Founder of China Shadow Plan, Head of Wei Shadow Artistic Commune, inheritor of the third generation of Wei-style Shadow Play Wei Chao was born into an old and well-known family of Wei-style shadow play performers in Huaxian county, Shaanxi province. He graduated from Xian Academy of Fine Arts in Decoration and Design in 2000. In 2005, he founded the We Shadow Artistic Commune and participated in the Long March Project as a guest artist. Wei initiated the China Shadow Plan in 2006, also curating the New Shadow Play Figure Design Exhibition and editing and publishing the China Shadow series of books in the same year. This year he has taken part in Getitlouder 2007, while dedicating himself to research, communication and promotional activities for the Traditional NEW Vision project.
China Shadow Plan is a program for the protection and promotion of the ancient art of shadow play run by a group of young artists. It is a platform for carrying on and promoting the traditional Chinese art through unified forms of design, art, photography, music, and painting to enhance the crossover between traditional and modern art. The results of the program will be presented in a series of exhibitions, performances and publications.
China Shadow Plan strives to revitalise traditional culture in the modern age, in different circumstances and different locations, through the use of contemporary forms of exhibition and live performance, aiming to establish and present shadow play’s relevance as a bridge between past and present, the international and local, urban and rural contexts, and tradition and innovation. ///
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