Date: May 1st 2009, 21:00
Venue: CANART Institute for Contemporary Art , Ding Xi road 727
Presented by
Mommy Foundation
Partner of event:
CANART Institute for Contemporary Art
Special Thanks to Split works www.spli-t.com
Free the Wax
Party Introduction
This party is to inaugurate the birth of Mommy Foundation and to raise awareness of importance of supporting young talents and their work in early stage. Party will feature number of young artist’s projects and interventions during evening
Don’t miss the unique night in town
Free drinks for first hours, good DJ and various artists and friends interventions during evening. Come dressed in crazy colors and mommy mood
参加活动的艺术家及部分艺术项目预告(Some of the artists projects to be featured)：
地摊活动(Street Gallery)：
地摊活动：
出售全国艺术家作品。每件作品单价不超过人民币100圆。
现场展示方式：一块或几块摊布，每块2平方米左右。
artists from all over China will participate in project. Each piece provided by artists will be on sale same evening with price NO MORE THAN 100RMB
售价（Price）： 88.00 RMB 作者：胡昀（Artist： Hu Yun）
<玩的起!艺术>计划 鸟头
有感于中国当代艺术一路狂飙走高之后遭到全球经济危机影响而滑向严冬的现状.
2009年4月鸟头开始与香格那画廊旗下的一些艺术家合作.经由这些合作艺术家的授权使用他们的一张代表作品打印在尺寸为24英寸的廉价纸张上,同时鸟头为该计划设计了一系列的镜框纹样的模板,而后这些印有合作艺术家作品的纸张被尝试粘贴在墙面上并且周边用模板喷绘有镜框.然后鸟头开始面向社会接受预定,以低廉的价格提供上门张贴该作品的服务.以出售上门服务的形式最终完成作品.该计划旨在以低廉的运作成本,继续作品.
整个计划被命名为<Birdhead Affordable Game >缩写为B A G.中文名字称为<玩的起!艺术>计划
“Facebook 之前有马爹利之夜”
对于伪装和自我中心主义的滑稽模仿 , 对新殖民主义的嘲讽， 想象中的怀旧之情 “旧上海, 一场对于放纵的审判，一场庆祝的狂欢，对特定的审美品位及风格的探索
Before there was Facebook, there was Martini Night"?
A parody of pretense and ego, a mockery of the neocolonialist imagined nostalgia for “Old Shanghai, a celebration and condemnation of excess, and an exploration of a certain aesthetic and style
奶妈基金会向以下组织及个人对于基金会的帮助表示衷心的感谢：
Alicia Framis, Bird Head, Ben Houge, Lisa Movious, Mathieu Borysevicz, To Be Band, 高铭研， 赵川， 吴梦， 张乐华， 卢佳炜， 李牧， 陆平原， 唐狄鑫， 曹巍， 胡昀。
奶妈基金会第一轮方案提交将于2009年5月30日截止，挑选出的项目将于9月实施。
Mommy Foundation
(A foundation for supporting young Chinese artists and projects)
Introduction:
The Mommy Foundation is a project initiated by Biljana Ciric, an independent curator based in Shanghai. The foundation will function as a bridge between artists and the board members, who will work on a voluntary basis, helping to organize matters relating to the foundation and it’s activities.
The Mommy Foundation will be the first foundation of this kind in China that supports young and emerging artists and their projects. The foundation will be established thanks to support from institutions, galleries and individual donors in China and abroad, starting with Shanghai.
All galleries and institutions that support the foundation will become members of the board and will participate in the selection process of projects for the annual grant.
Goal of the Foundation:
Today, the non-profit sector in China for contemporary art remains largely absent; nor are there any foundations to support young Chinese artists prior to their initiation into the gallery and museum systems. This symbolic initiation of a foundation and granting body will be a starting point for a larger project that aims to raise awareness among other institutions, in the hopes that they will also initiate programs geared to the fostering young artistic talent.
Non-profit support opens the door to experimental programming, giving artists the necessary time and space to develop their conceptual framework before entering the museum and gallery systems. Some beneficial results of this kind of activity include: 1. The generation of critical contexts; 2. To activate and challenge the art system, pushing for innovation and new possibilities.
Furthermore, the lack of experimental channels for young artists has such negative effects as: 1. The shortening of an artist’s life span; 2. Privileges the marketability of a work of art in processes of valuation.
Mission of Foundation:
The mission of the foundation is to aid in the development of artistic practices at an early stage in an artist’s career, while also introducing them to the application procedures that will be important throughout their career. At the same time, the foundation attempts to create a healthier artistic climate within the contemporary art field through the support of different curatorial and artistic approaches that will, in time, contribute to the local art infrastructure.
Acknowledgments
Mommy Foundation would like to thank all individuals and friends that helped organizing event: Alicia Framis, Bird Head,Lisa Movious, Mathieu Borysevicz, Gao Mingyan, To Be Band, Ben Houge, Zhao Chuan, Wu Meng, Hu Yun, Zhang Lehua, Lu Jiawei, Li Mu, Lu Pingyuan, Tang Dixin,
