BIO
island6六岛 (pinyin: Liùdǎo) is a Shanghai-based art collective of tech-geeks and creative talents.
The collective produces cutting edge art that constantly contemplates the future of Asia, engages sights and scenes from old and new China and elevates the skills of new talents by working from a communal forum.
Since Liu Dao's beginning, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, new media artists, software and digital imaging artists, dancers, writers, engineers, guest artists and curators have worked together to produce original, intriguing shows.
The island6 art collective has appeared in acclaimed art fairs around the world, including Art Paris, Slick Paris, the Hong Kong Art Fair, SHContemporary, Scope New York, Miami & Basel, Art Asia Miami, Los Angeles Art Show, Art Stage Singapore, Art Dubai, Istanbul Contemporary, KIAF Seoul, and many more…
Special invitations for solo and group shows include Louis Vuitton Cultural Space in Taipei and Macao, Chivas Collection and Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, Opposite House and Green T. House in Beijing, Chongqing Museum of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington D.C. and Art Seasons Singapore.
In recent years, Liu Dao has also forged partnerships with acclaimed galleries in China and around the world. Apart from long-time partners Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, and former Studio Rouge in Shanghai, Liu Dao is also represented by Art Seasons Gallery in Singapore , Gallery Etemad in Dubai and Tally Beck Contemporary in Bangkok and New York. In 2013, Liu Dao also established exciting new collaborations with Bath Street Gallery of Auckland, NZ and Conny Dietzschold Gallery in Sydney, Australia.
Liu Dao is exclusively represented in Hong Kong at island6’s second space in the art district of Sheung Wan.
In the Fall of 2013, Liu Dao welcomed two new members to their Shanghai family, a second space in the m50 compound - island6 ShGarden- as well as island6 Bund on the historic Shanghai Bund riverfront.
In March of 2014, the Collective welcomed its newest member to the family, island6 Marina, located in the Royal Phuket Marina in Thailand.
Philosophy: Liu Dao works on a collaborative platform in making multimedia and interactive artwork, while utilizing the skills of videographers, photographers, curators, choreographers, and writers. The digital artworks also use post-production editors, such as After Effects experts or sound designers. Each artwork and exhibition has a cast with credits for people of different skills.
Production Process: All the work exhibited is made on site and specifically for the theme of a show. The collective works on a flexible open platform between multiple collaborators. After curators conceptualize a theme, the artists create pieces specific to the theme of the exhibition. Through this close collaborative process there is an ongoing dialogue between curator, art director and artist.
People: The island6 team consists of artists, art directors, curators and guest curators as well as a technical team. When the collective is not making art, each individual helps in running the exhibition space.
The collective regularly invites performers and guest curators to come onboard for individual artworks or themed shows. The collective has ranged from 6 to 22 people since its inception in 2006.
The collective produces cutting edge art that constantly contemplates the future of Asia, engages sights and scenes from old and new China and elevates the skills of new talents by working from a communal forum.
Since Liu Dao's beginning, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, new media artists, software and digital imaging artists, dancers, writers, engineers, guest artists and curators have worked together to produce original, intriguing shows.
The island6 art collective has appeared in acclaimed art fairs around the world, including Art Paris, Slick Paris, the Hong Kong Art Fair, SHContemporary, Scope New York, Miami & Basel, Art Asia Miami, Los Angeles Art Show, Art Stage Singapore, Art Dubai, Istanbul Contemporary, KIAF Seoul, and many more…
Special invitations for solo and group shows include Louis Vuitton Cultural Space in Taipei and Macao, Chivas Collection and Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, Opposite House and Green T. House in Beijing, Chongqing Museum of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington D.C. and Art Seasons Singapore.
In recent years, Liu Dao has also forged partnerships with acclaimed galleries in China and around the world. Apart from long-time partners Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, and former Studio Rouge in Shanghai, Liu Dao is also represented by Art Seasons Gallery in Singapore , Gallery Etemad in Dubai and Tally Beck Contemporary in Bangkok and New York. In 2013, Liu Dao also established exciting new collaborations with Bath Street Gallery of Auckland, NZ and Conny Dietzschold Gallery in Sydney, Australia.
Liu Dao is exclusively represented in Hong Kong at island6’s second space in the art district of Sheung Wan.
In the Fall of 2013, Liu Dao welcomed two new members to their Shanghai family, a second space in the m50 compound - island6 ShGarden- as well as island6 Bund on the historic Shanghai Bund riverfront.
In March of 2014, the Collective welcomed its newest member to the family, island6 Marina, located in the Royal Phuket Marina in Thailand.
Philosophy: Liu Dao works on a collaborative platform in making multimedia and interactive artwork, while utilizing the skills of videographers, photographers, curators, choreographers, and writers. The digital artworks also use post-production editors, such as After Effects experts or sound designers. Each artwork and exhibition has a cast with credits for people of different skills.
Production Process: All the work exhibited is made on site and specifically for the theme of a show. The collective works on a flexible open platform between multiple collaborators. After curators conceptualize a theme, the artists create pieces specific to the theme of the exhibition. Through this close collaborative process there is an ongoing dialogue between curator, art director and artist.
People: The island6 team consists of artists, art directors, curators and guest curators as well as a technical team. When the collective is not making art, each individual helps in running the exhibition space.
The collective regularly invites performers and guest curators to come onboard for individual artworks or themed shows. The collective has ranged from 6 to 22 people since its inception in 2006.
"Neuro-Rhumba" Exhibition Opening Night at island6 ShGarden
Dates:
Fri Dec 19, 2014 19:00 - Fri Dec 19, 2014
Location:
Shanghai,
China
The Liu Dao art collective has pulled out all the creative stops for their latest mind-melding exhibition. In their perpetual quest to bend the limits of time and space, island6 gears up to tickle your neurons with “Neuro-Rhumba.” This multimedia-soaked brainteaser of an exhibition muses on the many hows and whys of the brain’s reaction to that ultimate inamorta – Art.
Expect a lineup of exclusive new works from Liu Dao, as they direct pulsing diodes and flickering LCD screens in a cerebral symphony that meditates on just what goes on up there in our skulls. The exhibition, equal parts indulgent and analytic, will debut with a cell stirring vernissage on Friday, December 19th at island6 ShGarden. Foaming delights will be served up thanks to our alcohol sponsor, Greene King!
Expect a lineup of exclusive new works from Liu Dao, as they direct pulsing diodes and flickering LCD screens in a cerebral symphony that meditates on just what goes on up there in our skulls. The exhibition, equal parts indulgent and analytic, will debut with a cell stirring vernissage on Friday, December 19th at island6 ShGarden. Foaming delights will be served up thanks to our alcohol sponsor, Greene King!
"Key to Ignition" Opening Night at island6 Hong Kong
Dates:
Thu Dec 11, 2014 19:00 - Thu Dec 11, 2014
Location:
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
The Liu Dao art collective simply can’t stop won’t stop producing titillating new artworks for you, and they’ve got a treat for all you residents of the Pearl of the Orient. This time we’ve channelled our highly conceptual artistic mind through a symbol of freedom, imagination, and dynamism – an elegant, gas guzzling horse that runs on a crazy futuristic race – the ubiquitous automobile. This much desired, gleaming metal object that pulses with its purrrr and visual entourage of thoughts, feelings, conversations, and decisions. The car, so essential to identity and movement, and also… so intriguing to use in the pursuit of finding new uncomfortable sex positions.
We are talking to you, you beautiful languorous creature, who continuously admires yourself in the rearview mirror, winking at your wife’s best friend as she perches just behind you. If reclining seats have no secrets anymore and gasoline isn’t the only thing that you often pump in your car… you definitely can’t miss our latest exhibition, “Key To Ignition,” debuting on the evening of Thursday, December 11th at island6 Hong Kong.
We are talking to you, you beautiful languorous creature, who continuously admires yourself in the rearview mirror, winking at your wife’s best friend as she perches just behind you. If reclining seats have no secrets anymore and gasoline isn’t the only thing that you often pump in your car… you definitely can’t miss our latest exhibition, “Key To Ignition,” debuting on the evening of Thursday, December 11th at island6 Hong Kong.
Guilty as Sin - Exhibition Opening Night
Dates:
Fri Oct 17, 2014 19:00 - Fri Oct 17, 2014
Location:
Shanghai,
China
In the latest exhibition from the Liu Dao art collective we explore the Seven Deadly Sins through a series of visions inspired not by the labyrinthine, multistoried hells conjured up by Dante and Breughel, but the temptations of modern life driven by self-obsessed consumption, the lust for new technology, the excesses of the selfie generation, and the pulsing in our mobile devices and laptops where sin is just a mouse-click away.
So satisfy your lust, feed your inner glutton, take a naughty selfie, luxuriate on the chaise-lounge of doing-nothing, or rage like a gym-fit Godzilla on steroids and join us at island6 Bund for our latest exhibition “Guilty As Sin,” debuting on the evening of October 17th, from 7:00 - 10:00pm.
So satisfy your lust, feed your inner glutton, take a naughty selfie, luxuriate on the chaise-lounge of doing-nothing, or rage like a gym-fit Godzilla on steroids and join us at island6 Bund for our latest exhibition “Guilty As Sin,” debuting on the evening of October 17th, from 7:00 - 10:00pm.
Bark! Hop! Swim! Repeat.
Dates:
Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:00 - Sun Nov 02, 2014
Location:
Shanghai,
China
Join us at our Garden gallery space in the M50 art district in Shanghai for our latest exhibition "Bark! Hop! Swim! Repeat", a meditation on perceptions of time and the animal kingdom. Physics, time dilation, relativity - unlike us, animals don’t waste time defining time. Humans have become so obsessed with the construct of time that individual moments are lived just for the sake of being recounted. Taking the time to tweet #liveinthenow means that you’ve already missed the “now.” In contrast, Kingdom Animalia lolls around in a constant state of now. A free exhibition. From 3 September 2014 until 2 November 2014.
Overload: A Tale Of Officide
Dates:
Wed Sep 25, 2013 00:00 - Thu Nov 28, 2013
“Overload: A Tale of Officide” offers up the island6 specialty of electronic cheeky nods and LED playful pokes which reflect upon life. This time it focuses its light hearted lens on the very serious side of business, through exploring the absurdity of office workplace stereotypes. It is estimated that the average human being spends 90,000 hours of their lifetime at work1- that’s 10 years without a coffee break. And that figure is only inclusive of the amount of hours actually spent in the office, not the time spent recovering from stress, the late night e-mails sent or the over time worked. Seeing as we spend so much time physically and mentally occupied by work, island6 HK’s prerogative is to serve some food for thought when it comes to the world of work.
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