2013-01-04 11:47:38
CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: 郑云峰
[Jennifer Wen Ma]
Jennifer Wen Ma was born in 1973 in Beijing, moved to the United States in 1986, and received her master's degree in fine art in 1999 from Pratt Institute, New York. Ma works in varied media including installation, video, drawing, fashion design, performance, and public art. She has participated in numerous exhibitions internationally.
Some of her recent projects and exhibitions include Hanging Garden at Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing; a solo exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC; the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Triennial; a commissioned video installation for Guggenheim Bilbao, 2009 and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008.
Ma was a member of the seven-member core creative team for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, and its chief designer for visual and special effects. Additionally, as the main liaise with the international broadcast teams, she won an Emmy for the U.S. broadcast of the ceremony.
Ma recently has been working on a project in Beijing's National Aquatic Center known as the Water Cube, and has her new book published. As the new year just started, Voices From Other Land found a chance to sit down and talk to the contemporary Chinese artist.
That was Jennifer Wen Ma, a contemporary Chinese artist talking to me Yunfeng on Voices From Other Lands. Before we go let me share one line from Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator born on January 1, 1863, primarily responsible for the revival of the modern Olympic Games. He says "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
Kunqu Opera Experience the charm of Kunqu Opera, one of the oldest forms of Chinese opera.
Melody over the Pacific A concert marking the 40th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's visit to China.
Traditional Guqin The guqin, a seven-stringed plucked zither, is China's oldest stringed instrument.
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