1. Performance Festival

Duan, Yingmei
1969 born in Heilongjiang Province/ VR China, lives and works in Braunschweig (Germany)
Dream I Duration: 1 hour Date: 22.04.05 Location: big barn Performance Installation during the festivalweek Motivation: I use the enormous area of a 1000 square metres large barn and create a poetic performance installation. Description: I stand in the middle of the room surrounded by numerous folded white paper boats hanging down from the ceiling. During the performance my body slowly sways from one side to the other. My eyes are closed and I seem to be dreaming.







Photo: Till Steinbrenner & Johannes Lothar Schröder

Dream II Duration: 1 hour Date: 24.04.05 Location: EG-Suite, Mainbuilding Performance Installation during the festivalweek Motivation: I try to change the atmosphere of a room. If the audience enters, a fairy tale world appears in front of them. Description: It is a bright guest room in an old castle. This octagonal room is about 25 square meters with a curved ceiling and three large windows. In the room there are a sloping bed and a wobbly night table with a glass; a table lamp stands on the ground and a chair tilts on the wall. The floor is bumpy with some little hills. Everything is covered with white Chinese rice paper. I lie on the bed covered with rice paper and I am dreaming. It looks like all the things of my dream have arrived the room.



Photo: Constanze Schmidt

Dream III
Duration: 1 hour
Date: 25.04.05
Location: Garden of the castle in Salzau

Performance Installation during the festivalweek

Motivation: In the past I did the performance inside, this time I want to try it outside. In the garden I meet more or less coincidentally the public.
Description: On a sunny day I sleep on an old bed standing in the garden. I crouch my body. Then I wake up as if I were in a trance, I begin to move, and I slowly stand up. I am everywhere and go towards the audience in the garden as if I am sleepwalking. Suddenly I slap someone from the audience round the face. Then, as if nothing had happened, I move on. Finally I go back to my bed and continue to sleep.

Photo: Till Steinbrenner

Yingmei Duan inszeniert in ihren 26 Performances surreale Traumbilder, die
Fragmente der Erinnerung aufgreifen und stimmungsvoll in Szene setzen.
Es sind Aspekte ihres alltäglichen Lebens: Ängste, Sehnsüchte, Erfahrungen.

other works

FRIEND Duration: 8 minutes Date: 2003 Braziers international artists workshop performance (England) Live-Performance with Claudio Torsa

Photo: Martina Kienow
In sommer a naked man stands in a large field. He is looking ahead. There is a very beautiful bird sounds in the field and a big sun, sometimes come wind. I appear from a distant place to the direction of the man. In the beginning the public don't know what I do, because I am very small like a point. With the time the people see that I wear a pink dress and big glasses. I am looking for something with a magnifying glass and go stealthy towards the man. I am shy to see his penis. I am also very curious about the penis and check it thoroughly through the magnifying glass. After I have finished my intensive studies of the penis, I leave the room thoughtfully. Motivation: I come from China, which has a very different culture. There is no sexual education in the school system there. Before I was 21 years old, I really knew nothing about sex and I had never even spoken the word. I had a lot of questions in my mind at that time, for example: “ Why does a woman become pregnant?”, “ Where did I come from?”, “ Why do my parents have so many arguments?”. This was up until the day a girlfriend asked me what I knew about sex. I was very busy since that day.

Help! Duration: 2 hours Location: Landesvertretung Niedersachsen und Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin (Germany) Live-Performance

Photo: Asayo Nakagawa & Yun seok, Koh
In this performance, I am hanging right at the top of a wooden partition. I am like a clown or a child who cannot stop kicking her legs.

Education:
1987-1990 Studies at the Northeast University, China
1991-1993 Advanced studies in oil painting and mural painting
at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing
1996-1997 Advanced studies in sculpture
at the Central Academy of Applied Arts in Beijing
1999-2004 Studies at Prof. Marina Abramovic(performance) und Birgit Hein(Film)
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany

Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions
2003 “YINGMEI DUAN - PERFORMANCE“ OKS Galerie Braunschweig( Germany)
1996 Galerie am Prater Berlin (Germany)
1995 Kunsthaus Erfurt (Germany)
Group exhibitions
2004 “BRAUNSCHWEIGER KULTURNACHT“, L.O.T Theater BS (Germany)
“REAL PRSENCE 4” Museum 25th of May Belgrade(Yugoslavia)
“PERFORMANCE LOOP“ P.S.1 New York(U.S.A)
“CLEANING THE HOUSE“ Montenmedio Arts Contemporaneo Cadiz(Spain)
2003 “COLOURS NACHWUCHS - FILMFEST“ Kino im Künstlerhaus Hannover(Germany)
“BRAZIERS INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP“ (England)
“VV2-RECYCLING THE FUTURE“ Venice Biennale (Italy)
“PERFORMANCE “ Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel(Germany)
“AS SOON AS POSSIBLE“ Milan(Italy)
2002 “PRET_A_PERFORMANCE“ Viafarini Milan (Italy)
“BODY BASICS“; Franzensfeste Brixen (Italy)
“BRAUNSCHWEIGER KULTURNACHT“, L.O.T Theater BS (Germany)
“CLEANING THE HOUSE“; Centro Gallego de Arte Cvontemporanea
Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
“COMMON GRUND#1“., Landesvertretung Niedersachsen und Schleswig-
Holstein Berlin (Germany)
2001 “MARKING THE TERRITORY“, Irish Museum of Modern ArtDublin (Irland)
“GET THAT BALANCE“, Pera House / Half Moon Theater Cork (Irland)
“OVALEN DEN FRIE UDSILLINGS BYGNING“ in Kobenhagen (Denmark)
“100 SELBSTPORTRÄTS“Freistaat Vertretung Thüringen beim Bund Berlin
“100 SELBSTPORTRÄTS“ Kunsthouse Erfurt (Germany)
“DURCH DIE ZEIT“ KIK. Kunstraum zehn Hannover (Germany)
“YINGMEI DUAN UND FINN RICHARDT“ Birkrod Kunstforenning (Denmark)
2000 “WER HAT ANGST VOR ROGER WHITTAKER?“ Städt. Museum
Zwickau (Germany)
Chinesischer Turm in Donaustauf, Bayern (Germany)
1999 Niedersächsisches Umweltministerium, Hannover (Germany)
Schlossgalerie Eichhofen, Bayern (Germany)
1996 Qiran Galerie, Beijing (China)
“HERBST SALON“ im Kunsthaus Erfurt (Germany)
1994 Amana Galerie, Beijing (China)
1993 Chinesisches Museum der Künste, Beijing (China)
1998-2000 “AN ANONYMOUS MOUNTAIN INCREASED ONE“
The collective works by artists of Beijing East village
Los Angeles, Biennale in Venice, Hongkong and so on

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