露丝艺术节｜社会参与艺术作品

As an author I have self-published two novels – Witness and The First Juniper Tree. Both are works of narrative philosophy and both include original piano music. More information is available via https://foundoutthere.com

As a Public Typist I improvise stories on a typewriter in public spaces. Each story is roughly a side of A5 in length and is inspired by the three words and a name I am given by members of the public.

As a Facilitator I host Stranger Stories events. These are a mix of mingling with people, against the clock word games, creating short stories with strangers and the magic of sharing them out loud. 

As a Public Typist I improvise stories on a typewriter inspired by the words people give me. I ask you to give me three words, one name and five minutes of your time. I type the story and it's yours to take away.

I do this in public to create a space where you can be curious and playful. I hope it also serves as a reminder that being open to the unexpected can be fun.

Each story is unique and typed on a pay what you feel basis.

As a Public Typist I improvise stories on a typewriter inspired by the words people give me. I ask you to give me three words, one name and five minutes of your time. I type the story and it's yours to take away.

I do this in public to create a space where you can be curious and playful. I hope it also serves as a reminder that being open to the unexpected can be fun.

Each story is unique and typed on a pay what you feel basis.

"Walk Through Love" is a performance art piece that integrates community engagement, cultural exchange, and historical significance.

Location and Participants: The performance unfolds in Ruthin, involving two residents—an elderly person and a child aged 6-8 years old—alongside the artist. Starting at St Peter Church, a prominent landmark in Ruthin, the journey concludes at Ruthin Library.

Symbolism of Love: As the trio walks together, they follow a winding route through the town, tracing the path to form the Chinese character for "LOVE" in cursive calligraphy style on the map of Ruthin. This character draws inspiration from the calligraphy of Zhao Mengfu from the Ming Dynasty, resonating with the historical context of Ruthin Castle's construction period.

Community Engagement Through Song: Throughout the walk, the elderly participant and the child take turns singing local Welsh-Ruthin children's songs, and the artist contributes by singing children's songs from the Ming Dynasty. The purpose of this musical element is to attract people to join the procession, fostering a sense of unity and shared experience.

Integration of Public and Private Spaces: The route intentionally passes through both public and private buildings, symbolizing the interconnectedness of outdoor and indoor environments. This gesture reinforces the theme of walking through spaces with love and fostering a sense of belonging within the community.

Timing and Duration: The performance takes place after lunch on the opening day and is designed to last around 20 minutes, to finish the two strokes of LOVE in Chinese, creating a brief yet impactful experience for participants and observers alike.

Documentation: The walking path is traced using a mapping app, and a drone records footage of the procession from above. This documentation preserves the ephemeral nature of the performance and allows for reflection and sharing of the experience beyond its immediate context.

Lanyun Huang

As a mixed-media artist, Lanyun is currently studying Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her artistic practice mainly involves sound, imagery, and performance. The themes of her work primarily revolve around queer sexuality, identity politics, and the relationship between art and commerce. Besides her artistic practice, Lanyun is also a performer (experimental music, fire dancing, and movement), as well as an event organizer. She has established event labels “FlowFinch” and art community “Assembling” in both Guangzhou and London.

Zhuyang Liu

Zhuyang, currently enrolled in Fine Arts at University College London, is a mixed-media artist. Her practice encompasses dynamic imagery, sound, text, oral expression, and mixed-media performance. Having received training in traditional Chinese instruments (guqin, guzheng, and one-stringed fiddle) since childhood, Zhuyang excels in blending traditional techniques with experimental music and possesses extensive performance experience.

Francis Moore

Francis graduated from Goldsmiths College with a degree in Curating. Currently, he is a performer and music event organizer based in London. His instrumental performances often carry traditional flavors, such as Welsh and Scottish bagpipes, Japanese shakuhachi, and Chinese dizi. He has hosted the "Musicking" (@musicking_event) event in London for three years.

The artists will arrive in Ruthin Town in advance to collect highly representative local sounds and process them for creative reuse. Subsequently, these processed sounds will serve as the foundational audio for the artworks (e.g., market auction sounds). At the exhibition venue, the artists will construct participatory sound installations, encouraging and guiding other artists and audience members to engage in spontaneous sound creation. Furthermore, as a mobile interactive installation, the artwork will continuously be moved to various public areas in Ruthin Town, encouraging people to participate in the creative process.

In Elsewhere

Participants involved in Y Cylch Somatic can be primarily categorized into three identities: artists, outsiders (non-local participants/tourists/other artists), and locals of Ruthin Town. However, regardless of their identity or origin, within Y Cylch Somatic, they all are to some extent strangers, all endowed with the perspective of being an outsider.

The Welsh term "Cylch" (Circle) points towards an egalitarian community. "Somatic" refers to the bodily, emphasizing immediate bodily responses in the creative process, distinct from mental and conscious processing.

Simultaneously, the artist Lanyun will integrate field research and collected soundscapes into their performative language, interacting with participants during the exhibition period: providing improvised responses to the sounds emitted by the participants.

New Pang pang，Chinese 

2014 Graduated from the printmaking Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. 

2017 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. 

2019-2020 Studied at the printmaking Accademia di Belle Arti di RomaShe lives in BeijingHer works focus on identity, nature, and the body, exploring and discussing gender, family, kinship, the relationship between man and nature, man and the world. The works are planar, sculptural, conceptual, and behavioral. 

Brendan A. Linane British / Irish In my work process, I am trying to encapsulate a range of emotions and experiences from various times, rather than trying to capture and present a special moment and going beyond the captured image. Final presentations are worked on intensively from a vast selection of photographs, exploring innovative ideas and concepts, and incorporating an essential need to surprise myself at every stage. I hope to extract and reintroduce almost human and refined form from everyday objects. It does not matter what is. What matters is what we see. 

Education:Saint Martin’s and Chelsea School of Art, London, M.A. Fine art Some Exhibitions include: 

2010 Dark Things, Camden Art Gallery, London. 

2010 Pink Things, Koi Art Gallery Bangkok. 

2011 Deviant Cycle, Three Shadows Gallery, Beijing (Artist in Residence). 

2012 Tianjin Port Museum. Anniversary Exhibition. 

2012 Tianjin Technology University, Group Show. 

2013 River Front Renaissance Art Centre, New Jersey, USA. (Artist In Residence). 

2013 Narration for ‘North City’ Screened at Pompidou Centre, Paris. 

2014 ‘Dream and Life’ International Art Exposition, Wuhan, China. Group Show. 

2014 China Art Industry Expo, Songzuang, Beijing. 

2014 Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing (Artist In Residence). 

2015 Songzuang Art Centre, Beijing. ‘Foreign Artists Show’ Oct 2015 – Feb 2016.2015 Temperature, Art of The Future, Zhongshan, International Art Expo. 

2016 Dream Cube Museum, Beijing. 

2017 Works On Paper Supreme, Han Tianheng Museum, Shanghai.2017 Qingdao, Tiantai Center, Chengyang, Qingdao. 

2017 Nl Gallery, Songzhuang, Beijing. 

2017 G M Gallery, ‘Paper Works’ 798, Beijing. 

2017 Erdos Art and Culture Centre, Ordos. 

2017 At Centre of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou. 

2018 Belt and Road Petroglyph Show, Bayanuer Biennial. 

2018 Art Adviser, Canvard College, Beijing Technology and Business University. 

2019 Xanxi Biennial. 

2019 China Art Industry Expo, Beijing. 

2022 The 4th Chinese and International Show. 

2022 Zero Edge International Exhibition. 

2022 Huasu Museum. Light And Shadow Exhibition First Prize Winner. 

2022 North to North, Art Embraces the World Exhibition. 

2023 Double International Art Exhibition 

2023 Warm Tones, Presentation, Dongsi, Beijing 

2023 Global Poets and Artists Monthly Featured Artist 

2023 Merging Cultures. Singh International Artist Centre Beijing2023 Depicti0n, Tu Bu Shi, Pingxiang 0799 Art Zone Oct. – Nov 

This is a collaboration between Chinese artist Liu Jialing and British artist Brendan, which started from a conversation about their different locations: Brendan A. Linane lives in London, Liu Jialing in Beijing.A Moving Plan of his place refers to the fact that people always have a plan to move on the earth, and the whole process of life is to keep moving in time and space. A Moving Plan has a short plan, an extended plan, an actual plan, and a dream plan, so the artist would like to collect everyone's moving plan to make a moving plan picture, comparing the exact image with the dream picture to see what kind of difference exists between the actual picture and the dream picture, and whether there exists some type of law. Is there a pattern? Participants only need to answer a few questions: where do you come from? Where do you plan to go in the short term? Where do you dream of going? (Where have you always aspired to?) If you are willing to write your story, name, gender, age, etc., feel free to play in the margins.

Richard DeDomenici is an artist of complicated international descent who specialises in absurdist interventions that strive to create the kind of uncertainty that leads to possibility.DeDomenici’s 2015 adaptation of The Redux Project for BBC4 was called ‘one of the smartest, strangest, subversive half hours of television I have ever seen’ by critic Matt Truman.Richard’s installation Shed Your Fears debuted at Tate Modern in 2017. When Eurovision was cancelled in 2020 DeDomenici organised the zero-budget Coronavision Song Contest instead. The contest was recently acquired for posterity by the British Library.Richard has performed in over 30 countries, most recently at the Digital Wild InternationalBiennale For Art & Technology in Trondheim.Richard believes that art is at its most powerful when experienced by non-art audiences.Richard DeDomenici is one eighth North Welsh, and lived in Wales for three years when he studied at Howard Gardens School of Art in Cardiff.

Caer (Welsh pronunciation: [kɑːɨr]) meaning "stronghold", "fortress", or "castle"Carioci (Welsh pronunciation: [kæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki]) meaning "karaoke"Artist and karaoke enthusiast Richard DeDomenici invites you to an early evening karaoke party at Ruthin Castle. The event will launch Richard's labour-of-love project to make karaoke versions of songs by the first Welsh-language boyband Mega. DeDomenici vividly remembers seeing Mega perform live at a recording of the S4C show iDot, in a warehouse in Splott in the late 1990's. Their performance had a big impact on him, and influenced his decision to form his own boyband in 2006. Sadly Mega only released one album (Mwy Na Mawr, 1998) and split up in the year 2000. Richard hopes that releasing karaoke versions of Mega's songs a quarter of a century later will help cement the boyband's legacy. Moreover, DeDomenici aims to expand the project into a wider campaign to raise awareness of the power of karaoke to improve international language skills, promote literacy, and preserve potentially vulnerable dialects. Free drink for all participants!

Born in Beijing in 1985. She received her MA in Fine Arts in 2011 from MaHKU in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her work engages with found materials and situations triggered through encounters with people and places.

Since the pandemic, face-to-face interactions have been replaced by monologues on social media in the form of text or sound. During the festival, volunteers are invited to whisper contents extracted from my private messages on WeChat to random strangers they encounter in the public space of Ruthin as they go about their daily lives. Whoever happen to come across such a message is welcome to pass it on in a similar manner.

Born in 1965 in Liaoning Province. Graduated from the Chinese Language and Literature Department of Nankai University.  She was deputy director of Today Art Museum, editor-in-chief of Art Today, and worked as a curator. She has published Non-Art Interview, Non-Architecture Interview and so on. She started to be an independent artist since 2010.Through sculpture, installation and video, she expresses her concerns about women and social issues, exploring the subtle situation of human beings in this world between poetry and absurdity. She has held many solo exhibitions and been invited to participate in group exhibitions at home and abroad. She now lives in Beijing.

Born in 1965 in Liaoning Province. Graduated from the Chinese Language and Literature Department of Nankai University.  She was deputy director of Today Art Museum, editor-in-chief of Art Today, and worked as a curator. She has published Non-Art Interview, Non-Architecture Interview and so on. She started to be an independent artist since 2010.Through sculpture, installation and video, she expresses her concerns about women and social issues, exploring the subtle situation of human beings in this world between poetry and absurdity. She has held many solo exhibitions and been invited to participate in group exhibitions at home and abroad. She now lives in Beijing.

Ye Su has produced paintings, installations, video art, and novels. Ye’s art explores the connections between the Chinese literati tradition, Chinese feudalism and its influence, on ancient Chinese art and culture, and Chinese contemporary social reality. To that end, his art is oriented both toward and around a methodology of storytelling. Ye Su was born in 1983 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang; he currently lives and works in Beijing. He graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a major in oil painting and received an MFA from the Experimental Art Department of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, in 2010. His recent solo and two person exhibitions include Qin in Retrospect, OCAT Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, China (2019); Everywhere, Ye Su & Zhang Si, Telescope, Beijing (2018); Cooland: Ye Su | Zai Zai, Yi Pai Hutong, Beijing (2017); and Scrutinize “Ling,”Space Regeneration Projects, Tianjin, China (2016). His recent group exhibitions include Open Islands, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand (2019); The Glowing Warmth, XC-HuA, Beijing (2019); FUTURE GAMES, Kommunale, Berlin, Germany (2019); Stacks of Paper, Riot of Color: The Politics of Taste, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing (2018); Mapping the City: A Vision of History and Xi’an, OCAT Xi’an Museum, Xi’an, China (2018); Bad New Days Ahead, Taikang Space, Beijing (2017); and Good Painting, Light Pavilion Project, Taikang Space, Beijing (2017).

The "NUN (New United Nations) Map Survey" project started with the NUN Map, an inverted map of the world, in which established geographical knowledge and historical discourse are absent. The map becomes an open world built from many personal stories.The "NUN (New United Nations) Map Survey" project was initiated by artist Ye Su, who continues to invite people around the globe to share real/fictional stories. Stories are submitted to the artist through online conversations, offline gatherings, email submissions, and on-site writing. The artist then acts as an image-producing medium for the project, drawing the stories by hand and then post-processing them into postcards for the storytellers.The project began in 2020 with a collaboration with Bridge Projects in Los Angeles, capturing the stories of 17 American friends through Zoom video conversations. Participants included artists, curators, composers, organization directors, gallery staff, academics, and more. In 2021, 17 new stories from Beijing were collected in Caochangdi, Beijing, by artists, curators, white-collar workers, laborers, students, etc. In 2024, NUN Mapping continues to collect stories for its project Lunch on the Grass in Yanjiao, Hebei Province, China. Story ...... This summer, the project came to the town of Ruthin.