[rohrpost] talk tonight, end of travelling (asiatown and back)

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##lecture 1: cultural frame
Heman Chong (Singapur)/Isabelle Cornaro (Paris) im Gespräch mit Manray Hsu
(Taipei)
Videopräsentation: „The End of Travelling(from asiatown and back)”
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2003, 20 Uhr im Kunst Raum, Goethestrasse 22, A-4020 Linz,
fon: +43 70 65 13 46 16

##Screening: von 14.5.bis 5.2003 , Mi-Fr., 14 – 18.00, Sa-Mo nach telef.
Vereinbarung

„The End of Travelling“ untersucht den Einfluss der Globalisierung auf
asiatische zeitgenössische Kunst und ist zugleich die erste Veranstaltung
des diesjährigen
Schwerpunkts des KunstRaum g. mit dem Titel "Cultural Frame".
Herman Chong (Singapur)und Isabelle Cornaro (Paris) versuchen in ihrer
Videodokumentation herauszufinden, welche Bedeutung das zunehmende Interesse
an asiatischen KünstlerInnen seitens europäischer KuratorInnen hat, mit
besonderem Hinblick auf das Politische in ihren Arbeiten,
ihrer Beschäftigung mit der Geschichte ihres Landes und deren Beziehung zum
internationalen Handel.
Die Videodokumentation setzt sich aus Interviews mit international
arbeitenden
KünstlerInnen (begonnen 2002), als auch aus Fundstücken zusammen, die an
deren Wohnorten, asiatischen Metropolen, aufgezeichnet wurden.
„Es ist die Kritik der sichtbaren Unterschiede, wenn ein stereotypes Bild
von dem Anderen, geniessbar und leicht verdaulich gemacht wird. Dies wird in
Heman Chong’s und Isabelle Cornaro’s Projekt "The end of travelling",
suggeriert. Die Welt zu bereisen, um heraus zu finden, dass sie überall die
selbe ist. Wie soll Kritik am Multikulturalismus geübt werden, wenn
Multikulturalismus degradiert worden ist zu einer ästhetischen Idee des
Anderen als eine retinalisierte Einheit?
(Sarat Maharaj "Keynote Address: Art Acts Global,” Transmediale 3.0.)

Im Gespräch mit Manray Hsu, Kurator und Kritiker aus Taipei (u.a. Taipei
Biennale 2000)und zur Zeit in Berlin,
wird die Rolle der Kunst in Zeiten globaler Mobilität, jene der
KünstlerInnen und KuratorInnen zwischen
den Kontinenten sowie die des Künstlers als Reisender thematisiert.

kunst raum g. _ goethestrasse 22 _ a-4020 linz
 _ ph: +43 70 65 13 46 16 _ fax: +43 70 65 13 46 18 _ email:
kunstraum@servus.at _ www.kunstraum.at

(english version)

The End of Travelling

HEMAN CHONG /ISABELLE CORNARO
lecture 1: cultural frame
Herman Chong/Isabelle Cornaro
talk with Manray Hsu
Videopräsentation: „The End of Travelling” (Trip to Asiatown and Back)
Dienstag, 13. Mai 2003, 19.30
Screening: 14.5. – 19.5.2003 , Mi-Fr., 14 – 18.00,



[ Introduction ]

"The End of Travelling" (Trip to Asiatown and Back) is a video-documentary
investigating
the impact of globalisation on Asian contemporary art.
We are trying to understand the meaning of the increasing interest in Asian
artists with
European curators, namely with the importance of the political in their
works, their attitudes
concerning their country's art history and relationships with international
markets. Finally,
we want to question the significance of the strong presence of Asian
students in European art
colleges.

The video-documentary comprises of interviews with several established
artists,
conducted during a trip to Asia in November 2001 as well as footage filmed
in the different
capital cities where they reside.


[ Review ]

"It is this critique then, of retinalized difference, of the Other induced
to an image stereotype that is palatable and digestible, that two or three
practitioners who are showing here at the Transmediale 3.0, Heman Chong and
Isabelle Cornaro, for example, in their project, The End of Travelling,
which is so suggestive of Michel Houellebecq's Platform, which concerns
travel. Travelling the world to find that it is the same all round. Both
these artists come together in this project The End of Travelling to examine
what it is to produce today, in which the production of the self can only be
acceptable to the optical system of the museum art gallery, that sees what
it terms of Identity-Nation-Tribe category. How then to carry out a critique
of multiculturalism when multiculturalism has been debased into an aesthetic
notion of the Other as a retinalized entity?"

Sarat Maharaj "Keynote Address: Art Acts Global, Transmediale 3.0,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1 Feb 2003"

Heman Chong
Heman Chong is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Künstlerhaus
Bethanien (2003) in Berlin. His trans-disciplinary practice involves the
usage of graphics, photography, text, video in the exploration of
mobility/nomadism, cinema/off-screen spaces, urbanity and increasingly,
socio-political issues concerning the production of contemporary visual art
in Asia. He has exhibited in many countries including Belgium, Denmark,
France, Japan, India, Spain, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He holds an
MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art, London.

Isabelle Cornaro
Isabelle Cornaro works primarily with drawings, text and video that are
presented within a framework where one medium interacts with another. Her
work deals with the concept of authority implied and imposed upon by
constructed spaces (modern architecture, French gardens, etc) and is
influenced by the work of science-fiction writers. She has exhibited in
Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Cornaro
studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and École du
Louvre (History of Art), Paris and currently live and works in Paris.

Manray Hsu
Manray Hsu is an independent curator (z.B. Taipei Biennial 2000, How big ist
the world/O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art/Linz) and art critic based in
Taipei and currently in Berlin. His main focus is an anthropological model
of curatorship, art and discourse - based on the question of the democracy
of intimacy, postcolonial and urban theory.

kunst raum g. _ goethestrasse 22 _ a-4020 linz
 _ ph: +43 70 65 13 46 16 _ fax: +43 70 65 13 46 18 _ email:
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