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The
809 International Art Residencies (District) is dedicated to
the promotion of national and international contempor-ary artists. It includes an art museum, a
gallery space, a multi-media room, and a project space,
and artists' residency studios. The 809 brings about
closer cooperation between art organizations and offers
individual artists the chance to develop their own
projects through an artists-in-residence
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The
809 International Art Residencies (District) is located in
the Three Gorges Dam area, Yichang City (Hubei Province)
of Western area of China inland. The 809 also known as
“The 809 Factories”– is in an excellent location, in the
Yichang City, just 30 minutes away from the 809 to
Yichang City Train Station. A taxi from the Airport
takes approximately 40 - 50 minutes to the 809 or to
Yichang city. 30 Km from the 809 to Shennongjia
Scenic Area. For more information please visit:
The
809 International Art
District was first the batch of the
military-industrial base factory buildings in Western
area of China inland. The factories are built in the
mid-1950s, and they were closed in the 1980s by
government.
The
total area of 550-acre site, divided into four more on
the production and living areas, road traffic and
motorcycle facilities integrity, unity, water,
electricity, communications and other conditions in
place. The mill, beautiful environment, with fresh air
and a pleasant climate and summer temperatures in the
city about as low as 2-5 degrees, is an ideal place to
give ourselves the luxury of shelters. The plant area
terrain experienced ups and downs and dense vegetation
and species rich forests primarily based on the camphor
tree and pine-dominated. The majority of them at the
ages of 40 and above; the shape and layout of the
landscape are basically 40 years old before the design
and construction of the status quo ante.
The
809 International Art
District will be converted to more
100 artist's studios (live/work), an art museum, an art
gallery, a theatre, and artist Lofts, as well as
domestic and foreign artists, writers to create a good
life and the environment. Thus, the Art Village fosters
the development of the international contemporary arts
in China through exhibitions, lectures, festivals,
international artist residency programs, and as well as
through sustained partnerships with other arts
organizations to enhance international art exchange and
promote understanding between different cultures around
the world.
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