TODAY AT 17:00 at Kunstquartier Bethanien - Studio 1 Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin, Kreuzberg WORKS ON PAPER II - Performance Series for Month of Performance Art Presents: Isaac Chong Wai - Equilibrium No.8 – Boundaries momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/current-exhibition/pandamonium-works-on-paper-2/ For the MPA-B Month of Performance Art Berlin 2014, MOMENTUM reprises its month-long program of Performance Sundays entitled WORKS ON PAPER. WORKS ON PAPER II inverts classic assumptions of paper as a medium, inviting performance artists to approach paper not as a static blank canvas, but as a dynamic source of conceptual and performative possibility. This year’s WORKS ON PAPER takes place parallel to MOMENTUM’s exhibition PANDAMONIUM: Media Art from Shanghai. PANDAMONIUM is the collision of Panda Diplomacy – China’s longstanding practice of sending cute fluffy mammals into the world – with its most enticing cultural export of the day: Contemporary Art. WORKS ON PAPER II focuses on China, where the painting of calligraphy, from its very origins, has a performative aspect. The WORKS ON PAPER II performance series explores how artists from a culture with an ancient artistic tradition of works on paper transform this medium through performance. Engaging all aspects of performance, the outstanding artists in this series use sound, installation, lectures, workshops, and video to work on paper and with paper to activate all the possibilities of the medium in unexpected ways. ISAAC CHONG WAI is a Hong Kong artist and MFA student at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany and received his BA in Visual Arts (Hons.) from the Academy of Visual Art in Hong Kong Baptist University. He works with diverse art forms, including performance, site-specific installation, public art and multimedia. He is perceptive and insightful in expressing and situating exquisite concepts intuited from living space and the surroundings. Chong’s video, Equilibrium No.8 Boundaries, received honorary mention at the Award of the 2nd OZON International Video Art Festival in Katowice, Poland, in 2013. He was awarded the first runner-up prize for the 2012 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award. He participated in IAM (International Art Moves) in Dresden, Germany in 2012. Chong has also been shown in a solo-exhibition at the Academy of Visual Arts Gallery in 2011. Equilibrium No.8 – Boundaries (first performed in 2012) The body extensions which generate traces and symmetrical balance unconsciously create a dialogue with one another by means of body language. The movement of the arms creates boundaries in geometrical forms and explores the human form and the boundaries among people. We were quiet and paying attention to draw the area that we could reach and meanwhile, we were listening to the combined sound made by the drawings. By the movements and the instructions that the artist gave, a record of our bodies was marked. This performance was done on a large-sized paper and the place of each performer was determined by the artist. In this sense, the form of the human shape was lightly deconstructed by the overlapping drawings. The instruction is: the artist counts from 1 to 5, then all participants start drawing. There is no limit of time, however, the only limit is that of the material, the charcoals. Once the charcoals cannot be used anymore, participants stop drawing. The artist listens, when there is no longer any sound of drawing, he counts again 5 times and then everyone leaves.
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