A local exhibition worth checking out...
Monday, August 3, 2009 by Hazel Gibson
Hi Everyone,
Just to let you all know that tonight at Artspace on K'Rd there is going to be a performance piece by Cellulite Rose which should be quite interesting and relevent to what we're looking at. Here's the blurb for the show:
"In this performance Cellulite Rose focuses on the proposition that the technological advancement Skype offers is not the enhancement of aural communication, but rather she potential for bodily forms of communication. She will connect to her collaborators via web cam; Alexa Wilson (Vienna) and Kentaro Yamada (London). ARTSPACE has commissioned Cellulite Rose to develop this performance in parallel with Cao Fei's exhibition, Utopia, which looks, in part, at the use of the internet as the new public sphere."
Here is a bit more about the other exhibition, Utopia, which is currently on at Artspace:
"Old enough to retain some vestigial memory of earlier times and of the clashes between traditional and capitalist materialism, yet also young enough to naturally gravitate towards new technologies and means of communication, [Cao Fei] is concerned with transitional ideologies and media. Her work responds to China’s rapid urbanization and the giddying pace of social and economic development. She depicts states of transformation within a youth culture heavily influenced by Japanese manga and anime and played out against an ever-expanding cityscape.
Cao Fei's key theme is utopia—escape. She became initially well known for her video Cosplayers, documenting a subculture where people dress as manga and movie characters and play out fantasy lives... Most recently Cao Fei has staged works on the Internet in Second Life, most notably RMB City (RMB being Chinese currency). RMB City is a spectacular utopian/dystopian island-metropolis, where candy-striped smoke stacks suggest continuous industrial production, missiles make unremitting preemptive strikes, and ships move goods swiftly in and out of port. A giant shopping cart, filled with skyscrapers and religious monuments, floats nearby."
The performance piece is on tonight (Monday 3rd August) from 6pm - 9pm at ARTSPACE, Level 1, 300 K'Rd. The show Utopia is running currently until the 22nd August.
Just to let you all know that tonight at Artspace on K'Rd there is going to be a performance piece by Cellulite Rose which should be quite interesting and relevent to what we're looking at. Here's the blurb for the show:
"In this performance Cellulite Rose focuses on the proposition that the technological advancement Skype offers is not the enhancement of aural communication, but rather she potential for bodily forms of communication. She will connect to her collaborators via web cam; Alexa Wilson (Vienna) and Kentaro Yamada (London). ARTSPACE has commissioned Cellulite Rose to develop this performance in parallel with Cao Fei's exhibition, Utopia, which looks, in part, at the use of the internet as the new public sphere."
Here is a bit more about the other exhibition, Utopia, which is currently on at Artspace:
"Old enough to retain some vestigial memory of earlier times and of the clashes between traditional and capitalist materialism, yet also young enough to naturally gravitate towards new technologies and means of communication, [Cao Fei] is concerned with transitional ideologies and media. Her work responds to China’s rapid urbanization and the giddying pace of social and economic development. She depicts states of transformation within a youth culture heavily influenced by Japanese manga and anime and played out against an ever-expanding cityscape.
Cao Fei's key theme is utopia—escape. She became initially well known for her video Cosplayers, documenting a subculture where people dress as manga and movie characters and play out fantasy lives... Most recently Cao Fei has staged works on the Internet in Second Life, most notably RMB City (RMB being Chinese currency). RMB City is a spectacular utopian/dystopian island-metropolis, where candy-striped smoke stacks suggest continuous industrial production, missiles make unremitting preemptive strikes, and ships move goods swiftly in and out of port. A giant shopping cart, filled with skyscrapers and religious monuments, floats nearby."
The performance piece is on tonight (Monday 3rd August) from 6pm - 9pm at ARTSPACE, Level 1, 300 K'Rd. The show Utopia is running currently until the 22nd August.