fibre Quarterly Canada online 11/1/ Spring 2015
This report on the symposium and the exhibition at the China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, shows an "Instal view of costumes and work by artists Candace Edgerley of USA, Catherine Ellis of USA, Mascha Mioni of Switzerland and Carter Smith of USA"
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Mascha Mionis Rooibos Teabag Dress in the book MyRooibos
"Ds notre livre MyRooibos The Rooibos Teabag dress par Mascha Mioni"
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"Mnemonikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textiles" at the The Fashion Gallery, Hong Kong Polytechnical University
This group exhibition was shown for 6 months at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
In the background, left, next to Mascha Mioni's Rooibos Teabag Dress, Ana Lisa Hedstrom's "our wide blue and black sea" and the white "A Knitted Object" by Ataphol Sujrapinyokul
Foto: Edith Cheung, Hong Kong
Curated by Kinor Jiang and Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Mascha Mioni was the only European showing her work together with 20 artists from South East Asia and beyond:
Keiko AMENOMORI-SCHMEISSER (Australia/Japan)
Junichi ARAI (Japan)
Jean CACISEDO (USA)
Frank CONNET (USA)
Ana Lisa HEDSTROM (USA)
Wen Yin HUANG (Taiwan)
Hiroshi ISHIZUKA (Japan)
Kinor JIANG (Hong Kong/China)
Christina KIM (USA)
Yee I LANN (Malaysia)
Rachel MEGINNES (USA)
Mascha MIONI (Switzerland)
Joan MORRIS ( USA)
Kambui OLUJIMI (USA)
Restu RATANANINGTYAS (Indonesia)
Jin-Sook SO (Sweden/ Korea)
Musey XU(China)
Guoxiang YUAN (Hong Kong/ China)
Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAIA (Thailand)
taphol SUJRAPINYOKUL (Thailand)
Ek THONGPRASERT (Thailand)
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Exhibition at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai
During October/November 2014 Mascha Mioni was artist in residence at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai, and displayed there her new creations in an exhibition Mascha Mioni spent more than two months in China and incorporated the manyfold impressions in a variety of ways in her work.
The discarded rice straw, that she found lying in the yard, was recycled into an eleven yards long ladder "Purpose of Life". The calligraphy lessons led to thirty paintings "Ink on Paper". With the red seal-ink she bought on the antique-/flea-market she 'signed' close to 5000 fingerprints on paper. The image of the cotton-pickers in the vast fields of Xinjiang and the raw cotton balls found in the nearby village, together with the old bricks lying around from the reconstruction work, resulted in the installation "20 Pyramids"; and the soot-blackened cotton cloth of the cook inspired to "Phoenix from the Ashes".
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Mascha Mioni is Artist in Residence at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai
Report in German in the on-line news-paper beiUns, uploaded Nov. 28, 2014 "...When, begin 2014, Mascha was asked to apply for artist in residence at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai, she immediately said yes..." (free translation from the German beiUns)
left: Feiran Young/JZAC teaches Mascha Mioni how to correctly hold a brush for Chinese Calligraphy -right : In the court-yard of the JinZe Arts Center Mascha recycles the discarded rice-straw - Photos: H. Graafhuis, Meggen, Switzerland
Conclusion of the more than two months long stay in China - citation from beiUns:
"....
Diese Ausstellung ist für uns das krönende Ende unseres mit täglich neuen Erlebnissen gespickten Aufenthaltes in diesem Riesenland mit seiner eindrücklichen, viele jahrtausendealten Entwicklungsgeschichte. Diese Entwicklung inmitten einer Welt, deren Ressourcen immer knapper werden, ist zurzeit so rasant, dass deren Zukunft kaum einschätzbar ist."