Giorgio Gigli
Date: March 17 - 11 pm
Venue: Lantern, Beijing
Konekt Asia presents the Italian hypnotic and deep master Gigli's China debut. Giorgio transforms his material. Voids, pitfalls, drones and dilated melodies become intricate, sophisticated, and hypnotic rhythmic equipment that runs the risk of constantly changing classicist techno aesthetics in a conceptual derivation close to his soul.
Creative Review Sessions
Date: March 18 - 2 pm
Venue: Aiospace, Beijing
The Creative Review Sessions Team are pleased to invite you to our first and nonprofit portfolio review session. We will offer an afternoon of portfolio reviewing for contemporary visual artists. These sessions provide a communication platform with some of China's established and contemporary artists and curators to allow for suggestions, open dialogue and responses to your artwork or current projects in a comfortable relaxed environment. Artists will be allocated a one-to-one 20 minute open dialogue session with an invited artist or curator, who will be able to offer feedback or art advice.
Rockonomics
Date: March 18 - 2 pm
Venue: Aotu Space, Beijing
China's popular cultural industries have faced an incredible transformation in the last few years. Music has been at the forefront of this change with the growth of streaming music services, a growing live music sector, popularity of new music genres and technology such as AI changing how we listen. At the same time, cultural industries are not ruled by traditional economic rules. Popular culture transcends usual market economics and raises spirits and aspirations. For example, popular music is a classic superstar industry, where rewards are highly skewed. Can economic models explain the distribution of rewards?
