@a4am.cn
A4X Art Center
Luxelakes Eco Art Center, Shuangliu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
A4 Kids
Luxelakes Eco Art Center, Shuangliu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
A4 Residency
Luhu Eco-City, Shuangliu District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00AM to 6:00PM (last entry at 5:30 PM)
Closed on Monday (except during the Spring Festival, open on public holidays)
Moss Music:
At HeHuaChi 荷花池 market in downtown Chengdu you can buy almost anything, and on a visit there we immediately fell for the fake moss fabric that we found. Later on, we decided to use it for a new work. We built a wall-like structure, covered with moss, that will be quietly and autonomously moving around, as if it is on remote control. We even provided it with soft laid-back self-made music, which can be heard as it moves on by. The wall may merge with the plants and the park, but will also be a surreal presence. The Moss Music was made for the LUXE Lakes area that is perfectly designed and built, and where soft music can be heard everywhere. In the context of the park of the Jinsha Site Museum it might also bring to mind overgrown romantic ruins or remnants of disappeared structures.
Duration of the performance will be 45 to 60 minutes.
Velvet City:
In 1998 we were in Chengdu as budget travelers, and in 2024 we returned as artists, for the A4 residency. China has changed so enormously, that we wanted to make a work that focuses on what is still here of the Chineseness of China. We bought the bright red fabric with the elegant flower pattern, that we used in this work. It was interesting to hear that this fabric has a very distinct meaning. It is associated with how women used to dress in the past, with the North-Eastern part of China or the countryside in general. We also used red fringes and made a miniature city covered in red velvet that is placed on top of the sculpture. The living sculpture has no face and neither front nor back side. We made a 1-minute soundtrack for it, which is based on a traditional song that we learned from a group of elderly people, who we met when they made music in a park. The figure will stand still, and will come to life whenever the music plays. Its movements are subtle and slow. It might also bring to mind the columns of Tibetan temples or figures from the Sichuan opera.
