RADII x Artist Cao Fei on Instagram Live

RADII invites you to join the Instagram Live conversation “CROSS x TALK: Digital Art and the Future of the World” featuring Beijing-based new media artist, Cao Fei. One of the most widely recognized voices of her generation, Cao Fei has presented works in the 50th, 52nd, and 56th Venice Biennales, and has held solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, MoMA PS1 and Serpentine Gallery. The conversation begins 20 NOVEMBER 2020, 10:30 AM China Standard Time.

Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) came of age during a period when globalization and modernization were drastically reshaping the physical, emotional and psychic landscapes of the Chinese people. Never didactic in nature, her work often critiques our increased reliance on technology to mediate experience, while simultaneously celebrating the new identities and subcultures it has produced. 

For this conversation, Cao Fei joins RADII’s Bryan Grogan to share her insights on the future of artistic collaboration in the post-Covid world. With a career that has repeatedly explored the boundaries between disciplines of film, video games, sculpture and opera, Cao Fei applies her unique perspective to the development of social media sites like Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo and WeChat. She also recounts the surreal period of her solo exhibition at Serpentine Galleries in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and her personal means for coping with the outbreak as an artist and mother. 

Join and share the conversation on 20 November 2020 (10:30 AM China Standard Time) by following RADII (@RADII.China) and Cao Fei (@cao_fei). 

About Cao Fei 

Cao Fei (b. 1978, Guangzhou) blends social commentary, pop culture aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary filmmaking conventions in her works, which consider the rapid and chaotic changes of contemporary Chinese society. Based in Beijing, Cao Fei has presented works in many major international exhibitions, including the Shanghai Biennale, Taipei Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Yokohama Triennale, and 50th, 52nd, and 56th Venice Biennales. She has held solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA PS1, New York, and Serpentine Gallery, London. She has received both the Best Young Artist Award (2006) and the Best Artist Award (2016) from the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards.

About Cross x Talk 

Cross x Talk is RADII’s live Instagram conversation series that extends our editorial coverage to wider, mobile audiences to build communities around the issues we and our readers care about. Hosted by RADII editors, Cross x Talk presents inspiring stories of creative resilience that bridge cultures.