We are having our last and final sale of the Appendix garments at Jam bar in Beijing, Saturday 12.11.11 from 2pm to 6pm.

Hope to see you all there!

Aily’s Cafe and space is having a birthday party! And we’d love to have your involvement! Simply post anything you’d like us to exhibit, send it to the address:

北京市东城区东四北大街钱粮胡同32号
32 Qian Liang Hutong, Dong Cheng District, Beijing, China 100010

We will open all packages on the opening and will continue to receive the gifts over the coming weeks.

For those who’ve missed it Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide (2005) has been claimed to be one of the most important Chinese films of the past decade. It is a slow art house feature film with an intimate feeling that does offer a reward if you sit through it. Still a film school student, Jiayin was 23 when she made it and last year Oxhide II was presented. She has received several awards for the movies including including the Fipresci Prize at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival for the first one. The films feature herself, her mother and her father playing their respective characters as we follow a piece of time in the middle-class life of a Chinese family through a small number of shots with no camera movements whatsoever. Both stories are being played out in their actual apartment in Beijing. Above a clip from the first scene of Oxhide.

This is a selection of the ongoing Inspirations in Dreams project by Shanghainese photographer Zephyrance Lou. “Dream is my muse all the time, as it contains memories, fantasies and all kinds of poetic elements”, she says. She has been existing for twenty years or so and already has a portfolio of wonderful pictures. You can find more at her Flickr account.

Artist and Designer based in Shanghai, China
Works broadly across the disciplines of Art and Design
Mainly focuses on Oil Painting, Pencil Drawing, Illustration and Sculpture (Figure Design)
Also does Graphic and Web Design
Crazily into Album Art creation and Screen-Print Poster making
Was a Vegan but has started eating Fish recently;
Loves Lucha Masks, is afraid of balloons

Nini Sum.

Bending Gender by Jia Yu Chuan is a study of the micro transvestite-transsexual community’s private lives, their process of self-transformation, and their self-presentation in public (Shenzhen, China).