Cao Fei's Role Introduction

Cao Fei, born in 1978, graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, female directors, China.

Production designer, director of stage play during college, part-time advertising, filmed the first DV independent short film "Out of Order 257" from 65438 to 0999, and was invited to participate in several international art exhibitions and film festivals. Subsequent films such as Iron Chain, Dance, Sign Language, and Sliding attracted great attention.

Chinese name: Cao Fei.

Nationality: China.

Date of birth: 1978

Occupation: Director

Graduate school: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Representative works: dog, kiss me, hip-hop, role

Major: geographical science

Character experience

1992- 1998 studied at Xiaozhai Primary School in Linwei District, Weinan City.

1998-200 1 studied at Sanmalu Junior High School in Linwei District, Weinan City.

2001-studied in Ruiquan Middle School, Linwei District, Weinan City in 2004.

From 2004 to 2008, I studied in the College of Tourism and Environment of Shaanxi Normal University.

Production designers directed stage plays and advertised part-time during their college years. I've always wanted to write a magical love novel, but I'm too busy to spare the time. I want to think about it and write an introduction first. If I can find time to write in the future, I will seriously conceive. The protagonist of this novel is me and my lover, and there are some passers-by who are in a hurry.

1999 filmed the first DV independent short film "Out of Order 257" and was invited to participate in several international art exhibitions and film festivals. Subsequent films such as Iron Chain, Dance, Sign Language, and Sliding attracted great attention.

200 1 After graduation, he continued to create video art. His works include Dog, Give Me a Kiss, Hip Hop, Role, etc.

In 2003, he co-produced the experimental documentary Sanyuanli with Ou Ning and participated in the 50th Venice Art Biennale.

In 2005, he filmed the first documentary "Father" to participate in the first Moscow Biennale.

Professional courses

Geography teaching theory, geography microteaching, geography courseware making, world geography, China geography, human geography, natural geography, introduction to remote sensing, cartography principles, geographic information system, etc. Education, psychology.

Personality achievement

Characteristics of works

Cao Fei is precocious in art. At the age of 16, he wrote his own stage play.

1999, while studying in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, she made her first short film "Out of Order 257", which attracted attention. In the same year, I began to participate in foreign art exhibitions.

In 2000, when the video work chain participated in an art exhibition organized by Ai Weiwei in Shanghai, it was seen and collected by the famous art collector Wuli Siger. Until then, Cao Fei still knew nothing about the term "contemporary art". "School textbooks talk about pop at most, and I don't know what contemporary art is at all." Born and raised in Guangzhou in the last 20 years of the 20th century, the rapid social changes in southern China inevitably affected this sensitive and quiet girl. For a long time, Cao Fei's creative materials come from the Pearl River Delta, which she is familiar with.

In 2000, Cao Fei read an article about Cosplay in a magazine and became interested in it. He found some Cosplayer to interview and communicate. Soon, she filmed the short film Cosplayer. These cosplayers can do anything in anime costumes such as "Gold Saints", imagine the desolate land of Guangzhou as infinite free space, and create dazzling plots with rich imagination. After the song, they wore strange clothes and returned to their parents sitting at home with Guangzhou Daily. Everything is the same, the scene is magical and grotesque, making people feel lonely. "I will look at the contemporary living conditions reflected by these people and communities as a bystander." Cao Fei said. Whose work is Cao Fei's Utopia? The shooting location is a factory in Foshan. This 20-minute documentary made her shoot in the factory for half a year. "It's a bit like a field survey." Whose utopia? There is a very realistic existence, but also a very illusory expression in it. The assembly line is running, and the workers are dancing in this background. "That feeling is very dramatic." In the open space of the factory, from the old well in my hometown made of cardboard boxes to the time shuttle in my dream, these different devices all have the temperament of Cao Fei's pen. Cao Fei often mentioned a word-surrealism. "This is a mixture of realism and surrealism. Workers are realistic in the factory, but they have dreams, expectations and even fantasies about the future. " Over the years, Cao Fei has been to many places in the world, including new york, London, Paris, Basel and Istanbul. Cao Fei will compare these cities with her familiar Guangzhou. For example, Switzerland's tranquil landscapes and villa restaurants. But she is not fascinated. "Guangzhou is more interesting." Because when driving on the viaduct in Guangzhou, the road surface may suddenly break, and then she saw the buildings to be demolished overgrown with weeds, which made her interested in the absurdity brought about by the rapid expansion of the city. As an artist, her father's way of recording the changes of the times is obviously different from hers.

In 2005, she was invited to participate in the Moscow Triennial, and her work was the documentary "Father", which was shot by her father. On the 0/00th anniversary of the birthday of Kloc-2004, his father, sculptor and professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts made a bronze statue for Deng's birthday. Cao Fei's father has been making celebrity statues since his childhood memory. From Sun Yat-sen, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping to Yang Liwei and Liu Xiang, the changes in sculpture are the epitome of mainstream heroes and changes in values of the times. "Now I'm making a statue of Rogge, which is very similar." Cao Fei doesn't like what his father does. She thought it was too thematic. But then she thought her father's work was actually very interesting, so she began to film his work. In order to film Father, Cao Fei followed Cao Zhongen to observe how he dealt with the government, how he negotiated with officials and so on. Taking her father as a clue, she saw how the grass-roots government institutions in China operated and how the "image project" was introduced. "He reminded me that his works are related to the contemporary reality I am concerned about." "I don't know if he likes what he does, but my father is immersed in it. This is his profession. " In Cao Fei's view, if her father cut into reality from the angle of "official history", then she observed it from the more personal angle of "unofficial history". "We are all using art to express society, but it is completely different from two angles, which is very interesting." "Father" became the most appreciated work of his father Cao Zhongen for his daughter.

In 2006, 28-year-old Cao Fei won CCAA China Contemporary Art Award for Young Artists. The evaluation of the organizing committee is: "Cao Fei's works draw images from popular culture, and make them reach a strange and wise style, thus intuitively presenting the mood and social conditions of contemporary urban young people in China.

In 2007, Cao Fei participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work is Me Mirror, which is a virtual identity of "ChinaTracy" and goes to the online game "Second Life".

In 2008, the ongoing "People's Village in the City" project in Cao Fei is more like an upgraded version of "My Mirror". The virtual city in Second Life, People's Town Village, has four plots, including Tiananmen Square, the new CCTV building, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the panda, the wheelbarrow, the uncompleted residential flats and the villages in the city. "I hope that some systems and concepts that cannot be realized in the current reality can be implemented in this city." On the opening night of the Beijing Olympic Games, artist Cai Guoqiang set off a handful of fireworks. Although he thought the idea of "footprints" was strange, Cao Fei was surprised. "The country will spend so much money for an artist to complete such a crazy idea." Cao Fei believes that contemporary artists such as Cai Guoqiang, Huang Yong and others have collective symbols that are easy to identify. For example, ancient ships, traditional Chinese medicine, and human acupoint maps. "At that time, they were going abroad and using representative China cultural elements, which was more easily noticed by outsiders." Compared with that generation, Cao Fei felt that artists of his generation were less antagonistic. "The post-80s artists are cartoon, not picky, not interested in big events, and like to indulge in their own small world and whisper to each other. After I was closer to 70, my work did not completely lose its criticism, but also had a game side. It is a combination of visionaries and practitioners, watching reality and moderately intervening in reality. "

Poetry creation

The darkness and light of magic war

Light and darkness go round and round.

Humans are happy in the sun.

Humans will struggle in the dark.

Mankind has experienced the glory and greatness of life.

Humans will experience the pain and desolation of the end of life.

The sky is covered with dark clouds.

Darkness enveloped the world.

Evil triumphed over justice.

Demons dominate the earth.

Hatred erodes reason.

The air is full of violence.

Kill, kill

Dark blood flows everywhere.

Give off a pungent smell.

Vampire bats croak in the clouds.

The wolf is biting the body.

Every cell is condensed with destruction.

Is mankind really going to die?

God tells us

Only true love can save mankind.

She is an angel of God.

Goddess of kindness and justice

I am the guardian of the earth.

Messenger of the dark jungle

The power of our true love is unparalleled.

Being strong is our belief.

Let wolves and poisonous snakes catch up with us.

We waved the swords given by God.

Chop them up.

The devil came at us.

We became white light.

Bright and harsh

This white light pierced the devil's dirty body.

The earth trembled violently.

In an instant, the devil went up in smoke.

The prophet also called for justice for us.

The Holy Spirit is also praying for light for us.

The dark clouds finally cleared away.

The light is coming again ~