China Tracy is invited to appear at Tonight Live, a premiere culture and entertainment talk show run by virtual tv channel SLCN in Secondlife (3:30pm on Jan 11, Secondlife time) / 8:30am on Jan 12, Beijing Time). Don’t miss it!

Landmark in secondlife: Tonight Live Studio (51A), Northpoint (177, 117, 33)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northpoint/205/140/32.

“I dream of breathing underwater and my body filling up with cool, refreshing water instead of blood.”

“My dream symbol — my personal symbol that is in every dream is always a house of some kind
That is why i do my birdhouse installations because for me its all about home I guess.
The other recurrent theme is multiple births.
Well, we have the baby
I am in a swimming pool or a tub or in a grocery store and you pop them out
I give birth to a litters of human babies
There are so many; like puppies or kittens, but they are human”

After almost two years’ gestation, RMB City is going to open its door to the public on 10 Jan, 2009. Apart from the City’s opening ceremony, there will be two highly-anticipated events at that very special day. The first one is a virtual Feng Shui project by young artist Huang He who will bring the ancient Chinese methodology of sptaial use into a virtual space. The second event is the announcement about RMB City’s first mayor.

Download English Press Release here
Download Chinese Press Release here

In the past few months, RMB City team has witnessed how RMB City is developed from an empty island in Second Life to a fantasia that is not merely a spot mirroring our daily real life, but also lines of flight that activate limitless imagination and signification. The official opening of RMB City is less than a month away, RMB City team would like to offer a sneak peak of the city for all of you who are interested.

Umbrella, a daily commodity that we basically get in touch during every rainy seasons, inspires Man Michinaga, Gazira Babeli and Second Front to create there special project for RMB City, which is also part of Play wirth your Triennale project.

We usuaully only pay attention to what is outside of the umbrella – rain, sandstorms, UV rays – things we want to get rid of and have a confronting relationship with us. Yet the Dream Umbrella is a container rather than a shield. It creates a space that we would rather immerse in.
Participants who are interested can send their dreams to Man Michinaga, and they may have an unbrella that is exclusively designed by the artists of this project. To know about more details, see here

“和你在一起的每一刻都很快乐，每一刻都不一样。”
“Every moment being with you is happy, every moment is different from each other. ”

“我们曾经说好可以有另外的情人，只要我们觉得那是对的，规则是这之后可以有两种做法，一是立刻告诉对方，对方可以嫉妒，但不可因此要求分手；二是不告诉对方，但必须做到永远不让对方知道。不然就分手。”

“We have agreed that we can both have other lovers as long as we think that this is the right thing to do. The rule is, after it happens, we have two ways to deal with it. The first way, is telling the partner at once, the partner can be jealous, but can not ask for a break up; the second way is, keep it a secret, but the person who do this must conceal the affair forever, otherwise, we have to break up. ”

“请你忘了我吧
 
因为爱情就跟艺术一样，它除了在那些稍纵即逝的时刻为你提供最高美感外，就再也给不了你什么了。”

“Please forget me
because love is like art, it doesn’t give you anything but superior aesthetics in those transient moments”