Immersive experience of the "Night of Adventure" at the century old excellent historical building, Leicester Institute of Technology, to innovate | Sleep as a Method | Leicester

Release time:Apr 13, 2024 21:18 PM

As an important event of the 2023 Shanghai Nightlife Festival, the "Night Dimension - Adventure Night" art exhibition will be open to the public for free at the Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design Research Institute starting from June 10th and will continue until June 18th.

The art exhibition "Night: adventure Night" is co-sponsored by the Administrative Service Center of Shanghai Commerce Commission and UCCA, and co-sponsored by UCCAEdge and Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design and Research Institute.

The location of Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design Research Institute was originally the former site of Leicester Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1934 and is a building in the style of British Gothic Revival and Art Deco. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the former site of the school was successively used by Shanghai Navigation University and Shanghai Seafarer's Hospital. In 2021, with the hot progress of a new round of development and construction on the North Bund, the renovation project of the former site of the Leicester Institute of Technology began. At the beginning of this year, Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design Research Institute officially settled in the former site of Leister Institute of Technology, using this cultural landmark as a carrier to actively create a world-class design driven innovation transformation engine.


Immersive experience of the "Night of Adventure" at the century old excellent historical building, Leicester Institute of Technology, to innovate | Sleep as a Method | Leicester

"The Night of Adventure" originated from the classic novel of Argentine poet, novelist, and translator Borges. The UCCA team invited 9 participating artists, including Deng Yuejun, Huanghe Mountain, Liu Guangyun, Li Yanghuameng, Shi Yong, Wang Xin, Wang Xiaofu, Xu Ge, and Yuan Keru, to use creative methods such as oil painting, photography, short videos, and installation art to express their thoughts and responses to the "magical" appearance of Shanghai at night. His main works include: Xu Ge's "Man in the Moon", Deng Yuejun's "Mechanical Butterfly 2019", Wang Xiaoying's "Theater", Li Yanghua's "Sleep as a Method", Huanghe Mountain's "On the Bottom of Space", "Da Fu Gui Restaurant", "The Wansheng Building in Tu Li City", and so on.

Theater

This exhibition consists of outdoor public art units - "Dream House" and indoor art units - "Twilight Arrival", "Visitors Looking Outside", and "Gentle Night". The works in the outdoor public art unit "Dream House" appear in the form of small houses, representing every ordinary family. It becomes a hard shell during the day, reflecting the surrounding environment; At night, it began to breathe, becoming the starting point of its adventure.


Immersive experience of the "Night of Adventure" at the century old excellent historical building, Leicester Institute of Technology, to innovate | Sleep as a Method | Leicester

Entering the room, the first unit "Twilight is Coming" depicts when the city enters night. Under the twilight, the familiar Shanghai seems to have some slight changes. When the colors of fantasy are overlaid with the lines of reality, the rich emotions and active creativity unique to the night are lifted, and the adventure begins to unfold.

Mechanical Butterfly 2019

The biomimetic devices and sci-fi images in the second unit "The Outsider" seem to come from a future time and space traveler, paying tribute to the profound history, while the bright lights outside the window remind the existence of the present. History, future, and present overlap tonight, welcoming the audience into an adventure.


Immersive experience of the "Night of Adventure" at the century old excellent historical building, Leicester Institute of Technology, to innovate | Sleep as a Method | Leicester

Man in the Moon

From the third unit "Gentle Night", stepping out of the overlap of time and space and the surprise of the senses, the gentle night offers peaceful healing, light dreams, and summer drinks to drive away the fatigue of the day. The journey may be coming to an end, but the adventure of the night never ends.

Sleep as a Method


Immersive experience of the "Night of Adventure" at the century old excellent historical building, Leicester Institute of Technology, to innovate | Sleep as a Method | Leicester

During the exhibition, visitors can participate in artists' performance workshops, night riding activities, yoga therapy activities, etc., to deeply explore the diverse charm and infinite possibilities of urban nightlife.

The audience can follow the "Design Universal" official account, click the button at the bottom of the official account "Activity" - "Art Exhibition" - "Appointment" to make an appointment, save the two-dimensional code of the successful appointment page in the screenshot, and enter with the code.

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