- Yingmei Duan Performance Art 段英梅行为艺术 (in working...)

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You are very welcome to visit Yingmei Duan’s website!

Before visiting you can choose your language Chinese, English or German.

As an introduction to the website you can see recent exhibitions in the News.

Yingmei began her performance career as she lived in East Village in Beijing in 1995. Since she met her teacher Marina Abramovic in Germany in 2000, she has been focusing on Performance art and research until today. You can visit her performance by Year or Performance by Category. Her Performances are categorized using her own personal method- Solo Performance, Performance Installation, Changing Exhibitions, Daily Life Art Performance, Equal Collaborative Performance, Object Interactive Performance, Object & Video Interactive Performance and Sound & Music Performance. From clicking on each category you will get to know the works. In each section, you can see a definition and a short amount of information.

You can also listen to her Music album which is also an extension of her performance work. You can listen to the songs, read the lyrics and motivation.

In other works, you can see various art mediums such as painting, drawing, and installation, which mostly originate from her performance artworks. Additionally, you can explorentings from East Village in Beijing.

In the Media section, you can find interviews and texts that provide a deeper understanding of her performance practice. In About Yingmei section, you can access her Bio, CV, Bibliography, Statement and two PDFs covering the periods 1995-2013 and 2014-2020 if you wish to explore further.

Nelson Mapako

A versatile Playwright/ Director, Performance artist, Theatre Trainer and Arts Administrator who strives on exploring the limits of creativity, Nelson Mapako has been practicing professional theatre arts since 1992. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1972 where he kicked off his artistic career with Tikwele Drama Group in Hwange. Later on he formed Ezemvelo Creative Artists. He has also worked for the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre as a field officer for the Matabeleland region, Amazulu Arts Consultants as Programs Officer, Theatre and Development Initiative as Artistic Director and Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo as the inaugural Festival Administrator.

Mapako has also worked for 6 years in Swaziland (Seconded by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo province.) where apart from being the Programs and Training consultant for Swaziland Theatre for Children and Young People he was running individual theatre projects. While in Swaziland he established the Iphi ‘Africa Project. Of late 2011/ 2012 he has conducted Acting workshops for Intwasa Arts Festival ko Bulawayo in Zimbabwe as well as ParticNelson Mapako is a prolific artist who received training in Community Theatre between 1994 and 1998 through the mentorship of the late international acclaimed artist Ngugi wa Mirri. He is a holder of a Training of Trainers Certificate in Community Theatre, A General Certificate in Intellectual property from WIPO, A Diploma in Program Management and Monitoring. He has written/directed several stage & television productions including Television puppetry productions in Swaziland (Mantentekazane Swazi Television) and Zimbabwe (Khuluza ZTV) and has also featured as an actor both on stage and television. He is a recipient of the Zimbabwe’s prestigious National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) for Outstanding Theatrical Production (OUTCAST) in 2004. He was also a nominee for the NAMA award in 2003 for his production (SIX ALL OUT) Mapako’s other works have been performed at international arts festivals such as HIFA (Social Hanger 2003) in Zimbabwe, Matiwane Manana Arts Festival in Swaziland and Out the Box in Cape Town, South Africa. Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo,Ibumba Arts Festival in Zimbabwe as well as the SASOL Schools Arts Festival (A project for Grahamstown Arts festival)in Witbank South Africa. ipatory Theatre Workshops for PLAN Zimbabwe/Intwasa Arts Festival.

His international collaborations include working with Yingmei Duan – a performance artist from Germany as well as Laway arts South Africa/Netherlands. Nelson’s works are pregnant with artistic, social, developmental and political issues that affect the existence of humanity. His latest work is “A drop in the Land” done in collaboration with Laway Arts South Africa/Netherlands.

Nikhil Chopra

Johannes Zits

David Hancock

Di Lu

Beijing East-Village

Márcio Carvalho

Nelson Mapako

Xiaohan Han