The Saddest Place on Earth in Shenzhen (April 9-May 8)

PRESS: Organised by Little Thing magazine and sponsored by Shenzhen Development bank and Starbucks Coffee. The Saddest place on Earth in Shenzhen touches on exactly that.... our mother Earth. These tear tags, filled with stories and prose centered around the theme of our dying planet in hopes of opening our eyes to the devastating drought affecting South-west China.

Little Thing magazine invited 7 artist which includes luminaries such as Li Bing Bing, a Golden Horse Film Awards winner, mainland music artist such as Cao Fang, Tian Yuan and Taiwanese singer Xu Zhepei. The list also includes controversial Chinese author Mian Mian and Hong Kong's LU CI a writer and photographer who is the former Editor-In-Chief of CREAM Magazine and organizer of COMME des GARCONS Guerrilla Store+852 Part II.

This showcase also includes 8 other Artist from "The Saddest Place on Earth visits Macao" ( List to be confirmed soon / previously blogged)

"The Saddest Place on Earth" [www] features the collaborative effort between the Hug Your Sorrow tear dolls [www] created by Mimipong, and the prose of selected artists on it's tags. CLICK to find out more in my earlier-post. Also CLICK THRU for the Chinese/Mandarin Press-Text for this event, if you so please.


[Hug Your Sorrow-plush on display at Books Actually, circa 2008]

CHINESE-PRESS-TEXT:

这次中国深圳站的展览,由《Little Thing恋物志》杂志发起，携手深圳发展银行与星巴克卡咖啡连锁店，从关爱人们居住的地球为出发点，让人类居住的蓝色星球未来不用面对哀伤，不必为生态环境的恶化而扼腕痛惜。

《Little Thing恋物志》、深圳发展银行和星巴克咖啡连锁店邀请到李冰冰，内地音乐人曹方、田原，台湾歌手许哲珮，作家棉棉，香港创作人陆瓷（夏侯露西），国内第一电子乐团与非门，请他们为“地球泪滴”展览进行创作，在“泪滴娃娃”布面标签上留下属于他们的有趣记录。这7个代表中国深圳的“泪滴娃娃”玩偶，将与Mimipong的其他作品一起，参与此次展出，呼吁人们关爱地球，关爱生命.