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CHINA INCIDENTAL: (Un)familiar Territories


CHINA INCIDENTAL
(Un)familiar Territories

24 May - 22 June 2008

As part of CHINA NOW, the UK's largest ever festival of Chinese culture, Chinese Arts Centre hosts (Un)familiar Territories, a groundbreaking project that offers up the soundscape of China matched up to the landscape of Manchester. Leading Chinese sound artists Yan Jun and Hitlike (real name Zhang Liming) have each created a carefully editied sound work of their locations in Shanghai and Harbin respectively which link to locations on a walk round Manchester city centre. The tracks move fluidly through the different settings as the walk takes in locations as different as Shudehill Interchange, the Arndale Centre, Afflecks Palace and Market Street. Using noises captured from the bustling markets, streets, restaurants and industrial sites of these major Chinese cities, the works offer an experience of everyday life in China as the listener encounters familiar territories in unfamiliar ways.

To open up your ears to food sellers in Shanghai on Market Street or hear the busy electronic markets of Harbin in the Arndale, just head to Chinese Arts Centre between 24 May and 22 June and borrow a Chinese MP3 player loaded with tracks and a map with the artists' track descriptions, or alternatively download the tracks and map from this site. The walk starts and ends at Chinese Arts Centre where there will be a photography by Zhu Ying of the locations in Shanghai where Yan Jun's sounds were captured.

(Un)familiar Territories is curated by sound artist and musician Matthias Kispert as part of CHINA INCIDENTAL, a series of collaborations with artists to present experiences of China today through sound. For more information visit www.chinanow.org.uk