I’ll be performing an excerpt of The Customer at The Bargehouse on The Southbank on 1st December.
Talks followed by performances:
The Customer Is Always Wrong
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Some images from the performance at PERFORM NOW festival in Winterthur where The Customer Is Always Wrong was performed in Mandarin with German translation.
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I’ll be performing The Customer Is Always Wrong in a month’s time in Switzerland for the Perform Now Festival on 3rd October.
It has been a while since I’ve looked at it so I’ll have a chance to see it in a new light. Whether this means changing everything, attempting to be faithful to its past form or some combination of the two, this next month will tell. I’ve been far less busy learning Mandarin of late so picking this up has been my starting point. Additionally, I’m organising a UK China Arts event that will focus on the role of artistic residencies. This will take place on November 2nd in London and there will be more on that soon.
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I forgot to add a picture from last time I was in China. This is one I took in one of the new bakeries. These places are springing up at a pace of knots and are Western in style. They serve coffee and tea with some pretty creative flvourings like a tapioca and hazenut cappucino. What is most exciting are the baked goods. They are making stuff up as they go along. Taking Western products and using them as raw materials for their own creations. I saw such things as an Osaka Pizza or my favourite, which I got a picture of, the Hot Dog Danish. they really take a danish pastry and stick a hot dog on it then add a drizzle of cheese for good measure!
There is a sense of pace and innovation here and I rather suspect that many of the creations don’t line the shelves for more than 2 or 3 months while a few manage to become established tastes. They were advertising for chefs and one of the criteria was to be under 35 in age. No purists allowed. I love these sort of crazy places.
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Special Evening Exhibition Reception
Featuring Live Performance by BILL AITCHISON
Thursday 3rd May, 8PM – 9:30PM
THE RESIDENCE GALLERY, 229 Victoria Park Road, London, E9 7HD
One of a kind artist, traveler and all round professional eccentric BILL AITCHISON has taken the citizenship test… in Southern CHINA and now in the multi-faceted exhibition, HOME OFFICE OF THE FAN FICTION EMPIRE at THE RESIDENCE GALLERY in LONDON.
The Customer Is Always Wrong is a creative and personal report on the experience of being a Westerner in China today. It is also a complete confusion of languages: a hybrid of imperfect Chinese and Chinglish translations. The performance is inspired by the disorienting roller coaster experience that is the daily life of a visitor to a bubbling Chinese City today.
The performance is available as a collector’s edition Video Work (2011, limited edition of 6). It is currently exhibited in HOME OFFICE OF THE FAN FICTION EMPIRE at
THE RESIDENCE GALLERY, 5th April – 27th May, 2012.
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