I'm a permanently curious person.
Xiaoman Ren
Creative Manager
Ren is a visual artist studied Graphic Design in Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design, UK. Her passion is to constantly try out new techniques that are related to performing arts, theatre and dance in all its divisions including puppeteering, on stage art installations, kinetic art, experimental music and unconventional theatrical costumes as well as producing and directing short films.
Ren is the assistant director of IDEA-International Dance Encounter Amman. IDEA is a bi-annual dance encounter of international and local dance performances in Amman, Jordan. It consists of performances, public interventions, master classes, workshops, artist symposium and exchange of ideas. It is an important platform of contemporary dance in Amman for artistic presentation, exchange, and collaboration.
"Out to sea? Plastic Garbage Project"
Installation Art, Workshop Conductor
This is an exhibition organized the Royal Marine Conservation Society of Jordan Drosos Foundation and partnership with the Design Museum of Zurich Down Town Amman, King Ghazi Hotel, Saadeh Street, in 2014.
In the exhibition, Ren created a series of art installations:
1. An Floating Aquarium made of recycle plastic installation
2. An origami installation inspired by red sea sardine run
3. A wall painting inspired by red sea sardine run
4. A set of 8 Fish pendant lamps
Additionally, Ren had ran more than 10 children workshops of creating sea creatures with recycled materials from November of 2014 to January of 2015.
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"Tales of the Golden Corpse"
Conceptualization, Puppet design, Puppet making, Set Design
“Tales of the Golden Corpse(2016) is animation project “of cycle of tales, comprised within a frame narrative from Tibet. Five characters of tales are designed reflecting the distinct costumes of the three major regions of Tibet., and an animated movie series is in the process.