Catshanghai

It was a great night of art, fashion and hanging out with friends. Everyone likes Jola’s pictures of the Paris metro. Each picture was built on photographs, which were taken separately before Jola edited them together using painted images, scanning and photoshop post processing. The images remind me of rotoscoping where live action movies are [...]

Jenny has been busy setting up a photographic exhibition for Jola Kudela of Yolart.net, which will take place at Projection 216 on Sunday 15th June at 7pm. Jola Kudela is a photographic artist based in Paris. This is her first exhibition in Shanghai. This is her bio: “if loneliness has its God, Jola Kudela must [...]

Denmark’s Mais Uma have been performing some shows at Shanghai’s JZ Club (46 Fuxing Xi Lu) since April 13th, which ends tomorrow night (April 29th). The video above shows Mais Uma at JZ last night performing Tao Feliz (So Happy). The song is taken from their excellent album ‘Caminho Do Norte’. We have not been [...]

The Kronos Quartet is an eclectic chamber ensemble with attitude, but they didn’t manage to show enough of it until the second half of their show at the Shanghai Concert Hall last night. The first set featured Iraqi folk songs, Sigur Ros’s Flugufrelsarinn, selection of Chinese classics and Terry Riley compositions. Wu Man is known [...]

“Knowledge is power” or so that is what written on the walls in multiple languages throughout Shanghai Library. As I was queuing up this afternoon to get my membership card, I was feeling neither knowledgeable nor powerful. You see, I am rather tired this weekend and the instructions for joining the library are not that [...]

Welcome back to Catshanghai. Sorry it’s been a while. I’ve been busy. Here are the show notes: Culture: Interview with Jenny about Shanghai fashion Arts: Album reviews: ‘Orkestar 2′ by Beirut, ‘Radiodread’ by Easy All Stars Film reviews: Red Violin, Titus Technology: Mojopac (www.mojopac.com) Logitech 350 USB headset-mic, open source content management systems Shanghai life: [...]

Welcome to Catshanghai.This show looks at culture, arts, technology and life in Shanghai. Host: Shanghaimat Culture: The Matthew Barney Restraint #9 video at the Shanghai Biennale Arts: CD reviews: ‘Espers 2′ by Espers, ‘On Leaving’ by Nina Nastasia, ‘The Letting Go’ by Bonnie Prince Billie Film reviews: The Wicker Man (original version), Naked Technology: TuneTalk [...]