Beijing East-Village
East Village, an artists quarter on the edge of Beijing, reached international fame in the 1990s. Musicians, artists and critics, who looked for free space, lived here, in oder to work experimentally. It happened innovative works, whereby the performances excited in particular international attention. For the first time Ma Liuming showed one performance in East Village becuase of the Visiting from the artists Gilbert & George. From now on some artists served also performance-art. and it developed themselves apart from einzelarbeiten some spectacular group performances, in which Yingmei Duan participated codesigning. "To add one meter to an anonymous mountain" is one the most well-known. During some artists the attention of the media on itself pulled, Yingmeiheld herself rather in the background. At this time its principal interest applied still for the painting and here above all the Selbstportrait as topic. But although Yingmei was not yet conscious, which means performance for it, did not release it the thought to it since that time. Without doubt the years were coining/shaping in circles of the artists of East Village for their later artistic career. The turning point came during its study at the HBK Braunschweig as it Marina Abramovic to however only know learned, an important Protagonistin in the history of the performance art. Yingmei Duan dedicated itself since that to the performance as artistic expression means.
(Artists in the East Village: Cang Xin, Duan Yingmei, Gao Yang, Kong Bu, Li Guomin, Ma Liuming, Ma Zongyin, Rong Rong, Tan yeguang, Wang Shihua, Xu Shan, Zhang Binbin, Zhang Huan, Zhu Ming, und Zuoxiaozuzhou)