Get It Louder
{{Short description|Art festival primarily for young people}}
Get It Louder is a Chinese contemporary art festival that began in 2005 and features exhibitions focusing primarily on young Chinese talent within the spheres of art, architecture, design, literature, film and music. Ou Ning helped launch the project with the help of the agency {{ill|Modern Media (Company)|lt=Modern Media|zh|现代传播}} and has served as the biennial's main curator for every year to date except 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35868/get-it-louder-exhibition-blasts-beijing-and-shanghai-with-contemporary-art |title=
"Get It Louder" Exhibition Blasts Beijing and Shanghai with Contemporary Art |publisher=ArtInfo |date=September 27, 2010}} In an interview, Ou said Get It Louder's inception was meant to showcase young Chinese design talent through a series of traveling exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. "Young" in this case is more connected to being "fresh" and "edgy" than a particular age, one of the reasons the older, established artist Ai Weiwei was included in past exhibitions.{{cite web |url=http://artradarjournal.com/2010/12/22/ou-ning-on-get-it-louder-new-voice-in-chinas-visual-arts-scene/ |title=Ou Ning on Get it Louder – new voice in China’s visual arts scene |publisher=Art Radar Asia |date=December 22, 2010 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |archive-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921035534/http://artradarjournal.com/2010/12/22/ou-ning-on-get-it-louder-new-voice-in-chinas-visual-arts-scene/ |url-status=dead }} International, non-Chinese artists and designers have also played a significant part in Get It Louder's exhibitions.
Sharism was the theme for the 2010 exhibition, which Ou described in the same interview as "originat[ing] from issues of collaboration on Internet space, and explores the increasingly convoluted relationship between public and private realms."{{cite web |url=http://artradarjournal.com/2010/12/22/ou-ning-on-get-it-louder-new-voice-in-chinas-visual-arts-scene/ |title=Ou Ning on Get it Louder – new voice in China’s visual arts scene |publisher=Art Radar Asia |date=December 22, 2010 |access-date=February 21, 2013 |archive-date=September 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921035534/http://artradarjournal.com/2010/12/22/ou-ning-on-get-it-louder-new-voice-in-chinas-visual-arts-scene/ |url-status=dead }}
Exhibition history
- 2005: Location: Shanghai; other details unknown
- 2007: details unknown
- 2010: Theme: Sharism; Curator: Ou Ning; Exhibitors: Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL), International Necronautical Society (Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy, Neville Brody and Masha Ma, Matt Hope; Location: Beijing / Shanghai; date: September 19 - October 10 (Beijing); October 22 - November 7, 2010 (Shanghai){{cite web |url=http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=41009#.USaUAd0ZVQA |title=
Get It Louder: China's Most Influential and {{Sic|hide=y|Closely|-}}Watched Exhibition of Emerging, Young Talent |publisher=artdaily.org |accessdate=February 21, 2013}}
- 2012: Theme: Future; Curator(s): Chen Jiaojiao, Peng Yangjun; Location: Beijing; date: November 4-20, 2012{{cite web |url=http://www.design-china.org/post/28944620603/get-it-louder-2012 |title=Get It Louder 2012 |publisher=Design China |date=August 8, 2012}}
References
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External links
- [http://artradarjournal.com/2010/12/22/ou-ning-on-get-it-louder-new-voice-in-chinas-visual-arts-scene/ Interview with Ou Ning on Get It Louder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921035534/http://artradarjournal.com/2010/12/22/ou-ning-on-get-it-louder-new-voice-in-chinas-visual-arts-scene/ |date=2012-09-21 }}