Written by Steve Dietz
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Feb 24, 2006 at 12:40 AM |
Container Culture is an exhibition developed by the Curatorial Working Group of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit. Each curator has selected one or more emerging regional artists to present at ZeroOne San Jose / ISEA2006, using a shipping container as not onlly its means of transportation but also as the "white cube" for its exhibition. One of the most significant examples of cross-cultural encounters in contemporary art is the traveling exhibition. The traveling art exhibition has often served to operationalize and exemplify the cross-cultural encounters and exchanges that are deemed “necessary” and “natural” in the globalized art world. However, a range of social, political, economic and art historical differences generally complicate the globally themed traveling exhibition. The artists in traveling exhibitions are rarely able to adequately respond to each new context through their works, which is what these exhibitions are meant to initiate. The traveling exhibition thus converts each new cultural context to, essentially, an empty container for the art works, with little ability to respond to the exhibition site as physical location. Container Culture is an exhibition of art works that travel from different port cities that rim the Pacific in standardized containers to San Jose to be presented alongside each other; almost like a conference of containers. In an ironic reversal of the tendency of conventional traveling exhibitions to convert every new space into an empty container, this exhibition invites curators and artists from each of these diverse port cities to convert a container into a culturally specific space. The exhibition conceptually draws on and will explore some of the following notions: - Ports are liminal nodes that have traditionally and still negotiate the relations between countries. Ports invoke a whole set of related concepts: commerce, exchange values, customs procedures, border anxieties, legal trade vs. illegal traffic, etc.
- ontainers are “spaces” that mimic the white cube as an empty “container,” even while potentially enabling the subversion of the white cube's immobility by their portability; its transcendence by their quotidian-ness; its neutrality by their border crossings.
- Transportation of artworks traveling in space and time between countries enables culturally specific elements of one place to migrate to another. Related concepts of location, speed, logistics, proximity and distance can also be explored
- Networks. Transporting shipping containers from one port city to another maps a network of economic relationships. By specifically curating new media installations, Container Culture investigates the effect of virtual networks to create real cultural connections.
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Last Updated ( Mar 04, 2006 at 10:53 PM )
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Written by Steve Dietz
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Jan 03, 2006 at 10:46 PM |
Port City | Curator | Artist(s) | Title | Auckland | Deborah Lawler-Dormer | Rachael Rakena Rachael Rakena with Fez Fa'anana and Brian Fuatu | Rerehiko Pacific Wash Up | Beijing | Zhang Ga | Hu Jieming Jiangbo Jin Hunag Shi Xing DanWen Xu Bing | Altitude Zero THE THIRD EYE The Drifting Bottle disCONNEXION The Tobacco Project | Hong Kong | Ellen Pau | Annie Wan | Phenakistoscape | Oakland / San Jose | Steve Dietz Co-Chair | | | Mumbai | Johan Pijnappel | Shilpa Gupta | War On Terror | Singapore | Gunalan Nadarajan Co-Chair | Margaret Tan Shirley Soh | Sticking Point | Seoul | Soh Yeong Roh | Taeyoon Choi Cheon Pyo Lee Tellef Tellefson | Movable Types and Instant Spaces Delivery | Tokyo | Yukiko Shikata | Norimichi Hirakawa Tomoya Watanabe | | Vancouver | Alice Ming Wai Jim | Kate Armstrong Bobbi Kozinuk Simon Levin Laurie Long Leonard Paul Manuel Pina Jean Routhier | in[ ]ex | |
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