Show Art Director For Fashion Show - ROBERTWUN Couture FW2024 "HOMECOMING" Show

Set for #NOWNESSPaper Issue.5 声声不息《夜晚属于爱情》by Zengwu

Production Designer for Who is Leah Dou? Uncovering the core of the musician’s multi-faceted soul

"If I could create a wonderland for myself, what would it look like?"

Leah Dou sets out to answer that question with the release of her third full length album titled GSG MIXTAPE. Written with an alter ego in mind — “Green Shy Guy" (GSG) — an alias bestowed to her by her friend’s children. GSG appears in the album visually and is also the title of the first track, written by Leah as a way to explore the notion of different states of being; where Good and Evil exist together in the same person.

"Music captures the finest details of what a person is like. It’s always in the music. Because it is mysterious, it is full of surprises. Because it is a long journey, it is an adventure. Perhaps even a wonderland."

The film "Leah Dou", directed by Roni Shao, shows the artist expounding on her multi-faceted identity and musical journey, and serves as a visual rendition of her album. Leah reveals her progression through life and discovers who she is by going down the rabbit hole of exploration. "As the journey unfolds through four sections, it shows us Leah's ambivalence - dark and passionate; sad and happy; desperate and hopeful," Shao explains. "Music is a mirror to see our dark side, and it is also a healing power that elevates us."

On 12 December, “HEY, GSG” a film directed by Roni Shao, featuring Leah’s live performance and her music journey of her new album “GSG MIXTAPE” will be released.

Read More: https://www.nowness.asia/story/leah-dou-roni-shao-green-shy-guy

Production Designer For Music Video and Album Cover - 《THIS MOMENT》RedOnWood By Dwight And Xinrui

Production Designer for Frontiers from China Wave by NOWNESS


Frontiers

A multisensory feast featuring eight groundbreaking artists defining the future of Chinese art and culture

This week we kick off China Wave—our month-long program that puts the spotlight on the rising stars and underground icons using unorthodox yet intimate storytelling techniques to embody modern Chinese culture.

“Their performances revealed unknown frontiers where emotions explode and flow.”

Frontiers is a multisensory feast of music, drag, art and dance, performed by China’s most rambunctious, generation-defining artists. “Chinese youth have all become creators on social media. I started to wonder about the nature of self-expression today, particularly in the field of underground subcultures,” says Roni Shao, the Shanghai director who makes music and youth culture his lifeblood. “When I met these young underground artists I was shocked by their bold souls. Their performances revealed unknown frontiers where emotions explode and flow. They never give in to sugary, gratifying art. Instead, they provoke you. They make you uncomfortable with displays of pain.”

The eight performers featured in this film are as follows: 

Absolute Purity is a Shanghai-based experimental post-punk band, known for their explosive sets, who merge melancholic vocals with touches of electronica and psychedelia. 

Alex Wang & ChillChill join forces to create a whole new audiovisual landscape. Alex Wang is a Shanghai-based producer, musician, and DJ who creates futuristic club sounds. ChillChill is a 3D artist who uses game engines, algorithms and virtual worlds to explore people's relationships with the internet and reality. 

Faded Ghost is the producer/DJ pseudonym of Shanghai-based vocalist ChaCha Yehaiyahan. She is as much at home on the stage at SXSW as in the underground clubs of Beijing. In Frontiers, she performs an ethereal vocal set cross-legged and surrounded by intergalactic flora and fauna. 

Hua Who is a practitioner of Shibari, the Japanese art of rope bondage, which has found a new home in China's fetish clubs and queer spaces. 

Yanhao Du is a Chinese contemporary dancer and choreographer. 

Huang Jiaqi is a model and photographer known for his shy yet expressive aesthetic voice. In Frontiers, he is seen smearing himself with lipstick until his entire face and torso are covered in deep red.

Jia Wei is a Beijing rapper who belongs to Purple Soul, one of the biggest hip hop groups in China. His crew is currently setting the music industry on fire by releasing music with politically sensitive material.

Yi Hao is a makeup artist and drag performer from Chengdu. For this performance, he faces the camera in a resplendent extraterrestrial outfit and wears exaggerated fingertips. His character is then beset by a dark figure that robs him of his clothes, leaving him naked and powerless.

"Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth," says Shao, quoting an old saying. “But I wonder whether the artists wear their masks when performing, or just when they return to everyday life?”

July 1, 2019

https://www.nowness.com/seasons/china-wave/frontiers-roni-shao

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Production Designer for Yuki Lovey - Crying Underwater music video 2019

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I was captivated and surprised on the first time when I listened to Yuki’s new song. I immediately thought of ideas which are experimental and visual focus.

Instead of doing very cliche methods like having Yuki under water scenes.

“Crying under Water” Was more about emotions, and the relationship between water and emotions. I wanted to use different stage of water to represent the complex feelings which emotions could bring.

The aim is to really captured the most realistic yet otherworldly forms of water. I decided to build a snowy mountain sets in the studio, it almost turned into a laboratory as we are using actual water and experiment with chemicals as well, the northern light was created by actual lightings, there are no CGI effects on all these scenes.

At the end the footage really speaks for itself and all the hard work pays off. I was really happy about the results, as more importantly I was working magic together with my good friends. One of the most satisfying feelings ever.

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