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Artist
Yingmei Duan was born in 1969 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province of China. In 1989 she graduated from the Northeast Petroleum University in China. In 1991 she began her artistic development. She engaged in advanced studies - oil & mural painting, design and sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Central Academy of Art and Design in China. She worked in Beijing as a freelance artist until 1998. 

To add one meter to an anonymous mountain
Performance by Beijing East Village artists | 1995
Photo by Lu Nan.
From 1993 to 1995, Yingmei Duan was involved in the Chinese avant-garde movement, happening in the legendary art district called ‘Beijing East Village’. She participated in the performance “To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain” (1995) which is considered an emblem of Chinese contemporary art and has had a great impact on her career as an artist. 
 
A decisive turning point came when she began studying at The Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) in 2000, where she met Marina Abramovi?. Since then Yingmei has dedicated herself to performance art as her artistic form of expression. During her studies she also worked and apprenticed under the filmmaker and action artist Christoph Schlingensief, participating in several of his large-scale video performance installations. In 2005, Yingmei obtained her diploma in Fine Arts at HBK Braunschweig. 
 

Between | Performance | Braunschweig University of Art | 2004
Photo by Chengwu Luo
Yingmei Duan's unique way of “communicating” with the world has become her own artistic language. This language includes "Daily Live Art Performance (DLAP)", "Equal Collaborative Performance (ECP)", "Solo Performance", "Performance Installation", "Changing Exhibitions " and "Objects & Video interactive Performances”. Within her performances, she crosses mediums and often incorporates sound, video and installations. Besides her solo projects, Yingmei loves to collaborate with people from diverse cultures, different ages and all walks of life. She has since realized around a hundred collaborative performance projects. 
 
Yingmei Duan has exhibited at many important international art biennales and art institutions, including the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Biennale of Sydney in Australia, the Guangzhou Live – International Performance Art Festival in China, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Germany, the Hayward Gallery in UK, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Russia, the Beyeler Foundation Art Museum in Switzerland, and the He Xiangning Art Museum in China and so on. 
 

Artist | Duan Yingmei
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Curator
Born and raised in Macao, Sio Man Lam works as an independent author and curator in New York, where she is also an arts education administrator at a local arts center. Lam graduated in 2010 from Peking University with a BA degree in Chinese linguistics and another BA in arts. She started working at the cultural and creative promotion division of the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), designing and implementing subsidy programs aimed at fostering cultural and creative talents. From 2016 to 2018, she studied in a master's program in arts administration at the New York University, researching into the formation and historic evolution of alternative art groups in New York. During this period, she worked for the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and later the Public Art Division of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. These experiences helped her understand the relationship between contemporary creation and community dynamics. In 2019, through the open call program of the Macao Museum of Art, she was selected as the curator of the 58th Venice International Art Biennale – Macao, China Pavilion, to explore the complex cultural identity of Macao. 
Lam puts her curatorial focus on how contemporary cultural creation can empower individuals and communities, trying to understand non-mainstream cultural practices and their plasticity.

Curator | Sio Man Lam
Acknowledgement | Wallpaper Magazine
Photo by Xu Nai Xin
Ng Fong Chao, Noah, Born in 1968, in Zhejiang province of China, Ng Fong Chao has settled in Macao since 1984. He gained his Bachelor Degree of Visual Arts (Oil Painting) from the School of Arts, Macao Polytechnic Institute, as well as a Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Artistic Creation and Research from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Noah Ng is the Curator of Macau International Performance Art Festival 2019. He is an Intermedia artist who has been participating in more than 100 group exhibitions in China and overseas since 1990. His creation was showed through various medium including oil painting, printmaking, conceptual photography, performance art and video art.

Curator | Ng Fong Chao
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Venue: Ground floor, Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site 
(R. do Volong no 15, Macau)
Opening ceremony: 01/11/2019 (Friday)，18:30
Curator: Noah Ng（President of Ox Warehouse）、 Sio Man Lam（Independent Curator）
Artist in Residence: Yingmei Duan
Collaborators:  Chi Chun Tam、Edmundo Remédios Lameiras、Hsing Chun Lin、Meng Kam Chan、Noah Ng、Sio Man Lam
Exhibition period: 02/11/2019 - 22/12/2019 (Closed on Mondays)
Opening Hours: 12:00-19:00
Organisation: Ox Warehouse
Sponsor: Instituto Cultural, Funda??o Macau
Exclusive media support: Beyond the bay
Website: http://www.oxwarehouse.blogspot.com
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About OX Warehouse
Founded in March 2002, the OxWarehouse  (formerly known as the ‘Old Ladies' House Art Space’) is a private non-profit art association, in 2003 it was moved to an old slaughterhouse on Avenida do Coronel Mesquita near the Mong Ha fortress, where the exhibition space was also utilized as a performance venue. In 2017, OxWarehouse had dislodged from its former venue for the past 17 years, and relocated to 15 R. do Volong since June of 2018, to continue as Post-Ox Warehouse Experimental Site, while the gallery hosts regular exhibitions in various mediums, it has also launched artist residency and research programs, with the aim to promote and document the development of contemporary arts, to provide an experimental platform for the local and international art communities.
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