I know what you are trying to say - my first solo show in London!

Opening: 19 July, 6-8pm, N4 Library, 26 Blackstock Road, N4 2DW

Play the game with the artist: 21 July, 3-5pm / 23 July 4-7pm

Please come and join us!

Thank Rowan Arts and Islington Exhibits for realising the exhibition.

It's fine, you can talk to me - exhibited at GlogauAIR Open Studio

Continued my interest in relationship between locality and foreignness, in It’s fine, you can talk to me, I transformed the negativity of language barrier between immigrants and local residents into a positive connection.

During the residency, I used advertisements with tear-off stripes and social networks on the Internet to invite local residents from Germany to tell me a secret in German, the language that I cannot understand. The processes of revealing secrets were documented by video, but without audio.

In this case, the participants shared their secrets with me, but without worrying that anyone, including me, would know or judge. The secrets still remain as secrets. I intend to narrow down the gap between outsiders and local residents, encouraging people to open their hearts to a stranger/foreigner. Here, the person who cannot understand one’s language becomes the person that one can trust.

The exhibition includes images and documents to illustrate the process of looking for participants, with the number of people who contacted me, the way they know the information, and the results, accompanied by the videos.  

Thanks all the participants who shared their secrets with me. 

Thanks everyone who came to the exhibition. 

Thanks everyone who I worked with in GlogauAIR during the period.

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Call for participants - Künstlerischer Aufruf an Teilnehmer

Haben Sie ein Geheimnis? Wollen Sie etwas gestehen aber finden keine Vertrauenswürdige Person, der sie sich anvertrauen können?

Mein Name ist Ting-Ting Cheng. Ich bin eine Künstlerin, und nehme gerade an einer Residenz bei GlogauAIR in Berlin teil.

In meinem Projekt "Es ist in Ordnung, du kannst mit mir reden", habe ich vor, die Negativität der Sprachbarriere zwischen Immigranten und Einheimischen zu einer positiven Kraft zu verwandeln.

Hierzu würde Ich sie gerne , als Person aus Deutschland fragen, ob sie mir ein Geheimnis auf Deutsch, einer Sprache, die ich überhaupt nicht verstehe, anvertrauen, oder etwas, worüber sie gerne sprechen würden, aber nicht wollen, dass andere darüber bescheid wissen.

Teilnehmer können so die versteckten Geheimnisse jemandem (mir) anvertrauen, aber ohne sich dabei zu Sorgen, dass jeder (mich eingeschlossen) darüber bescheid wissen wird. Die Geheimnisse werden Geheimnisse bleiben.

Der Prozess des enthülltem Geheimnis wird per Video dokumentiert werden, aber ohne den Audio-Teil.

Wenn Sie Interesse an einer Teilnahme haben, kontaktieren Sie mich per email oder telefonisch - photo.tingting@gmail.com / 017698232018

Glogauerstrasse 16, 10999 Berlin

Ich werde euch auf einen Tassenkaffe einladen!

Auf meiner Website können sie wenn sie wollen, mehr über meine Arbeit erfahren

www.chengtingting.com

(Ich verstehe kein Deutsch. Der Artikel oben ist das Ergebnis einer Google-Übersetzung, und Hilfe von Freunden, die Deutsch können)

Do you have a secret? Do you want to confess about something but can’t find a trustworthy person to talk to?

My name is Ting-Ting Cheng. I am an artist who is having the artist in residency at Glogauair in Berlin at the moment. My practice aims to examine the relationship between foreignness and locality by applying language as the representation of cultures and identity.

In the project “It’s fine, you can talk to me”, I intend to transform the negativity of language barrier between immigrants and local residents into a positive force.

Here, I would like to invite you, as someone from Germany, to tell me a secret, or confess anything that you would like to talk about, but something that you don’t want to other people to know, in German, the language that I don’t understand at all.

In this case, the participants can share the hidden secrets to someone (me), but without worrying that anyone (including me) would know. The secrets still remain as secrets.

Here, the person who cannot understand your language becomes the person that you can trust. I intend to construct an ambiguous relationship in between, a “helpful” but not “functional” conversation.

The process of revealing the secret will be documented by video, but without the audio part. In the final presentation, the audiences will only see the participants talking, without knowing what they are actually talking about.

If you are interested in participating, please contact me on photo.tingting@gmail.com / 017698232018

Glogauerstrasse 16, 10999 Berlin

I will invite you for a coffee or drink to thank you!

If you want to know more about me, here is my website, www.chengtingting.com

Festival of Art as Research

7 May - 14 May, Ottersberg, Germany

I have exhibited my "Dubbing Project" as well as realised the project "The mechanism of speaking Chinese" during the festival.

Thank everyone who participated :)

The mechanism of speaking Chinese (cards)

 The mechanism of speaking Chinese (setting)

The mechanism of speaking Chinese (interaction)            Picture: Neno Belchev

The mechanism of speaking Chinese (video)

Dubbing Project

Rule: I have applied 200 English words, all of which have similar pronunciations to certain Chinese words, such as “Fan”, “May” or “Chin”, on a set of hand cards. During the festival, I invited participants to randomly choose 4-7 cards, such as “May Fan Pee Chin Bye”, then asked them to read it out as if it is a normal sentence in front of the camera. The idea came from the “ching chong” joke from the West society. By using English words to speak Chinese-like conversation, I translate the original Chinese into the Chinese in the ears of Westerners, sarcastically converting the language into pure symbols, removing the words from the original context, questioning the relationship between language and cultural stereotypes.

Thank Laura, Neele, all the artists, volunteers, participants and everyone who came to the festival!

http://art-as-research.org/

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Mixed-Other, Islington Art Factory, 20 April - 11 May

Thank everyone who came to the show last Friday.

It is a brilliant show with l0 artists and interesting works.

Thanks for Curator Monica Shanta Brown for realizing it.

Don't forget to visit before 11 May! 

PRISM, March 2012, Sheffield

My new project The time taken to smoke a cigarette was exhibited at PRISM, Sheffield on 30 March, 2012.

Thanks for everyone who came!

London Art Fair

London Art Fair has just finished last month, and it was my honour to exhibit my projects, I judge a book by its cover and Still Life with Fruits with Rise Art at the fair :)

If you are interested in hanging those beautiful/interesting images in your living room, or anywhere else, please contact Rise Art for it! (and you can rent it as well!)

Thanks for the review from Source Photo