Border Show 2011
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The show is called Border Show. The site will be ___. The press is targeted for Dec 10. |
Who
You, Matt, anyone you want to bring on. Your name is the one on this line of our grant, so the money has to be made out to you. At this rate I won't be able to deal with any kind of performance or sponsorship possibilities until 15 December or so, so that's all yours if you want it.
What
You will have one 20 foot container, standardized dimensions, out of a total of 5. I prefer that you focus first on a speaker project since that's what our grant money is for and it would be great to have the party atmosphere. As for whether that's shanzhai or baffle, up to you. Personally I find the shanzhai possibility interesting because that connects back to the border theme. The beer project should be ancillary to that, as a structure we can build in the center of the exhibition area to drink through it.
When
Opening 8 January, party on the 9th. Exhibiting there 8-9 and 15-16 January. During the intervening week we might move the trucks to downtown HK. Come a couple days earlier to set up depending on technical requirements, can leave the 10th.
Where
Indoor parking lot of Wah Luen Industrial Building, Fotan, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Why
Border Show group exhibition.
How
Assume maximum budget of XXX. Can pay to your account or can buy you things. Can arrange a place to stay if you want to crash in a studio. We're available to build things out in advance if necessary.
URL will be our website, kunsthallekowloon.org. Will print a small booklet not of finishing images but of notes and design sketches, which will be on the site too. Press release is going out sometime before 10 December.
Questions
- Who are the other artists in the show?
- Could the domain be something .ASIA?
- What about the beer from san miguel?
- What is the press for this? Who is covering it?
Plan
- Matt has designed up the front baffle
- Quotes coming in
- Decided on getting made in south of china, for efficiency
- waiting on money to come in before starting
- Jon is coordinating press and logistics
- Jon is pulling together some people to play on the system
- Jon needs to find:
- some proper hardcore amps (2) minimum
- 1000watts per channel at least - like the big qsc rmx one plus cables etc no crossover or eq
- Jon needs to talk to edmon and friends at .ASIA and socialutions
- Jon needs to talk to CC HKG ppl about
- Jon need to get laoban images up on the laoban-soundsystem.com site
- Jon needs to coordinate with matt to get the shit done, and travel stuff sorted for hong kong.
Notes
Hi Jon,
I'm glad to be able to finally say that the funding has come through for the border project we talked about so long ago. We'll be showing the exhibition in containers/truck backs in mid-January during the Fotanian event in Hong Kong, then packing it all back into the trucks and moving the entire project across the border to a gallery space in Shenzhen. Unfortunately we don't have as much money as we had hoped, but can give you around HKD$XXX for shipping and production fees, or you're welcome to take it as an artist's fee if you don't need to actually produce anything. I've pasted below the official exhibition description, and then at the very bottom what we wrote for your project. This can change, of course--let's talk a bit about what you might find interesting to make. It could be good to work together on further developing the open source plans, as I think there's a lot that could be done with that.
This project aims to promote pan-Pearl River Delta cultural exchange by exposing artists working in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong to the distinct working methods of each place. Artists engaged with the idioms of industrial production, rural land use, and urban daily life will all be included, furthering the discussion on future possibilities for the role of art in life in the P.R.D. beyond very local notions that misunderstand specifically situated concepts and lifestyles as representative of the whole of the region.
This exhibition exists both within and literally as the marginal spaces between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, interrogating the operation of the manufacturing-shipment complex of the Pearl River Delta region. Participating projects are installed in one of two venue types: abandoned or disused factories in Shenzhen, and empty cargo containers in the northern New Territories of Hong Kong. The ontology of the border crossing is thus materialized by the presence of the exhibition itself.
Each site, including the factory complex in Dawang Village in Luohu district of Shenzhen and the cargo containers placed in open areas of the Fotan area of Hong Kong, will approach specific concepts related to the themes of the exhibition, including: shuihuo, understood as a system in which commodities move the “wrong way” into the production zone rather than into the international arena for export; flow, especially as manifested in the difference between commodity and person at the border; economic grey zones, including illegal activity related to migration, taxes, and abduction; shanzhai cultural production and the increasingly popular above-board phenomena that mimic it; multicultural perspectives on cross-border life and daily crossings; the politics of mapping and power; feral trade and the flow of goods throughout the delta region; velocity and speed within border complexes; and forbidden people and goods, including intellectual property.
Robin
