Check out Tanner's review of Fabricatorz powered Cantocore website and project, which I summarized on the Cantocore website:

Tanner Menard looked at the Cantocore project from a distance stating:

I have been reading about Cantocore for a number of days totally obsessed by the complexity of the concepts presented on its site http://cantocore.com/, but it was not until I read the following statement that I was really sold on the idea; ‘Cantocore is the reality of life versus the theory set forth by jurisdictions where people live.’ As an artists who’s personal world view leans towards ontological anarchy, this statement elevates Cantocore from a link on Jon Phillip’s website to the top of the bookmark list on my favorite web browser.

I then waxed poetic about it on my website stating:

When people ask me to explain what exactly Cantocore is, I often dance around the similarities between Guangzhou and San Francisco. Both are at the far extremes from the political centers of power in China and the United States respectively. I also usually talk about the lifestyle of lowered barriers of the 3 P’s: property, privacy, and prices. These combined increase one’s state, or feeling of, personal freedom. However, this concept of the reality of life versus the theory set forth explains exactly how I feel about Cantocore: Just do it! Don’t have a meeting. Don’t make a committee. Don’t whine. Just make your project wherever you are at with what resources you have. Get it off the ground and sort out the pieces as you go.

Please check out the full text of both Tanner's post and my re-follow-up. Please consider adding your own thoughts as your own review out there on your site, or feel free to blog here or in the comments on this site. We are eager to hear what you think about Cantocore and the latest show on in San Francisco until April 18, Cantocore Free On Board.

I'm hopeful that others will take the review challenge. If you'd like to sit down and talk about the projects, get a feel for the show and ideas, email me and we can sit down or setup a phone call.

For both Chinese and English speakers, check out the smart work of Cantocore artist, Guy Overfelt.

Guy Overfelt is a San Francisco-based an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. With humor and a mystic hammering, Overfelt furthers the conceptual art movement by mediating the influence of contemporaneous sociopolitical, cultural and economic conditions embodied by his 1977 “Smokey and the Bandit” Trans-AM muscle car. Overfelt plays with laughable notions of American-ness. Through a convergence of artistic practices, Overfelt re-imagines by-products of desire. He modifies his iconic Hollywood styled, Detroit-powered ideas to create mono-prints, peel-out paintings and a life-sized inflatable Trans-AM. His high performance actions shift cultural objects from the familiar to a more obscure metaphoric output.

Guy Overfelt是一名美国旧金山艺术家，作品多次在国际上展出。他以幽默和神秘的方式，通过调停社会政治、文化和经济的同构性影响，深化观念艺术。这一理念包涵在他1977年创作的肌肉车Smokey和Bandit Trans AM。Overflet以可笑的美国主义式见解，通过聚合的艺术实践，重新想像欲望的副产品。他改变好莱坞式的明星风格，用底特律的方式创作单色版画、原地烧胎绘画和实物尺寸的充气跑车。他高强度的行为作品把文化物品从熟悉转变为含糊和富于寓意。
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Untitled (Up in Smoke), inflatable nylon installation, 2008

Guy Overfelt furthers his obsession with American muscle cars. This time the inflatable Smoke is fabricated in Guangzhou, factory direct. Beyond Paul McCarthy-like reductive shapes coming off the assembly line or the Chinese Olympic team leaving the others’ in the dust, the simple shape raises questions about what these factories are pumping out in Guangzhou.

无题 (烟雾中)，充气尼龙装置，2008

Guy Overfelt进一步推进他对美国肌肉车的狂热，这次Overfelt在广州本地工厂制作了可充气的汽车烟雾。除了无数像Paul McCarthy式的从生产线来的复制形状和中国奥运队给其他国家运动员留下的一骑绝尘，这个简单的雕塑形式向我们提出的问题是这些工厂在广州的空气中排放了什么。

From my website, I just posted about:

Guy just sent me the brilliant video documenting the installation of his "Untitled (Up in Smoke)" which Fabricatorz facilitated in getting fabricated. Click the image above or follow the link to see the video.

Don't forget tomorrow, Sat, Feb 28 from 4-6 PM is the Cantocore FOB Artists Talk at Mission 17. Come discuss the project with Guy, JD Beltran, David Johnson, Kathrine Worel, Justin Hoover, and myself.

Guy Overfelt just sent me this video to post up on Cantocore. I did and spread it around to all my sites because its such an mind blowing artwork and video. In Guangzhou, China, Fabricatorz facilitated the fabrication of this inflatable structure:

Guy just sent me the brilliant video documenting the installation of his "Untitled (Up in Smoke)" which Fabricatorz facilitated in getting fabricated. Click the image above or follow the link to see the video.

Don't forget tomorrow, Sat, Feb 28 from 4-6 PM is the Cantocore FOB Artists Talk at Mission 17. Come discuss the project with Guy, JD Beltran, David Johnson, Kathrine Worel, Justin Hoover, and myself.

After this fabrication, Fabricatorz assisted Matt Hope in connecting with the same Guangzhou-based inflatable company to begin fabrication on a 1/3 scale replica Russian submarine:

While Fabricators does 50% creative projects, we also do contract work such as connecting up companies and artists with fabrication companies in China. If you are interested in getting something special (or not so special) fabricated, send us an e-mail.

Come this Saturday, February 28, 4-6pm to Mission17 and join us for drinks and conversation! This program is free and open to the public.

Artists JD Beltran, David Johnson, Guy Overfelt, Jon Phillips, and Kathrine Worel will discuss contemporary art production in the decentralized global economy, with specific emphasis on connections to the conceptual framwork, Cantocore. The discussion will be moderated by curator/artist Justin Hoover.

Please RSVP on the facebook event page.

Reblogged from Cantocore website.

Fabricatorz powered art exhibition, Cantocore: Free On Board is opening next Friday at Mission 17 in San Francisco. Check out the press release, join the Facebook group, and help spread this image around: