cristine wang on Sat, 8 Dec 2001 23:29:02 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Container Art in Taiwan (opens today) |
For Immediate Release "FREE ALBA!" A series of large-scale photographs by Eduardo Kac commissioned by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Dec. 8-Jan. 6, 2002. The "Free Alba!" series will be part of a city-wide public art project that will present artworks inside large shipping containers scattered throughout the city of Kaohsiung. Kac's "Free Alba!" flag will be seen flying on top of the artist's container. In addition, the installation will also include a series of "GFP Bunny-Paris Intervention" posters which were posted by Kac all over Paris in 2000. These posters have also been shown in two gallery exhibitions: *Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications*, curated by Cristine Wang, Tribes Gallery, New York, 2000; and *Under the Skin*, curated by Sške Dinkla, Renate Heidt Heller and Cornelia Brueninghaus-Knubel, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 2001. In the "Free Alba!" (2001) series of photographs, Kac reappropriates some of these stories and recontextualizes them, exhibiting the productive tension that is generated when contemporary art enters the realm of daily news. If in the 1960s artists purchased space in newspapers in order to intervene in the media, today an artist such as Eduardo Kac creates a work with such power and presence in the physical world that the global news media features the work and discussions about it. While "GFP Bunny" was also prominently featured on international television, radio and magazines, for "Free Alba!" Kac focuses on newspapers as a medium that presents multiple stories simultaneoulsy, thus contextualizing one in relation to the other. The photographs in this series dramatize the fact that the reception of "GFP Bunny" was equally complex, taking place across cultures and in diverse locations. Throughout 2000, news of Eduardo Kac's artwork "GFP Bunny" (2000) started to appear on the front page of newspapers such as Le Monde and Boston Globe. "GFP Bunny" is a transgenic artwork comprised of the creation of a green fluorescent rabbit, the public dialogue generated by the project, and the social integration of the rabbit. Sharing headlines alongside articles about the 2000 Olympics and US presidential debates, Kac's "GFP Bunny" story was appropriated by news organizations worldwide, often generating new narratives that, both intentionally and unintentionally, reinstated or overlooked the facts. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Eduard Kac is represented by: Julia Friedman Gallery E-mail: info@juliafriedman.com http://www.juliafriedman.com More information on the artist: http://www.ekac.org/ ===== best regards, cristine wang mobile: 917.318.0081 email: info@cristine.org http://cristine.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold