The Shanghai-based multidisciplinary art collective, Island 6 (Liu Dao) will present their exhibit �LED City� at The Opposite House on 16 October 2009.

Nine international artists worked together to create these innovative pieces. The collective at Island 6 engaged in the use of electronics as a creative vehicle in their art making process. Everything gets plugged, everything runs on power and lights and colours from the artworks illuminate The Opposite House.

Red Gate Director Brian Wallace says �LED City will animate and illuminate the atrium space of The Opposite House, enticing and mesmerizing the unsuspecting visitor. The repetitive, soundless performances inspired by age old issues contextualized by the pace of the 21st century in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing are deftly executed by the mastery of the technology employed by Island 6.�

For some, technology is a tool to help make life easier and automate daily functions. For others, it is a way to effortlessly and powerfully communicate with other people around the globe. For the artists of the art collective at Liu Dao, technology is all of these things and much more. With their help, technology becomes organic, digital reality comes alive, where it begins to speak, dream, conspire, and seduce.

LED City is a perfect setup for Alfred Hitchcock's �Rear Window� (1954) and Brian De Palma�s �Body Double� (1984)�allowing a glimpse into ones� lives through the exposed moments in the series of artworks. The artwork does not impose a particular mindset but encourages the feeling of voyeurism. In a context of PRC cities, even the little LED glimpses seem to become voyeuristic fantasies that could be classified as a new artphilia�a desire that make a person want to engage in fantasies with an artwork.

LED towers physically restrict the images within them, they are a window for seeing other and to be seen by others, choreographers Wu Yandan and Li Lingxi reveal only fragments. They make the viewer wonder in where passion and affection is being well-built in the walls in the multimillion populated cities of China.

�ATM Machine� depicts an LED �white-collar� marching with a rifle in his hands�it expresses a constant fight for being one of the top in the hierarchy of consumerism, surviving the pressure of society and living up to the expectations of yourself and your family.

Liu Dao�s towers offer a glimpse in a spectrum of feelings and problems well protected by the walls. They open a city of emotions, repeated patterns and lifestyles, reminding the endless circle of manly and womanly needs. These video loops are containing a specific. Each piece of work is a question mark � it is a small inquisition within yourself- within your own window.

�We are delighted to be once again working with Red Gate Gallery who provide The Opposite House with so much of its stunning contemporary art. The work of Liu Dao will definitely provide another visually stimulating discussion to the atrium.� says General Manager, Anthony Ross.

About Red Gate Gallery

Founded in 1991 by Australian Brian Wallace, Red Gate has been the platform for many of China�s leading artists. Most Red Gate artists have been with the gallery for over 15 years and have accurately described the incredible change in China by addressing many of the toughest social issues with a critical and accurate eye.

Hundreds of artists have participated in the gallery�s highly acclaimed International Artist in Residence Program, truly developing an exchange opportunity for Chinese and foreign artists in Beijing.

For further information, please contact

Brian Wallace Director of Red Gate Gallery China mobile: (86) 137 010787 21 E-mail: redgategallery@aer.net.cn Website: redgategallery.com

About Liu Dao

Liu Dao is an international multidisciplinary art collective based in Shanghai (P.R.C) established in 2007 by Island 6 Arts Center (island6.org) under the auspices of French curator Thomas Charv�riat and Latvian art director Zane Mellupe. The group comprises of performance and multimedia artists as well as engineers and tech geeks concentrating on body and movement research in electronic art, often incorporating the aspect of human interactivity.

The work presented at The Opposite House concentrates on the juxtaposition and interaction of the body and perceived persona with aspects of popular technology, using it to enhance or exaggerate physical characteristic and movement to produce hypernatural representational portraits of the human form.

Videos: http://www.island6.org/Appearances.html http://www.island6.org/Headhunting.html http://www.island6.org/OnTheEdge.html

About Swire Hotels Swire Hotels has been created to manage intriguing urban hotels in Hong Kong, Mainland China and the United Kingdom, providing a luxury experience for travellers who seek individuality, style and personalised service.

The Opposite House, Beijing, opened in 2008 and will be followed by the opening of a 117-room small intimate hotel, The Upper House, in Pacific Place, Hong Kong, in October 2009 and in future a 90-room hotel at TaiKoo Hui in Guangzhou. Swire Hotels will open a 345-room lifestyle business hotel called EAST in Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong, in January 2010.

In the United Kingdom, Swire Hotels is developing a collection of stylish boutique hotels in interesting English towns and cities to be launched in 2010.

About The Opposite House The Opposite House is located in The Village at Sanlitun�a vibrant new open-plan shopping, dining and entertainment destination developed by Swire Properties. The hotel�s 99 guest studios, including 9 spacious suites and a penthouse duplex with a 240sqm roof terrace, are amongst the largest in Beijing. More than half of all the studios are over 70 sqm and all are strikingly simple with natural wooden floors and subtle touches of Chinese d�cor.

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Ms. Carol Kong / Ms. Denise Ho Grebstad Hicks Communications Tel: (852) 2810 0532 Email: carol.kong@ghcasia.com / denise.ho@ghcasia.com