December 2nd was the final teaching day after a 12 week course with Class 06. After working hard at finishing their assignments, and putting together a presentation for the head of the department, the class, with fellow teachers Hong Rongman and Zeng Yu Lin, invited me out for dinner. Above a teeny clip of the dinner table. Afterwards we all went to a karaoke bar, of which I fortunately do not have any clip, as my first experience at singing along with a bad cover version of Madonnas’ “Like a Virgin” should not be recorded for history. It was bad. I did, however, very much enjoy watching the students sing and dance…some of them have truly great voices. It was the first time I had been to a karaoke club, and I found it quite disarming. Their style of singing ranged from shyly singing along to outrageous play-acting, making believe that you yourself are the star. It all seems so innocent and sweet.
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dinner & karaoke
Saturday, December 19th, 2009“international festival”
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Swedish architects Tor Lindstrand and Marten Spangberg provided rare comic relief, with the project Four Ecologies of International Festival. Labelling themselves half architect, half performance artist, one of their ‘ecologies’ consisted of a karoake machine, some colourful LED tubing, a board with the text INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL written with a felt-tip pen in unsteady outline letters, a dry-ice machine, and a small camping table overladen with bottles of vodka, Pims and various other highly alcoholic beverages. The architects, clad in t-shirts sporting either the charachter for SHEN or the character for ZHEN distributed the booze generously and freely to any passer-by who showed an interest. Hong Rongman, Bert and Monica and myself found ourselves hooked to this little party. However corny and silly this all may sound…I think it was one of the few on-site installations that actually connected with local citizens. Like the one fellow who kept on coming for more free booze, getting Hong to translate for him that he wanted no less than 6 different types of alcohol poured into one cup.
Hong Rongman, gentelman as always, offers to pose in the t-shirt with two unknown pretty girls. Together they spell shen-zhen- she (= shen zhen city)