Monday, December 13, 2010

water works


just an invitation for those of you lovely people who will be in beijing these next few weeks. I've built a fountain for The Third Party, a group show at Platform China.

Here's the press release:
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THE THIRD PARTY – An exhibition in Three Acts | November 11, 2010 – January 24, 2011
第三方 三位一体之展 | 2010 1111 – 2011 124
OPENING Act2 THE STRANGER | 第二位“陌生人-- 开幕式: December 9, 2010 – 5pm | 129日, 下午5
Curated by 策划人: Beatrice Leanza 毕月

Location: Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing | 站台中国,北京
(see www.platformchina.org for details & directions)


Act 2: THE STRANGER
第二位:陌生人
Artists in Act 2艺术家:  陈绍雄 Chen Shaoxiong & 刘鼎Liu Ding , 何颖宜 Rania Ho, 何颖雅Ho Elaine W. & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga (家作坊Homeshop), 颜磊 Yan Lei.


“How can a subject give an account of its own ruin?” (Giorgio Agamben, from The Archive and Testimony)

As the second enactment of this voyaging through the realm of the ordinary, The Stranger enters a very specific world of interaction, an intermediate zone of potentiality through which different manners of human relations come ‘to be lived rather than resolved’.
The stranger is, as described in the eponymous essay by Georg Simmel in 1908, the sociological form that represents a unity of both fixation and liberation, “a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement”. His position within a given group is “determined, essentially, by the fact that he has not belonged to it from the beginning, that he imports qualities into it, which do not and cannot stem from the group itself”.  For what matters the investigation of narrative structures and aesthetic objects set out with the realization of this project, this second exhibition chooses to engage forms of artistic enunciations that dwell in the ‘negative side of presence’. More precisely, it exposes how they operate in relation to the exterior landscape by transforming or re-assembling into new spatial configurations specific orders of signification belonging to our living image- and object-scapes.
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