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Shi Tou's biography
Hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding female artists in contemporary China’, painter- photographer-filmmaker Shi Tou has been actively engaged in various artistic creations and social practice since 1992. She graduated from Guizhou Art Academy China. 1992 Moved into Beijing Yuan Ming Yuan (The Old Summer Palace) Artist Village and started with personal art works. She began collaborating with Mingming in 2001, using photography of performance and installation, video and documentaries to portray the social changes in contemporary China. as well as issues of sustainable ecology and gender diversity. Her leading role in Fish and Elephant (Yu Li 2001) helped this first feature-length Chinese lesbian film win prizes at the Venice, Berlin and Toronto film festivals. She participated in the music direction of the documentary Dream on the Wall (Mingming 2010) won the best short film award at the 2010 Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Film Festival. Her art works and films have been showed in many exhibition and film festivals all around the world. She combines artistic creation with social practice，in 2008, She with friends established China Queer Independent films. From 2008 to now, they go to different places every year, traveling all over China, from cities to towns, and have held 300s screenings, with tens of thousands of audiences watching and communicating. Shi Tou with Dr Li YinHe and Cui Zi'en were first time to have a homosexual topic on TV Interview Program publicly in 2000, its audience rating was 300 million.
Mingming's biography
Filmmaker, photographer, and activist. In 2008, she co-founded the China Queer Independent Film with Shi Tou and a group of queer directors, artists, activists, critics, etc. From 2008 to now, 330 queer screenings and discussions have been held across the country. Her art works and films have been showed in many exhibition and film festivals，including the U.S, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Taiwan, Hong Kong, south Korea, and Mainland China, etc. She directed the documentary Dream on the wall won the best short film award at the 2010 Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Film Festival.
Share sessions WAP24 JUNE EDITION with Marina, Ming Ming And Shitou
Artists and Film makers Shi Tou and Ming Ming are nomadic cultural works prefereing to be in country side areas with undirected walking as an important part of the development of their documentaries.
Shi Tou and Ming Ming brought forward milestones in walking in china. The walking scene amongst artists is relatively unknown. Instad they talked about how walking is good for thinking about their projects they also presented important walks and marches in China from a historic perspectice. With nation building etc.
Slow down
Squat down
Look
They have all come out
They walk while they eat
They walk while they make love
They walk while they dance
We walk in the forest
We walk in the clouds
We walk in the Baltic Sea
micro-walk
On June 9, Anna Viola and Ami hurried out to catch the 14:17 bus to Stockholm to vote. Ami forgot that she was still recovering from illness. At that moment, I felt an indescribable sense of emotion!
The next day, as I checked the news, Sweden’s election results were encouraging, but the results across Europe were disheartening. Freddie wrote in the group chat: "I don’t want to get up today! Still shocked by most of the results," followed by a series of painful emojis.
I felt terrible. Soon, dark clouds gathered, and it began to rain. Sitting indoors, I didn’t feel like doing anything, my mood had hit rock bottom, and I knew we had to go outside.
After the rain, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky. In the grass and along the roadside, there were little ants, snails, and slugs crawling everywhere...
I slowed down to observe them.
Usually, we all plan our walking routes in advance, mapping them out in Google Maps. But today, there was no plan and no group of people walking together, yet so many small creatures were on their own little journeys.
