As part of its commitment to facilitating cultural exchange between mainland China and the rest of the world, Flying Dragon Cultural Enterprises Ltd. engages in the creation of significant exhibitions of photography and other forms of art, and the importing and exporting of such shows.
FDCE's first efforts result from a collaboration with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), a U.S. nonprofit organization with offices in Minneapolis and Paris.
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The debut in mainland China of "Saga: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen" took place during the second Lianzhou International Photography Festival (LIPF) from December 5-20, 2006. Co-curated by photography critic and historian A. D. Coleman with Todd Brandow of the FEP, "Saga" premiered at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, in fall of 2005. Presently on the European leg of its 5-year tour, the original-print version of this 35-year retrospective by the noted Finnish-American photographer will return to North America in 2008. The LIPF, with the assistance of FDCE, created a digital-print version of the full 121-image show for the 2006 edition of the festival. Minkinnen received a Special Jury Award for this exhibit from the LIPF's Award Committee.
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On April 18, 2008, the first exhibition initiated by FDCE, "China: Insights," a survey of contemporary documentary work by 7 mainland Chinese photographers, made its debut at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK, where it will remain on view through August 17. Co-curated by A. D. Coleman with Gu Zheng of the Dept. of Visual Culture, Fudan University, Shanghai, this 150-image selection highlights a major body of work by each of the photographers represented. The show will tour in the west under the auspices of the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography. For a slideshow of its world premiere, click here.
The event was celebrated in China with a report on this event (in Chinese) in the Shenzhen Economic Daily (circulation 500,000) on May 13, 2008.
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Available now is spine, the installation created in 2000 by Finnish photographer Nina Sederholm and U.S. writer Allan Douglass Coleman. Set in the southwest U.S., it constitutes a meditation on the survival of the human spirit in overwhelming solitude. This project exists in several forms: as an artists' book (first edition out of print; second edition in preparation); as an online hypertext; as a live multimedia performance by Coleman; and as an installation. In the last of these forms, spine traveled widely in the Nordic countries between 2000 and 2003. Flying Dragon Exhibitions now makes it available once again.
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